Leopard Network issue

I'm sure I've over looked how to do this but I cant for the life of me figure it out...

I have an iMac and a Macbook both running leopard and all I want to do is allow both computers total access to each other. My girlfriend uses both machines for school work and needs to be able to move files between the two.

Do I have to create another admin user for the Macbook on the iMac and vice versa?

I've tried creating a standard user with read/write and access to my HD but when connected that user can't access folders within my HD, even if I have them set to share. (i get the tiny red minus sign on all my folders [music/movies/documents etc])

As of right now I'm allowing my girlfriend to connect with my admin account so she can access everything, is there another way for her to connect and have full access?

I hope the above made some semblance of sense lol

 

I've tried the file sharing/users in system pref with no success.

I've gone as far as to creating a shared user, granted read/write access, dragged my HD to the "shared folders" section and even tired right click get info and selected shared but it still wont let her get very far into my HD.

I guess I've been going about this wrong. I created another shared user and gave access to individual folders within my HD and it seems to be working now. I was under the impression that if I had my HD selected as shared that all the contents within would be accessible. Just a pain to have to go in and select all the folders to be shared, but unless there is an easier way I'll just do that.

thanks for the help