Back to My Mac and multiple iCloud accounts

I have an iMac at home and a Macbook I travel with. Previously I had just one mobileme account, and BTMM has worked like a champ. I now have multiple iCloud accounts in my household, as my wife mostly uses the iMac and I have the macbook. I very much enjoy the seemless sharing of iCal calendars and the syncing of email accounts over multiple macs and mobile devices. Trouble is to make BTMM work you have to enter preferences-->iCloud and log both computers into the same iCould account. Surely apple must have forseen this sort of problem. I as an indivdual if you have TWO computers and no one else uses them, it's no big deal to have everything on one iCloud account. But with multiple users, with multiple email accounts, that's just not realistic. I thought I may have found the work around when going to System Prefs-->Users & Groups-->and adding multilple Apple User IDs, but that doesn't work.
Any one else frustrated with this? Similar issues with Photo Stream, it would be nice to view other photo streams. Anybody got any ideas? Other than logging out of my iCloud account when away....getting all the warnings about deleting stuff off my mac with regard to iCloud..... and logging into my wifes iCloud account?
thanks
x

I share this frustration. Over last weekend I needed to leave my computer at home while we went across the country to visit family. I found out there I needed to access my computer and finish an item before I was to return. We brought my wife's MBAir with us just in case, and good thing too. Either way, I was required to sign out of iCloud for her, then sign in as myself. This deleted all her iCloud contacts, calendar, mail, etc. Then it had to reload mine, then when finished i had to do that process all over again for her account. It would seem a quite simple task to allow multiple iCloud accounts to view a set of computers set to any of the iCloud Apple ID's. There is a function similar to this on my TimeCapsule. I can put both of our AppleID accounts onto that device and both of us can see our TimeCapsule and all attached storage while away from home (brilliant by the way), great for accessing movies I have stored on the TimeCapsule. Any results on how to make this work? Thanks

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