Mounted Volumes o Desktop can't get rid of?

I have 2 mounted volumes on my desktop that I have tried to get rid of and can't. There is not eject option. When I drag to Trash I get an error message that says "The disk "Net" wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be using it" except there are no programs running it. When I use "get info" it says:
Kind: Volume
Server File: file://localhost/net
Reboot and there still there.
How do I get rid of these?

net is a necessary system folder which is normally hidden. have you enabled showing hidden items in finder perhaps? run the following terminal command
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0; killall Finder
does it hide "net"? and what is the other one called? is it "home"?

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