Personal File Sharing - Shared Folders not found

I have a mbp and 2 iMacs. They connect to the internet through an airport extreme. I would like to share files between them all. I have tried using personal file sharing in System Preferences. I turned it on, on all the machines. I also turned on apple talk under Network in System Preferences. All of the machines can ping each other yet when I go to Network no folders come up.
Do I need to do anything with the router or any other settings?
Any help would be great. Thank you.

See the following:
http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/network/
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106461
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107369
Also select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu, enter the word "sharing" in the search field. You will find a listing of numerous articles on file sharing.

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