How to File Sharing in other locations (Disk, Folders) besides 'Public'?

Hello everyone.
I think this is an "old question" but I forgotten that particular application, or there maybe more and better ones...?
How do I designate a sharing folder on a local office network, besides the default 'Public' folder, say in another internal hard disk?
Thanks and cheers

Hi guys thanks for replying. SharePoints is working perfectly fine as expected, althought take a bit of "oritentation" to figure out the settings.
One other interesting thing I notice, at least in my office's intranet network, initially I turned on my Mac's FireWall Stealthmode, and on other macs I was not able to connect/file share to my Mac!! At first I thought it was my SharePoints settings that was not config properly, but just by turning off FireWall, everything is OK
Cheers

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-------- PREVIOUS POSTERS INFO ----------
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