Apple TV can't see the library on my new iMac

I've had an ATV2 for a few months, and it's always worked fine - but I recently bought a new iMac and now the ATV can't see my iTunes library on that computer.  It can see my other one fine.  I turned home sharing off and back on on the new computer, and the library appeared but when I clicked it it started to load then the libabry disappeared and I was back to just the old one.
Has anyone seen this before?  Is it an ATV problem or something on the new computer - the firewall's off and home sharing is on, and everything's connected to the same network.

There was an oddity with iTunes that when you enabled Home Sharing and clicked 'Done' on the Home Sharing setup page (as opposed to just selecting iTunes Store or a media category in your library), the setting would somehow fail.
I though this had been fixed but maybe not.
No harm to reboot all your devices - computer/AppleTV/router and see if that helps.
AC

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