In truth I am not absolutely sure they are necessarily freeloaders ... For all I know you may not be able to browse MY share, although I have done nothing to stop you or anyone else. I do make an attempt to work out if they are freeloaders, and on one occasion I did a search for a file I guessed this particular host might be sharing .. They were, and I could browse them from the search tab. In fact we were and are regular exchangers of files.

So the matter is not quite that simple. A clear explanation of this would be welcomed by many of us!