Problem setting up wireless networking

I have an imac and a macbook and have just purchased a Netgear wireless router WGR614.
It was easy to get both machines connected to the internet. However, I would like two-way filesharing and am having more of a problem. I created a computer-to computer network and the macbook shows up fine in the imac's network window, and I can mount it on the desktop. But it won't work the other way: I can't mount the imac on the macbook's desktop, it just doesn't show up in the macbook's network window, nothing appears in that window. Entering the imac's IP address manually in the connect-to-server box on the macbook doesn't work either.
I'd also like to print from the macbook to the printer attached to the imac, but the lack of connection in that direction prevents this.
I have tried creating a computer-to computer network on the macbook, and trying things form that way round, but the result is the same. I have ticked all the right boxes in the sharing panel, of course.
imac   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Please elaborate on "computer-to-computer" network. A computer-to-computer network in wireless lingo means you created a secondary wireless network that is being broadcast from the computer it is created on. It's done by going under the AirPort menu and selecting "create network." If this is what you've done, it would explain the problem you are having. This network is independent from the one you have setup on the Netgear device and is not what you want. Make sure both computers you want to share files/printers between are on the Netgear wireless network and then go to the "Sharing" system preference and enable "Personal File Sharing" and "Printer Sharing." That should pretty much do it. Hope this helps.

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