I've referenced this post, this other one, that one, this page and the man which have aided me greatly in allowing for automatic mounting of Samba shares from a remote server on my LAN to my local Ubuntu 18.04 machine with GNOME GUI.

The steps I've followed are as follows:

1) Created a mounting point on the local system by

~$ sudo mkdir /media/HHAdmin

2) Created a secure Samba credentials file for login information by

~$ sudo gedit ~/.smbcredentials

~$ chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials

3) Backed up and appended Samba share details in fstab by

~$ sudo su -

~# cp /etc/fstab fstab.old

~# gedit /etc/fstab

appended fstab to include:

//192.168.1.4/HHAdmin /media/HH-Admin cifs x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=3,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/hannah/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8 0 0

4) Exited root login and tested mount by

~# exit

~$ sudo mount -a

success

sudo reboot now

SUCCESS!

After the system reboots and I log into hannah, there are two icons on the GNOME desktop; one icon resembles a traditional folder with a network plug and the other icon resembles a HDD/USB media drive. Both work to take me to the share.

My question is, how can I remove or hide the second icon (the HDD/USB icon) on the desktop leaving just one icon to access the share from the desktop?

fig 1 - The two icons I'm referring to...

Thanks all!

carvio

P.S. This is my first post on this forum and one of my first attempts at customizing my Ubuntu. If you have any critiques of my technique in the code samples posted above, please enlighten me.