Back up to internal hard drive from multiple macs. Possible?

I have a MacPro and was thinking of putting a second hard drive in the case to use with time machine, and I'm 99% sure I can use it to back up the Mac Pro's boot drive to it, but my question is what about other macs on the network? I have a macbook and wife's iMac that I'd like to backup to the MacPro's second hard drive. I know it would be no problem if it was an external firewire or usb drive, but I'd prefer to just drop it in the MacPro's case. Help.

If you can see (mount) and use this second hard drive with the MacBook and the iMac, as if it was an external, then fine.
So all you have to find, is the way to plug it to the MacBook and to the iMac (not simultaneously), as if it was just another external drive.
Can't one of the MacPro's USB or FW ports work that way, as an "out" port?
Oh and it also has to be unmounted from the MacPro's end.
If this easiest approach doesn't work:
At least Target Disk Mode will successfully "show" any other Mac's internal as just another plugged volume.

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