Can File Sharing be accessed on an external network?

ive enabled file share on my Mac Pro so that i can access it on my macbook pro. these two are on my time capsule network.
in the settings, for the macbook pro it says read and write, and for Everyone it says read only.
my question is: for Everyone, is this only people on my network or can people outside my network access my computer files too?

No, other people on the internet don't have access to your machine because Everyone is set to Read. Only people you give access to your Mac via sharing have access.
Everyone is really the Unix Posix 'others' which is users or processes that neither own the file nor are in same group as the file. In the normal sense of the word, a user must have a login to the machine to have access to anything. There are many users on your Mac that are not human. They are all the processes that actually do most of the stuff that goes on in the background. If you deny them access, your Mac will stop working.

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