Home sharing not working from ipad to iTunes

Hello All,
Just wanted to share my experience with this issue. After trying many tips on how to resolve this issue I finally came to the realization that maybe the iPad didn't have enough storage space to share from my iTunes library, it only had 2 GB's available, so I deleted a movie and opened 5GB's on my iPad. Finally, I tried to share again and it worked! Not sure why it would work because it's only streaming, but it did.
Hope this can help other users who are struggling with this.

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I have similar issue and already opened another thread for it...no reply so far. So I'll give it a try in here.
I'm using a Mac Mini (Mid 2010) with 4GB RAM, Yosemite 10.10.2.
The Mac is connected by cable to a Gbit Ethernet network switch.
I hope the following drawing helps to understand the network environment:
Mac <--> Switch_1 <--> Switch_2 <--> Fire TV
Switch_1 <--> WLAN Router AVM Fritz!Box 7270 <--> 30MBit Internet connection
The Mac and the Fire TV (running AirPlay server App) are both connected by Ethernet cable, but to different switches.
No WLAN enabled on Fire TV.
The WLAN router is the DHCP server.
For sure the remote App is running on an iPad (2) which is using WLAN.
All network addresses are in same network and were provided by same DHCP server (running on WLAN router).
All my music and internet radio is coming from the Mac.
I use remote app (latest version from Appstore) on the iPad to connect to iTunes 12.0.1.26 running on my Mac.
In iTunes I selected the Fire TV as AirPlay receiver.
Fire TV is playing all music through my AV receiver.
This is working perfectly fine except one issue which exists since update to Yosemite 10.10.0.
It remained same with Yosemite 10.10.1 and 10.10.2.
My problem is that I need to enable WLAN (wireless) on my Mac since update to Yosemite.
When I disable WLAN remote app does not find my media library anymore and iTunes is unable to connect to the Fire TV.
When I re-enable WLAN, everything is working fine again.
Remember, all devices except the iPad are on a cabled 1Gbit Ethernet.
Before updating to Yosemite I did not need WLAN.
Any idea what's causing this? IP traffic routing issue?
Usually, when I disable WLAN on the Mac, it continues to run for 1 or 2 days where the iPad has no problem to find and connect to the media library.
After a while. running with WLAN disabled, my iPad is not able to "see" the iTunes media library asking me to enable home sharing.
When I check on my Mac, home sharing is enabled.
I then disable and re-enabled home sharing in iTunes and after doing so my iPads is able to "see" the iTunes media library but it cannot connect to it.
I checked routing and arp tables on the Mac but everything looked fine, routing through the Ethernet interface.
I used "fing" on the iPad to see which devices are online and "fing" on my iPad was only aware of the Mac Ethernet interface. No entry for the disabled Mac WLAN interface.
I checked on the WLAN router and ensured that both Mac interfaces have unique host names (aliases) on the router.
To be sure everything is refreshed I rebooted the router.
No change, my iPad was able to find the iTunes media library through home sharing but was unable to connect to that media library.
So I enabled WLAN on the Mac and immediately my iPad could connect to the iTunes media library.
Weird...
Only mitigation I found so far is to re-enable the WLAN on the Mac.
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Hi there,
The article below has some more information for troubleshooting Home Sharing that you may find helpful.
Understanding Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
-Griff W.

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iTunes 10.6.3 home sharing not working properly. I can access with my three ATV2's watch a movie later that same day it tries to access and ATV2 just keeps trying and never gets through to the library. If I restart iTunes its fine then later can't access. I am running iTunes 10.6.3 on a i7 Mac Mini with 10.7.4. Sole job is to be iTunes server and an occasional HTPC with remote buddy running. I disabled remote buddy ajax remote feature, and file sharing is on so I can load new tracks form other macs Thats it, a vanilla install with all updates.. No problem prior but not sure if problem free period was with 10.6 earler versions or 10.5 versions. I update as warnings to do so come up. The remote app has same problem accessing the Home Share. I disabled home sharing on my iPhone and set to access the old method with 4 digit code and sees all the time and will play to my express base stations so seems to be home sharing issue because iPhone apps with home sharing on and ATV2s have issue accessing.
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I can't be only one. Considering downgrading to last version of 10.5 but not sure how to do this.
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I ran into the specific problem in another thread. There are more than 100 connections from the apple TV's to iTunes. You can do a netstat -a (windows or Mac), and verify the problem. iTunes is smart enough to stop allowing more than 100 connections but stupid to allow the ATV to create so many connections.
Now for what you really want! Set all of your ATVs to wifi only. Even setting the iTunes host to wifi might help also. I think that wifi is more unreliable, and forces connections to drop, keeping the count under 100.
I also turned off ip v6. That could help you also. I originally had problems on a Mac mini, and built a windows 7 box to try to fix the problem. The wifi trick worked on both platforms. Several of us have bug reports into apple. I have a wired house also, and am very angry to NEED to use slow wifi to overcome this problem. The ATV gen 3 has been able to keep up with 1080p over wifi, so it doesn't hurt too much. What really hurts is spending over 40 hours troubleshooting this bug.

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Does Home Sharing not work through a network extender?

Home sharing seems to cut out whenever I get into range of my network extender (Airport Express).
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.
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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.
So is it maybe a bug also with iTunes that it can't keep up with a shared library client moving from one wifi station to another?
How do you report these things to the people that matter by the way?

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In the last few weeks I have been experiencing multiple issues with my iTunes.
I believe it began when my itunes library corrupted and I had to start again.
By starting again I mean I went to previous itunes libraries and used the most recent backup.
After I noticed a large number of unknown error (-50) messages I thought I better copy the backup I was using from the previous libraries folder over to the itunes folder (in case the error related to failed attempts to back up the library).
This problem in itself wasn't too bad as I am able to close and relaunch iTunes and carry on however I have noticed some less desirable side effects - the loss of home sharing. I am unable to pick speakers to broadcast to (I have 2 airport express units plugged in and working and an Apple TV2) and I am unable to access the iTunes library on Apple TV.
I've done some basic troubleshooting: creating rules to allow the home sharing ports, temporarily disabling antivirus/firewall, uninstalling antivirus/firewall, setting up rules on the router for homesharing ports, uninstalling iTunes, rebooting, reinstalling iTunes and retrying, disabling home sharing and reenabling, disabling peerblock, deauthorising itunes and reauthorising and rebooting both the pc and Apple TV, checking sharing settings under preferences and verifying both the entire library is shared and that the status of home sharing is on but no devices connected, created a new library and reimporting my media and the problem still exists.
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With that in mind I retried an uninstall and this time deleted as many tmp files as I could see in the iTunes library folder, rebooted and reinstalled. I also checked the permission levels on the iTunes application folder and the iTunes library folder (located on an additional internal drive), I then tried running iTunes as an administrator (which my user account is already set as) but all the problems are still evident.
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I'm running Windows 7 64bit with all latest updates installed and iTunes 64bit 10.6.3.25, all apple devices are running the latest version of firmware and I'm running out of ideas. I did try running CCleaner to clear up and registry issues if there were any and I ran Appcleaner to remove any iTunes cache that may have been left between installs. I'm running out of ideas - what am I missing here?

I have found the problem was in part caused by Windows firewall.
Exactly how Windows firewall can cause the problem when I wasn't even using it I don't know.
What I do know is that when I checked 'allow a program through the firewall' I found 4 rules set for iTunes, one of which was public network access.
I deleted the superfluous rules and the Home Sharing problems are solved.
All that needs sorting now is the 'determining gapless playback'.

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Here's every detail of the problem:
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Sharing Stopped working again over night.
I went to Apple Support Artical TS2972
As soon as I did this Home Sharing started working
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
Firewall Section
5. Check Firewall Settings
If you have a firewall enabled in your router or computer, make sure that the firewall is not blocking communication between your computers. Home Sharing uses TCP port 3689 and UDP port 5353 to communicate with shared iTunes libraries.
In addition, Apple TV and Mac computers will use port 123 to set the time automatically. Incorrect date and time on either the computer or Apple TV can cause errors for Home Sharing and connections in general.
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Block all incoming connections
Allow only essential services
If you use another security/firewall software on your computer or router, follow this article or contact the manufacturer or check the documentation on how to open TCP ports 123 and 3689 as well as UDP ports 123 and 5353.
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Tommorrow will be the true test.

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Read the router user manual and checked all the settings
Rebooted the router and tested.
Turned off the router's firewall and tested.
Home Sharing is turned on all the devices and all use the same Apple ID.
Restarted iTunes and tested.
Verified iTunes is "Allowed" in each PC's firewall.
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Good Evening Dear Gurus,
Hi, I am writing this to ask for help regarding home sharing. Yes I do know they are several threads out there that already explains or rather given solution on how to tackle this problem. BUT the my problem is rather different. I am no computer expert myself, so here is the problem, apparently MY MAC can home share with another MAC, but both of this MAC cannot home share with the PC.
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I went to Apple Support Artical TS2972
As soon as I did this Home Sharing started working
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
Firewall Section
5. Check Firewall Settings
If you have a firewall enabled in your router or computer, make sure that the firewall is not blocking communication between your computers. Home Sharing uses TCP port 3689 and UDP port 5353 to communicate with shared iTunes libraries.
In addition, Apple TV and Mac computers will use port 123 to set the time automatically. Incorrect date and time on either the computer or Apple TV can cause errors for Home Sharing and connections in general.
If you are unsure whether your router has a firewall or the required ports open, test additional devices or another network to help isolate the issue. If the devices tested work on another home network, it is your router or network configuration.
For Mac OS X, you don't have to edit the port addresses, but make sure the firewall in Apple () menu > System Preferences > Security > Firewall are not set to:
Block all incoming connections
Allow only essential services
If you use another security/firewall software on your computer or router, follow this article or contact the manufacturer or check the documentation on how to open TCP ports 123 and 3689 as well as UDP ports 123 and 5353.
It made sense to me, but its still puzzling me after restarting a router would (in my first attempt) resolve the issue for a day. This this time I applied the port forwarding TCP and UDP ports and saved the settings in the DLink DIR-655 and both my iPad2 and iPhone 3GS were now again finding the share. My ATV2 is also now accepting the Share.
Tommorrow will be the true test.

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