I started by creating an account on the new box. This account has an automatic mount to my main Mac. With this done, I then created symbolic links between the new account and some major folders within my account folder on the main machine:
- ~/Library/Mail
- ~/Library/Safari
- ~/Documents
- ~/Library/Calendars
[robg adds:This is all the information that was supplied with the hint, so here's a bit more info on symbolic links. The format of the symbolic link command is ln -s target link_name. So in this case, I believe the command on the lounge room Mac would have looked like this:
ln -s /Volumes/main_mac/Users/user_name/Documents ~/DocumentsRepeat for each different item to be linked, and if the folder exists already, you would probably want to delete it first. Of course, I may be wrong, and I haven't tested this one...]

