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Q: Wireless Apple TV to wired Windows workstation

Greetings,

 

I have an Apple TV 3 that is connected to my wireless network that is provided by my Airport Express.  Everything works great when streaming from the Internet.  What I am having an issue with is connecting via Home Sharing to my wired Windows 7 workstation.  I have followed all of the troubleshooting steps, but it still cannot seem to see the library.  To make things more interesting, when I connect my Windows 8 laptop (different machine) via wireless to my network and turn on iTunes Home Sharing, the Apple TV can see the Win 8 library AND the Win 7 library.

 

I am using an Apple TV 3 connected wirelessly to an Airport Express.  The Windows 7 workstation is connected via Ethernet to a desktop switch.  The desktop switch is connected via Ethernet to my Comcast SMC cable modem/router (I firmly believe this device is the issue).  The Airport Express is connected via Ethernet to the same SMC cable modem/router.

 

I have tried turning off all firewalls.  I can connect to the Airport Express from the Windows 7 workstation via the Airport Utility, but only by manually entering the IP address, it cannot seem to scan the network and find it.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to pinpoint the issue; and/or, fix the SMC device to get it out of the way?

 

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Thank you in advance.  I appreciate your time.

 

Keith

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Posted on Aug 4, 2014 7:32 AM

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