How to: automount network drive at start up?

so i put my netwrok drive to login item under user account control and it automaticelly mount the drive on boot up but it really annoy me when the finder window popping up and showing the drive is mounted everytime it statrt up eventhough I tried selecting the checkbox to "hide".
OS X 10.8.3
is there a way to automount a network drive without popping up in the finder at start up?

Unless the mount is needed before a user logs in, it may mount on demand, depending on what process demands it first. If that doesn't work for you, see below.
Autofs: Automatically Mounting Network File Shares in Mac OS X

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