Sharing and mapping question NT 4.0

Im confused about the whole sharing and mapping procedure. If I have a directory which looks something like this e:\users\shared\
how would I map the shared folder and not the users? Ive been trying to map our users to the shared drive but when I right click on network neigborhood selecting map network drive then drill down throught the network the closest I can may is the user directory. How come I can map closer?