Yosemite bug? Itunes Home sharing does not see library on additional drive

I have a 2011 iMac 27" with two internal drives, an 256GB SSD main drive and a 3TB hard drive (/Volumes/Media). My iTunes library is held on the 3TB drive for space reasons, and the correct path to the library is in Preferences > Advanced. I have enabled Home Sharing, and have made sure that the sharing tab is correctly set to allow all content to be visible.
On my 2010 Macbook Pro, I can connect to the iMac iTunes through Home Sharing (there is an entry in the drop down list at top left), but I can see no content at all.
If I change the path to back to the default library in Preferences on the SSD drive (i.e. /Users/david/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media) rather than the real library (/Volumes/Media/Itunes/Itunes Media) and import a song, then that song immediately becomes visible on the Macbook Pro.
Therefore, the actual mechanism for streaming the content seems to be working, but it only seems to work if the library is on the default disk.
Is this

Hello keepitup67,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
Best of luck,
Mario

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