Can you file share AND connection share simultaneously?

I'm sharing my iMac's internet connection over AirPort to a pair of MacBooks. While the internet connection is working fine, I've not been able to access my iMac's files through file sharing. I thought this may be because the shared connection over AirPort somehow precludes file sharing, but I now notice that screen sharing (i.e. viewing the iMac's screen from the MacBook) works just fine, which makes me think file sharing should work too.
So, should file sharing work or not and, if yes, any ideas on what could be going wrong?
Many thanks!

I've never tried connection sharing - frankly, getting a router and using that is a much better method - but I would have though it wouldn't have interfered with File Sharing.
You might like to check through the process on this page just to make sure that you are doing everything properly:
http://homepage.mac.com/rfwilmut/notes/sharing.html

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