Home sharing doesn't work

I have recently purchased a MacBook Air and want to convert all of my iTunes library from my WinVista Sony vaio laptop. I have around 20GB of music on my current library and ha the laptop for about 4 years. I have followed all of the steps about home sharing and all seems to be going fine. As the mac contains no music on iTunes yet it comes up on the windows laptop very quickly. However, with the mac it loads my library (without showing any songs or data) for about 1 minute then it just stops loading and switches back to the blank library. I am really confused because I have followed all of the steps and they are both up to the latest version of iTunes
help would be appreciated, thank you

i'm sure you did but try disabling home sharing from the advanced menu on both machines then turn it back on for both machines and use the same iTunes store account.
if still no joy, you could try *removing iTunes completely* on both Macs (click here and follow the instructions), then reinstall it using the standalone installer from here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/.
note this will not do anything to your media files, playlists, ratings, etc.

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