Sun 04 August 2013 | -- (permalink)

I finally got iTunes Home sharing working after WAY too many hours. I love apple but the one thing that drives me crazy is the "silent failure" where since "every thing just works" when it doesn't, there are no tools for debugging. In case this helps anyone here are some resources if you are having trouble. Obviously you should try the troubleshooting guide at apple first: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972

But if that hasn't worked get: http://hobbyistsoftware.com/bonjourbrowser which is available for windows and iPhone. This was what allowed me to prove to myself that the problem was at the router and not in windows somewhere.

After installing on windows I could see that the service was available at the computer, so I installed it to my iPad and ... no iTunes sharing.

So googling for "bonjour router actiontec" brought me to this page: http://yabfog.com/blog/2012/09/14/making-fios-actiontec-router-and-apple-bonjour-services-play-together Which had the exact problem and the solution of disabling the IGMP proxy. I don't know what an IGMP is or why it needs a proxy so I guess we can disable that, right :)

Thanks Yabfog!!