Apple TV can't connect to library on Home Share

Recently I've run into a problem where my AppleTVs will not see our main library. We have two libraries that we share on our network, and most of the content is on our office computer named "iMac Library". Over the last two days, more often than not it will time out when trying to connect to that library, giving me the message that it can't connect and I should check my home sharing settings, etc. If I go into the office and shut down iTunes, then start iTunes again, it will see it fine. Is anyone else experiencing this? I've got two AppleTV 2s and one of the latest (1080p) AppleTVs (is this referred to as a AppleTV 3 or 2.1 or what?) and it does it on all three units.
Any help would be appreciated.

The iTunes shut down/restart method has worked 100% of the time for me, but it also seems to have not happened over the last 3-4 days as much. I'm used to Apple mysteriously applying patches to fix stuff while not even acknowledging it on the forums so maybe that's what happened here.
Best example of this was when an update broke the order of your TV shows, throwing any shows in iTunes totally out of alphabetical order and it was like that for a few weeks with zero acknowledgement from Apple. The only thing that made it bearable was that the forums errupted with people having the same issue, so you knew it was going to be addressed at some point. I'm worried that since there doesn't seem to be an outpouring of other users with the same problem that it might not be as widespread, and I don't really like the idea of a several hour call to tech support troubleshooting this.
I'll keep the thread updated with any changes, but for right now it seems like it may have fixed itself. Hope that is the case with your issue as well.

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