Netgear Powerline and iTunes Streaming

I am using 2 Netgear XAV101 to conect computers throughout my house. I wish to stream iTunes from my iMac in my office that houses my iTunes library to my laptop in the family room to stream the iTunes library. This works fine over wireless (though it is intermittent thus using powerline modules) but when I switch to Powerline by turning off the Airport card on the laptop the streaming computer library disappears on the laptop. How can I get Powerline to see iTunes and pass the stream through. Other than that Powerline works perfectly. An Airport base station is acting as my router to the Powerline module.

Richard Lenoce wrote:
I am sorry for not being clear...when I switch from Airport to the Netgear Powerline on my downstairs MacBook laptop I can no longer see my music library on my other machine, iMac, which has all my music (I have a large old house and Aiport doesnt work well but the Powerline works great except for this one thing). Thank you for any information or assistance you can provide.
what Tracy said about the sharing option in iTunes. make sure on both machines it looks like this (except perhaps for the password)
how about +home sharing+ ? is that enabled on both machines ? is iTunes on both authorized to the same account ?
edited by the Jolly Green Giant (where Green stands for environmentally friendly)

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