Editing files on one mac that are stored on another

I have two macs with Lion on my LAN. I want to be able to open and edit files on each from the other and then save the changes to the original store. I seem to be told that I don't have permission to do that. How can I fix this?
TIA,
David

I changed the permissions of the original store (my iMac) on the Macbook Pro as you described. When I attempted to close the app on the MBP, I got the msg 'The document XXXX is on a volume that does not support permanent version storage'.
Is this problem related to Lion's save and version features? FYI, that app in question is Keynote so you'd think it'd be fully up-to-date on Lion's features.

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