Connecting or networking my macbook to my Imac

I have Imac leopard OS and just got new Imac book pro. I will be traveling a lot and would like to connect to my imac at home and share files and itunes music files. How would I accomplish this. I have tried going into sharing on both macs and when I tried connecting to Imac it just shows connecting... in finder. I have my Imac and macbook both connected to internet via airport base station.

I don't think this an Apple support issue, as I share files successfully between my G5 iMac, my aluminum iMac, and my MBP. If you go to the Shared folders in the Finder, open the folder you want, then click the "Connect As..." button at the top right-hand side of the folder window, I would expect you to be able to connect. If you can't, it's probably a setting problem somewhere or a user name/password problem.
Check the firewall settings on both computers and make sure you don't have them set to "Allow only essential services." Also check the user access permissions for the shared folders in the Sharing section.

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