ITunes sharing PC to Mac

The Mac shows up on the PC's iTunes sharing section, whereas the PC will not show up on the Mac's iTunes sharing section. I believe I have all the correct settings turned on and such, but I may have missed something (anything in system prefs? or anything on the windows side of things outside of iTunes?)
Using iTunes 9 (Which I love, by the way, but this problem was in iTunes 8 as well)

Anyone?

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