HT4814 Weird connection problems on clean mountain lion installation.

When I first installed Server, I wanted to see if it would work before going through all the effort to prepare my other mac.  So I ran it locally.
Now my other mac is all ready to go, but Server.app, simply would not log on to the other mac, even though I could get to it with the same credentials over ssh (both the <sillyname>.local and the FQDN).  After a few tries with that, it doesn't even give me the opportunity to choose another machine, it just says "Continue" or "Quit."
So, is there any fix for such a predicament?  I can still activate the "connect to another mac" menu, but, for some reason, it will not accept the password that works everywhere else and that I set on that mac.  I'm not convinced that it's even trying.
Disc sharing also seems not to be working.  It's a clean installation of Mountain Lion, over there.  If I ask to share the dvd drive, the other computer offers a dialogue, and, after I approve the request, nothing happens - my new mac just waits and waits.
Edit - even if I enable remote management, for everyone, with no password, on the other mac, my rMBP won't connect: not with FQDN, not with <silly>.local, and not with IP address.  What is going on?
Yikes!
Advice appreciated.
Barbara

What are you formatting it as? MAC OS Extended (Journaled)? This is the only format you will be able to install ML on.
Why didn't you just uninstall the beta of CS6? The full version is out. and the Betas are discontinued, I believe, making it impossible to fully use.
I have had CS6 running now for over 48 hours, saving animated gifs, Jpg's, raw's, tiffs, so on in PS, AI and Flash and they all save just fine. Everything in CS6 has surprisingly been unbuggy and the recovery options it has (when your computer crashes) is so worth the update!
There might be an issue with your license? How much more time do you have with your trial period?
in either case, this issue does not warrant a clean install. you should have first attempted a reinstall. Once you migrate your system back from a clean install you essentially didn't do anything but bring back any issue you were having before.
A reinstall seems to fix my issues if I had any in Lion.

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