Unable to reconnect to network share after closing finder window

hi there
I have not been a mac user for long - i have a macbook pro - and generally i am getting along fine.
however, I have a NAS box which I has a number of files on it on my home network.
I am able to connect to it using finder by doing cmd+k and selecting it from the list (which I set up at some point). and 'selecting the volume i want to mount' I am then able to browse the share happily and all is well.
However, once I have done what I was doing and then closed my finder window. if i open another finder window, the share does not appear anywhere and I have to reconnect, sadly at this point, after doing the initial cmd+ K and selecting the network share, the particular volume i mounted before is greyed out and I cannot in fact re-mount it at all.
I imagine this is because somewhere, finder still has the network volume mounted, and if I could only find it I could browse it as before.
so i am left with having to reboot, as I simply dont know how to find the mounted volume.
it may be that it is in fact not still mounted, in which case I am stumped.
if anyone could offer some explanation and solution to this, i would be most grateful.
many thanks
nat
ps. having fired up the terminal, it seems that the volume in question is in fact in the /Volumes folder, but I cant seem to find that in the finder.
pps. saying the above - actually as I installed XtraFinder I can navigate up until I have the root level and it is indeed there

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