Can you change the name of a network drive?
If you mount the share using terminal you can assign the mount point
to a local directory. Source: Macworld Mac OS X Hints: Ten different ways to connect to servers


  create a directory -- the mountpoint -- where the contents of the
  mounted server will appear.


$ mkdir /mnt/music
$ mkdir /mnt/movie



  The mount command should be more or less familar:


mount_smbfs //admin:stevie123@macmediaserver.local/itunesmusic /mnt/music ## for SMB shares ##
mount_afp afp://admin:stevie123@macmediaserver.local/mymovies /mnt/movie ## for AFP shares ##


The man pages for mount provide complete documentation.