Sharing the Home folder & all sub folders

I've had my mac networked with a couple of Windows PCs for a long time. Now I've bought another mac & have networked them together. So I'm not new to networking, but am new to networking 2 macs together.
With the PCs I could access the mac Home folder & copy files from any of the sub folders (Documents, Pictures etc.) to the PCs. And vice versa, from the mac drag files & folders from within the Home folder to the PCs to copy them over.
Now as I understand it networking between macs you only share files between the Public folder & Drop Box folder with the Public folder. Is that correct?
If so can I share the whole Home folders on both macs so that from 1 mac I can mount the other mac's Home folder, send files & folders to the other Mac & also copy files over from the other macs Home folder?
I'm guessing this is possible. I went to 'Get Info' on the Home folder & it looks like if I set permissions so they are as follows:
Owner: 'my name'
Access: Read & Write
Group: admin or 'my name'
Access: Read & Write
Others: Read & Write
Then clicking on 'Apply to enclosed items' it should work as I want? Or Shouldn't I be messing with the permissions? If not is there another way for me to achieve what I want to do?
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Matt:
Sorry, I should have said that this is how I've been trying to do it.
I can mount both Home folders on both computers & browse them. But when I try to copy files from 1 location to the other I get error messages saying:
'The operation cannot be completed because you do no have sufficient priveliges for the some of the items'.
Having said that some items will copy over even after receiving the priveliges message. But it's very annoying having it pop up every time.

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