Home sharing with different family members

Hi-
I'm trying to get the whole home sharing figured out. I have my PC my iPhone 4, my kids iPod 4's. Itunes in my pc would recognize our pods individually. We added an iPhone 4s for my hubby but iTunes recognizes his as me and not him. Any suggestions to fix this? Siri doesn't realize it's him, he gets all of my contacts, etc. do we have to set up his own iTunes and not be able to do the home sharing?
Thanks!

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