Home share am I being totally dumb???

I am trying to get home share to work between my mac and my wife's mac. I entered my username and password into itunes menu>advance>turn on home share, my mac and then following the instruction tried to enter the same info onto my wife's mac in itunes menu>advance>turn on home share. Thats what it say's to do and guess what all it produces is the expected error message 'entered wrong user name or password'. I can enter her info onto her itunes menu>advance>turn on home share. So I am obviously doing something wrong and/or being totally dumb about this. I have read the various help guides and followed all the suggestions but cannot find a way round this problem, can any one help?

Please don't reply to this I was being dumb and not entering the right username!

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Home Share Issues

I have my my music libary on my Mac and I have a windows PC (work) I am trying to import movies and music from my MAC to windows laptop. When I try to import a song i get a message that says "AUTHORIZATION IS NEEDED TO ACCESS 0" when i try a movie I get the same message or "network has timed out". i also get a message "THE URL 0 COULD NOT BE FOUND ON THE SERVER"
I just did a test in reverse I imported from my windows laptop library to my MAC library and that worked fine?
Is there some kind of fix for this? Does this "sharing" really work?
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I have two machines. With iTunes 8, sharing was working just fine. Upgraded to 9 - No more sharing.
I have found something interesting. Seems like everyone is troubleshooting firewall ports, playlist settings, file permissions, ect.
Is it possible the 'credentials' for the home share are not being passes properly?
Try this.
STEP1:
Advanced Menu>Turn On Home Share
Enter Apple ID and password.
Click create 'create home share'.
DO NOT CLICK DONE!
TEST1:
Under the shared menu, right click on home sharing, click 'open in new window'.
Notice that your credentials are missing.
TEST2:
Double click 'Home Sharing'. Again, no username shown.
Test3:
Click the Down arrow next to home sharing. It should 'minimize' home sharing. Click it again, home sharing comes back. Click on home share. Again, Apple ID.
Any way we can test this? What port does this thing talk over on the LAN?
Any script we can test with the iTunes COM?

ITunes 11 Stops Responding to Bonjour Discovery Multicast Broadcasts, Why? This stops the the Apple TV 3 from being able to start a new stream from the home share and the iPad remote app can no longer see the home share too.

I'm having an issue where my Apple TV 3 and all our iPads periodically seem to loose connectivity to an iTunes home share on a Windows 7 PC. Using a network protocol analyser on the PC I have identified that the point of failure corresponds to the ATV3 sending a bonjour discovery request and getting no reply from iTunes. Why the ATV3 'forgets' where the home share is is possibly another issue but the root cause of the failure is that iTunes, or more specifically the mDNSResponder service, is not responding to the UDP multicast port 5353 broadcast discovery packet sent by the ATV3 or iPad. The mDNSResponder service does start responding again after iTunes is restarted thus making the home share accessible once more, however, this frequent drop out is unacceptable and often happens after only a single TV show has been watched from the home share making the solution unworkable for a family, we simply cannot be restarting iTunes constantly it ruins the user experience completely!
The nature of this failure indicates that the ATV3, the iPads, the host PC and network are all working correctly and the point of failure here is the lack of response to the bonjour discovery protocol with the net result of either a spinning 'connecting to home share' message or the home share just disappearing from the computers section.
If there is a configuration fix for this please let me know as I haven't located a fix! Otherwise this seems very much to be a code flaw in iTunes 11 or the mDNSResponder and I would appreciate some input from Apple! Going on other questions in these forums it would seem the problem is not limited to Windows PCs but also Macs too. NB: This is not a TCP issue, when the ATV3 or iPad knows the IP of the iTunes server all works flawlessly, it just periodically they seem to refresh the list of home shares and at this point they loose the information about the home share they have just been using because of the non-response to the UDP multicast discovery broadcast packet, that is arriving at the host PC and isn't being blocked by the firewall.
Many Thanks!

In my case there was no import from a former mac.
My problem (at least mine) is that no app that offers media sharing works properly. Neither itunes home sharing nor AirVideo nor EyeTV sharing.
So I'm pretty sure that this is network issue.
Adding another user on my mac and sharing a new library works not also. But sharing from another laptop in my WiFi works. So this has to be a network issue on my mac, not only my user, but an issue of the whole system.
But I'm not willing to reinstall MacOS X for that if I don't have to.

How to Home Share on Itunes

I have a windows 7 OS and I amd trying to "Home Share" with my wife's windows 7 OS computer......
I have read a few tutorials and they all describe the steps to achieve Home Sharing. The 2 problems I found when following the tutorials is first they all mention selecting "Advanced" drop down menu. I do not have an "Advanced" menu item???? Second, after I appear to have the home sharing functional, I do not see both of our 2 libraries on the left side panel of the Itunes app as shown in all tutorials. I am able to switch from one computer's Itunes library to the other computer's Itunes library. Because I can't see both libraries at the same time, all the movement of songs between the 2 libraries can't be accomplished as decribed in the tutorials. They all depend on both libraries being visible and accessible at the same time.
What do I do to get both libraries visible on the left panel in Itunes in the windows environment.
I have checked and I have the latest Itunes on both machines (11.0.5.5)
I can use any help......Robert

naturehawk wrote:
I have a windows 7 OS and I amd trying to "Home Share" with my wife's windows 7 OS computer......
I have read a few tutorials and they all describe the steps to achieve Home Sharing. The 2 problems I found when following the tutorials is first they all mention selecting "Advanced" drop down menu. I do not have an "Advanced" menu item???? Second, after I appear to have the home sharing functional, I do not see both of our 2 libraries on the left side panel of the Itunes app as shown in all tutorials
You won't see 2 shared libraries.
You will see 1 (from the other's computer).

Upgraded to 10.9 and OS X Server 3.0.1, users cannot connect to home shares

Hello. I recenlty upgraded from Lion Server to Mavericks and Server OS X and users are now unable to access their home shares. When one attempts to afp to the server after connecting to my uni's VPN, the login box simply shakes and no connection is made.
Running Mac Mini with 10.9 and OS X Server 3.0.1 with home shares located on a Pegasus RAID array that worked fine under Lion Server. The upgrade seemed to go smoothly, as all accounts were intact and the settings were identical to the functional Lion Server settings. I have combed these forums trying to find a response that actually works for me, but was unable to locate a match that resulted in a working solution.
Here is a sample log when attempting to login:
Dec 16 13:08:50 xx.xx.xx.private kdc[109]: Got a canonicalize request for a LKDC realm from local-ipc
Dec 16 13:08:50 xx.xx.xx.private kdc[109]: LKDC referral to the real LKDC realm name
Dec 16 13:08:52 xx.xx.xx.private kdc[109]: AS-REQ xx@LKDC:SHA1.313DA2EA0C5E8BCD1311C69A6930240237DDC372 from local-ipc for krbtgt/LKDC:SHA1.313DA2EA0C5E8BCD1311C69A6930240237DDC372@LKDC:SHA1.313DA2EA0C5 E8BCD1311C69A6930240237DDC372
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Dec 16 13:08:57 xx.xx.xx.private kdc[109]: AS-REQ [email protected] from 127.0.0.1:51721 for krbtgt/[email protected]
Dec 16 13:08:57 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, as I need to resolve this issue ASAP. Please let me know if any other information would be useful to diagnosing this issue.
Thanks!

I have the same problem although I upgraded from Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server. The error appears to go hand in hand with this error.
userInit: CFPreferences: user home directory for user kCFPreferencesCurrentUser at /Network/Servers/fullyqualifieddomainname/Users/user is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
I've read a number of things to try. A lot of people point to DNS being a problem, but I'm confident this is correct in my environment.

TS2972 I have 4 Apple TV's. All set up to Home share. One will not see the computer. It is also the only 720 I have. The other three are 1080's. How do I get the 4th one (the720) to recognize my Mac?

I have 4 Apple TV's. All set up to Home share. One will not see the computer. It is also the only 720 I have. The other three are 1080's. How do I get the 4th one (the720) to recognize my Mac?

Need more information to help you, but I am providing some suggestions. Sorry if you are past these type of basic things. But didnt really have much to start with and understand your technical level to start with.
Have you got into Settings > Computers > Turned on Home Sharing (Note: You must use the some Apple ID used by the iTunes library on your MAC for them to see one another)
How is your MAC connected to the network vs the 720 ATV2? Is one WiFi and the other Ethernet? Have you tried switching the ATV2 to WiFi if Ethernet?
Has the MAC been restarted since this started happening? Same with your Router and any other networking device being used? Sometimes an IP conflict can arise in your networking and most consumer networking equipment does not know how to "self heal" without a reboot.
Make sure you have given those things a whirl and share back your results. Any other information you can provide, such as how you connect to your network from each ATV and MAC.

Windows 7 Home Share Not Working Unless Logged In to Computer

So my old computer with Windows Home Server blew up last week. I bought a new computer with Windows 7 running and have everything set up.
Here's the rub... I cannot access my itunes home share unless I am logged in or remotely logged int to the computer.
My old home server did not have this issue.
I am looking to have the desktop onin the basement and run without being logged in.
I have rebooted and did the services thing, but cannot seem to find the needle in the haystack.
Can anyone help.
My kids are frustrated that I cannot get it fixed and they cannot watch Scooby Doo!
Thanks in advance!

Morning bs1211,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
Cannot access my library when my computer is asleep
Best of luck,
Mario

Using home share, but play counts aren't transferring?

I'm using home share to try and transfer my iTunes library from my old computer to my new laptop. However the play counts don't transfer when I do this, despite the "Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts" box being ticked. Both of the PCs have the latest version of iTunes and they're both logged in to the same apple ID. How do I transfer the music, as well as the play counts?

You can export the library that has all the data as far as play counts and stuff. I did this on my last computer. I just put all of my music on an external hard drive, exported the library from the computer, moved the hard drive to the other computer and telling itunes where the music is stored then used the exported library to update play counts. Works like a charm.

When i home share my itunes music from my macbook pro to my apple tv 3, it cuts out every 10-15 seconds for a split second. HELP PLEASE!

Hi, I'm running mountain lion of a macbook pre 13 inch. I have connected my new apple tv 3 to it so that i can home share my music to play on my apple tv. Every 10 or 15 seconds, the song with cut out or drop out for a split second, then continue. Though it can be looked past, it is so annoying! Advise would be much appriciated.

Sorry i also forgot to add that my macbook pro is a few years old, and i use a program called airparrot to airplay videos, but i beleive that airplay and home sharing is totally different..correct me if i'm wrong. thanks.

Why won't Apple TV Home Share with my iMac?

Why won't Apple TV Home Share with my iMac? I have no problem Home Sharing with MacBook Pro. I have set up all Sharing settings on my iMac exactly the same as my MacBook Pro. The operating system on my iMac and MacBook Pro is the same (OS X Mountain Lion - 10.8.4).

shared lib was around long before appletvs
in the form of computers on the same network being able to access eachothers shared lib in itunes
if you can do that from your macbook pro as in access the shared lib of the imac
then the problem is with the appletv somehow
if you also can't access the shared lib of the imac from the macbook then you setup something wrong
or have a firewall blocking it or are not on the same network with the 2 devices
if the later when you fix the shared lib between computers chances are if will also be fixed from the appletv

How to de authorize a broken computers home share

My sons computer has completely died. We my fam and I were all on a home share me my wife nd 3 children I have boughten my son a new Mac book pro nd can't get his new Mac on the network cuz there is already 5 computers on it. How do I get the broken pc of the net so I can put the new one on. The pc will not turn on so can not de authorize from there. Ugh plz help.

This has nothing to do with home sharing.
The issue is that Apple limits a maximum of 5 computers being authorized on any one Apple id.
At this point, the only way around this is to deauthorize all computers and then re-authorize the ones that really need access to the account.
This article will explain how to deauthorize all computers.

Home Share questions....

I've never used Home Share before & I'm trying to get all my stuff from my old laptop to my new laptop.
I turned homeshare on both of the laptops & I have a ton of purchased stuff that was obviously purchased before turning on home share. I know Apple says you can manually transfer purchases made before home share was turned on but it's not letting me do anything. I click on the purchase I want to move into share & it wont let me do it.
I want to transfer all my music & all the TV shows I have but I'm not really having any luck.
Is there something I need to do differently?
Thanks.

I have the same problem. My Mac Mini is being used as my server. Oddly, my iPhone works as always but the iPad stopped working - i believe about a week or so ago when I updated the firmware on my Mac Mini. There was another update available today, however, to no avail.
I had previously, conistently had a problem that required going to settings on both my iPad and my iPhone and turning off Home Sharing in Music then restartig Home Sharing. This always resolved the problem of a small percentage of albums and artists showed up. This doesn't resolved the inability for the iPad to connect. I turned off Home Sharing on the Mac Mini and turned it back on, rebooted the computer, loaded OS X 10.8.3. Nothing works. I just get an endless rotating circle - for hours. So... it appears to be trying but can't load the database. I think it is a software bug introduced on the second last update of OS X
Hopefully Apple will recognize the problem and come up with a fix.
I just updated the iPad to 6.1.3 and that didn't fix the problem.
I also updated my iPhone today and it still works and was working prior to the latest update to 6.1.3
I am using an Airport Extreme and an Airport Express as my wireless network.
Airport Utility shows all devices are connected and have Excellent connections.
The IP Address on each device shows up on Airport Utility. Just as a check, i rebooted everything - Airport Express, Airport Extreme, iPad, Mac Mini. Logged off of Home Sharing on all devices and logged back in. Still nothing.
Bottom line - the problem seems to be tied to the Server's version of iTunes - can't say for sure, but everything else seems to be fine.

HT202213 Which folders do you have to home share on your mac to be able to view film rentals on an Apple tv ?

Which folders do you have to home share on your mac to be able to view film rentals on an Apple tv which are being downloaded from itunes?

Home sharing will access your will iTunes library. The film has to be completely downloaded before it will be viewable on Apple TV.

HT202213 Home share is on but does not work

The home share has now done this twice. I have the icon on all devices but twice not they dont work. They cant find one another. I have shut done and restarted all devices and checked to see the home share is on. It tells me see its on but the icons said no devices. I bought a apple tv so I could do this but this is getting to be a pain.

Sounds like the lcd display died. If it's under warranty with your carrier, call them and get a replacement. If not, it's time for a new BB.
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IPad & iPhone not showing correct Home Share (Apple TV is!)

I have setup Home Sharing in iTunes and have enable it across iPad & iPhone and they are both using the correct Apple ID
The problem I have is that my Movies and TV Shows that I have recently added are not showing up on the Home Share on iPad or iPhone.
The Home Share is setup for Apple TV and everthing is fine.
I have:
Disabled Home Share and re-enabled it
Restarted iTunes several times.
I have deleted one file that was visable on iPad and that now no longer appears - So there is a connection but I'm not sure where the iPad is looking?
On iPad I have two different TV Shows displayed but multipe copies of them are showing: See image: When
Eg, Series 1 Episode 1-10 are showing 5 times if not more
I have now reset my iPad and the issue still exists.
Any idea's appreciated.
Thanks
Steven

Hi,
sure i can. The automatic correction is an enemie to me.
My last sentence based on the menu from iTunes->File->Library->Oraganize Library.
More Details:
1. Make a screenshot from your iPhone or iPad with the duplicates
2. Click in iTunes on your pc in the tv shows section an choose the duplicate tv shows.
3. Right click-> Show in finder
4. Copy the file to an external hard drive
5. Delete the entry in iTunes
Repeat that with all duplicated tv shows
6. Choose in the menu file-library-organize library.
7. Close iTunes and reopening it
8. Check on your iPhone or iPad if u have some duplicated shows.
9. Copy the removed tv shows back in the library. But only one by one
10. Testing after ever tv show if the are duplicated.
That's all.
Hope it works for you.
Best wishes

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