Home sharing not working on Apple TV

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Home sharing not working on Apple TV

I have recently bought 3rd generation apple tv and having problems with home sharing. I can stream music from my laptop ( Dell, Windows XP, latest iTunes) to my Apple TV ( latest update 5.1) on it. Works without any problems, but when I try to connect to the laptop's library its stuck on the connecting to library for a long time and then errors out.

I have noticed when the home sharing is ON on the laptop, it does try to make a connection to the laptop. if the home sharing is OFF, it striaghtway errors out saying the library needs to be shared.

My first guess is if tehre are any kind of ports to be opened on the wifi router ( which seems to be open) or on the laptop. I have tried to disable Windows Firewall on the laptop but it has not helped at all.

Apart from this, I can use the apple TV in the way I want, I stream music from my iPhone, laptop and it works beautiful except to the home sharing for laptop.

Please sugest how this can be fixed. Appreciate it.

Thank you

Posted on Feb 7, 2013 10:52 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 8, 2013 10:03 AM in response to prabhathandoo

Is iTunes actuall on and running? Does iTunes have any alert windows up that need to be adknowleged? Did this work before, and just stopped working? What version of iTunes are you using? Has the home sharing id created in iTunes been entered in to ATV?

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Answer 2

Feb 10, 2013 9:23 PM in response to Brian Cook4

Yes, itunes is up and running when I try this. If the iTunes is not running, then on the APPLE TV, I get error saying the library is not shared. And when the iTUnes is open, the connection starts to happen and then times out. That makes me think that the request reaches gto the iTunes.

NEver worked, trying this for the first time. Using the same apple ID on both the devices. I have an iPhone too that also cant connect to the shared library. iTunes version is latest.

Thanks.

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