Can't transfer from iMac with snow leopard to Macbook pro with leopard

Hey
I Have a bit of a problem and hope someone can help me out.
I have a 2008 Macbook Pro running on Leopard and my wife has a 2010 iMac running on snow leopard. We were trying to share some files and there was no problem from mine to hers. I've put the folders on my public folder and she picked them up and transfered them to her computer. The other way was impossible. I can see her computer on finder and i connect to it as a guest (as she did to mine), but nothing appears there, altough the folders are on her public folder. I've checked the settings and everything seems to be the same on both computers.
Does anyone knows whats going on?
Appreciate some help

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