Airport Extreme stops screen sharing

Hi All,
I recently purchased an Airport Extreme to replace the existing D-Link WiFi router I had which was pretty unreliable (needed restarting at least daily).
Everything is set up and working fine except for screen sharing to a headless mac mini I have.
The set up is a mac mini running Lion server and a MacBook Air running Lion (and now Mountain Lion). Everything was working fine between the two using the D-Link (and still does if I remove the Airport and plug the D-Link back in). I've restarted everything after setting up the Airport Extreme. Looking at the Airport Utility 6.1 there aren't any settings that look useful.
This setup is only designed to work over the local WiFi network. I'm not trying to set up a remote connection over the internet at this stage.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Ian

I just bought an airport extreme and now have the same screen sharing problem. It had been working without problems beforehand. I use a Macbook Pro, OS 10.8.2, to connect to a Mac Mini running the same OS. I'd read elsewhere that iCloud can conflict, so I deleted iCloud accounts (as instructed) on both computers, but it did not solve the problem. It appears that it is caused by the Aiport Extreme.

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