Mount local network drives to desktop?

Two new iMacs in our design department - we connect to local network drives daily and noticed they no longer mount as discs to our desktop as they did on our previous computers. Is there a setting that we can allow this?

Finder menu --> preferences --> Show these items on Desktop

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