Networking Mac's with Time Capsule

I'm having trouble networking my two MacBook's using my Time Capsule as the server. Any tips?

I'm having a similar problem. My network worked fine for a long time. Recently, I went on to a couple of machines and deleted a number of files to try to regain hard disk space. I didn't think I deleted anything important, but afterward, machines were not recognizing each other. A couple of the files I deleted were Hewlett-Packard files from the Startup folder. I realized the need for tham afterward, and reinstalled the printer drivers.
However, while the printer is now working, it is only working with the machine attached to it. The other machines which accessed it over the network can not do so anymore.
The weirdest is, after resetting everything, I was able to log in to my Mac Book from my Mac Mini, but I couldn't do the reverse. When trying to connect to the Mini from the Book, it timed out. I tried directly using Go to...Server with the Mini's IP address, no luck. I made sure "File Sharing" was turned on both machines.
At one point I was in the sharing preferences and noted, on the Mini, that a "Permitted Users" list existed. One had a dim network icon with my name "Daniel", which is similar, but not same as, name of the Mac Book ("Daniel's Mac Book (2)"). As a test, I deleted it, and, sure enough, I could no longer log into the Book from the Mini. I hit the + sign to re-add "Daniel", but wasn't able to because the Mini would not recognize the Book anymore.
All the computers recognize the Time Capsule just fine, they all access the internet just fine, they all have File Sharing turned on, they just won't recognize each other.
This is an important problem because we have only one printer, hooked up directly to the Mini. All our printing is done over the network through the Mini.
I've done hard reset (unplugged Time Capsule), soft reset (through Airport Utility) and reset manually all Time Capsule settings - still no recognition computer to computer.
Any ideas for next steps?

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