Fascinating concept of ‘sharing’ in Vista

It turns out that if the privileges on a file/folder contain users/groups other than the standard set (Owner – explicit or CREATOR OWNER, SYSTEM and for the most part Administrators) then it assumes that you’re sharing it – even if the users in question have no privileges on the file. While I agree with the idea in concept, the terminology is too vague. There’s sharing, in the local concept – which is to say that the privileges are relaxed enough to allow access to the file by users other than yourself and then there’s sharing in the remote sense – which is to say that the file can be accessed from a remote system. Honestly, I’d not have used the moniker of ‘sharing’ the file.