Hide Your Shared Folder

If we share our folder to other clients or friends in local network, it can to make a fun work. Because you can share your files or folders to your office partner so you don’t necessary to copy it via flask disk. But some times, you want to hide your shared folder from your all of your friends such as a data folder. You want to access your shared folder from other computer but it’s not exposed to public users.
You can make it with a little trick.

  1. Set your folder to shared folder first by right click your folder, and then click Sharing and Security
  2. Click Sharing tab, click Share this folder option, and if you want to hide it, give it name and end it by $ character. For example, if you want give it name ImageCD, add it with $ character so you must enter its name: ImageCD$. Then press Enter.
  3. To access your folder from other computer, click Start –> Run menu, enter \\computer_name\shared_folder_name$ then press Enter. In my case, I enter \\farrel\imagecd$.
  4. Then your shared folder will open.

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