Another Home Sharing Question

I have 3 computers running Windows 7 or Vista, and iTunes and all have the same account and settings for Home Sharing. Computer A can see computers B and C. B can see A. C can not see either of the other Home Shares. There are no other apparent problems with the network. I can do normal Windows file sharing, access the Internet, etc. The only problem is iTunes Home Sharing.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Have you checked your firewalls? I'd try temporarily turning off firewalls and see if you can then access the machines via home sharing, in which case you can then pursue the opening of the appropriate ports as needed. I know having just installed Norton 360 v4, I had to manually open port 3689 on my PC (I did it just for my subnet, just to be safe).

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