# I-Tunes Home Sharing, what am I doing wrong?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tunes-home-sharing-what-am-i-doing-wrong/514023>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 16, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tunes-home-sharing-what-am-i-doing-wrong/514023 "2009-10-16T14:03:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tunes-home-sharing-what-am-i-doing-wrong/514023/1 "2009-10-16T14:03:40Z")

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Or alternately: is there a better way to do this without an I-Pod, of which mine is currently dead, having gone through an entire permanent press cycle in the pocket of my jeans.

But I digress.

I have a new spiffy laptop from work, which also functions as my personal device. I have about 14 Gigs of music that I want to transfer. Apples’s Home Sharing looks like just the ticket. But, I have both on here, I’m signed into the same account on both, all the Preferences are set right, yet both tell me there’s no other users connected.

I COULD, if I felt like wasting a lot of time, do what they also suggest, which is to burn 18 kajillion CD’s and transfer. Or, can I use a thumb drive with more capacity to do it in fewer steps.

Or should I just go buy the Nano I’ve been coveting and use that?

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**Author:** ![pan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@pan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pan1)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tunes-home-sharing-what-am-i-doing-wrong/514023/2 "2009-10-16T14:07:42Z")

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Are both computers in the same Workgroup on your home network.

Is file sharing turned on?

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**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tunes-home-sharing-what-am-i-doing-wrong/514023/3 "2009-10-16T14:10:08Z")

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Oh. No they’re not - at home, or at work (where I am trying this from now)

Re-reading their instructions, this seems to be a key point.