PC Falls Asleep During Home Sharing

Home sharing is working fine on my girlfriend's Sony Vaio laptop running on Windows 7 and the most recent iTunes update. However, after a while, the laptop falls asleep and whatever is being streamed cuts off. This doesn't happen on my Mac, which has the "wake for network access" box checked. Is there something similar I need to do for a PC to keep my home sharing streams from cutting off when the PC goes to sleep?

Yes there is something you do to the PC, but is it your MAC that is shutting off?

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