ITunes Sharing

I just got a new vista home premium 64bit machine. I enabled sharing on my main mac so I could use sharing in iTunes on the vista PC.
My shared library in mac iTunes is not being found on the vista PC. Is there something else that needs to be done? I have bonjour installed and the machines are on the same TimeCapsule router. Thanks!

Hi
Thank you for your post here.
Firstly, multicast cannot be forwarded through the TMG. And is this a access rule issue right?
If TMG blocks your traffic, you should check your TMG live Log, there should be some erorr information or prompt there. It may be helpful for us to locate the issue.
Best Regards
Quan Gu

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