How to enable Home Sharing on Mac and iOS devices

Now someone please write a guide as to how we can get this working over VPN :)

1. MrKovo Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
April 3rd, 2011 at 7:05 pm
PairShare is another great iTunes app that lets you share music between your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

SHARE YOUR MUSIC WITHOUT SHARING YOUR HEADSET….www.PairShare.com

PairShare, the first vicinity based social networking application ever released by iTunes that allows live music sharing between two iOS Devices.

PairShare allows users to select music on their iOS device and stream it live with a nearby friend’s iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch using Bluetooth.

How it works
Create a music “Sharelist” and stream it to a friends iPhone, iPad or iPodTouch. Search for nearby users and request to hear their music or have them listen to yours. View the album art of the music being played. With a swipe of your finger, switch back and forth between listening to your music or theirs. Bluetooth allows for up to 300’ of distance between the devices that are conducting a wireless share session.

Whether it be hiking, biking, at the gym or at the library, PairShare is a great way to enjoy listening to the same music with a friend.

PAIRSHARE FEATURES
- Share your music or listen to your friend’s music wirelessly
- Connect over Bluetooth
- Select a music ShareList for you and your friend to hear
- Auto-play once connected
- View friend’s album art, song title, album and artist
- Auto-scan to connect with nearby friends
- Coming soon: chat, intercom, share shuffle and more.

Now the main question is, how to get this working over VPN, so I can use home sharing anywhere over the internet.. Would be awesome!!

So, my iPhone can find both my iTunes libraries, but just one at a time.
Shouldn't it show both so I can chose which one?
Now I either have to get lucky it finds the right one, or just close iTunes on the wrong computer.

Yeah, I've never been able to get this to work. My iOS devices refuse to see my iTunes library on my PC. The MacBook can see it, and the iPhone can see the MacBook, but that's it. Not particularly useful.

Both AirPlay and home sharing work fantastically for me, but only when all devices are using the same wireless network, which is a problem as i cover my house using two different ones. Pretty sure it's a NAT issue. The networks are connected by wire, and have a single dhcp server.

Tried everything under the sun, no work, all but given up hope; really holding me up from getting ATV. I did everything I could, my library shows up on my iPad, but for some reason, it just. will. not. connect. If Apple could write a routine workaround to maybe run in Terminal to clear a way through all of your other connections, it would be great. If anyone knows of one out there, it would save a ton of our collective headaches...

Surely the important thing is to not click the "done" button when setting up home sharing on iTunes. The done button acts as a turn off or done with home sharing button.
It really needs removing or renaming.

I've tried many times and I have a goofy issue.

I enable home sharing on my desktop and laptop using my only iTunes login. The home sharing icon appears in the nav pane for a second and then disappears. That's all that happens, so basically it's just not working.

@ADT2 - Does your router have two different IP scopes (one for your Wired clients and another for your Wireless clients)? I originally had my Apple TV connected to a wireless network that had one IP scope (10.0.1.x) while my wired clients were on another scope (10.0.2.x). I was unable to get Home Sharing to work. I had to make sure all machines were within the same scope for it to work.