Sharing certain folders only betwee computers. Am I missing something?

Hello,
We have an iMac and a macbook that we wold like to share files between. I turned on file sharing from the imac and vice versa on the macbook. I added specific folders to share between these computers as the my document folders since we don't rally want to keep emailing files in between. For some reason, when I turn file sharing on it shares the entire user folder, any connected servers, and the one folder I added such as a documents.
How do I not share the entire user folder and just share a specific folder?
//j

this probably has to do with how you connect from one computer to another.
when you click on a remote computer in the sidebar, in finder window you should see
"connected as: username". If it says "connected as: Guest" you should only see the folders that you've added to sharing. If it says "connected as: actual-username" then the remote user is connected as user actual-username. In that case the home directory of user-actual-username will be automatically accessible. Connecting as a specific user requires entering that user's name and password so i assume you've done so. If you click "disconnect" it will log you out of that user and you'll only be connected as guest (or not at all if guest user is disabled).
make sure you have enabled guest user and let it access shared folders (both done in system preferences->accounts) if you want to connect as guest. also, in case you've saved the password to connect as actual-username, open keychain access and delete that password.

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