Networking with another Mac - FTP?

O.k. I don't know much about networking our 2 computers. Just enough to be able to work. I sometimes mount one of the two hardrives on the other computer to work on docs, etc. usually it works. In Finder, I choose Network in the Go menu, click on the other computer and log in.
Latelythough when I do this, it doesn't give me a chance to log-in and automatically mounts only the desktop of the other computer and I can't access the hard drives. One time I got a message about it being an FTP server (the other MAC)? It did this once before I and fiddled my way out of it by tinkering with the machines.
This time, I can't seem to tinker my way back into getting them to work.
Can anyone help me know what is going on or what to check?
Thanks in advance.

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