Why does Home Sharing not work on iTunes 10.5.3 between a Windows PC and MacBook Pro?

I have a Dell XPS M1530 laptop which is my older laptop, consisting of all my music, apps and so on. I recently purchased a MacBook Pro (latest version) and would like to use Home Sharing to browse my music libraries and so on on there. However, I find that I am unable to do this, after several methods I have attempted in order to resolve this issue.
The Home Sharing on the left column does not appear at all.
I have upgraded iTunes on both laptops to the latest version yesterday, which I assume is iTunes version 10.5.3.
I have turned off Home Sharing, and turned it on a few times.
I use the same Apple ID to log in to Home Sharing.
I named both playlists/music libraries to the same name - not sure if this is a way to 'fix' the problem but I saw it in a thread.
I tried all the above methods, but to no avail. Home Sharing still does not work - in fact, it does not even appear on the left column; it disappears as soon as I turn on Home Sharing.
Help is very muchly appreciated.
Thank you very much!

First, each Library should have a unique name, not the same name.
Now, I wrote an extensive how-to in another thread that explains Home Sharing, Library Sharing, how to turn them on and identify them and so on. See if it helps you with your problem.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3461734

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Aber mit gleichem Windows-PC und MacBookPro doch? Alles im selben Neztwerk. Der PC erscheint beim iMac einfach nicht unter Freigaben. Der iMac erscheint zwar beim PC unter Freigaben, aber wenn man auf die Mediathek des iMac in der PC-Anzeige klickt, erscheint der bunte Drehball und nach einer Weile ist die Anzeige des iMac in der Rubrik Freigabe beim PC nicht mehr da. Erst nach Neustart des PC erscheint der iMac dort wieder. So nutzt mir das gar nichts. Die Einkäufe werden automatisch auf allen drei Geräten aktualisiert.
Sämtliche "Hilfen" habe ich durchsucht, aber ohne Erfolg. Es klappt einfach nicht mit der Freigabe.
Vielleicht ist es ja möglich, eine deutsche Antwort zu bekommen.
Ich kann mir auch gut vorstellen, dass ein solches Forum in Deutschland gut genutzt würde. Es ist sehr schade, dass es das nicht gibt. Aber vielleicht kommt soetwas ja irgenwann einmal. Jetzt wo auch in Deutschland an jeder Ecke Apple-Produkte zu kaufen sind und keine Exoten mehr darstellen.
Vielen Dank im voraus.

First, each Library should have a unique name, not the same name.
Now, I wrote an extensive how-to in another thread that explains Home Sharing, Library Sharing, how to turn them on and identify them and so on. See if it helps you with your problem.
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Why doesn't it?
I was orginally asking how to fix it, but I saw those other posts on the right hand side and I guess It was always opened on both.
Why's it have to be like that? It can't just send a signal or something?

Winston Churchill wrote:
Welcome to the Apple Community.
I'm not sure it's all that realistic to expect something to work when it's turned off. Both devices need to be running iTunes in order for homesharing to work.
Mavericks server app not only doesn't need to be running, the account its on needn't even be logged in. Ideally, iTunes would use some kind of helper app to feed the data without the iTunes interface running, which is not then needed. But I can see from Apple's perspective how it might create user confusion.

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Here's my setup, it's pretty standard: Cable modem wired to Airport Extreme router, which is connected wirelessly to the MBP with my iTunes hard drive. All of this is in my living room.
I use the Airport Express to extend my network into the bedrooms.
Whenever I'm home sharing from my iTunes library on my iPhone, if I walk to my bedroom, it cuts out. It usually crashes the iPod app. If it doesn't completely crash it, I can get it to restart buffering if I walk back to the living room.
Does Home Sharing not work with wireless extenders? Do I have to change something in the set up?

However, when a device goes from being attached to one wireless device to another, there is often an interruption as the device must change the radio connection to the network. There is a brief period of no connectivity (a second or two)
Try starting the share while in your bedroom instead of the living room. I'll bet it works.
Makes sense - so it's a bug in the iPhone OS, that it's unable to recover from temporary interruptions to wifi connection?
However, I'm not so sure. Starting the share in the bedroom works as you suggest (since 4.3.2 - didn't under 4.3.1) - but as soon as you go back to the living room and the iPhone connects to a different base station the music stops playing. Note also that the shared library itself ceases to work. So for example you can't be in one room (on the extender) and add the shared library (without actually playing anything yet) then move to another room (on the base station) and play a track from the shared library. It just plays dead and you have to explicitly reload the shared library to get anything to play.
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