Music (only) not sharing between 2 macs?

I'll see if I can explain this properly.
In our household we have 2 Macs one an iMac i7, 27" from Mid 2010 and a MacBook Pro Core2Duo from 2006 an iPod Touch 2nd Gen, iPod Touch 3rd Gen and an iPad 2, both computers are set up on OS X 10.7.3 and both are running iTunes 10.6 (The issue iI'll described happened as well in 10.5.3).
The iPod 3rd Gen and iPad run iOS 5 (the iPod touch 2nd Gen is too old to run anthing past iOS4 and is kinda irrelivent in this issue so ignore that).
The iMac and iPod Tocuh are set up with my Apple ID for iTunes and iCloud etc and the iPad and the Macbook Pro are set up for my father.
Today I decided to set up my fathers equipment to use Home Sharing to allow him to stream content from the MacbookPro to the iPad
I was trying to explain the progession from the earlier form of Sharing libraries to the newer Home Sharing. Explaining that the old Sharing was iTunes on Mac to Mac (or PC) and just allowed streaming. Where as newer home sharing allowed Mac to Mac File transfer and/or Streaming and Mac to iOS Streaming as long as they were on the same Apple ID and Home sharing was turned on on all desired devices. So I went to show him the older Streaming from my computer to his to demo the difference. Then set up Home Sharing on his devices and show the difference. Except when I did this Music from my computer would not stream to his computer. It did stream to my ipod via home share. And I could Stream Movies and TV shows to his computer via the old sharing system.
I then tried to sign both computers in with the same account for home share and again Movies and TV shows would stream from computer to computer but music would not, yet it would stream everything to the iPad or iPod.
All the artwork shows up and everything just no steaming music.
All that happens when you try to stream music from one computer to the other is you get "Opening URL Connecting" for a few mins then it just sits there at 0:00 with the speaker icon next to the song and no music and no error message, sometimes it just jumps straight to speaker icon without the "Opening URL" dialog.
Its the Same issue in both directions. I tried Streaming from his to mine and vica versa to no avail.
Both computers have firewall set to off.
We're on a pretty standard Netgear WiFi Network with WPA password.
So here is a summery of what works and what doesn't
Orignal Sharing system
Mac to Mac, Music Streaming, Does NOT works
Mac to Mac, Video Streaming, WORKS
New Home Sharing
Mac to Mac, Music Streaming, Does NOT work
Mac to Mac, Video Streaming, WORKS
Mac to iPod, Music Streaming, WORKS
Mac to iPad, Music Streaming, WORKS
Mac to iPod, Video Streaming, WORKS
Mac to iPad, Video Streaming, WORKS
Anyone know why its only the Music Mac to Mac not working?

All Fixed Seems like my fathers VirusBarrier had blocked some incoming trafic from my computers IP addrss

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