Owners of Apple's new MacBook Pros report problems with iTunes Home sharing-Appleinsider

Owners of Apple's new MacBook Pros report problems with iTunes Home SharingBy Appleinsider Staff

Many owners of Apple's MacBook Pros report early 2011 not able to connect devices or maintain connections via iTunes Home sharing.

A support thread in Apple's discussion forums has more than 200 messages received from owners of Apple's latest MacBook Pros reporting issues with iTunes Home sharing. Several readers have also contacted Apple Insider on the issue.

"This is turning out to be a bigger problem than I thought that with many people stop their new MBP 2011 due to this conflict. Apple has yet to find a fix but it has been widely documented by phone through AppleCare and through many Apple retail stores, "wrote one reader.

According to forum user ' themacbear ', the new MacBook Pro was able to stream to a second generation Apple TV at first, but then the Apple TV reported no connect or would the error message "there are no films in this library."

Apple released the updated MacBook Pro lineup with Sandy Bridge processors and fast Thunderbolt i/o technology in late February.

In March released Apple iOS 4.3 new features for Home sharing. The Mac maker also issued iTunes 10.2 and 10.2.1 then iTunes compatibility with iOS 4.3 and Home sharing Add. In spite of the updates continue to be a number of users report not able to connect with iOS devices on their early 2011 MacBook Pros connections.

Recent improvements in the function to extend Home sharing iTunes library sharing just between Macs, PCs and Apple TVs to mobile devices such as iPods, iPhones and iPads. When working properly, State Home Sharing in iOS 4.3 an unlimited number of iOS devices access to content via Wi-Fi.

Already early 2011 MacBook Pros seem to have the most trouble with Home sharing, owners of older machines also reported problems with the function in a support thread for Home Sharing in iOS 4.3 that 60 messages has achieved.

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