notation of Path to files/folders/drives that is shared on a network in windows?

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Published on 2010-02-28T05:51:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 4:10 UTC
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Hello,

When some thing shared on network using windows network share option. Some people use path like \\something\something\something$ I'm don't know if this is correct way or not. but as far as I remember there is a dollar sign. Can any one please tell me.

What is this notation?
Where can I find more details about this?
What is samba server/sharing? I don't understand when people use it. Is it something related to Linux?

EDIT

I'm a programmer. I guess this file sharing on network using windows uses client server architecture. I want to know what is this server on windows called? What protocol does it use? client is of course our windows explorer.exe? Which service in services.msc is responsible for this?

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