Mounting NAS drives to iMac

Hello, I have had this problem for some time and haven't figured out the fix and so far neither has anyone else.
I have a Linkstation Buffalo NAS device.
I have it mounting to my iMac at boot automatically.
When it does mount the drives I get an icon on the desktop and a finder window opens on the desktop for each mount.
This is not what I want, I want a quite in the background mount.
When I go into to System Preferences and select Users & Groups I move to the Login items and there I can see the filesystems I want to mount at boot up.
I leave the boxes checked so that the default is to hide the mounts when I log in.
It doesn't work, unchecking the boxes doesn't work.
Does anyone know how to prevent finder from opening a bunch of popups when these mounts go active so I don't have to close them each time?
I don't see an vfstab or fstab like you would under Solaris or Linux that can be hacked.
ej

From what I'm reading online, it sounds like that "hide" feature only works for applications.
I'm having the same annoying issue. Not sure there is a fix unfortunately.

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