ITunes refuses to play shared .ogg files

I have the xiph codec thing installed for playing ogg files. Ogg files play fine if the files are stored locally on the mac. However, if I try to play the same files when they are stored on another computer on the network, it refuses to play them. Why?
Nearly all my music files are ogg vorbis. I have only one imac running OS X 10.4.
All my other computers are linux based and share their music through Rhythmbox's DAAP music sharing function.
itunes has no problem playing regular mp3 files from shared sources. Only has a problem playing shared ogg files.

I have ogg files stored locally (on a PC) and iTunes won't play them, no idea why.

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