Sharing folders across several computers without restriction?

I thought I followed all of the directions I could find on apple.com so I am asking the community for help.
Here is what we want to do:
I want to be able to access the same things on my laptop as I can on my desktop. I setup shared folders, but they only work when my laptop is on. I don't want to use the laptop all of the time, but sometimes I need to as I have to take it with me to work on a project. I'd like to be able to come home after using my laptop all day and log on to my iMac and then continue my work. Is this possible?
Also my husband would like to do the same from his laptop. He would like that if we are on our laptops that we could share a file, both having read and write access to it. I have tried to mess with permissions from both our computers to give us both unlimited access to all three computers, but it isn't working and when he looks some of my folders are restricted and the same with his.
We need some serious help here and need step-by step instructions because we obviously keep messing something up.
We have Time Capsule, Time Machine and AirPort wireless network. Let me know if you need any other info to help us out and i will get it for you.
Thanks!

My understanding is holding down the option key while dragging a file from one computer to another fixes permissions. But I've had mixed results. You might look into DropBox or ExecSync. My partner and I travel a lot and have the same situation when we come home. Too bad we can't specify a folder, where we could put current projects, that we could designate MobileMeSync to include in it's sync.

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