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Home sharing not working in iOS 6

Using ipad 3. I've tried everything including rebooting and resetting my settings and Apple ID. Cannot get it to work, it recognizes that a home shared library is available but will not download it, get "cannot turn on home sharing" in music and just stalls with a 2/3 shadowed circle in videos. Yet, all works fine on the iPhone 4's, iPad 2 and iPad 1 on same wifi network.

I've had no problem to my knowledge with wifi.

There are a few other issues too, but I'm hoping Apple will have a quick solution for all???

iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 19, 2012 7:30 PM

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dkarl_be

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Nov 5, 2013 9:21 AM in response to scopeguy45

Ok, so I have been fighting with this for ages already

Then I checked a bit the network itself (wireshark on port 5353)

What I discovered is that sometimes I wasn't receiving responses to my requests. Seems that the reason is the DHCP on Wifi.

My solution has been :

- Keep using DHCP

- Use static DHCP addresses for my iPhone and iPad (so I always get the same address)

Even if I had lease for 1 day, I was apparently changing IPs from time to time. Since I did this, my HomeSharing is working (well, almost, still don't have playcount updated)

Hope this might help some of you

Nov 6, 2013 3:53 PM in response to scopeguy45

So what has worked for me, is to (from iTunes) turn home sharing off and back on again. However, I've only been able to successfully access my shared music library, so far videos come back with an error. So at least its something.

I've been experiementing with signing in and out within my ipad settings, and I think this is not the source of the problem, or at least not the solution. The only solution I've found that works is to turn sharing off and back on within iTunes.

However in the time it took to right this my video library is currently working.... so I'll report back on reliability when I know a bit more.

baby steps I guess...... it "just works" my bollucks....

Home sharing not working in iOS 6