Home Sharing FIX!

My new Apple TV worked fine for a week and then all of a sudden it stopped playing content from my itunes library. It would say "An error has occurred. Please try again later." Turns out it's a problem with the Itunes Music Library.xml file. In Windows 7, click Start, the click Computers. On the left you'll see Libraries. Under Libraries click Music. Double-click on the itunes folder. Drag the Itunes Music Library.xml and Itunes Library file to your desktop. Now, go to itunes. Under File, click Library>Import Playlist. Navigate to your desktop and click on the Itunes Music Library.xml file. Click Open. That should do it. That fixed it for me anyway.

Internet went out at the house today. Started getting errors with Home Sharing on my home computer when trying to access it from AppleTV.
Got the error in itunes, something to the effect of "unable to turn on home sharing error -3150".
My local network is just fine without the connection out to the Internet. All my computers can communicate and file share without any issues (just not outside internet access)
Boggles my mind why iTunes would require that there be Internet access in order for HOME sharing to work.

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HT203970 Home Sharing fix is unreliable and not permanent

Going by other posts on the Apple Forums, this fix is unreliable and not permanent...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6601112?tstart=0
The fact that this article exists indicates that Apple are aware of the issue yet nothing has been done to resolve it since Yosemite was released over 3 months ago. As of 31st January, I am running OS X 10.10.2 with iTunes 12.1.0.50 and the latest Apple TV firmware yet this issue still occurs.
As with other people that have encountered this problem, one of the suggested fixes may work but none of them are reliable i.e. one may work one day, another on a different day and some days I can't get it to work at all. Some of the fixes that have worked at one time or another are as follows: -
Reboot the Apple TV (this is the simplest fix but now works less frequently than it used to)
Restart iTunes
In "iTunes > File", turn off Home Sharing, turn Home Sharing back on again and restart iTunes
In "System Preferences > Sharing", change the computer name then restart iTunes (this is the Apple recommended fix).
In "iTunes > Preferences > General", change the library name and restart iTunes.
Turn off the "iTunes > Preferences > Sharing" functionality. Some people have commented that this conflicts with the Home Sharing feature. I don't know how or why let alone what the difference is between Sharing and Home Sharing. The Apple documentation is a bit ordinary in this regard.
Various combinations of the above or the reverse.
I don't know if this problem is related to the OS X Computer Name automatically changing issue ...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6631728?tstart=0
I have that problem as well so I tried a workaround for that problem...
http://ispire.me/fix-yosemite-rtc-alarm-wakeup-issue/
The computer name has stopped automatically changing but the Apple TV still has problems.
Any ideas?

Hi there vicnish,
I see that you are experiencing an issue with Home Sharing right now while attempting to transfer your library from one computer to another. Here is an article for you that will walk you through some troubleshooting steps aimed at addressing this issue:
Troubleshooting Home Sharing - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203311
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
-Braden

4.2.2 Home Sharing Fixed?

Anyone else finding that 4.2.2 fixed their Home Sharing/ATV Sleep problems? I haven't done extensive testing, but my two ATV2s seem to work properly again! Also, descriptive information of user added TV Shows and Movies seems to be working again too!

Doing a bonjour repair using "uninstall program" on windows 7 resolved this for me, the AirPlay icon came back in iTunes and Home sharing showed up on my Apple Tv 3 again. :-)

Apple TV Home Sharing Fix

I thought I should share this as I spent all afternoon trying to get my Apple TV to work - restoring, opening ports on router, uninstalling itunes 12 (which I suppose has been unfairly demonised) and installing an older version - to no avail
I'd tried all the other tricks - signing in and out, turning home sharing on and off
In the end it was my router that was causing the problem (if you're unsure then use your iphone to create a hotspot, link your computer and apple tv to that. If home sharing comes up then you know it's your main router)
I've got a BT router and i have rebooted it lots. BUT unplugging it for a minute makes it do a proper reset - in the end that solved the problem, home sharing worked straightaway
I thought I'd better share as the forums are full of people with the same problem - hope it helps someone else

I need to read slower. I was in the Apple TV and it is a simple On/Off so I assumed, wrongly, that the check box was a Home Sharing On/Off in iTunes as well. Not just a play count, my bad.
My asumption may have been wrong, but...
Honestly though, I would have to say that not having a Home Sharing activation within the "Sharing" panel is kind of a Microsoft maneuver. I mean, really? Why the "File" menu? Lol.
Even placing it under "Advanced" would seem as though you're trying to hide a feature which is needed for the 20 million Apple TVs out there today.
Just my opinion.

ITunes and Windows 8 Home Sharing (Possible Fix)

If this fix has been posted elsewhere then I apologize, but I wanted to share what I stumbled on as a possible for for iTunes Home Sharing and Windows 8. I did a lot of port forwarding, both on my router and my Norton firewall, but nothing seemed to help. After a few minutes my Apple TV and iOS devices would stop seeing my iTunes library. The only way to fix it was to reboot the router.
On a whim I looked in my Device Manager and found under Network Adapters a device called Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter. I disabled this, rebooted my computer, and have since no issues with Home Sharing. It's only been a few hours, but that is the longest I've gone since installing Windows 8. I'll look in the morning to see if it still works.
So give this method a try and see what happens. Hopefully it will fix your problems.

Here are the three steps I took to get Home Sharing working successfully on Apple TV. This has worked for the better part of a week so hopefully it will work well for others.
In your software firewall create two new Inbound Rules. Open port 3689 (TCP) and port 5353 (UDP) to All Programs.
If your hard drive goes to sleep after a certain period, be sure to change to something greater than 30 min. (Control Panel -> Power Options -> Change Plan Settings -> Change Advanced Power Settings -> Hard disk -> Turn off hard disk after -> Setting)
On your Apple TV change when it goes to sleep. I changed mine to 10 hours.
This seems to keep the connection alive. On occassion it will look like it gets stuck loading, but just let it go. At some point it wil kick on. If you generates a connection error just try loading the media again and it should start.

Home sharing with iTunes 10.7, iOS 6 and A-tv 5.1.1 fixed

I have finally resolved all the issues I was having with home sharing after installing iTunes 10.7, iOS 6, and Apple TV 5.1.1. Everything with home sharing was failing; movies would never load, music would start plaing but then start buffering. None of my Apple devices were working. I have been trying to resolve this for weeks now. My solution was the 5 GHz WiFi on a Linksys E3200. I disabled the the 5 GHz and everything started working. I the went through every wireless setting but nothing worked with the 5 GHz turned on.
I hope this helps,
Laz

I just don't understand why it's so hard for all of us to acknowledge the simple fact that Home Share (and Match) simply don't work. They don't, that's all. Apple is great for hardware, but lousy on software (see also me.com, Final Cut, etc.)
Why in the world should I spend my time trying to fix something that someone else has made, without gettin paid, when the same team who created it isn't able to fix it? I just don't understand.
Every few days somebody comes up with a fix for Home Share, only to repost a few days later with a "wrong, it stopped working again".
I really don't mean to be offensive, and I really appreciate other fellow's hints and helps in this forum,I try to give my help as well when I know of a solution, but when it doesn't work we should just drop it. iTunes is a lost case, sadly.
Vignus

Home sharing sooooo unreliable to be unusable - will it ever be fixed?

I bought an Apple-TV-3 six months ago and decided to migrate ALL my video media to apple m4v format to use via home sharing. To this end I spent a few months developing a PC app ConvertApple to automatically re-encode/remux and tag (using moviedv/tvdb) with full metadata all my videos with no user interaction needed. It's an awesome app if I say it myself, as all other similar programs require you to waste endless amounts of your own time, whereas this program works it all out automatically. I had planned to release it a month ago but owing to home-sharing's unreliability can no longer justify doing so. I had also bought a second apple-tv, but unfortunately between the latest ATV updates and itunes, home sharing has become sooo unreliable that it is no longer usable. I sat down tonight with my family to watch a film but the circle of death when trying to play a movie returned. How embarrasing. I flicked to my windows MCE box I had hoped to replace by ATV and watched it from there.
As a developer with 30 years experience, there's little I cannot get a computer to do, but I can categorically say that although home sharing works sometimes, it is sooo flakey that it is just not a viable 24/7 solution for the home. It may work for a day or two but soon the circle of death appears and you cannot play anything, Restarting itunes, usually brings it back up, but not always. It is connected to an always-on PC, with neither apple TV's set to sleep, both on static IP's and STILL the problem persists. I also run a Upnp server TVersity on the same box, that works flawlessly, but alas until a jailbreak for ATV3 comes out allowing me to run a proper upnp client I may as well bin the Apple-tv's that have wasted months of my time on a fools errand.
I am bitterly disappointed as the only reason I went down the Apple route in the first place as I trusted their reliablility and am shocked at just how appauling their home-sharing system has become. I am planning to sell the ATV's on ebay soon and purchase Google-tv's instead and I guess rename my app ConvertGoogle! The ATV+homesharing system seemed rock solid back in April but is now unusable. I've read 100's of posts from other users alluding to this issue and get the impression apple are in denial with no plans to fix it so if you're thinking of buying an Apple-TV DON'T!
Anyone who "think's" they have a working home-sharing system, wait a few days! I doubt an uptime of > 3 days can be achived. I also fail to understand why it is sooooo slow connecting, especially from iphones. My upnp clients connect instantly + most modern TV's have upnp built in. iTunes homesharing is clearly a very badly written proprietary system and should be junked and replaced with a standard upnp client (and server), then at least apple-tv's would be usable. As a primarly msoft developer since the 80's I always (jokingly) slated Apple, but bought into them with iPhone4 and now own 2 iphones, 1 ipad and 2 atv's, but I am now considering migrating to Google kit due to Apple's unreliability. I will never buy another Apple product as I just don't trust them to be reliable anymore. STuff works but only when it feels like it. I cannot live with hardware like that!

My current status is having restarted iTunes, I can browse my library from ATV, but as soon as I click play it just sits there circling-of-death indefinately - pathetic!
Scrap Home-Sharing it's total garbage technology and implement a standard uPnp server in itunes or at LEAST add a upnp client for ATV3 we can use eg AirPlayer = works solidly on my ipad/iphone etc. Whatever happened to the ATV SDK being opened up mooted months ago?
I'll get a google-tv of Amazon this w/end and see how I fare with that. I'd live to have used ATV3's but they DO NOT work, so I can't. Oh and why on IOS6 on iphone does the remote app just close itself every now and then?
Apple need to fix things for their existing customers, rather than focus on new features to attract new ones, or they will end up having no customers five years from now!

After upgrading to itunes 11 home sharing to all devices, apple tv, ipad, itouch, doesn't work, or doesn't work for long. How do I fix it?

I followed a tutorial to downgrade back to iTunes 10.7, which worked but the home sharing still having issues. It will stream for a few minutes and then kick me out and tell me I need to turn on homesharing. If I restart itunes I can watch again for another few minutes before it kicks me out. I have adjusted my energy saver settings to see if that was the problem, (which it worked perfectly before the update with the same energy saver settings) That didn't help. What can I do to fix it? All of my home entertainment has been digitized to run through my 2 apple tvs, ipad, ipod touch, imac, macbook and then Apple goes and screws me with an assanine software update that renders all of their products worthless!
I have reset, reboot and restored my apple tv, so I know it is not that. And like I said, everything streamed perfect before I updated to Itunes 11 a couple weeks ago.
Any help would be great!!

If you post under the Home Sharing forum you may get a more detailde answer. This is just iTunes for Mac

Windows Visa - iTunes 10 Home Sharing Crash Fix?

Just recently I turned on Home Sharing in iTunes 10.1 running Windows Vista 32 Bit and immediately I got the Blue Screen of Death crash. I've excluded iTunes from the Windows Security Essential firewall, re-installed iTunes, and done a virus scan without fixing the problem. iTunes crashes before I can get back in and turn off Home Sharing. With Home Sharing off it doesn't crash. My Windows Vista is up to date, and I have not added any new software. Any ideas?

Well friends, my new Intel network card came today. While I was waiting I uninstalled the Bluetooth software and tried Home Sharing - still crashed. It will be hard to uninstall the Bluetooth card as the memory card readers appear to be on the same device. I installed the Intel NIC, and removed all the Broadcomm software. The Broadcomm card is integral to the motherboard, so I followed the Dell instructions to turn it off in System Setup. So eager to see Home Sharing work, I opened iTunes and turned it on and got the Blue Screen again. This time it appears the system cannot load the intel driver:
Unable to load image e1q6032.sys, Win32 error 0n2
* WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for e1q6032.sys
* ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for e1q6032.sys
(the entire WinDBG report is below.)
Thus, it appears that there is something about this machine that will not process th NIC drivers with iTunes Home Sharing. I have a friend who is a Microsoft Certified engineer and a Networking specialist, I'm going to have him take a look at this machine. Otherwise, I think we have done just about everything that can be done. I appreciate everyone's help, and i wish all of you a Merry Christmas and very Hapy New Year - or whatever you celebrate this time of year.
Randy
Crash report:
Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.12.0002.633 X86
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Loading Dump File [C:\Windows\Minidump\122410-34413-01.dmp]
Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available
Symbol search path is: SRVc:symbolshttp://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
Executable search path is:
Windows 7 Kernel Version 7600 MP (4 procs) Free x86 compatible
Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS Personal
Built by: 7600.16617.x86fre.win7_gdr.100618-1621
Machine Name:
Kernel base = 0x82c46000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0x82d8e810
Debug session time: Fri Dec 24 12:33:18.721 2010 (UTC - 5:00)
System Uptime: 0 days 0:09:19.391
Loading Kernel Symbols
Loading User Symbols
Loading unloaded module list
* Bugcheck Analysis *
Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information.
BugCheck 100000D1, {10, 2, 1, 8ba8d2da}
Unable to load image e1q6032.sys, Win32 error 0n2
* WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for e1q6032.sys
* ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for e1q6032.sys
Probably caused by : tcpip.sys ( tcpip!TcpBeginTcbSend+9f6 )
Followup: MachineOwner
0: kd> !analyze -v
* Bugcheck Analysis *
DRIVERIRQL_NOT_LESS_OREQUAL (d1)
An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an
interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usually
caused by drivers using improper addresses.
If kernel debugger is available get stack backtrace.
Arguments:
Arg1: 00000010, memory referenced
Arg2: 00000002, IRQL
Arg3: 00000001, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation
Arg4: 8ba8d2da, address which referenced memory
Debugging Details:
WRITE_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from 82dae718
Unable to read MiSystemVaType memory at 82d8e160
00000010
CURRENT_IRQL: 2
FAULTING_IP:
tcpip!TcpBeginTcbSend+9f6
8ba8d2da f00fc111 lock xadd dword ptr [ecx],edx
CUSTOMERCRASHCOUNT: 1
DEFAULTBUCKETID: VISTADRIVERFAULT
BUGCHECK_STR: 0xD1
PROCESS_NAME: System
LASTCONTROLTRANSFER: from 8ba8c35f to 8ba8d2da
STACK_TEXT:
82d6c418 8ba8c35f 8616bba0 00000000 00000001 tcpip!TcpBeginTcbSend+0x9f6
82d6c57c 8bab616b 8616bba0 00000002 00000000 tcpip!TcpTcbSend+0x426
82d6c5cc 8ba966ef 00000000 00000000 8962822c tcpip!TcpFlushDelay+0x1f1
82d6c5e0 8ba84b54 00000000 00000001 00000000 tcpip!TcpExitReceiveDpc+0x61
82d6c618 8ba848ae 868d2428 86909000 0000dbda tcpip!TcpPreValidatedReceive+0x29b
82d6c634 8ba8a273 868d2428 86909000 82d6c670 tcpip!TcpReceive+0x2d
82d6c644 8babc50e 82d6c658 c000023e 00000000 tcpip!TcpNlClientReceiveDatagrams+0x12
82d6c670 8babc2d1 8bb1bf88 82d6c6c4 c000023e tcpip!IppDeliverListToProtocol+0x49
82d6c690 8babbfa6 8bb1bd98 00000006 82d6c6c4 tcpip!IppProcessDeliverList+0x2a
82d6c6e8 8bab9be4 8bb1bd98 00000006 00000000 tcpip!IppReceiveHeaderBatch+0x1f2
82d6c77c 8bab8b75 891bdcd8 00000000 00000001 tcpip!IpFlcReceivePackets+0xbe5
82d6c7f8 8bab8ce6 895c9d00 895aff00 00000000 tcpip!FlpReceiveNonPreValidatedNetBufferListChain+0x746
82d6c82c 82cd5faa 895aff00 a97c7a98 868c66c8 tcpip!FlReceiveNetBufferListChainCalloutRoutine+0x11e
82d6c894 8bab8d6e 8bab8bc8 82d6c8bc 00000000 nt!KeExpandKernelStackAndCalloutEx+0x132
82d6c8d0 8b69818d 895c9d02 895aff00 00000000 tcpip!FlReceiveNetBufferListChain+0x7c
82d6c908 8b686670 895c7aa8 895aff00 00000000 NDIS!ndisMIndicateNetBufferListsToOpen+0x188
82d6c930 8b6865e7 00000000 895aff00 895160e0 NDIS!ndisIndicateSortedNetBufferLists+0x4a
82d6caac 8b631ca5 895160e0 00000000 00000000 NDIS!ndisMDispatchReceiveNetBufferLists+0x129
82d6cac8 8b686a2e 895160e0 895aff00 00000000 NDIS!ndisMTopReceiveNetBufferLists+0x2d
82d6caf0 8b631c1e 895160e0 895aff00 00000000 NDIS!ndisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferListsInternal+0x62
82d6cb18 ab4eaf31 895160e0 895aff00 00000000 NDIS!NdisMIndicateReceiveNetBufferLists+0x52
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
82d6cb40 ab4eb079 89588000 88ed0b48 00000001 e1q6032+0x1bf31
82d6cb7c ab4e0008 01588000 8958a740 82d6cc40 e1q6032+0x1c079
82d6cbb0 ab4dfee7 89595fc0 00000000 89580001 e1q6032+0x11008
82d6cbf4 ab4e01c4 ffffffff 00000000 00000000 e1q6032+0x10ee7
82d6cc10 8b686301 89588000 00000000 00000000 e1q6032+0x111c4
82d6cc50 8b6319f4 89519194 00519000 00000000 NDIS!ndisMiniportDpc+0xda
82d6cc78 82cae3b5 89519194 89519000 00000000 NDIS!ndisInterruptDpc+0xaf
82d6ccd4 82cae218 82d6fd20 82d79280 00000000 nt!KiExecuteAllDpcs+0xf9
82d6cd20 82cae038 00000000 0000000e 00000000 nt!KiRetireDpcList+0xd5
82d6cd24 00000000 0000000e 00000000 00000000 nt!KiIdleLoop+0x38
STACK_COMMAND: kb
FOLLOWUP_IP:
tcpip!TcpBeginTcbSend+9f6
8ba8d2da f00fc111 lock xadd dword ptr [ecx],edx
SYMBOLSTACKINDEX: 0
SYMBOL_NAME: tcpip!TcpBeginTcbSend+9f6
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: tcpip
IMAGE_NAME: tcpip.sys
DEBUGFLR_IMAGETIMESTAMP: 4c15a3db
FAILUREBUCKETID: 0xD1_tcpip!TcpBeginTcbSend+9f6
BUCKET_ID: 0xD1_tcpip!TcpBeginTcbSend+9f6
Followup: MachineOwner
PS: You all have taught me a lot with this experience and I am grateful!

Home Sharing on Apple TV - Stupid Fix.

Here is the stupidest fix I have ever come accross.
I have two MacBook Pro 13" i5s, a 17" i5, a Mac Mini Server i5, and a 27" iMac i5. I use the Mac Mini and iMac for my iTunes Home Sharing. I have three Apple TVs version 2 running 6.1.1 @ 720P and two Apple TVs version 3 running 6.1.1 @ 1080P.
For some reason after a clean install of the iMac to Mavericks 10.9.2 and all security updates including iTunes to 11.1.5 (5) my Apple TVs would not see the Home Sharing of my iMac.
I reset everything. Airport Extremes, Time Capsules, Routing Information. Factory Default Apple TVs... you name it. I setup iTunes on all my MacBooks. No problems. Everything worked. Could not get to iMac.
I repeadely went to iTunes - Preferences - Sharing - Home Sharing (On/Off). Authorised the iMac with my account and de-authorized several times. Nothing made sense.
I noticed an Apple article that stated "iTunes - File - Home Sharing - Turn On". I thought, "Well, what do I have to lose?"...
It worked! Going through Preferences DID NOT WORK, but through the File Menu... everything works.
Just though I would put this up here to save someone else, maybe.

I need to read slower. I was in the Apple TV and it is a simple On/Off so I assumed, wrongly, that the check box was a Home Sharing On/Off in iTunes as well. Not just a play count, my bad.
My asumption may have been wrong, but...
Honestly though, I would have to say that not having a Home Sharing activation within the "Sharing" panel is kind of a Microsoft maneuver. I mean, really? Why the "File" menu? Lol.
Even placing it under "Advanced" would seem as though you're trying to hide a feature which is needed for the 20 million Apple TVs out there today.
Just my opinion.

Home sharing no longer works in latest update. Please fix

Home sharing no longer works in latest update. Apple Please fix.

well, try if anything in the following support articles (unless already consulted) helps:
_*iTunes: Troubleshooting Home Sharing*_
[_*Troubleshooting security software issues*_|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3125]
[_*Troubleshooting Home Sharing with Apple TV (2nd generation)*_|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3509]
good luck !
JGG

ATV Home Sharing and Connection FIXED (finally)

I'll start off by saying once upon a time Apple products worked togather with only minor hiccups. Not ture any more!!!!!!!!! Why because they rush products/softwater/firmware out the door without fully testing and so much intergration with iOS and not enough focus on the bread and butter of Apple's legacy (Steve Jobs perfection first).
The not so simpe fix:
1. Wireless router (one and only one) in other words NO additional wireless routers connected in bridge mode to extend wireless capabilities.
2. Assign a wirelss Client ID on your computer. For Mac open (System Perferences - Network - WiFi - Preferences - TCP/IP - DHCP Client ID:)
3. On your router setup a DHCP Reservation. On a Apple router open Network - + to add Reservation - use DHCP Client ID not Mac Address.
     Enter the same name as you used on you computer. Enter a IP address such as 10.0.1.50
4. Shut down computer
5. Shut down router
6. After router restarts, restart computer and see if the IP address is the same as you reserved on your router, (if not you did something wrong).
7. Repeat the same (#2, #3, #4, #5, #6) for the ATV. Your ATV client ID is what you named it. You can fine out the name of your ATV by goin to Settings-         General - Name. If you use spaces between words you have to add them as well. Note: #3 must be different such as 10.0.1.80
8. Open iTunes on the host computer and insure Home Sharing is enabled.
9. On the host computer (for Mac) open System Preferences - Energy Saver and move the slider for the Computer Sleep to NEVER.
10.KEY TO SUCCESS IS #9
This process has worked for me, and has never filed.
Until Apple figures out why ATV is not waking your computer and dropping your Home Sharing connection you can use the above steps.
Hopefully this helps someone else!

Sorry forget #7 on the list.....that was from earlier testing.

How I fixed my Home Sharing iTunes Issue

I had a very old version of I Tunes running on a Windows XP laptop.
I upgraded my Iphone to IOS 7 today, my Apple TV too and decided to refresh my version of ITunes on my laptop to make sure it'd all still be compatible with IOS 7. Everything stopped connecting to Home Sharing....
Here's how it wasn't fixed....
Degrading the iTunes version
Rolling back to a restore point
Repairing the installation of Itunes
Doing crazy stuff on IPV6 to my network
Here's how it was fixed....
Uninstall iTunes
Remove all traces of Apple software from your PC
RESTART
Go to Apple website and install the latest version of ITunes from scratch
DO NOT cut any of these steps out, if you do, it won't work. If you do, it will fix your problem, guaranteed!
Good luck
MT

bump
I was having trouble seeing my Nano 2nd in iTunes and was afraid to do this step; but it works. My Nano was updated to version 1.1.1 and now everything seems to work perfectly. Keep in mind you will lose everything that is stored on your Nano when you format it.
Gateway 733mhz Windows XP

I believe I found the fix solving home sharing issues with Windows 7

I was having a problem with my Windows 7 PC while trying to connect iTunes home sharing and my Apple TV. While speaking to Apple support, the tech told me that home sharing uses port 3689. I searched the web and found this link explaining how to open a port on your PC. The issue seems to be with Windows firewall, or the anti virus software controlling the Windows firewall. I use Norton anti virus so when I opened the Windows firewall selection in the control panel, the Norton window opened and the fix was identical to the one shown in this link. http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/open-a-port-in-windows-7s-firewall/
Follow the instructions on the page and for step #7, enter 3689. When you get to step #10, I typed in "Apple TV Home Sharing" so I could identify the port later on. I made these changes, rebooted the computer, started iTunes, turned on the Apple TV and everything worked. Try it and this should solve what seems to be a common problem.

Solved - at least all good so far.
I had to add rules to my firewall software (Symantec Endpoint Protection) for Bonjour (UDP 5353) and DAAP (TCP 3689). Once I did that, the other librares were shown in SHARING and the Apple TV reliably connects.
What I don't understand was why it worked at all without the rules in place.

HT4352 I have followed all the instructions on home sharing and it used to work perfectly. With the new apple OS upgrade my apple TV now longer sees anything, even though I I applied all home sharing settings again. Anyone know how to fix this?

I am trying to get home sharing to work on the applie tv and its not working after a Mac OS update. It has not worked for about a month and use to work fine. Has anyone else experienced this problem. Is Apple working on a fix for the problem? Is there a work around?
Thanks,
Anthony

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
53
TCP/UDP
DNS
DNS
80
TCP
HTTP
AirPlay, iTunes Store
123
TCP/UDP
NTP
Network Time
443
TCP
HTTPS
AirPlay, PhotoStream, iTunes Store
554
TCP/UDP
RTSP
AirPlay
1900
UDP
SSDP
Bonjour
3689
TCP
DAAP
iTunes, AirPlay, HomeSharing
5297
TCP
Bonjour
5298
TCP/UDP
Bonjour
5350
UDP
NAT
Bonjour
5351
UDP
NAT
Bonjour
5353
TCP/UDP
MDNS
Bonjour, AirPlay, HomeSharing
8000-8999
TCP
iTunes Radio Streams
42000-42999
TCP
iTunes Radio Streams
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.

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