ttcheng@rci

Q: Unable to Turn On Home Sharing

I'm hosting a LAN party. For fun, we decided to all jump on my HomeShare to view my movies. There are six of us each with our own iPads each with our own iCloud accounts. We're all on the WLAN just fine surfing and gaming. To use Home Share, I had everyone goto Settings->Video and log into my Home Share server with my account authorization.

 

I am unable to get the sixth iPad to connect using Home Share to the iTunes on my MacMini. The sixth iPad always say "Unable to Turn On Home Sharing." It seems the first five iPads to connect works ... the sixth never connects. If I restart my iTunes, then it's a free-for-all who grabs the first 5 logins.

 

I could not find a limit on the 5 clients to Home Share online. I did not violate my 10 devices (5 computers) limit for iTunes: I checked accounts in iTunes and only saw my one computer, an iPad and an iPhone. Is there a Home Share restriction that I have stumbled upon? A setting I missed? Or, did I do something wrong?

OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Jun 22, 2016 6:58 PM