Network drives open finder windows at every login?

I just created a network drive and set it up so that when I log into my machine it should connect/mount the network drive. However, now every time I log in it opens a finder window to that drive. Mavericks appears to do the same thing on my macbook. Just curious if there are any solutions to stop this from happening but still mount the drive. I did find some older suggestions to fix the issue but none of them so far have worked.
Thanks

nevermind, fixed itself, i guess

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