Home Sharing could not be activated because an error occurred (5599).

Every time I attempt to set up home sharing on my iMac to my AppleTV, I receive the following error message: "Home Sharing could not be activated because an error occurred (5599)."


I have logged out of iTunes and logged back in, as one user suggested.


I have restarted iTunes.


I have restarted the computer.


The error message remains regardless of what I do.


Please advise.

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 14, 2017 4:16 PM

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Posted on Oct 9, 2017 6:15 PM

Hello Crimson, I had this same exact issue too and just so happened to figure it out on my own. All I did was go under Account and then chose the option for Authorizations then selected Authorize This Computer I noticed next to authorizations it said 0 so I went ahead and authorized the computer and now it works! Hope this works for you as well. Let me know!




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Oct 9, 2017 6:15 PM in response to Crimsonshade

Hello Crimson, I had this same exact issue too and just so happened to figure it out on my own. All I did was go under Account and then chose the option for Authorizations then selected Authorize This Computer I noticed next to authorizations it said 0 so I went ahead and authorized the computer and now it works! Hope this works for you as well. Let me know!




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