HT1218 homesharing-unable to activate "own music library" although devices logged in via Apple id:

Have restarted all the devices.
Can share and play music between the 2 iMacs but oniPhone cannot see the libraries on the iMacs

the wifi router could also be blocking
and to really test if the windows firewall is the problem then try turning it off!
if that scare you too much then disable the internet modem / cable modem or the likes while you test
always remove more and more factors when troubleshooting sooner or later it will work and you can narrow down which factor did the job and work on that

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