How to disable partition sharing

Hello,
I have turned on File Sharing for my Mac to access the Mac's public folder on the Windows PC. This works just fine when the SMB option and my user account is checked at System Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing > Options. However, all my partitions on the Mac like the Boot Camp and the Time Machine partition are also shared. Is there any option to turn off partition sharing and to hide these partitions on my Windows PC? On my Windows PC I only want to see the Printer and the public folder.
Best regards,
Florian

are you connecting as a guest or as a registered user? if you are connecting as guest you will only see the folders you added to sharing. if you connect as a registered user (i.e. using the username and password of your mac user) then you'll see everything that user has access to including all external drives etc. so just connect as guest.

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