HT2688 ihave purchased an apple tv box, and now want to activate home sharing on my computer, and as i am not computer sauvy, i am having trouble activating the home share .
i need help activating the home sharing, i went to i tunes and it talked about the product butnowhere what to do to activate it.
Hello!
I have come across the same issue and chose your response to reply to since it seems to be the most recent- First, the set up at the house:
MacBook Pro mid-2010
AppleTV Gen2
Belkin router
Two iPhones- 4s
iPad 3- Retina / WiFi only (set up with a different apple id- wife's iPad)
So- I have the same apple ID set up on the laptop, apple TV and my phone. Home Sharing is set to the same account on all these devices and the AppleTV does not recognize any of them. I do not see the Apple TV, nor the laptop, in the remote app on my phone.
I have the network set with a password in WPA/WPA2 mode and no firewall set up on with the router or the laptop...
Help?
I've read through many comments about ipV6- but that seemed to be based on windows machines, I've read that a mid 2010 MacBook Pro doesn't have the guts to handle homesharing, I have restarted and restored the appleTV as well as logged everything out and back in again...
Not sure where to go from here- thanks for any guidance.
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