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iTunes sharing over 802.11b
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Sep 21, 2003, 08:42 PM
 
I'm having some weird problems with iTunes sharing between my computers. Here's my setup:

G4 Cube 450MHz MacOS X 10.2.6
(wired through a netgear switch connected to an smc barricade router or wireless with an Airport card and the smc barricade 802.11b)
G4 PowerBook 15" 1.25GHz MacOS X 10.2.7
(wired through a netgear switch connected to an smc barricade router or wireless with an Airport Extreme card and the smc barricade 802.11b)
SMC Barricade 7004AWBR 802.11b router

I enabled iTunes sharing on the Cube while it was using the wired network then tried to see the shared music with my PowerBook using its wireless connection. For some reason the PowerBook couldn't see the Cube. I switched to wired networking and suddenly it showed up. I switched the PowerBook back to wireless networking and the server disappeared again. I switched the Cube to wireless and suddenly it showed up again.

So, wired and wired works and wireless and wireless works but not wired and wireless.

Any ideas?
     
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Nov 14, 2003, 12:09 AM
 
I upgraded the PowerBook to 10.3 and still had the problem. I upgraded the Cube to 10.3 this week and the problem went away. I can now access my Cube's shared iTunes library from my PowerBook wirelessly.
     
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Dec 2, 2003, 01:35 AM
 
It is very strange that I'm having the same problem, but instead my server is running Windows XP.

Setup:
Same wireless router (SMC 7004AWBR),
iBook running OS X 10.2.8 w/ Airport card.
WinXP box with latest patches, wired.
Win2000 laptop with latest patches, wireless.

Every permutation works, except the iBook (wireless) can't see the WinXP box iTunes shares, although the WinXP box can see the iBook's shares.

Moving the iBook to wired makes the WinXP iTunes share appear.

win2000 can see winXP, and vice versa.
win2000 can see iBook, and vice versa.

Your fix (to upgrade the server to OS X 10.3) won't work for my XP box obviously.

Any insight into the root cause?
     
   
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