Cannot browse shared folders via Guest Account

I have enabled the Guest Sharing Only Account, File Sharing and established shares on several folders in Leopard.
However, when I connect across my LAN I can only see the Public Folder on each computer with sharing enabled when connecting as Guest.
I have read through all of the material and it all states that you can share ANY folder to EVERYONE and this will allow Guest folder sharing.
It does not seem to work.

MaccyLeopard wrote:
The fact is that PUBLIC is a standard shared folder in any install of Mac OS but this doesn't make your home folder and the USERS folder readable too...
So your case is technically flawed...
Sorry, but your case is the one that's flawed. The Users directory and any newly created user's home directory are read only for everyone by default. As is Sites. All other default directories in a user's home directory (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, Movies, Music, and Pictures) are "no access" for everyone. To share a directory or file in Documents, you have to work up the hierarchy (one step...Documents). In Public, you don't.
Where does Apple's marketing literature say that it "allows for sharing of ANY folders without the express setting of permissions back up the folder hierarchy?" I'd be curious, because it simply doesn't (and isn't supposed to) work that way. It wouldn't be the first time that Marketing and Software Engineering departments had different views of something. If their marketing does say that, then yes, they're wrong.
It would appear that OS X doesn't work the way you want it to. That's fine, but the fact is that it works according to well-established standards for the underlying OS...Unix.
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