Sharing files between MacBook Air

Hi!
I am a designer, and I have an iMac and a MacBook Air (both purchased new within the last year).
I work on each machine equally, and I'm having trouble accessing the right file at the right time.
I have figured out sharing to an extent - I am now able to pick up files that are saved on my Air on my iMac, but am not able to save them back to the Air (not even sure if this is possible?).
Is there a way that I can do this? I'm ending up with duplicate files, or newer versions saved in different places. As a temporary solution I've been saving files I know I'll need on both machines to my DropBox account, but I'm not sure whether this is a good idea to use this as a total solution to the problem?
Any help/advice would be very much appreciated!
Many thanks,
Cerries

What you want to do is very possible and done every day all around the world. But to do that you must have passwords on the users accounts you are trying to access on the other computer and login to that other computer not use the Guest account. Since these are both your Mac's you shoud have the same Username and use the same password for that username account on both. This makes it much simpler to logon to the other computer.

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