How do I share ONLY my Public Folder, not my entire Hard Drive?

Hi, I'm trying to set up my home wireless network to share files between my two Macs- a Macbook and a Macbook Pro. Instead of allowing access to just the public folder, you can see the entire contents of each hard drive with no restrictions. So much for privacy! I'm new to Macs and I'm sure it's just some simple setting tat I'm overlooking. I had Appleshare turned on but I've since turned it off without making a difference. Can I go through each individual folder and set sharing priviledges like on a PC? Thanks in advance!

Since you are logging on to another computer as a registered user, you have access to whatever a registered user is entitled to. That is to be expected. I don't see how it is a problem. What privacy issue are you talking about when you are logging in as yourself? Furthermore, no one can access what you can when logged in as yourself if they do not know the correct username/password. There is no issue here.
But, if you want to use a Mac like a Windows machine, You can create a folder in the home directory of each computer where you log in as Guest and have Read/Write privileges. I'd create such a folder inside your Public Folder, and set its special permissions, and I would not change permissions on any other folders as that could cause security and general use issues with applications.
I think you can set Group to nobody(others can offer better suggestions here) and give Group Read/Write permissions. Then, you can use that folder to share files like with a windows machine, but it makes no sense to me.
My real suggestion is to understand how the Mac works, and it is very secure, and not use it like Windows.

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