Time machine behaviour.

I have an iMac and a Macbook. Both running Leopard.
I connected my external drive to my iMac and Time Machine seems to work
reliably.
I disconnected the drive and connected it to my Macbook, which also seemed
to do its initial backup with no probs.
I reconnected the drive to my iMac and then tried to connect to it over the
network from my Macbook. Time Machine sees it, but wants to do another full
initial backup, which is just going to take forever.
Is this to be expected?
Andy.


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