With Windows operating systems when you share a folder or drive, users can see them by simply browsing the network even if they don’t have access to view the contents of the shared device. Sometimes it’s best to “hide” these shared drives so that users do not know they even exist.

Doing so is quite easy, simply place the dollar sign ($) after the shared name for instance if you’re going to share the C drive put C$. A word of caution, while this works against users using Windows operating systems, users of other OS’s like Linux will still be able to see the shared drives. They won’t be able to access because of permissions, but it will be visible. This works great if you want to move files between PC’s but not let everyone know that a folder is being shared.