If you
want to share a drive or folder on a network with a few people
while making it invisible to everyone else, just add a dollar
sign to the end of the name you use for sharing. This also
prevents large numbers of shared drives or folders from
clogging Explorer windows on large networks.
Right-click the drive or folder you want to share and choose
Properties. Click the Sharing tab. If you're sharing the root
of a drive in Windows XP, you have to click a warning link at
this point. Select Shared As, Share this folder, or Share this
folder on the network. In Windows 2000, click New Share. For
'Share name', type a name that will identify the folder or
drive, and add $ to the end. Click OK once or twice as needed
(see FIGURE 4). Users won't be able to see this shared item in
Network Neighbourhood, but they can choose Tools, Map Network
Drive and type the path to the drive using the universal
naming convention: two back slashes (\\) followed by the
server name, with the rest of the path defined by using single
back slashes (\) as dividers--for example,
\\server\shared\folder\file.
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