Home sharing woes - claims "machine is not a member of..."

Is the machine you're trying to copy to authorized for the iTunes store account on the first machine?

I'm having this exact same issue. Trying to get some stuff copied over from my mbp to the new air.

In my case, yes, it's the same itunes account and the air is authorized. I'm able to play songs from the mbp on the air but can't get it to import.

I checked and the little home sharing icon shows up on the mbp for the air too.

what you want to see in iTunes is this (view from my MBP's iTunes seeing the library on my Mini)



if you then click on the house icon, it will change to this and the shared library will load. at that point, two buttons will appear in the lower right corner of the iTunes window, being settings and import



now you should be able to import any content from any shared library by selecting the content and clicking on import.

if the icon looks like this , home sharing has not been set up correctly.

in order for home sharing to work

(a) iTunes on all machines must be authorized for the same iTunes store account
(b) all machines must be on the same network
(c) all machines must have access to the internet.

if none of the above makes a difference, try turning home sharing off on all computers, then turning it back on. another thing to try is to *de-authorize iTunes* on all Macs, then re-authorize it for the same iTunes store account.

these reads will be useful: one and two.

J GG

Hey guys, having the same issue with my iMac and new Macbook Pro. Both are authorized under my iTunes account. Still no luck. The house emblem isn't showing up which according to the previous post is not good. Not sure how to undo it, let alone get home sharing to work. It used to work on my iMac (aluminum) and my PowerBook G4...

Brent, your issue seems different from mine and the OP's. We see the house icon, it connects, and we see the import button. Our trouble arises when we click the "import" button, not before.

I have the exact same issue with a new Air as well. I spent a long time on the phone with Apple and completed every imaginable debugging step (including an OSX reinstall) but the error persists.

My primary machine is an iMac. It's happy using home sharing with my Apple TV and other macs in the house, but with the new MacBook Air I get the same issue trying to transfer files in either direction. Playing music via home sharing works fine, but not copying files.

That's interesting. I'll have to try it out with another mac and my MBP.. i've never tried homesharing before, I'll report back. (It won't be until this weekend though)

Hey guys, here's an update:

I was just on the phone with Apple Care for almost 2 hours, went through some troubleshooting, and made a little progress. He had me delete the com.apple.itunesxxxxx files from the preferences folders on both my iMac and MacBook Pro. This then allowed me to turn on Home Sharing on both machines and see the "house" symbol on the left pane in iTunes. However, once I tried to transfer a file it would give me the same error message: "The selected files could not be copied from "" because this machine is not a member of the Home Share for the account "xxxxx@xxxx.com"."

We also tried installing iTunes 9 and had the same problem. So he concluded that it is not an iTunes version issue, but possibly something with my MacBook Pro itself. He said to give it 24 hours and then contact him again if the issue isn't resolved.

I'll keep you all updated.

I am having the same problem. I can stream music from my iMac to my MacBook but can't add any of the music. I have the musical not symbol on both shared libraries, though I did for a moment have the "house". I have tried to connect both computers to the router and via wifi and nothing seems to work. Hope someone can help.

That's where I started, try deleting any com.apple.itunes files in your preferences folder (home folder>library>preferences>...) That should at least give you the "house" icons on both computers when home sharing is turned on.

I am still unable to transfer files through Home Share for now.

Brent: Once you click import and it fails, does the remote library instantly disappear, and then if you restart iTunes, the remote mac doesn't show the local mac as a home share?

(remote mac being the one you were transferring from)

If so, we seem to have the exact same issue.

I too am having this same problem.

Removing the files as suggest allowed me to successfully connect to Home Sharing but then when I tried to sync, I get the same error and when I restart iTunes the connection is gone...

Same issue here. I have a new Macbook Air and an iMac. Both are authorized with the same account, both setup for Home Sharing with the same account. I can play songs on the Macbook Air without problems, but as soon as I try to import, the Home Share disappears and gives the message about not being a member of the Home Share. I can then turn on Home Sharing under the Advanced menu item and the Home Share appears again along with playing functionality.

Cameron,
Yes exactly. We have the same issue. Calling apple in a few.

Just to give everybody a little hope, I finished every conceivable troubleshooting step with a senior apple care advisor. He sent all the data to Engineering and promised an answer within a week.

Also, they are watching this thread, so be as specific as you can be with details about the problem and your system configuration.

--Kirk