Tim:
>> Which versions of Windows have you discovered have that backwards?

ToddAndMargo:
> All of them.  The problem is the user only see the words "public"
> and "private".  They do not read the description of either as
> they do not understand such "geek" speak.   M$ does adequately
> describe what each is, but if your do not read the description ...

And is this consistent in describing when you share a resource, and how
networking is described?

I haven't touched Windows for eons, likewise played with Samba.  When I
last used Samba, I still had a Windows 98SE PC.

Looking at my old smb.conf file, I have a shared to everyone folder
resource that's sensibly described as being public.  I don't recall
Win98SE having any such privacy/public options (windows non-security
edition).

I had Vista on a laptop.  I recall there being the concept of public
versus private networks, and that being what I'd expect of trusting
that network's connection to anything else, or not, as a whole (in
essence, the firewall mode that was applied when using *that* network).
But that's the network connection.  I don't clearly recall how it
described the individual resources that you shared, but in the back of
my mind there was some public share (to everyone) kind of thing, which
I think was whether a password or logon was required for it.

I have a Mac here, and I've never managed to do well with sharing
directories between it and my Linux machines.  At times I can get the
Mac to access a NFS share on Linux, and that's about it.  Not the other
way around.  And got nowhere trying SMB.

The Mac was reasonably successful at making use of a NAS drive, which I
recall I'd configured to use NFS only.

> M$ would remove this misunderstanding if they changed the
> description to "untrusted" and "trusted"

Certainly would be sensible.  Therefore it won't happen.
 
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