OK I think I might have got it. A combo of your help and this guys guide (I attatched it, I dont know him I just found it by googling, but the part where u enter the users was my issue) has gotten both computers on and sharing with the laptop at the same time. The true test will come once they awake from sleep and if they reconnect, and then after a restart, reconnect again then Im good to go. However since there both working Im not letting it go to sleep now so I can get some use out of it. The only thing thats odd is I made a new partition on my internal drive and put the test share folder on that. Once they got past the pw prompt it showed 2 folders the share and a folder with the partition letter as its name. It wont open, sais I dont have permissions and the share folder said it too but I was able to go to it and hit share and then choose "everyone" read/write but on the partition the "share" button above the advanced sharing button on the sharing tab isnt clickable. Can u not share full partitions?