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4.3 HomeSharing

I was originally using this on the day the GM was released to developers, I used it for a few hours that day and after that it has not worked. I have tried on different wifi networks and tried removing all the settings for it on both my iPad and MBP and restarting the process and it still does not work. I get the message "Cannot connect to media library". I was really excited for this because now my 16GB iPad is more useful anywhere on campus instead of just in vicinity of my MBP.

I have also tried reinstalling iTunes and the iPad firmware, nothing seems to change. Turned off firewall settings and that did not change anything either.

Anyone else running into this problem?

16MHz Mac LCII, Mac Clones, 1.8Ghz iMac G5, MBP 2.53Ghz Late 2008, iPad 3G, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Mac Developer

Posted on Mar 9, 2011 12:21 PM

68 replies

Mar 12, 2011 5:33 AM in response to canitrustmac

Okay I had the same problem-iphone 4 could not connect to shared library. I restarted my iphone, because it had not been restarted since the 4.3 update, and it now works perfectly. Give it a shot!

Mar 12, 2011 8:44 AM in response to circlhill

Doesn't work on my new iPad 2 either.

Philly_Phan

Level 7

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Mar 12, 2011 8:47 AM in response to maury

maury wrote:
Go to security settings in system preferences and make sure firewall is turned off. That is what fixed my issue!

Actually, you can keep the firewall turned on if you allow for an exception - iTunes.

Philly_Phan

Level 7

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Mar 12, 2011 8:51 AM in response to a Mac user

a Mac user wrote:
Doing that actually made my problem worse.

thebx61

Level 1

4 points

Mar 12, 2011 8:38 PM in response to a Mac user

Any word? I've tried everything from restarts to restores. Totally not the iPad tho bc I am able to connect to a windows machine running xp no problem.

Primary laptop: mb pro 13'" early 2011, i7 (no more than a week old for me). will not allow homeshare with iPad

Secondary: Dell mini xp- easy peasy homeshare set up and go, no issue with iPad and sharing.

Both have iTunes 10.2.1.

iPad is first gen 64 gb.

Philly_Phan

Level 7

20,707 points

Mar 12, 2011 8:57 PM in response to thebx61

thebx61 wrote:
Primary laptop: mb pro 13'" early 2011, i7 (no more than a week old for me). will not allow homeshare with iPad

Is your internal firewall on?

thebx61

Level 1

4 points

Mar 13, 2011 4:24 AM in response to Philly_Phan

Turned on but have turned off, done all soft resets on all devices and still nothing.

Mar 13, 2011 6:47 AM in response to franza83

DeAuthorized all machines from iTunes
Turned off Home Sharing iMac / PC / iPad
Deleted Library files from iMac / PC (exported playlists first!)
Rebooted / Turned off firewall
Re-Authorized all machines
Opened iTunes on iPad
Result:

Bubkiss.

Please, good folks @ Appl...we need a one-shot utility to clear the path to make this work.

jtbnz

Level 1

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Mar 13, 2011 10:03 PM in response to canitrustmac

Same problem for me with and Iphone and an Ipod. running Itunes on Windows 7

Started a virtual XP machine installed itunes, turned on sharing and it worked first time.

went back to the windows 7 itunes and still doesn't work........

Mar 13, 2011 11:37 PM in response to jtbnz

Same problem here. (I'm using Windows 7)

I have the latest iTune 10.2. Home Sharing turned on.

I have the latest iOS 4.3 on my iPad. I entered id and password. I'm sure they are corrent.

When I go to iPad's ipod app, it does not show other Library

When I go to iPad's Video app, on the top there's only Movies, does not show other tabs

On computer's iTunes app under Sharing, it says On, no users connected.

I tried everything I've seen in these posts so far. Restart. Reboot. Turn on apps in iPad and iTunes in different sequence. Tun off firewalls...

What else can I try? Thanks!