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I have two machines: one Mac (Leopard), one Windows XP (SP3).
I have recently updated iTunes on both machines to 9.2.
Previously I could see the Mac's shared library on my Windows PC (using iTunes 8 on the PC, 9-something on the Mac). Now I cannot.
On the Mac, the Windows share shows up and I am able to interact with it as one would expect. It doesn't work the other way around, though.
I have enabled Home Sharing on both machines, but after doing so, the Home Sharing item on the left sidebar disappears from Windows' iTunes.
Thank you in advance - any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
TC

okay, let's start from the beginning
what you want to see in iTunes is this (view from my MBP's iTunes seeing the library on my Mini)
if the icon looks like this , home sharing has not been set up correctly.
in order for home sharing to work
(a) iTunes on all machines must be authorized for the same iTunes store account
(b) all machines must be on the same network
(c) all machines must have access to the internet.
are the above points a given on your end ?
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