Help please! Can't see iMac HD, CD drive, or printer from MBA anymore.

Used to be able to see my iMac's Hard drive, Disk drive and printer from my MBA. Recently lost the ability. Bluetooth is paired and on, File, CD and printer sharing set up, but can see none from the MBA. Tried permissions and power resets, but still no joy. Any ideas from you guys out there???

If you see your neighbor's devices in Shared > that means that you did not give your own network and router a unique name. You are entering a generic network name instead of your own unique one and your devices will see any network of that name in the wifi.
Change from the generic 2wire or linksys or whatever you all use on your broadband wan. Create unique : for instance, using my nick would be rhydlan. If it is a bluetooth network, do something similar and then re=pair the devices.
Change the name of your network, make it unique for you, and start using a unique password, hopefully WPA if possible. Then enter all of that info to make your connections to your own network and connect to it. Do likewise for your other devices and network in your own wlan happily ever after.
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