"Sugien" <sugien@horizonview.net> wrote in message news:...

***CnP from my own help files I created (read: mine I composed it from
scratch; but I doubt if I am the first to know about it)***

To begin, launch My Computer and select the drive and folder you want to
share. Right-click on the folder, and select Sharing from the shortcut menu.

You'll see the folder's property sheet. At this point, select the Shared As
option and hold down the alt key and while holding down the alt key press
255 on the numeric key pad then release the alt key then enter a name that
ends with $ in the Share Name text box. Then specify the access type and a
password, if desired. Click OK. This will create a share name like
_sharename$


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Once you've secretly shared a folder, you need to know how to connect to it
from another system. To begin, launch Network Neighborhood. Normally, to
connect to a shared folder, you simply select the host system from the
Network Neighborhood list and then locate and connect to the shared folder.
However, as I've explained, since the _Secret$ folder is hidden, you won't
see it in the shared folder list.

To connect to the secretly shared Secret$ folder, click the Map Network
Drive button on the toolbar. (If you don't see the Map Network Drive button
on the toolbar, select View/Folder Options from the menu bar. When the
Folder Options dialog box appears, click on the View tab, select the Show
Map Network Drive Button In Toolbar check box, and click OK.) In the Map
Network Drive dialog box's Path text box, enter the network path and share
name in UNC format. as an example if my computers name is Pavilion then the
path would be \\Pavilion\(hold down the alt key and while holding down the
alt key press 255 on the numeric key pad then release the alt key)Secret$.
If you do a nbtstat -a \\ip.number.goes.here and the only sharing you have
are ALL in the format as above nothing will show up nbtstat -a
\\ip.number.goes.here will return Host Not Found even though you do have a
folder or drive share nbtstat WON'T SEE IT and if you do a net use x:
\\192.168.0.1\(hold down the alt key and while holding down the alt key
press 255 on the numeric key pad then release the alt key)Secret$ it still
won't work, so you are safer using the hidden share with the alt 255 trick;
the secret$ or appending a $ to the end of a shared folder or drive has been
known for some time, I don't know if anyone knows about using the alt trick
with it or not and I have NOT been able to access my system using nbtstat or
net use while using the above technique, if you just use the folderORDrive$
secret share and they guess the secret share name like this :
net use * \\24.64.103.23\<guessed hidden fileshare name> well then they can
access your computer but even if they try:
net use * \\24.64.103.23\(hold down the alt key and while holding down the
alt key press 255 on the numeric key pad then release the alt key)and then
<guessed hidden fileshare name>it still won't work. I have as yet NOT been
able to access my computer using any of the above(and have been using it
every since I set up my home network); but you can still access it by using
windows and map network drive and in the path \\computername\(hold down the
alt key and while holding down the alt key press 255 on the numeric key pad
then release the alt key)folderORdriveletter$ As to weather or not you could
access it using a NT or *nix system I don't know because I have no NT or
*nix system to try it with, it might work using a NT because the file
structure on a NT WILL see a leading space (which is what the alt 255 trick
actually is) or maybe with samba. This is one of my best tricks I have come
up with for security and up to around a month ago haven't told anyone about
it; I would greatly appreciated any feedback on how this works out for
you, cause like I said I have tried everything I can think of to access my
own computer from within the LAN and also from a friends house and up to
this time have not been able to access it.

ENJOY