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I have an HP Pavilion desktop connected to my wireless router with an Ethernet cable. My AppleTV is connected wirelessly to the 5GHz band on my simultaneous dual-band wireless-N router. How do I share photos and music from the HP desktop to the AppleTV using Home Sharing?
Apple TV, Windows 7
it makes no difference how all the device are connected to your network, so WIFI or ethernet is irrelevant as long as each device is connected.
you need to enable home sharing on both itunes and the appletv (using the same apple id).
Homesharing works over both wifi. And wired networks and indeed mixed networks.
To enable homesharing in iTunes turn it on from the advanced menu, to enable homesharing on the Apple TV turn it on from settings > computers. That will allow you to share all the content of iTunes.
To share photos select the photos you want to share from the iTunes advanced menu.
I've tried all these things without success.
To clarify, the AppleTV connects wirelessly to the network name of the 5GHz band on my wireless router. The desktop, with all my photo and music content, connects with a wired connection to the router. I cannot see my iTunes library on the AppleTV, even though iTunes and the AppleTV are both set for Home Sharing ON using the same AppleID name.
I am able to stream content between computer and AppleTV with a wireless connection, but I don't want to have to switch from the wired to wireless adapters on my HP desktop everytime I want to stream content.
Are your wifi and Ethernet creating different subnets, you should have all your devices on the same subnet. ie all your addresses should be a.b.c.d where a,b and c all use the same numbers.
Each is working on 255.255.255.0
255.255.255.0 is a "subnet mask" All of your computers and AppleTV should have addresses like 10.0.1.2 10.0.1.3 10.10.1.4 etc. thats is they should all start with 10.0.1 ( or 10.1.1 or 192.168.0 depending on your router setup)
Do you mean the IP addresses? Yes - they share the first 192.168.1 prefix and the last numbers are only 8 digits apart...
Was this ever solved? I have exactly the same problem and have never found a solution.
I have a similar problem.
I have 2 computers (and other ethernet addressable devices (printer etc) upstairs connected into a gigabit switch (d-link DG-2205) - computer A is an old 2002 G4 without wifi, computer B is a 2010 Mac mini wired into the switch. Downstairs, I have Computer C - a 2012 Mac mini connected to the fios router via wifi and there is a 1080p Apple TV connected via wifi.
Computer A (Wired switch Connection) can only see computer B's (Wired switch Connection) music library.
Computer B (Wired switch Connection) can see both computer A's and computer C's (Wireless router connection) Music library.
Computer C (Wireless router connection)) can see computer B's (Wired switch Connection) music library.
Apple TV can see computer B and C.
The problem is that computer A Is the music computer That I want to stream throughout.
If computer A and B can see each other, and computer C and AppleTV can see computer B, then why can't everyone see computer A ?
Any response appreciated.
mikefilmguy wrote:
I have a similar problem.
I have 2 computers (and other ethernet addressable devices (printer etc) upstairs connected into a gigabit switch (d-link DG-2205) - computer A is an old 2002 G4 without wifi, computer B is a 2010 Mac mini wired into the switch. Downstairs, I have Computer C - a 2012 Mac mini connected to the fios router via wifi and there is a 1080p Apple TV connected via wifi.
Computer A (Wired switch Connection) can only see computer B's (Wired switch Connection) music library.
Computer B (Wired switch Connection) can see both computer A's and computer C's (Wireless router connection) Music library.
Computer C (Wireless router connection)) can see computer B's (Wired switch Connection) music library.
Apple TV can see computer B and C.
The problem is that computer A Is the music computer That I want to stream throughout.
If computer A and B can see each other, and computer C and AppleTV can see computer B, then why can't everyone see computer A ?
Any response appreciated.
What version of iTunes is the Computer A running - it may not support Home Sharing.
Thanks for your response. Computer a is running iTunes Version 9.2.1
It is the oldest computer, so I can see where you're going With that, but It definitely supports home sharing, because computer B can see it.
There's the old Sharing technology and also the newer Home Sharing.
Check you definitely have Home Sharing enabled and that Computer B is not simply seeing the Shared library.
Always worth restarting all devices/routers etc when troubleshooting this kind of thing.
Good luck.
can i use home sharing while mixing wired and wireless connections?
