no "shared" icon on my phone

Make sure you've selected "Advanced -> Enable Home Sharing" in iTunes. It's not enough to just enable Sharing in Preferences.

Have you gone into the Settings > iPod on the phone and entered your Apple ID (as used in your iTunes)?

on the iPhone 3Gs and iPhone 4 after you get the home sharing setup on you phone and in itunes on your computer, you have to go to the iPod app on you phone then tap on more then you should see shared on you iPhone

Same problem. Did everything everyone suggested.

Same problem here on both my iPad and iPhone. I have home sharing enabled on a Mac Mini and a MacPro (both upgraded to latest iTunes). I have no problem sharing between the Macs. I have entered my username and password on both iOS devices, rebooted both, turned home sharing on/off on the Macs, but still I can't see 'shared' under the more tab, nor can I see my shared library in the side panel on my iPad.

(Ah well, I have GarageBand to play with for now!) Lets hope for a prompt bug update from Apple as this seems to be a fairly frequent problem.

I had the exact same problem. Erasing the password under "Settings>iPod" and then re-entering it fixed it for me. I previously had set up home sharing on my iPad, but never on my phone. Not sure where iTunes got that username and password in the first place.

erikfsn wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I had already done all but enabling sharing under "advanced." Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem.

Any other ideas?

After enabling it in iTunes under "Advanced" and enabling it on your iPod under Settings > iPod, you should reboot your computer and the mobile device and it should work.

iMac
sharing is enabled in iTunes (latest)

iPhone
username and password in 'settings/iPod'

restarted both devices, still no shared icon under "more"

Hmmm

Screengrab of iMac itunes showing (centre) home sharing enabled
also
iPhone with home sharing details added

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5138/55196408140e1266a8ccb.jpg

tried rebooting both - still no shared libraries option (right)...

the right screen says "Status: On, no users connected" - so this suggests the iphone isn't talking to the iMac.
Tried reentering the username and password, but still nowt, Any ideas?

Turned home sharing on the iMac off, turned it back on again and bingo - shared turned up!

After discovering that one machine which has a wired connection to my router worked, I figured it might be something to do wifi connections. As my last resort, I did a cold restart of my Macmini (which is the machine I really want to access via home sharing) and also of my wifi router. Happily, for whatever reason, this did the trick and I can now access any machine on my network via home sharing from my iPhone and from my iPad.

No, this does not work. No matter what, the "shared" option is not available on my iPhone.
I have even gone to the extent of ensuring that my Mac and my iPhone are on the same subnet. I have restarted my iPhone and Mac numerous times, enabling and disabling home sharing on the Mac has absolutely no effect.

Same problem here, entered my apple id and password in iTunes and on my iPod and dont get any Sharing options in my music or video apps.