iTunes 10.5.1 Home Sharing not working (Windows 7 64 Bit)

Not working for me either. Window 7 64-bit. Everything Apple is allowed through public and private Windows Firewall. I noticed that if I start the Bonjour service from the command line, then I start iTunes, it writes the following messages:

C:\Program Files\Bonjour>mDNSResponder.exe -server

Running service directly

ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 1ERROR: handle_resolve_request

bad interfaceIndex 2ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 3ERROR: han

dle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 4ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interf

aceIndex 5ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 6ERROR: handle_resolv

e_request bad interfaceIndex 7ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 8

ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 9ERROR: handle_resolve_request

bad interfaceIndex 11ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 12ERROR: h

andle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 13ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad int

erfaceIndex 14ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 15ERROR: handle_r

esolve_request bad interfaceIndex 16ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceI

ndex 19ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 20ERROR: handle_resolve_

request bad interfaceIndex 22ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 23

ERROR: handle_resolve_request bad interfaceIndex 24ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP -

recv: 10053

568: ERROR: read_msg errno 10053 (An established connection was aborted by the s

oftware in your host machine.)ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - recv: 10053

568: ERROR: read_msg errno 10053 (An established connection was aborted by the s

oftware in your host machine.)ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - recv: 10053

568: ERROR: read_msg errno 10053 (An established connection was aborted by the s

oftware in your host machine.)ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - recv: 10053

568: ERROR: read_msg errno 10053 (An established connection was aborted by the s

oftware in your host machine.)ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - recv: 10053

568: ERROR: read_msg errno 10053 (An established connection was aborted by the s

oftware in your host machine.)ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - recv: 10053

568: ERROR: read_msg errno 10053 (An established connection was aborted by the s

oftware in your host machine.)ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - recv: 10053

568: ERROR: read_msg errno 10053 (An established connection was aborted by the s

oftware in your host machine.)ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - recv: 10053

568: ERROR: read_msg errno 10053 (An established connection was aborted by the s

oftware in your host machine.)

I am having the same problem. I've checked the firewall settings. I've uninstalled and reinstalled itunes, bonjour, quicktime, etc. I've reset my router. Still my iPhone and iPad communicate intermittently with my AppleTV. Syncing over wifi works occassionally. But my iTunes rarely recognizes my Apple TV and Home Sharing is only functioning on rare occassions. I get the same error when I open the Windows Log under Component Services. ERROR: mDNSPlatformReadTCP - recv: 10053

Something is not right and none of the solutions are working.

I followed the instructions in this post:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3494072

Even though my "Allowed Programs" already had iTunes listed, I added it again and my AppleTV has been able to play from my PC for the last 24 hours. I still can't push content from the PC to the aTV, I can only pull, but that's a decent work around until Apple solves the real issue.

I was having problems with the Home Sharing dropping out and a good friend suggested I look at the power saving settings. I have Windows 7 and a Netgear router on a HP PC operating with a dual Core i7 processor. I set all of the power saving settings to max (no power saving) and the Apple TV2 has been operating well all day with no drop outs. I have been able to listen to my entire music library, about 2 days worth of music, and look at one of my larger photo files, about 10,000 photos, with no problem. I figured that the router was not the problem as I was able to look at Netflix, NHL TV, etc. with no problem even while having the problems with the Home Sharing. It is amazing that Apple hasn't figured this out.

Reset modem/router solved for me.

Bye

I can confirm that I had the same problem with not seeing any Home Sharing files for any of the devices connect to iTunes using my wireless network. I needed to switch my WPA2 configuration to use TKIP+AES. Once I did that all of my devices were able to connect to Home Sharing. I hope this helps.

********Home Share not working - Possible Fix *******

I had this same problem. Worked with Apple Support for a week to no avail. We played with routers, we reloaded ITunes, we set pc ports, etc, etc, etc.

Then someone on this site said that he used a sniffer and saw that ITunes wireless Sync uses the same ports as Home Share and that wireless sync would lock up the ports and not give Home Share Access. He suggested turning off wireless sync on iTunes and the devices that connect to it, and "Bam" Home Share started working.

After weeks of not working, I turned off wireless sync and I've been using Home Share with Apple TV ever since.

Apple's got a problem that they refuse to admit and are ignoring tons of users with this problem. I hope this works for folks.

You wrote

"After weeks of not working, I turned off wireless sync and I've been using Home Share with Apple TV ever since."

Where do you go to turn off wireless sync?

Had the same issue. Lost lotsa good stuff, GRRRR... Had to completely uninstall ALL Apple programs in the control panel and re-install earlier version. If the earlier version works and the update does not, it is CLEARLY Apple's issue. (We miss you Steve Jobs.)

Connect the iOS device to the computer via USB cable

Open iTunes and click on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch from the left side of the window

Click on the “Summary” tab in iTunes

Scroll down and click the checkbox next to “Sync with this iPhone over Wi-Fi” (or iPad or iPod touch)" and uncheck.

Thanks, this is obviously a bug in iTunes, after trying everything else, I tried this and like you said (disalbed wireless sync on all of my devices) and bam, it worked! 🙂

Turning off iCloud worked for me

Solution did not work for me, trying to share my MacBook Pro's iTunes library (OS X 10.6.8, iTunes 10.5.2) over my work network with my Dell Optiplex 760 (Windows 7, 32 bit, iTunes 10.5.2.11). The Dell is connected via Gigabit Ethernet; the MacBook Pro by both ethernet and wifi. Home sharing had worked flawlessly for months prior to updating iTunes on both machines earlier this week; now, nothing.

(the solution that didn't work for me was turning Apple Mobile Device services off and back on under Windows 7's Services control panel.)

I think it is important to note that there could be more than one issue here...

I mentioned earlier that I had the intermittent problems with Home Sharing dropping out while viewing content from my Windows 7 PC on my ATV2. The only resolution is to close iTunes and restart it, at which time Home Sharing reappears on the ATV2. Yet I seem to be able to Sync wirelessly and I can stream content from my iTunes via Airplay to my Apple TV or my Airport Express with no really issues or interuptions. I have checked the power settings on my PC and the NIC and PC in general is not using any power saving modes.

This is not the same as: "I can never connect to Home Sharing" or "My IOS device cannot sync Wirelessly", which I will concede could very well be a port/firewall setting as it is constent.

Just an observation and clarification.

I will be trying the possible workaround to turn off the Wireless Sync on our iPod Touch units in order to see if it is just a conflict between the two functions (Home Sharing & WIreless Sync). This could be a viable temporary solution as the isse really began with the introduction of the wireless sync feature.