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Play iTunes from anywhere via SMB
Authored by: mr.quinn on Jun 18, '07 02:21:14AM

This is an interesting hint, but I am having a few problems with it.

I set up an SMB share on one Mac, using SharePoints, it shares the ~/Music/iTunes folder as ITUNES.

On another mac, I renamed ~/Music/iTunes to ~/Music/local-iTunes then mounted the share : smb://username@machine.local/itunes

I then made a Sym Link :

ln -s /Volumes/itunes ~/Music/iTunes

Launched iTunes.app and everything behaved as expected.

The problem is that now the ITUNES volume will not dis-mount after I quit iTunes.

The icon remains in the Finder, clicking the eject button does nothing. The entry for the volume is still in /Volumes.
I put the server to sleep, the client mac came up with the disconnected warning, but the Finder etc. still has the volume there.

Any ideas ?



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