Filesharing with pismo

I posted this elsewhere, but this has been a very successful place for my questions to get answered, so here goes.
I have thre macs at home that I want to file share:
1) G3 B&W 10.3.7 ethernet to wireless router
2) G3 Pismo 10.3.8 airport wireless
3) G5 imac 10.4.6 airport wireless
Computers 1 and 3 share just fine.
Computer 1 and 3 show computer 2 in network window, but when I try to connect i get the message on computer 3 - " Unknown user, incorrect password or login is disabled. Please retype the name and password or contact the server's administrator" and on computer number 1 - "Sorry, the password you entered is incorrect. Please re-enter it."
Ut-Oh...I am the server's administrator. DOwH!
Computer 2 also shows the other two in the network window, but I get the incorrect password message when I try to connect to either. Now, you would assume all this means I don't know the password...but I only set up one password when setting up the systems on all these computers and it is the same for all. Also...just to see if the password on computer 2 is correct, I just installled some software and the password worked fine.
I don't think I have any other passwords set up and checked in keychain access to see if there were any there - just my email and safari auto passwords were shown. I have NOT set up a master password in the security settings.
Can anyone explain to me how to fix this situation? Is this a Pismo problem? Additionally - both computer 1 and 2 have OS 9.2.2 on them, but not activated. Personal File Sharing, Apple Remote Desktop and Printer Sharing are enabled on all three. Firewall is off on all three. What am I missing here?
Thanks for any advice. I have been at this for a day and a half checking the settings on all three computers and as far as I can see everything is identical. Is reinstalling my pismo system my only option? And will that work?
Sarah

I thought about that too, because the long user names were the same on the two that connected to each other, and different on the Pismo, and the computer names and the short user names were each different on all three, but that wasn't it.
Someone in the other forum suggested creating a new admin account on the pismo and so I did, but after restarting I discovered that all the settings and prefs were set new, and especially troubling was the itunes and ipod were set up as a new user so I bagged that.
Admin was they key that helped solve the problem though.
The admin account suggestion prompted me to check my permissions and ownership for each of the hard drives on each computer. Seems the default setting was "system" as owner on the pismo. Once I set the owner as the admin user - me - then I was able to mount all three computers on each other just fine, and all files are accessible on all three.
Life is good today.
Thanks for your suggestion.
S

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