Same mounted shares different user accounts problem

I have two accounts on my MacPro that mount 4 smb shares from a Windows Server and two AFP shares from a NAS in an automater script
The shares work fine but when the other user logs on they can see the mounted shares but they are the generic blue folder icon with the red circle no access icon at the bottom of the icon.
They do not have access to the "icon" share even though they have the same share mounted and have access to the share.
When I remove the phantom "icon" share it removes the "real" mounted share from the other users account.
What or can I do anything to stop the redundant nonaccessable shares from being mounted?
Thank You

One additional comment on this: I did change iTunes preferences so that the location of iTunes files is the shared folder. With that I'd expect each user to be pointed to the same iTunes folder, but that's not the behavior.

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