HT202213 setting up home sharing

I'm really struggling to get my home sharing set up. I originally had a dell laptop (windows) for many years, and have recently bought a macbook air. My previous purchases and old media library are all on my old dell laptop. They are both connected to the internet via my home router and can get on the internet individually just fine. They both have the latest version of iTunes, and have home sharing turned on. Each time I try to import music to my mac, and select my dell laptop (which it sees just fine), it asks me for a username and password. The same happens in the reverse direction when I try to get media added from the mac to my dell laptop. I have no idea how to find the password to get them both to work together, or unsure whether the username is correct either? Please can someone help? I've tried to navigate through apples online help, but it mentions nothing about passwords? Any ideas anyone?

Hi there,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
-Griff W.

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Home sharing problem: I have never set up home sharing but I feel I the concept and how it works. I recently (last 2 months or so) deauthorized, first time ever, all computers with my iTunes account. I have 3 computers authorized. I am trying to set up home sharing but get iTunes says:
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Thanks,
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Home Sharing is designed to work on your local network not across the internet/cloud.
Stuff is accessed under the Computers column where your local iTunes library on a local computer would appear.
Home Sharing would share your iTunes content (i.e. stuff stored in itunes on the computer, not in the cloud) with AppleTV or an iPad etc on the SAME network.
AppleTV2 will not be able to see itunes content on the work computer over the internet. It's not designed to. if the work computer was on the home network it would.
iCloud is in it's infancy and is not a mature product - iTunes TV Show purchases appear on AppleTV, but currently music does not unless you are subscribed to iTunes Match. I find this rather odd to be honest, along with the inability to buy music on AppleTV2. Movies purchased in iTunes are not authorised for iCloud viewing currently either.
Maybe it has something to do with iTunes Match 'getting in the way' - i think they assume you'll use that whereas you really want to be able to access Purchased music from the cloud without subscribing to itunes Match which is overkill for some.
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