Using Home Sharing

Okay, I've set up Home Sharing and I can see my other computer. Now I want to put the music from one computer onto another computer. I can open my shared folder, I can play music from it, but when I try to drag and drop the music (as the Itunes support page says I should be able to) I can't do it. No dragging, no dropping, nothing. The support topic also says I should get a Settings button and an Import button when I select a song, folder, etc. but I don't get either of those. I've tried turning off my firewalls, still nothing. What's wrong here?

This question would have been answered quicker in the iTunes forum. The copying only works in one direction, i.e. set up sharing, open up the library on the computer you are sitting at, connect with the other computer, then drag any songs you want from that (the other shared computer) to the one you are physically using.

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