File sharing between MacBook OS X Snow Leopard, MacBook Air OS X Mountain Lion won't work?

I'm using two laptops - a MacBook with OS X Snow Leopard and a MacBook Air with OS X Mountain Lion. I have set File Sharing privileges on both machines. Neither is showing up as visible to the either through browsing network places or even by directly trying to connect to the computer name.local or the given IP address. We have a Belkin router but I've turned the Firewall off on it and that still didn't do the trick. Any ideas?

Have they ever worked together?

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