Home sharing only available for a few minutes
Hello everyone,
So I have a strange problem and I'll do my best to explain everything I've tried and my current setup.
Origonal setup (Was working then just completely stopped)
Windows Server 2008 (non R2) on an old computer (Currently offline)
System was Domain Controller, DNS Server, DHCP server and File server as well as running iTunes
New setup (Thought it would fix the issue)
Windows Server 2003 (fully updated and freshly installed for the sole purpose of iTunes home sharing)
Different system then the 2008 and only runs iTunes and AirVideo Server (not joined to domain, never was)
Linksys router handling DNS, DHCP again since I found out about the .local bonjour "bug" so I shutdown my Domain Controller to test
I have a Linksys smart Wi-FI router (my old router was dropping wireless connections around the same time so I figured it was the router) with dual band wireless (Cortana and Cortana-2.4). The 2003 ("MediaCentral") is connected via a known good ethernet cable directly to the router. My Macbook Pro (Late 2012) is connected wirelessly to Cortana. All devices (including my parents iPhone 4's) are authorized under my Apple ID and signed into home sharing.
I start iTunes on my macbook and my iPhone 5 sees the library no problem. I start iTunes on server and my macbook and phone both see it. The server, however, does not see my macbook's library. (which isn't really a big deal anyways). I can connect to the servers library and start watching a movie, heck I can watch the entire movie, faster forword, rewind pause all that stuff. As long as I don't disconnect it seems to work fine. The movie I currently have in the library is Transforms: Dark of the Moon bought on the iTunes store. My parents iPhone's never see the servers library. Our Apple TV see's it the same way my phone does and also sees my macbooks library.
Here's where things really go weird: If I didn't connect to the servers library within a few minutes of starting iTunes, it will disappear or fail to connect and then disappear (I guess the only reason it didn't disappear earlier was because of like a cache or something) and the only way to make it available again is by restarting iTunes on the server. Those first few minutes are like the golden time frame I guess you can call it. I don't know exactly how long until it stops working but I know it's not a long time. Probably less then five minutes.
So there's my situation, can anyone provide any guidence or suggestions to help me solve this?
I will be setting up a new domain controller under server 2012 but with a different domain name (matrix.dustinschreiber.com probably) as to avoid the .local bonjour problem.
Same issue exactly. Best thing to di is contact Apple so that they become aware of this regression. Below is what I have been posting:
Home sharing with the new Apple TV / iTunes update is just broke. Only works for a bit unless you restart iTunes or disable / re-enable Home Sharing. Use to work great until the last updates. This is not a network (router, firewall, ...) issue - just a (bad) regression in Apples software. Hopefully they fix this soon, hard to believe its been broke this long already. The Remote app update also fails to connect to Apple TVs (but does connect to iTunes) for many people as well. Poor QA all around. :(
I have yet to see any suggestion that actually works other than reverting to previous versions of fwr / iTunes - which is a pain / joke to do.
There are a *ton* of posts about this:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18078180#18078180
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18078351#18078351
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