IMac sharing with iBook . . . why?

I can't figure out why the photos I import to my iMac are showing up on my iBook, too. We have a wireless internet network in the house, but I don't recall setting up the feature I described. It's taking up a lot of memory on the iBook, and I'd like to stop it.

iPhoto -> Preferences -> Sharing and disable the settings there.
Sharing takes up no memory or hard disk space. This files are not on the iBook, it's just seeing the other library.
Regards
TD

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