Cannot get Home Sharing to work between network computers, Cannot get Home Sharing to work between network computers

Cannot get Home Sharing to work between network computers

Did you enable Home Sharing using the same AppleID on both computers?

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I cannot get "home sharing" to work on my Apple TV device

I cannot get "home sharing" to work on Apple TV.I
I type in my apple id and password to no avail.
Why isn't the apple tv device taking this info and activating home share?

I am having the same problems with Home Sharing using the Apple TV. The problems seemed to appears to have started within the last week or so. Did updates and all. Went to the Apple TV and it couldn't see either Home Share on either computers that Home Share is turned ON. Reset the routers, reinstalled iTunes on the iMac and MacBookPro. Created a second Wi-Fi Access point using a Airport Express. Put the MacBookPro and TimeCapsule on the same network and still no love to see the Home Share contents.
We have had both Mac's and Apple TV for several years and have never had any problems like this.

Cannot get Home Sharing to work on my iPad, iPad 2 or Apple TV 2

I am running iTunes on a network-connected Windows PC and I have authorized the PC and turned on Home Sharing. I cannot see my shared library on my iPad, iPad 2 or Apple TV 2.
In fact, in the left navigation pane in iTunes, I don't see the "Home Sharing" section.
I have applied all the latest updates to Windows and iTunes as well as iOS for the iPads and Apple TV. I am running Microsoft Security Essentials software. I tried disabling the firewall and it still did not work.
I tried doing as much as applicable from this: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972 and I am not getting anywhere.
Any help is appreciated.

I am having the same problems with Home Sharing using the Apple TV. The problems seemed to appears to have started within the last week or so. Did updates and all. Went to the Apple TV and it couldn't see either Home Share on either computers that Home Share is turned ON. Reset the routers, reinstalled iTunes on the iMac and MacBookPro. Created a second Wi-Fi Access point using a Airport Express. Put the MacBookPro and TimeCapsule on the same network and still no love to see the Home Share contents.
We have had both Mac's and Apple TV for several years and have never had any problems like this.

HT4557 I cannot get home sharing to work - have checked passwords

I am trying to set up homesharing and cannot get it to work. I have set it up on ipad and my computer in itunes. But shared does not come up under itunes and when I try to connect on ipad it says cannot connect to home sharing.

I am having the same problems with Home Sharing using the Apple TV. The problems seemed to appears to have started within the last week or so. Did updates and all. Went to the Apple TV and it couldn't see either Home Share on either computers that Home Share is turned ON. Reset the routers, reinstalled iTunes on the iMac and MacBookPro. Created a second Wi-Fi Access point using a Airport Express. Put the MacBookPro and TimeCapsule on the same network and still no love to see the Home Share contents.
We have had both Mac's and Apple TV for several years and have never had any problems like this.

Hi. I have a MacBook Pro with OS10.6.8 and cannot get net pages to load on my network at home. I can connect to the internet in work and on other networks. However, some other networks are now starting to fail. Can anyone suggets how I can fix it??

Hi. I have a MacBook Pro with OS10.6.8 and cannot get internet pages to load on my WiFi network at home. My iMac, iPhone and iPad all work on this network. It is connected to the net as dropbox registers a connection and so does skype. I can connect to the WiFi in work and on other networks when travelling. However, some other networks are now starting to fail. Can anyone suggets how I can fix it, as the MBP appears to be fine, its updated with all the latest versions of software and the WiFi network is also fine....just not with my MBP??

Hi. I have a MacBook Pro with OS10.6.8 and cannot get internet pages to load on my WiFi network at home. My iMac, iPhone and iPad all work on this network. It is connected to the net as dropbox registers a connection and so does skype. I can connect to the WiFi in work and on other networks when travelling. However, some other networks are now starting to fail. Can anyone suggets how I can fix it, as the MBP appears to be fine, its updated with all the latest versions of software and the WiFi network is also fine....just not with my MBP??

HT3728 My Time Capsule won't allow me to access my home network each day (intermittently) between about 1000-1800. My modem is working properly, and I can get on-line by hooking my computer straight to my modem, so I know it's the Time Capsule at fault. I

My Time Capsule won't allow me to access my home wireless network for several hours each day -- usually between 1000-1830 or so. My modem is working correctly and I can still get on-line by going straight from my computer (MacBook Pro) to the Ethernet port. It must be the Time Capsule -- any ideas?

Any ideas?
Wireless Interference
Might be caused by a cordless phone in the vicinity. To give you an example, my neighbor.....across the street...used to be able to literally crash my wireless network if he was in his front yard talking on his cordless phone.
I discovered this by accident one day after spending weeks trying figure out why my network would crash at random times.
Other possibilities include a wireless security/camera system near you
Still other things might be an amateur ham radio operator....which should not interfere....but again from experience, I know that this can occur.
Yet another possibility is another wireless network near you that is being turned on and off at random times. Some users power up their modem/router only when they want to do so and leave it off otherwise.
Some general rules to help avoid interference:
Move any cordless phones that you might have as far away as possible from the Time Capsule and/or your computer(s)
Avoid placing other electronic devices....computer, television, amplifier, satellite receiver, etc. near the Time Capsule and/or your computer(s)
Avoid metal surfaces near the Time Capsule and/or your computers
Elevate the Time Capsule as much as possible. Think of it as a water sprinkler....you want to get the room as wet as possible
Experiment with different wireless channels on the Time Capsule. To do this:
Open AirPort Utility
Click on the Time Capsule
Click Edit
Click the Wireless tab
Click Wireless Options
Start with Channel 11 on the 2.4 GHz band and work your way down
It is unlikely that you are picking up interference on the 5 GHz band since there are.....for now at least.....far fewer networks using this frequency.

TS1741 I cannot get the remote app for Apple tv work on either my iPad or iPhone. Home sharing is "on". Any ideas?

Why won' remote app for Apple tv work on my iPad or iPhone? Home sharing is turned on.

A frequent cause of consistent failure to enable AirPlay or HomeSharing at all, is the service being blocked on the network. Make sure your network isn't hidden, has a unique name, that MAC address authentication is disabled, security is set to use WPA 2 Personal and that there is only one router/device acting as a DHCP server and providing NAT services.
Make sure your router/computer allows access over the following ports
Port
Type
Protocol
Used By
80
TCP
HTTP
AirPlay
443
TCP
HTTPS
AirPlay
554
TCP/UDP
RTSP
AirPlay
3689
TCP
DAAP
iTunes/AirPlay
5297
TCP
Bonjour
5289
TCP/UDP
Bonjour
5353
TCP/UDP
MDNS
Bonjour/AirPlay
49159
UDP
MDNS (Win)
Bonjour/AirPlay
49163
UDP
MDNS (Win)
Bonjour/AirPlay
Refer to your router manual/manufacturer for any settings that are specific to that model.
Another frequent cause of consistent failure to enable AirPlay or HomeSharing at all, is security software, in many cases configuring it correctly, disabling it or even uninstalling it can help, but in some cases the security software can cause problems that simply reconfiguring, disabling or uninstalling cannot reverse.
If you are consistently unable to activate AirPlay, have tried all the steps in this article and have security software installed on your system, you might benefit from contacting its provider or participating in any online forums they run to discuss the matter with them

How do i get home sharing to work between 2 computers

My desktop is HP with win 7- trying to get my Vista Lap top to have the same tunes I purchased on my desktop.
Thanks,
wmorton1942

don't get confused by the color icons - the screen shots where taken on an iTunes 9.x library, but what you want to see in iTunes is this (view from my MBP's iTunes seeing the library on my Mini)
if you then click on the house icon, it will change to this and the shared library will load. at that point, two buttons will appear in the lower right corner of the iTunes window, being settings and import.
now you should be able to import any content from any shared library by selecting the content and clicking on import.
via settings, you can select which newly purchased content is transferred automatically to homeshared libraries
if the icon looks like this , home sharing has not been set up correctly.
in order for home sharing to work:
(a) iTunes on all machines must be authorized for the same iTunes store account
(b) all machines must be on the same network
(c) all machines must have access to the internet.
these reads may prove helpful: one and two

I cannot get Home Sharing to work, Windows 7, 3rd Gen iPad

Sorry for the cross-post -- I originallly put this in the iPad discussion group, but this is clearly the group where it belongs...
Anyway, I've followed the instructions to the letter, enabling Home Sharing on my Windows 7 PC running iTunes 10.7.0.21, and also enabling it on my 3rd Gen iPad. I've verified that it's enabled about a dozen times now, rebooted everything, and still I can't see my iTunes Library from my iPad... I go to Music on the iPad, and it just shows the few songs that I've loaded onto the iPad itself, not my PC's music library...
Another thing -- if I try to use the Remote app to control my PC's iTunes remotely, I click on Settings in that app and click on Add iTunes Library and it gives me a 4-digit code and tells me to go to my PC and click on "My iPad" in iTunes then enter the 4-digit code. "My iPad" *does* appear in my PC's iTunes, so clearly it's seeing the iPad's request for access... But when I click on it and enter the 4-digit code, iTunes just sits there on "verifying remote passcode" forever (or at least as long as it took me to go outside and smoke a cigarette -- I imagine it's supposed to do it in about 3 to 5 seconds, not 10 minutes)...
I've opened up TCP port 3689 and UDP port 5353 on my Windows Firewall, and still no change... Of course I leave iTunes running on the PC while I'm trying all this stuff... From what I've read, they're telling me that in iTunes there should be a "Look for Remotes" check-box when I go to Edit | Preferences | Devices, yet I don't see one there so I can't check it -- but I don't think that's the problem because iTunes on the PC is seeing my iPad, it just won't talk *back* to the iPad when I enter in the 4-digit remote code... At this point I have no clue what's going on.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I get this thing working?
Thanks,
L.

Well, I guess the 3rd time's the charm... Instead of rebooting everything, I shut everything off, waited a full 2 minutes and turned it back on in the following order: Router, PC, iPad. Waited a good 3 minutes between turning each device on. (Oh, and before I shut down the PC, I added iTunes to the Startup menu so it would start when Windows booted).
Now it seems to be working fine -- my library showed up in the Remote app on the iPad automatically, no need to enter a 4-digit code on the computer (makes me wonder why it didn't do that the first time?)
Anyway, it's all working now... No idea why... But it works...
Thanks,
L.

I cant get screen sharing to work on my home network

I am trying to connect my macbook pro to screen sharing so i can access it at my school computers, which are all iMacs running 10.6.6. When i was at school, and connected to the wireless network at my school i could screen sharing through the finder>go>connect to server. Once screen sharing was enabled i just entered the vnc address and it connected flawlessly. When i got home, and i set my netgear router( wireless-n 150 model: wnr100v2) for port forwarding start port: 5900 end port:5900 server name vnc, and set the ip address to my computer, and when i tried to screen share from another macbook within my network through the finder>go>connect to server, i could not connect. Oddly when i connected my mobile me, i cold screen share over the network. I want to do a WAN screen sharing and i cannot figure out how do do it. I would appreciate any help because it is very important that i enable this feature.

I'm a little confused by your explanation (it's late), so I am going to say what I think I read:
You want to set up your home computer so you can access it via screen sharing from school.
The home computer needs sys prefs sharing screen sharing enabled, and sys prefs security firewall must allow it, too. You port forward port 5900 through your home router to that home computer, which may or may not require that you use a static "192.168.x.x" (or "10.x.x.x" -- whatever the router's LAN subnet is) LAN IP address on that computer -- some routers require that computers acting as servers have static IPAs -- some routers don't.
You need to find out what is the public (internet-facing) WAN IP address that your ISP has assigned to your router; it is not the 192.168.x.x (or 10.x.x.x) address given to your home computer by your home router. You can find that by going to http://checkip.dyndns.com on your home computer. Unless you pay extra for a static public IP address from your ISP, ISPs may (and do) change it periodically on you without warning. So vnc://123.45.67.89 may work one day but not the next.
Some routers have a built-in feature to work around this by allowing the router to advise dynamic DNS servers of any changes in the public-facing IP address of the router. Of course, you need to have established an account with a dynamic DNS provider so you have a host name (like lomberg.noip.com or lomberg.dyndns.com). These are generally free accounts unless you want a special name that doesn't have the dynamic DNS provider as part of your host name.
If your router does not have this capability, these dynamic DNS providers have a piece of software that you will need to install on your home computer (the "VNC server") that reports changes in your public-facing IP address to their DNS servers.
Once this is done, then from afar, you can ⌘k to vnc://lomberg.dyndns.com (or whatever you set up your host name to be with dyndns or equivalent outfit) and you don't need to worry about what your ISP has done to you with regards to your public-facing WAN IP address du jour.
Note that with some (most?) routers, when you are on your home network, you will not be able to vnc to the host name or numeric WAN IPA in this manner. I don't know why it doesn't work, it just doesn't. I've had modems both ways -- my current ISP rental modem doesn't while the previous one (which broke so I had to replace it with my current POS modem) did. So in such case, you have to vnc://192.168.x.x of the "vnc server" computer when you are on the same LAN.
You are aware that on the client (school) machine, screen sharing preferences can be set to encrypt all data on the connection, not just the username/password negotiation piece, right? I don't know whether that setting persists across sessions or only persists for the duration of the current session. I wouldn't want my client mouse/keyboard and "server" screen video to be transmitted in the clear; that's why I bring this up.
Does that answer your question? Or did I totally misunderstand what you were asking?

HT201413 I cannot get home sharing working, using windows 8 . does anyone have a solution?

i cannot get home sharing on itunes to work using windows 8. I also have Norton 360 and have unstalled and disabled it but still cannot get home sharing to operate so that i can use the remote APP on my ipad to control music through the house. does anyone have a solution or experienced similar issue?

Hi Pat,
Yes I marked the question as Assumed Answered. I needed to move on. I have never taken part in a forum and couldn’t wait any longer for any input so not wanting anyone to waste the time answering me, I marked the question as assumed answered. I guess this was the wrong thing to do and I apologize to the forum.
I did go another route and loaded and enlarged the photo in Photoshop Elements, Then cropped the photo to the area I needed to reprint. I probably should have done this in the first place!
Again, my apology to the forum for my lack of patience in waiting for a reply.
Diane Harris
Sent from Windows Mail

HT4557 Cannot get home sharing to work... When it has before

I have new iPad latest os, windows vista w latest itunes update.. Cannot get home sharing to work.. Signing in and out, rebooting, reinstalling, has done nothing airplay works but no home sharing...???
I had similar issues a few years back.. Signing in and out helped.. But not this time..

Hello there, Mr Boggles.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great steps for troubleshooting issues with Home Sharing:
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

I use a prepaid Verizon MiFi portable hot spot and I cannot get home sharing to work do I need a regular router that is hard wired to my computer? Rocket

I use a prepaid Verizon MiFi portable hot spot and I cannot get home sharing to work
! Do i need a regular router that is hard wired to my computer?

I use a prepaid Verizon MiFi portable hot spot and I cannot get home sharing to work
! Do i need a regular router that is hard wired to my computer?

HT3819 I have an intel iMac OS 10.6.8 with iTunes 11.0.2 and an Apple TV with software 5.2. Home sharing worked fine until I added a VoIP device to my wired ethernet network. Now Apple TV cannot recognize my computer. How can I reconfigure?

I have an intel iMac OS 10.6.8 with iTunes 11.0.2 and an Apple TV with software 5.2. Home sharing worked fine until I added a VoIP device to my wired ethernet network. Now Apple TV cannot recognize my computer. How can I reconfigure?

I have an intel iMac OS 10.6.8 with iTunes 11.0.2 and an Apple TV with software 5.2. Home sharing worked fine until I added a VoIP device to my wired ethernet network. Now Apple TV cannot recognize my computer. How can I reconfigure?

TS2972 My computer is on and has network connection and home sharing is switched on in itunes but my apple tv just says turn on home sharing! Its driving me up the wall I have used it many times before but just today cant get it to work! I have tried turn

Please help! I use my apple tv only to view photos on my tv from my macbook pro every few months - it has always been slightly unreliable and usually takes some fiddling to get working but today nothing is working!! The message on the tv screen from apple tv is that I need to turn on home sharing on my computer but it IS ON!! I have tried turning it off and on again, I have tried turning everything off and restarting but nothing is working today :-( and I have friends coming round for a slideshow in half an hour :-(

Amber22P wrote:
So, my ipad suddenly frozed. Its stuck ...
Perform a Reset...
Reset ( No Data will be Lost )
Press and Hold the Sleep/Wake Button and the Home Button at the Same Time...
Wait for the Apple logo to Appear...
Usually takes about 15 - 20 Seconds... ( But can take Longer...)
Release the Buttons...

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