How do i do home sharing on my mac, how do i do home sharing on my mac
question is can i actually do home sharing from a mac laptop?
coz when i look for it in my itunes its not there
Home Sharing has to be specifically enabled on all your devices: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
From the above:
Make sure the firewall in Apple () menu > System Preferences > Security > Firewall are not set to:
Block all incoming connections
Allow only essential services
...but read all the steps to be sure you didn't miss anything.
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But if you send another user the app, they aren't just streaming the data- they installed it on their iOS device. Because they weren't the one that purchased it, such a transfer could easily be considered "piracy" or "stealing," and nobody likes that (least of all, Apple).
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Goal
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Attempt
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whew... I'm out of breath... I hope there is an Apple Genius out there that can help.
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As Winston Churchill wrote, however you might want to do a factory reset on the Apple TV.
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You download some music in iTunes. With Home Sharing, another user can listen to it by streaming it over the network. But the data itself is on your computer. If you turn off the computer or take it off the network, the other user can't access it.
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