Home sharing icon not showing up.

I enabled home sharing on my Dell desktop, HP laptop, and my MacBook. The home shring icon isn't showing up on the sidebar on both my Dell and HP. It is showing up on my MacBook, but that doesn't really help because I want to transfer the music from my Dell to the MacBook and HP. I tried the troubleshooting, including downloading the lastest version of iTunes and turning home shoring off then on, but nothing worked. Any ides or suggestions?

more often than not, this issue is due to network and/or firewall settings. check out these links:
Troubleshooting security software issues
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
and, last but not least, see this discussion concerning bonjour being the culprit.

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