Home sharing on one pc?

My hubby and I share one PC using different desktops. I would like to set up home sharing so I can copy across some of his iphone apps, but even after turning on home sharing on both our itunes accounts (using my email and password) I can't see his itunes. So three questions...
Does home sharing only work if using two different PC's?
Why can't I open his itunes on his desktop if itunes is open in mine?
And lastly if I can't get home sharing to work, how can I access his apps?
Thanks!

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
expand all the sections and pay attention to the part in "To listen to another account's music files" that says
+Repeat these steps for each account that is listening to shared music.+
+When another user of the computer has imported new music from CD, repeat steps 6 through 8 to add the music to your library.+

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