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Finder Settings
Most will know how to show or hide network shares on your Mac desktop.
Click a Finder window, select the "Finder" - "Settings" menu and under the "General" tab either check "Connected servers" to show share icons on your desktop, or uncheck this option to not show these icons.
Downside: this affects all mounted share icons.
Advanced options in Path Finder
Applications like Path Finder have a more advanced "Get Info" option, so when selecting the actual mount path of a share, you can right click that directory and check or uncheck the "invisible" option. But of course, not everybody has a copy of Path Finder (commercial app).
Terminal trick ...
Now there is a trick to do this in Terminal - which may not work in old(er) macOS versions, but so far it seems to work in Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma.
Let's say we have a share mounted in /Volumes/AllShares and the Finder option enable to show "Connected Servers" on the Desktop. This will make it that we will see an "AllShares" icon on the desktop.
When hiding the share icon from the Desktop, I did see that the extended attribute "comp.apple.FinderInfo" of the original directory (/Volumes/AllShares) was given a specific value (note that this value can hold other otpions as well, like the flag colors for example):
xattr -lx /Volumes/AllShares com.apple.provenance: 00000000 01 00 00 E7 84 53 71 09 CA 67 F4 |.....Sq..g.| 0000000B com.apple.FinderInfo: 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000020
Of course the rick now ... how do we add this "weird" value as an extended attribute?
To make a specific share icon hidden (killall Finder to make it visible, and note that color tag will be unset after this):
xattr -wx com.apple.FinderInfo "0000000000000000400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" /Volumes/AllShares killall Finder
To unhide this particular icon we will need to remove the extended attribute "com.apple.FinderInfo" from the original directory (/Volumes/AllShares). In Terminal ( "-d" = delete, and again: note that color tag will be unset after this ) :
xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo /Volumes/AllShares
To make this visible we will need to restart Finder like so (in Terminal):
killall Finder
Took me quite a bit of time to figure this out ,... so I hope it will be useful to someone.
