Can you connect Apple TV to a Mac Directly?

I have a client on mine that just purchased an Apple TV... now we connected this up to an Airport Extreme. His Mac Pro is connected to said airport extreme as well.
The Airport extreme works fine, I have a PC and two Macs connected to it, and they can see each other fine. Yet the Mac can't find the Apple TV... why? The Apple TV can connect to the internet, it has updated, so I know it has an IP address.
What is causing this not to work?
Is it possible that I can connect the Apple TV to the computer, share the computer's network, and still provide service to the TV?

You could enable Internet sharing on the Mac and connect the ATV to it with an Ethernet cable. You would still need to use iTunes on the Mac to manage the ATV content, however.

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