Apple tv 2 not finding my home shared library

Hi, I'm having some trouble getting my apple tv to find my windows desktop computer that i have got connected on a little wifi USB adapter the internet on the computer works, same apple id on both use a different ID and still no luck in finding my music. I have a laptop also windows which works just fine, finds my library that i have set up on it, reason why i would want both on off different computers is the one has all my music videos and the other one all my songs, please help im battling.

Hi there,
You may find the troubleshooting article below helpful.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
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