04-16-2010, 12:26 PM
olnacl wrote:
The kicker will come when I try accessing iTunes from one of the other computers - and we know I will have to try it to satisfy my curiosity.
I did something like that for a long time, sharing a single iTunes library for two users on the same Mac. Apart from pointing each user's iTunes prefs to where the library was (on an external drive) the key to making it work seamlessly was enabling ACLs on the drive where the library was located, and modifying permissions on the drive such that anything modified by any user could be seen and further modified by the other. Back in the Tiger days I did it in Terminal and later, Sandbox. (Normally, if one user adds a song and then the other user goes into iTunes later, they won't see it, for example.)
The setup worked well for the most part, but in the end maintaining one normal user/iTunes relationship is easier now, since we no longer have 2 users on the same Mac sharing iTunes. Dedicating a second Mac is what we do now, but if we still only had just one Mac I'd still be doing the above.