Can't write to files on another mac?

Hi,
I know this is a very basic question and I'm going to sound a dummy but I just can't seem to figure it out!
I am using a mac book and want to be able to access and save to files held on an imac.
The computers are networked, file sharing is set up on the imac, I am a user on the imac with permission to read and write, I can print to a printer attached to the imac, I can see the files on the imac and open them from my macbook but the only thing I can't seem to do is save a file after I've changed it. It just says I don't have permissions.
However, on the imac it says I do have permissions!
Sorry, I know this is very basic stuff but I'm getting nowhere fast and any help would be much appreciated!!
Thanks
Sandra

G'day Sandra,
Kenichi is on the money with this one.
On each Mac, your username is allocated to a numeric user id starting with number 501 for the first user you create on that computer. The second account your create is user 502 and so on. This user id determines the access permissions to every file.
Thus, you could have an account on your iMac named sandra (with user id 501), and an account on your MacBook named sandra (with user id 502, because another account was created first). When you share files, even though you have the same username, you are NOT the same owner from the files perspective, and thus you do not have full permissions over the file!
To get around this from your MacBook, you need to use the "connect as" option for your iMac. Then you enter your iMacs account username and password (and save it). You will then have full access to the files on that computer - although you will still get access errors when you copy them from your iMac to your MacBook.
To fix this, you simply "Get Info" on the file, and give yourself read/write permission.
Or.. if you have the time and patience.. and don't want to go through the hassle every time you copy a file... you can set things up so that every account on every computer is created in the same order, with the same username and password.....
(There are other ways to fix this - using Access Control Lists - but I will leave it at that for now).
Cheers,
Rodney

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