Itunes 9 Home Sharing: de-authorization/re-authorization

We have two iMacs on our home network, each with a separate Apple Store account, but we'd like to configure the two for Home Sharing .
Question 1: If we reset Machine A's account to match Machine B's by deauthorizing then reauthorizing A to the same account as B, will Machine A no longer provide access to the protected audio files purchased under its old account?
Question 2: Under this scenario, will Machine A no longer provide access to the iPhone Apps purchased under its old account?

Authorize both machines to both accounts.

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Ok I found it. Alt S to get the top navigation menu!

ITunes 9 Home Sharing does not work on Windows 7 x64

iTunes 9 Home Sharing does not work on Windows 7 x64.
Getting the following error message:
Home sharing could not be activated because this computer is not authorized for the account "iTunes account." Please authorize this computer and try again.
This is a bug since my computer is authorized in iTunes and there is only 2 computer authorized for my iTunes account, so I have 3 more left till I should get this message.
I've just upgraded my iPhone to OS 3.1 using it this morning.
Please advise.
Environment: Windows 7 x64, HP TouchSmart tx2-1020us Notebook
Ivan Farkas
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I am using Windows 7 x64.
I am running iTunes 9.0.2.25
I am running Mcafee.
I can see and play music from the iTunes installation on my Windows 7 machine, but I CANNOT access the library to copy songs from this computer to other computers on my network.
YES, I have enabled "Home Sharing" using my iTunes account. NO, I have not authorized more than 5 computers on this account.
I believe this to be a Windows 7 related issue, as Home Sharing worked as advertised when I was using Vista (before I upgraded to Windows 7).
I CAN set up Home Sharing on two other (host) computers in my home network and it works. These computers are XP and a MacBook Pro. I CANNOT access my Windows 7 machine x64 to COPY music from one autorized library to another. Please help!!!
P.S. - I have attempted to get this to work by turning OFF my McAfee firewall. Windows firewall is disabled.
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Can I copy a tv show to my iTunes using Home Sharing?

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Jim_ Crawford wrote:
My son bought some tv shows with my account. They are in his library. I'm am trying to copy them to my iTunes using Home Sharing. Why is Home Sharing saying I can't copy them because my computer isn't authorized (when it is authorized). This is frustrating. Thanks. . . Jim C
hi jim,
in order to play content bought with another iTunes account, the destination machine must be authorized to that account. so, you need to authorize your iTunes to play content purchased with your sons iTunes account.
that's basically very easy. all you have to do is +log out+ of one account (click on the account name in the Store window and select sign out from the pop-up dialog) and into the other, and then they will both be authorized. (be sure to just *log out*, not de-authorize ).
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My itunes 11 Home sharing is not working with my windows 7 PC and iPad it shows up on iPad and when I go to share the music app does loading for 3 mins and crashes I am using a virgin super hub router please please please help

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Since updating to itunes 11, Home Sharing is not working

Since updating to itunes 11, Home Sharing is not working.
I am running Windows 7, 64-bit.
All mobile devices are up to date with ios, including 2 apple tvs (2 & 3), iphone 4s and 3gs, ipad1 & ipad2.
I've rebooted twice, turned home sharing off, then signed back in. Still nothing. Rebooted the mobile devices. No joy.
Curiously, wi-fi sync is also not working - the devices are not showing up in itunes unless I plug them in.
Please Help!

Yes, you guessed. After some rebbots it stopped working again .So it seems it is not a Firewall issue. Kept looking and found a suggestion in a forum to disable IPv6, apparently iTunes for Windows doesn't work well with IPv6. So I did, and after several rebbots and tests, both Home Sharing and Apple TV 1st Gen are working. To disable IPv6, follow this link
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929852
It has an MS Fix It that will do it for you. Or if you wnat to go manual, follow this discussion, this guy was having the same issue several months ago
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3507281?start=75&tstart=0
So far IPv6 is just being rolled out, and it will be a few years until everybody abandons IPv4 and go only with IPv6, so you shouldn't have any issues disabling it. And by then iTunes -I hope- should be fixed to work correctly with IPv6. Try it, and if you find any issues you can always enable IPv6 using another MS Fix it program, or manually reverse what you did
Hope it is fixed this time!

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I have a MacBook Pro 17" 2.16GHz, Core Duo, Snow Leapord, iTunes 9.2 that I am trying to turn on Home Sharing.
Although I can authorize the MBP, when I try to activate Home Sharing, I get an iTunes Store error (-42408).
I NEED to use iTunes 9 because it is the last version of iTunes that will display non-square podcast imbeded images properly - full screen without letterboxing to a square display.
The reason I need Home Sharing turned on is so I can play videos residing on the MBP on an iPad v1 iOS5.
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TIA

OK, I think I just found a clue to my problem.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4557
Seems that at this time, I need iTunes 10.2 to Home Share with iOS 5+ devices, even though it is an available option in iTunes 9.2, it no longer works with the iTunes Store.
Sigh....

ITunes/Music Home sharing does not work on my iPad Air

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Understanding Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
Setup Home Sharing on iPad
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4557
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972

HT202213 I have enabled home sharing on both of my computers, however there is no "sharing" option on either device. I tried restarting itunes, turning home sharing on & off, nothing.

Please help! Any suggestions would be great, as the old computer is slowly but surely dying, and I want to put all of my itunes data onto my laptop.

Hi there nc999!
I have an article here for you that will help you troubleshoot this issue with Home Sharing:
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

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In the future I may purchase a laptop in addition to my desktop. So I would install iTunes on it and it would start with a different library than my desktop (although I believe I could copy the desktop library to the laptop initially) Does the laptop need a different iTunes account or could it keep the same one that I have on my desktop? How do I easy keep the libraries in sync and can I sync my iPhone with either my desktop or laptop and not get the iPhone or me confused.
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The iTunes/AppleTV/iOS comms system does seem to get easily confused at times even when it's worked peefectly for months.
I've never felt these services which detect each other automatically are particularly good at re-establishing lost connections without restarting one or several components and as you suggest may be linked to IP addresses changing and devices still looking for each other on old IP addresses which have changes.
Try restarting the Time Capsule - I had issues out of the blue last year, iTunes restart helped temporarily but the fix was a router power down and reboot (it had been on for months).
Recently since 5.3, one of my AppleTV 3's has been very flaky with wifi - drops Home Sharing while loading a film then instantly finds it again once the film has stopped - wifi strength listed as full strength - might be interference but ethernet has fixed it for now.
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ITunes 9 Home Sharing - music *and* applications?

Reading the documentation for iTunes 9, it says that all copies of iTunes must be logged in using the same app store id. For music, it appears to be "pay once, use multiple (up to five) times". Does it work the same way with applications?
If so, is there any way to transfer "ownership" of apps from one id to another (ie, we've purchased apps for three phones using three different ids and would love to consolidate them)?
If not, that opens up a whole different avenue of questions (which I'll defer until I know for sure).
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UPDATE: I've now authorized my laptop with my fiance's itunes account and my personal iTunes account, this is key.
I'm now able to transfer songs from either her laptop or my iMac (where my music is stored for now) as long as the current logged-in Home Sharing account is active. So it's basically like logging into an ftp server, only one connection allowed at a time.
So just turn off Home Sharing and then turn it back on again, re-enter the other systems iTunes account info and there you go, you can transfer from that one now. Of course this would be simpler if you were just merging two computers/accounts instead of adding in a 3rd laptop like my experiment. You should just have to make sure all computers involved (up to 5) are authorized for all the iTunes accounts involved.
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If you post under the Home Sharing forum you may get a more detailde answer. This is just iTunes for Mac

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