Home share on same computer different sign in

How do I home share on the same mac. We have two users on Mac snow leopard with latest Itunes 10. I can see the home share account that I want to pull music from under shared on my account , but it wont let me drag it over to my music. It doesnt have the show items button at the bottom either ?
It lets me do it from an itunes library on a different computer but not when we are sharing the same mac.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Rather than using Home sharing, I'd check through the following document with that one:
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