Multi user setup for TM questions

I just bought a 500G external drive for use with TM, however, before I try to set everything up, I have a few questions.
The 500G drive will be the TM drive for 2 macs (mini and MB). The mini has 3 users (me, wife and daughter). The MB has 2 (me home and me work). I would like to have all 3 accounts on the mini and the 'me home' account to use the 500G usb drive for TM, attached to the mini (for now).
Do I need to create seperate partitions for each user/machine? Or can I just use it as 1 big partition? (I will be excluding system files from the TM backups).
Other question: How can I setup the usb drive to always be shared? Right now, I have it setup as shared by my admin account on the mini. As soon as that account logs out, the share goes away. Not the best situation for TM backups.
Thanks for any info you can provide,
David

Whether to partition or not to partition:
You do not need to partition. Time Machine will take care of saving separate backups for each user.
The biggest reason to partition the backup drive is if you want to save other "stuff" on the drive besides your TM backups. Then you would create a Time Machine backup partition, and an "other stuff" partition.
That being said, in your case you may want to consider creating 2 partitions, one for your Mini and one for your MacBook. But you don't need to create a separate partition for each user.
The only reason to create a separate partition for 1 specific user would be if you want to make sure that user account has plenty of room for backups (or you want to limit the size of a users backup space). For example: Since Time Machine erases older backups to make room for new ones, its conceivable that your daughter could be downloading music or movies that get backed up a lot, leaving less space for you and your wife.
How to set up USB drive to always be shared
Normally, I would say that all you have to do is login as each user one at a time and set up sharing the same way for all of them. But I will be interested to see if this works for you. Please report back. What I am curious about is whether Time Machine on your MacBook will get confused when it tires to do a backup if different users are logged into the Mini at different times. Will the MacBook think they are different shares, or will it properly realize that its the same share but that another user just happens to be logged in at the moment. Please report back.
Excluding System files
Like the other poster, I would suggest that you do not exclude system files. At least include them for the admin account on each machine. The reason is that in a "catastrophic" event, it will be much easier and quicker for you to get back up and running. All you would need to do is boot from the Leopard DVD (by holding down C during startup). Then after the language screen, ignore the main widow and goto "utilities" in the menubar, and restore your system from Time Machine backup. This will get you back up and running in one step (albeit a big long step). But by doing this you wont have to reinstall Leopard, then reinstall your applications one by one (reentering software keys for those that require it) and then restore all your lost documents. Just a suggestion. For the non admin users, you could exclude everything except their home folder (make sure not to exclude their library).
So to summarize this absurdly long post:
For what its worth I would:
1) Create 2 partitions. 1 for the Mini and 1 for the MacBook.
2) For the Admin account on the Mini and the MacBook DO NOT exclude anything.
3) For all other accounts, exclude everything EXCEPT each users home folder.
4) Enable sharing for your external drive independently for each user on you mini (start with your Admin account). Report back please. I am curious if your MacBook properly finds the drive when an account other than the Admin account is logged into your Mini.

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