Sharing Music and CoverFlow

I have two machines on the same network and can share my library between them fine using Itunes built in music sharing. However, the second machine is unable to see the cover art. I spent a lot of time importing all of the cover art and would really like it avaiable on all my machines. Is there anyway to do this?
Thanks

That's not enough; the OP will run in to file and folder permissions issues. When one user adds a file it will be read-only to the other user. The permissions for the new files will have to be changed manually every time.
Follow this hint; it looks a little complicated but it only takes a few minutes, and is trouble free once set up. I have been using it for years and it works great:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050904072808460&lsrc=osxh
Leopard users can skip step 1; ACLs are already enabled by default in Leopard.
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