I believe I found the fix solving home sharing issues with Windows 7

I was having a problem with my Windows 7 PC while trying to connect iTunes home sharing and my Apple TV. While speaking to Apple support, the tech told me that home sharing uses port 3689. I searched the web and found this link explaining how to open a port on your PC. The issue seems to be with Windows firewall, or the anti virus software controlling the Windows firewall. I use Norton anti virus so when I opened the Windows firewall selection in the control panel, the Norton window opened and the fix was identical to the one shown in this link. http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/open-a-port-in-windows-7s-firewall/
Follow the instructions on the page and for step #7, enter 3689. When you get to step #10, I typed in "Apple TV Home Sharing" so I could identify the port later on. I made these changes, rebooted the computer, started iTunes, turned on the Apple TV and everything worked. Try it and this should solve what seems to be a common problem.

Solved - at least all good so far.
I had to add rules to my firewall software (Symantec Endpoint Protection) for Bonjour (UDP 5353) and DAAP (TCP 3689). Once I did that, the other librares were shown in SHARING and the Apple TV reliably connects.
What I don't understand was why it worked at all without the rules in place.

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I've had an Apple TV2 for over a year. It has been working fine with no issues at all. I use an old laptop running WinXP as my "media server" and it has worked fine up until the last few of months.
Progressively, over the last 2-4 months it has become less reliable when trying to access content on iTunes on it. The laptop itself has otherwise been reliable. It is just the Apple TV talking to it that has been not. Sometimes it works fine, other times as I go through the menus I get 'Loading "library"...' for up to a couple of minutes and it then drops out.
The first time it started becoming unreliable was shortly after a Windows Update. I rolled back the update with System Restore and it went back to working well. I didn't have another problem until I applied the latest set of Windows Updates (a month or so later, hoping the issues had been fixed). Again, it broke, so I rolled back. Last week after it has been running well, Windows crashed and when it recovered AppleTV/iTunes wasn't working again. I tried applying Windows Updates again. No luck. I rolled back to before the crash. No luck. I tried updating to iTunes 10.6. No luck. I uninstalled iTunes (and all the other Apple software) and reinstalled. It was still flakey. Disabling the firewall makes no difference.
I then blew the whole machine away, restored to factory configuration, and installed iTunes again. It is still unreliable.
I have MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8 and iTunes 10.6. It works with the Apple TV with no problems at all. All my content plays fine. So I don't believe it is my Apple TV or the network. (All three devices, Apple TV, MBP and Windows laptop are on a wired Ethernet network 100Mbps.)
I just installed iTunes on my Acer Netbook which is running Windows 7 Starter and it has the same unreliability issues as the laptop.
These seems to suggest it is an iTunes/Windows problem – but why am I the only one?
I should add that I can play some content on the Apple TV from either the laptop or the netbook. It might work the first time, even the second time but eventually it just fails. For example, last night we started to watch something on the Apple TV from the library on the WinXP laptop. It played fine for the first 4 minutes and then it just dropped out.
It doesn't matter what content I try. Sometime music works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes iTunes purchased TV shows or movies work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes home made content (FCP X) works, sometimes it doesn't.
Additionally, the laptop and netbook show up in the SHARED area of iTunes on the MBP. I see similar results form there. I can sometimes connect to the laptop or netbook and play content but eventually it fails and the device disappears from SHARED. It eventually comes back, though.
Interestingly, iTunes on the laptop and the netbook don't show any other SHARED devices, even though I have "Share Libraries" ticked in preferences on all three. I also don't see the Apple TV sharing icon on iTunes on the laptop or netbook but I do see it on the MBP (and my iPod and iPad).
I also have a Windows 7 64-bit laptop and I installed 64-bit iTunes 10.6 on it, but I can't even log into the iTunes store form it (unknown error 0x80092013) which appears to be a common problem of late.
I have tried everything I can think of to get it working and am hoping someone might have some ideas on how to debug the issues.

Solved - at least all good so far.
I had to add rules to my firewall software (Symantec Endpoint Protection) for Bonjour (UDP 5353) and DAAP (TCP 3689). Once I did that, the other librares were shown in SHARING and the Apple TV reliably connects.
What I don't understand was why it worked at all without the rules in place.

Potential Solution: Home Sharing issues with iTunes 10.6

TL;DR: On a hunch, I changed the power settings of the ATV to never sleep. Since then, I have not had any issues. Granted, it's only been a couple of days, but it seems to have done the trick.
Folks,
Wanted to share my experience with Home Sharing issues after upgrading to iTunes 10.6. These forums a rampant with reports of the issue, so I'll defer to the search field above if you don't know what I am talking about. In short: iTunes 10.6 seems to have busted Home Sharing.
For those who do, here's what I found:
For some reason, is saw a very large number of established sessions from my Apple TV (ATV) into port 3689 on my Mac. This is the port that ATV uses to query iTunes to see what's available via Home Sharing (e.g.: what movies, songs, pictures, etc are available for display on the ATV).
A sniffer cap and some observation of the power indicator on the ATV indicated that while it was sleeping, the ATV was querying iTunes. It would power on for a sec (wake on LAN, maybe?), issue some queries, then sleep.
When this happened, the TCP sessions created were never town down. As such, I would eventually see 200+ established sessions on port 3689. I don't know exactly how many it took to make this happen, but when I saw this, iTunes stopped accepting new connections.
Of course, bouncing iTunes would remedy the issue for a while, but it would return.
On a hunch, I changed the power settings of the ATV to never sleep. Since then, I have not had any issues. Granted, it's only been a couple of days, but it seems to have done the trick.
I would be interested to hear if it works for others.
Happy viewing,
Chris

Thanks for posting this.
I've been searching for an option of how to approach this problem.
I picked up the new AppleTV when it was released, but it has made iTunes fairly useless from a Home Sharing standpoint.
I also observed the massive number of TCP connections being opened against iTunes, but never closed.
As expected, I could manually kill a few of these connections, and then could connect again, even without closing iTunes.
I performed most of my testing with Windows 7, but while troubleshooting I had the same issue with iTunes on an old Mac Mini I had sitting around.
I will try your solution, which makes a lot of sense, but it would be nice if Apple fixed the real problem.
Thanks again.

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I'm glad to hear that it's not just me. I have iTunes libraries on a Mac Mini and on my Macbook. They show up in the shared section in iTunes on the opposite machines, as well as on my 2nd Generation Apple TV. They even show up in the Remote app on my iDevices. However, only one shows up in the iPod music app on the iPhone 3GS and iPad, as well as the iPad video app.
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Sorry for the cross-post -- I originallly put this in the iPad discussion group, but this is clearly the group where it belongs...
Anyway, I've followed the instructions to the letter, enabling Home Sharing on my Windows 7 PC running iTunes 10.7.0.21, and also enabling it on my 3rd Gen iPad. I've verified that it's enabled about a dozen times now, rebooted everything, and still I can't see my iTunes Library from my iPad... I go to Music on the iPad, and it just shows the few songs that I've loaded onto the iPad itself, not my PC's music library...
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Well, I guess the 3rd time's the charm... Instead of rebooting everything, I shut everything off, waited a full 2 minutes and turned it back on in the following order: Router, PC, iPad. Waited a good 3 minutes between turning each device on. (Oh, and before I shut down the PC, I added iTunes to the Startup menu so it would start when Windows booted).
Now it seems to be working fine -- my library showed up in the Remote app on the iPad automatically, no need to enter a 4-digit code on the computer (makes me wonder why it didn't do that the first time?)
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HT202213 The screen displayed on the instructions for home sharing described as being found on the left side of iTunes isn't visible on the new iTunes page?? Where do i find that screen i.e., how do I fine the home sharing icon on the new iTunes page?

The screen displayed on the instructions for home sharing described as being found on the left side of iTunes isn't visible on the new iTunes page?? Where do i find that screen i.e., how do I fine the home sharing icon on the new iTunes page?

ontthe top menu
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I believe I found the fix solving home sharing issues with Windows 7

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