ITunes sharing not working at all

I have been trying to set up a LAN so that I can play music from the computer upstairs via my laptop downstairs. At the moment the 2 machines are connected directly with an ethernet cable, so it's not a router problem (every thread I find on this topic blames this on routers).
My laptop is a MacBook running OSX 10.4.11, using the latest version of iTunes (8-something), and the computer is a PPC G3 running OSX 10.4.11, also on the latest version of iTunes (it updated this morning). The laptop can see the library on the computer, but not load it (error 3259) and keeps telling me to check firewall / ports. The firewalls on BOTH computers have been disabled, and the ports have been checked & are correct (3689). The G3 does not even show the iTunes library from the laptop in iTunes though!
I have tried scrapping the iTunes preferences files on both machines & restarting iTunes. They both seem to be able to find each other / open files through the 'network' feature in finder (although I had problems with that earlier), but iTunes sharing is not working at all.
What can I do? Some threads suggest problems with Bonjour or QuickTime, but I don't know if these are relevant at all. As others have commented: lots of threads on the net about this but no answers!

turns out you need to be sure the computers are connected before starting iTunes on either one for this to work.
I just got this working - through the router as well - with no problems at all following this method.
It doesn't mention this at all in apple's instructions.

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