Hi All,
I'm trying to share the Music Library on one PC to be accessible from another PC using iTunes on a home network. I have 2 kids with ipods and they always want to be on the same PC.
The home network is working fine. I can see all of the PC's (WinXP Pro) and a Linux box and can access all of their shared folders. There are 3 user accounts set up with the same name/password. I've shared the My Music folders on the PC with the library and set the permissions for Everyone to Full Control.
Now when I go to the the other PC without the Library I can browse to the My Music folder, drill down to the iTunes folder and see everything just fine. I've run iTunes on that PC and gone to Edit > Preferences > Advanced tab and changed the Music Folder Location to the shared folder. Yet when I close the preferences, I see nothing listed, even after restarting iTunes.
I've also tried mapping a drive on that PC for the remote library to make it look like a "local resource" to no avail.
Has anyone been able to get this arrangement to work?? I'd rather not have 2 copies of the library on the 2 PC's since keeping them in sync becomes an issue, not to mention the extra disk space used.
Cheers,
Gary
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