You can easily know who is accessing your Shared Folders from Computer Management. To open Computer Management, go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. After running Computer Management, expand System Tools by clicking the plus sign and you’ll see Shared Folders. Expand Shared Folders and from there you can see what folders are shared, who is connected to your computer and what files are currently open by the person who is accessing your computer.
Computer Management to view Shared Folders
Problem is, Computer Management doesn’t notify you when someone is accessing your shared folders. It also doesn’t auto refresh to see the sessions and open files. Good thing I found this free utility that is able to monitor your shared folders and notify you when someone access your shared folders.

NetShareMonitor, a free and cool utility created by a Novell guy named Talekar Nagareshwar to watch your shared files from the intruders and thereby protecting your shares from unauthorized access. As soon as remote user connects to your machine, NetShareMonitor detects it and displays information about that session. The session information includes remote host address, remote user name, list of accessed files and time of connection. Entire details pertaining to each session will be logged to file for future analysis.

Now you no longer have to worry about your shared files being accessed by unknown persons on the network. You can make NetShareMonitor to keep eye on your shares while you get down to work. It will alert you on any file access and you can always check the log files for past sessions in case you have missed the alert.

As soon as the remote user connects to your machine, alert will be generated by playing the music and the NetShareMonitor icon in system tray starts blinking to draw your attention.
Get notified when Shared Folder being accessed

The settings are very straight forward. You can have NetShareMonitor automatic startup and minimized to tray when you boot your computer, play alert music when remote session is started and view logs.
Illegal Access to Shared Folders Monitoring

I love this tool! It doesn’t require installation, registration or any DLL files. Try it!

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