Shared volumes on another mac issue

I have three Macs. A iMac, Macbook and Macmini. I use the Mac Mini as my HTPC with my movies and stuff on the iMac. I just upgraded them all to Snow Leopard (clean install on iMac upgrade on the others). Now one issue I am having is when the MM reboots, logs in and connects to the iMac drives (I added them to the login items) it asks for the username and password before it connects. The user on the MM and iMac is the same and under Leopard it never asked for that info.
Not sure why it isn't just connecting since the user is the same. Second issue is that once it mounts the shares it opens a finder window for each. Again this didn't happen in Leopard. Anyway to stop the finder windows from opening?

BTW, the MBP is also running Lion and they're both updated to the latest version of Lion.

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