Subscribing to screen saver

I had a group of photos uploaded to MobileMe, and I used them as my screen saver. System Preferences allowed other individuals to subscribe to my MobileMe slide show by simply entering my .Mac (MobileMe) address and choosing those photos as their screen saver option. With MobileMe gone, is there a way to do this with Mountain Lion and iCloud? I suppose that I thought iCloud would automatically load my MobileMe photos and nothing would change, but that didn't happen. I still have access to my slideshow because iPhoto automatically imported all the old MobileMe photos and put them in a separate folder; now I just point my slideshow/screen saver option to that iPhoto folder, and all is fine here. Is there a way for others to see these same photos and use them as their screen saver? Thanks for any help.
John

.....Is there a way for others to see these same photos and use them as their screen saver? ......
Only by hosting them on something like Flickr.

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>>i.e. enable screen saver, Prevent changing the screen saver, screen saver timeout, and force specific screen saver. I have tried to Disable all these apart from
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