Group residential vs network?

What is the difference between using HomeGroup versus network and what are the advantages/disadvantages of each?
P.S. I currenty have two computers using Windows 7 and the other using Vista Home Premium.
The HP VISTA computer will soon get Win 7 HP as well.
Thank you

It seems to me that default HomeGroup opens all your libraries (except documents) to other computers in the group.  For example, if your 'Pictures' library includes records 'My images' and 'Public Pictures', these two will be open to all.  You can choose to delete an entire folder, of course, but the default is to expose them to the group.  The network, on the other hand, by default only shows the public folders to the rest of the network.

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