2 iPhones - 1 iMac - Sharing Music

Hi,
I have an iPhone and iPad that i sync and back up with my iTunes log in on my iMac.
My wife has an iPhone and her own log in to the iMac with her own iTunes account.
I want to be able to share music & photo's with her so she can sync them onto her phone too like i do with my iPhone & iPad.
Somebody please help me - i have tried everything i can think of!
(I also have a home server, also acting as an ext hard drive)
MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE
Jon

Thanks roaminggnome, I have tried this already and it didn't work for some reason. I have since deleted my wife's log in to the mac and signed myself out of iTunes, signed her in and backed up and added music from my library, then sign her out and log myself in when I want to do anything to my iPhone & iPad.
So far this seems to have worked fine, just hope this will be okay and not mess anything up, may call Apple customer support tomorrow to double check?

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