Personal File Sharing Connection Timing Out

I'm having trouble personal file sharing connecting to one computer in my office. All the others work just fine and I can retrieve files and all. Oddly the computer that I can't read can connect to me.
When I try and connect, I go to the Network, I can see her computer, I double click it and get the following message:
Contacting xx.xx.xx.xx
Timeout in 120 seconds
And then it counts down the seconds and eventually nothing happens. I went into her System settings and checked and everything (that I know to check) is on and the IP address is the same one that is showing in my dialog box.
Any ideas?

Several restarts later and it is still doing it. I can connect to others, but this one machine doesn't want to go. Anybody?

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[Thu Apr 9 09:14:08 2009]      8940    1452690272      trace message: TraceLog: [ENTER] ~_BOUserUniverseManager
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[Thu Apr 9 09:14:08 2009]      8940    1452690272      trace message: TraceLog: [EXIT] ~_BOUserUniverseManager: 0
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