TS2972 home sharing does not recognized computers even though it is turned on?

I have turned on Home Sharing on my computers they say it is on but it does not show in any of the menu's on the left on any of the computers?  I have restarted everything including my router.  Also have deleted and re installed itunes.  any ideas.

I have turned on Home Sharing on my computers they say it is on but it does not show in any of the menu's on the left on any of the computers?  I have restarted everything including my router.  Also have deleted and re installed itunes.  any ideas.

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    Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
    For more information on this, take a look at:
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
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    Message was edited by: turcott

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    I am using home sharing since about a year without any problems. After updating to snow leopard 10.6.4 and iTunes 9.2 it suddenly does not work anymore.
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    Basically I got Apple TV today and went to turn on Home Sharing on all my computers. It works fine for all the wireless ones, but the wired one wont show up on any home sharing on the others or apple tv. The wired one is connected to the same router that the wireless ones are.
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  • Home sharing does not work in iTunes 9??

    I have spent hours going through this and conclude there must be something up with home sharing in the latest iTunes - I had no problem with it previously.
    I have everything checked that should be checked, my iMac and MacBook are on the same local wireless connection and it's fully functional. I can manually transfer files if I want.
    File sharing is on, home sharing is on in iTunes and "share entire library". "Look for shared libraries" and "share libraries on local network" is checked in both computers. I am logged into the iTunes store on both computers.
    But there is no shared list in either machine, and in iTunes > Preferences it says "No users connected" - even though both computers are connected to the network. And it makes no difference if I log in to one or both computers and mount the volumes or not. Nothing will make it work. Rebooting, quitting iTunes, switching home sharing off and then on again, clearing out all my old passwords in Keychain... nothing. Any suggestions welcome.

    HALLELULAH!
    Well thanks to everyone that tried to help with this. I can't believe it has taken me two whole weekends to sort this out. And yes I did go to my local Apple store but they said that everything I had already done was what they would have suggested - they were interested to know as well.
    Pretty sure this is not any fault with iTunes. What I had to do, finally, was completely wipe the HD of my MacBook, clean install the original software, register it, update it, reinstall all the other software I needm register and update it, reset iSynch, Mobile Me etc. etc. Finally, after everything else was done (about 12 hours work), I imported all my music and playlists into iTunes, fired it up - and the Home Sharing worked straight away first time!!!!!
    Peculiar thing is that in iTunes > Preferences > Sharing at the bottom of the window, it still says "Status: no users connected" on both computers". Even though the Home Sharing is on and running and the shared libraries are all visible and working. Unless that's something to do with password settings, I don't know (I don't use any password setting on iTunes sharing as it just "I, me and myself"). But I don't care, IT WORKS!!!
    Along the way I also reset my router a couple of times, but I think the route of the problem (no pun intended) was not that. What I would definitely very strongly recommend to anyone is, whatever you do, don't use Migration Manager to copy all of the stuff on your desktop computer onto your laptop (which is what I did a week ago after installing a new drive and more ram so I can run Logic Studion on the MacBook). Doing that caused the most incredible problems, of which Home Sharing turned out to be the least. All kinds of weird stuff was going on and the MacBook became increasingly degraded in performance, the network was going nuts, until I was forced to take the drastic steps above. The solution was to start again (NOT with Migration Manager) installing everything from DVD or manually dragging it across item by item, registering and updating... hence the ludicrous amount of tme I have just spent on this.
    It's great when it works

  • Home Sharing does not work anymore

    I have Lion, iTunes 10.4, Apple TV2.
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    The Remote app on both iPhone and iPad won't get connected thru Home Sharing to my iTunes.

    Thanks for the input Jolly, but let me clarify.
    I mean OS X (10.5.8) on my mini, I messed up when I said .4. As well as on the winblows 7 machine. Once ATV and iTunes were updated to the latest and greatest, everything that flawlessly worked immediately prior to the updates stopped working immediately after the updates. And FWIW, only one machine runs iTunes at a time, and 99.9% of the time it is being ran on my Mac.
    Unless Apple changed the ports and protocol it was using on the ATV, the problem does not lie in bonjour, spotlight, the firewall or anything else related to my network or software settings.
    The ATV and all machines were deauthorized, and re-authorized. home sharing was turned off, then back on on all machines. The only thing I can not do is hardwire the ATV to my network. So I have no option but to use the WiFi feature. And even over wireless, I have no problem accessing the iTunes store, NetFlix, You Tube, etc on the ATV after the latest and greatest update(s).
    Only have two things left to try. Use a static IP, and/or reset the ATV.
    And the link you posted, I used the information in there to make iTunes work when I initially set up the winblows box. So how is following those instructions again when all the steps have been already completed, and again verified after it all stopped working going to help? Same goes with the link to troubleshooting the my Mac.
    Again, everything has been verified, tested and tried again and again.

  • Music home sharing does not work for my ipad1 since my last itunes update.

    This used to work, but since I updated itunes on my computer a few months ago, I cannot see the shared library on  my ipad. My ipad runs iOS5, and my computer has itunes11. I have tried all the tips in the support section. Tonight I saw the shared library under MORE while e ipad was linked to the computer via USB. As soon as I disconnected the cable, I lost the shared library.
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    Hi Wink65,
    If your iPad is not able to see the Home Sharing music, I would recommend trying some steps in this article:
    Troubleshooting Home Sharing
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
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