Back to my mac with 3 accounts

Hi, big help is needed here
I have family imac with 3 accounts me, my wife my teen
I have a laptop, so does my wife,
how can you back to my mac with my computer on the imac
can my wife also do the same back to the imac as well (note we have each of us an .mac email)
Thanks

As I understand it - if you leave the iMac (Home computer) logged in to .Mac as [email protected] - then only someone logged into a remote mac as [email protected] can connect with "Back to my Mac".
If you want a separate user to login - then the iMac would have to be switched to that .mac id.
I don't think Apple has this in mind... though it would be very cool.
The only work around I can think of is to create another .mac id - [email protected] and leave the iMac connected with that id. That will solve one problem - but screw up your syncing...
Perhaps best just to yield to the temptation and buy more Macs.

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