Networking MacBook with iMac

Apologies if this is the wrong area of the forums....
I have a lovely MacBook, and I have a fabulous iMac (24" running Leopard). They both currently live in the same room, but the iMac has some external harddrives connected that host my house music collection.
I'm sure that there's a simple way of doing this but I've not worked it out yet, but is there a way of getting the two of them talking wirelessly so that I can access the files on the external drives with my MacBook?
Thanks for reading and hopefully helping!

On your iMac (or both computers if you want to share both ways) go to system preferences>sharing and check all the items you wish to share with the other computers on your network. Also make sure there is a name for the computer. The one item in particular that you're needing to check, specific to your post, is 'File Sharing'. Now depending on how many accounts and their account types, you may have to determine the access allowed. You can change users and their access in the right side of the window. Find this information in the window, "Other users can connect......", you need to note the afp://numbers.
Now to access the computer from another computer, if you have Leopard when you open a Finder window the computer will probably show under 'Shared'. Just select it and then 'Connect As'. If you're using Tiger, open Finder and go to Go Menu>Connect To Server. In the field Server Address you need to enter in the information you got previously (afp://numbers). Then it will ask for User Name and Password and then what disk to mount (could be external drive, internal drive, home folder, etc).

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