Cannot get home sharing to work!

Hello,
I am trying to home share between a Mac and PC. I have gone through all the steps over and over. The PC can see and access the Mac's library. The Mac can see the PC's library, but when I click on it to transfer or accsess it the toolbar keeps moving and it ends up freezing, or just continuing to do nothing but move,if that makes sense. I don't get any error messages. The PC library is large, but from what I have read that should not be an issue? PLEASE someone save me from this ongoing battle.
Thanks
(I posted this to the Itunes forum with no response)

Hi,
I thought I had all the settings correct. The sharing is from a PC to a MAC. Is there a special setting that either the PC or MAC needs?
I have not figured it out. What I do know is that the library size is not the issue.
The PC can see my library fine. I can see the PC's library. Then I try and load and it freezes. So something must be wrong on the MAC end of things? I can't find anyone else with this problem.
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