Q: Home Sharing - A Story of Struggle

I spent an hour with the support people in Ireland this morning. He was very helpful, took a lot of screen shots and forwarded the case to the Itunes engineering group. As with everyone else should hear in one or two days...

I'm curious if this issue is just now happening to folks for the first time, or has it been an ongoing issue that you're only now noticing? For me, I only noticed it was a problem yesterday.

I have a small addition not sure if it will help, I was monitoring what services were used when I tried to auth for home sharing.. it uses a private framework called AKD which I think is something to do with apple secure tokens, if I log in with the a working apple id it seams to get different response, its almost like its not getting the secure token to auth home sharing, from an apple ID that has previously been used for home sharing.

Which is why it says the apple ID creds are incorrect

Thank you for making it your mission to look into this annoying issue. Ever since I got my Apple TV, just over a year ago, I have found it annoying that Apple TV wouldn't stay connected to my  iTunes library. Every other day I have to turn off/then turn back on home sharing to get my Apple TV to let me access the library. Now I am having the same issue as other users where it tells me my Apple ID/password are incorrect. I have tried many of the same things as other users to no avail. This really *****.

On a side note, the remote app doesn’t accept ANY id working or no working

I am experiencing the same frustration.  After changing my AppleID password and re-installing Sierra I am unable to turn on home sharing on my Mac, AppleTV and mobile devices.  In iTunes on the Mac I get "Home Sharing could not be activated because the Apple ID or password was incorrect."  On my mobile devices I get "Unable to turn on Home Sharing."  I know I entered my AppleID information correctly.  If I enter the password incorrectly I get a totally different error message in red.  I tried de-authorizing my Mac, logging in and out of iTunes, resetting my router and using a different network, but nothing has helped.  I am able to turn on Home Sharing using my wife's AppleID on my mobile devices just fine which would seem to indicate that the devices and network are working just fine.  I anxiously await a solution.

Yes, I have the exact same problem, and think you are absolutely correct about the Home Share object. Mine started after changing mt Apple ID, so what you say is true!

drjamison and gmbmke - Have you guys called Apple Support?  If not I would encourage you too.  No doubt you will get the same result as the rest of us (case passed on to the engineering group), but the more reports that the engineering group get, the more likely they are to prioritise this problem and get it fixed.

Yes I have called support. After some time trying everything everyone else has tried, including screwing more with my router and destroying my Apple ID a couple of times, it was sent to engineering also. They said maybe an answer up by Tuesday for me, but they weren't sounding very hopeful. Hoping you will get the answer first.

Same issue on mine today Kolton. Turned off home sharing then turned it on and keeps asking for passwords even though the password is correct. Was on to T2 for an hour and no luck either. Very frustrating. They tried all the ones you said before and nothing. Good luck finding an answer

I, too, have the same problem. I tried all the suggestions in this thread except disabling two-factor authentication. I did also did reset the iTunes cache.  iTunes > preferences > advanced > reset cache.  However, that did not help either.