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Home Sharing frequent connection loss

by falaamericano Jun 8, 2010 9:21PM PDT

Since iTunes 9 came out the improved Home Sharing features has been quite useful to me, but today when I re-formatted my computer I ran into some problems. Both computers are using Windows XP, one is connected via Ethernet and the other one--which I reformatted, let's call it Computer B--connects to the router wirelessly.

I have activated each computer for Home Sharing properly but from Computer B, I can't access Computer A's library. On Computer A, I can access Computer B's shared library and listen to music as normal, at least for a moment - after being connected to the library for a period of about two minutes, it will suddenly disconnect itself and the icon will disappear so I am unable to reconnect.

It's something to do with Computer B since everything worked flawlessly before. It's strange how I can connect to the library perfectly and just out of nowhere it will disconnect. Other people on the Net have had this problem but the question has gone unanswered, hopefully someone here has some ideas?

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Just a comment.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jun 17, 2010 12:35AM PDT

Let's say you wanted to discuss this computer. I may be blind here but I couldn't find any make or model. The fact it worked before only means that maybe your fresh install differs in some way from when it worked. A driver for example or a change in security.
Bob

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