Home sharing not working, no shared library: iTunes 10.6.1, iPhone 4s

So here's what I'm doing and what my problem is.  On iTunes, under preferences, I go to the sharing tab and click share my library on my local network.  I then go to advanced > turn on home sharing. I enter my apple id and password and create home share. It says home sharing is now on and I click done. Now, the shared tab disappears and there is no shared library.  On my iPhone 4s, I go to settings > music > and enter the same apple id and password.  I then go to music > more and there is no shared library option.  I go back to preferences on iTunes and go to sharing tab. It says Status: On, no users connected.  How do I fix this? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes so I have the latest version.  I'm also on the same wifi connection on both my laptop and iphone.  I also turned my firewall off.

On iTunes, under preferences, I go to the sharing tab and click share my library on my local network.
We don't actually have to do that for Home Sharing ... that's for the older "Music Sharing" system. For some discussion of the distinction between the two, see the following document:
iTunes: How to share music and video
Is there another computer on your network that you want to home share with? If so, is iTunes currently running on that computer?

Similar Messages

  • Home sharing not working after update to iTunes 12.1

    recenty updated iTunes to 12.1.0.71 64 bit for windows 8.1, and home sharing no longer works with my apple tvs. i have an apple tv 2 with software 7.0.3(6917) and an apple tv 3 aalso on 7.0.3(6917). I have tried the usual troubleshooting. Restoring, restarting, reinstalling itunes, made sure all the neccessary ports are open both on my router and firewall. Still not working. I would appreciate any help.

    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.
    So I assume something is broken in Yosemite / iTunes 12 home sharing.

  • 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.

    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.

  • ITunes 10.6.3 home sharing not working properly

    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.
    I'm never home but when I am I use this equipment loads and this weekend not reliable at all.  I have firewall disabled, and setup is as before and is working fine.  I am using Mini by ethernet and using AEBS 1st generation gigabit as router only wired to cable modem and whole house ethernet attached, latest version AEBS gigabit as a wireless bridge and 2 prior version 11n expresses and a 11g express, all expresses are set to wireless off and are connected to ethernet and then to a stereo in 3 different rooms.
    I can't be only one.  Considering downgrading to last version of 10.5 but not sure how to do this.
    How many of you are having trouble?
    Any resolutions?
    How to report to Apple?
    How to downgrade safely? Or is it 10.7.4?

    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.

  • 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.
    Does Home Sharing not work with wireless extenders? Do I have to change something in the set up?

    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?

  • Home shareing not working

    home sharing not working  in version 10.3.6

    Home sharing is only supported on version of iTunes that run on OS X 10.5 or later. You could go to the app store and purchase the Mountain Lion update for $19.99, then update iTunes and then it should be easy to set up.

  • TS2972 I cant get my home sharing to work on my mac book, apple tv or iphone. Just wondering if someone could help. It used to work now it does not. Thanks

    I cant get my home sharing to work on my mac book, apple tv or iphone. Just wondering if someone could help. It used to work now it does not. Thanks

    The helpfulness of answers is limited by the details provided.  Just saying it does not work, or I got an error does not provide much to go on.  How is it not working?  What happens or does not happen?  Is an error returned?  If so what error.  Are you sure you are logging in with your home sharing ID?  It is not the same as your Apple ID or iCloud ID.

  • Iphone 4: Home Button Not Working. The home button only works when it is connected to iTunes, once i disconnet it does not work, i have tried a restore to factory settings but it still is not working. Any suggestions?

    iphone 4: Home Button Not Working. The home button only works when it is connected to iTunes, once i disconnet it does not work, i have tried a restore to factory settings but it still is not working. Any suggestions?

    Apple, as I said, does not repair your iPhone. All hardware service issues are handled by replacing the unit. So they can't handle the home-button issue without also addressing the issue of the cracked screen, for which they'll almost certainly charge you. But you can make an appointment at an Apple Store or call Apple tech support and plead your case.
    Regards.

  • File sharing not working 10.6

    file sharing not working on 10.6

    Rather more information is needed!
    With what are (not) sharing?
    Other computers on a network? (if so, are they all Macs or some Windows?)
    Other Users on the same Mac?

  • Apple TV Home Shariing not working.

    Apple TV Home Shariing not working. It keeps telling me to turn on my Home sharing in Itunes but Itunes says it is on. HELP!
    WiFi is on and full signal.

    I don't know if this might help you. I had a similar problem but the issue was not Apple TV but the router configuration:
    Multicast Streams
    The router uses the IGMP protocol to support efficient multicasting -- transmission of identical content, such as multimedia, from a source to a number of recipients.
    Enable Multicast Streams
    This option must be enabled if any applications on the LAN participate in a multicast group. If you have a multimedia LAN application that is not receiving content as expected, try enabling this option.
    http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=76458fb50f151652ba9ce800f52de6c2&top ic=37014.msg119798#msg119798

  • Home share not working on iPad but is working on iPhone

    Home share not working on iPad but is working on iPhone

    Have you signed in at Settings > Music with same Apple ID and password as you used in iTunes and on your iPhone to enable Home Sharing?

  • As i have written,my iphone home button not working

    as i have written,my iphone home button not working.i talk to cusmer care & also visit to care center in delhi. but they say to pay full mobile payment to repair it.
    this mobile is onle 11 month old. the case id number for this call was: 325468510.

    OK, thanks for sharing that information. Now, what it is you would like us, your fellow users and the only people who will reply to you here, to help you with? If you are expecting a reply from anyone who works for Apple here, you will not get such a reply. The only way to discuss any issue with Apple is to call them:
    http://www.apple.com/in/support/iphone/contact/
    Regards.

  • After working great why will my home share not work on my iphone and ipad mini

    I had been running home share on my iphone great.  I share a music library with my wife.  We just bought an ipad mini and i was messing around with the ipad and set up home share, however it would not work.  I tried logging out of my iphone and re connect and it will no longer connect.  I have not been able to get home share to work on the mini.
    I have browsed all the feeds, but not getting anywhere.

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    Have you checked all devices are connected to the same network and tried restarting your router.
    The following article(s) may help you.
    Troubleshooting Homesharing
    Troubleshooting WiFi Networks

  • Myi iphone4  microphone not working and the home button not work after IOS6 updat

    Myi iphone4  microphone not working and the home button not work after IOS6 updat

    Did you try another restore and this time not to restore from a backup and see if that makes a difference? This is what Apple would tell you to do next based on my iphone 5 fiasco.
    Make sure all your data is available on your computer for manual syncing later.
    Since you did the hard reset I assume that means your home button isn't broken only that it got frozen before. Were you able to get the Apple logo after the reset? Did it boot?
    And you are using iTunes 10.7?
    I'm just trying to help get you going.

  • Iphone 4 Home button not working after upgrade to OS 4.3.5

    Iphone 4 Home button not working after upgrade to OS 4.3.5.Please help!!!!!!!!

    It seems that settings of mail accounts have something to do with it. I've delete my gmail account and am now using Microsoft Exchange. It seems better, yet not perfect. The issue is definitely due to OS 4.3.1
    Apple answer is - no answer. It is a shame that the quality of their products, in terms of design and concept, is not match by a care for customers. It is not normal that I, as a customer, have to spend hours reading Apple Discussions forum to try to understand what the problem is. A little more respect for a customer that spend big $$$ buying their products wouldn't hurt.

Maybe you are looking for