With the inclusion of the option to view Network Shares on the desktop (Settings Manager -> Desktop -> Icons) unfortunately, network shares do not show up on the desktop regardless of whether they are mounted through thunar, gigolo, or manually (mount or autofs).
The GIO API docs say: "The GVolume interface represents user-visible objects that can be mounted." These shares that don't show up, can you mount/unmount them as a user? Showing all the network shares will require a rewrite of this feature since GIO doesn't expose all the network shares as a GVolume.
On my system (Xubuntu 14.04), mount/autofs require root privileges. Gigolo uses GIO/GVfs, so yes, they can be mounted by user. I believe thunar also uses gvfs. Manually mounting using gvfs-mount (userspace) also does not show icon on the desktop. Under which conditions would a network share show up on the desktop?
*** Bug 10834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 11755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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