Can't get file sharing to work.

Hi,
I have a headless mini that I am using for a media center and I did have file sharing working just fine on the main drive and two external firewire drives. When I add the drives in the sharing folder in the system prefs each drive will add just fine and the permissions look fine. I restart the mini and then if I look at the sharing info and each drive that I attached will have a dash and 1 behind the name of the drive. Never saw that before. I can screen share just fine but when I try to do file sharing from another machine I will get a connection failed message. Any ideas out there?
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I have the same problem. I just got a MacBook, to upgrade from a G4 Cube that served me very well. When I set the Cube as the Targeted Disk, the FW Icon shows up on the Cube, and the HD Icon shows up on the MacBook--but nothing else happens. It gets hung up "waiting...."(I even let it wait over night)
PLEASE HELP! If MA can work for me, it would save me weeks of tracking down settings, passwords, upgrades.....

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