Airport Express with a Buffalo LinkStation Pro

Hi
Im thinking of purchasing a Buffalo LinkStation Pro networked drive to hook up to my home network.
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/linkst ation-pro-ls-xhl/
One of the specifications of this drive is that it has a built in iTunes server. Can i use this server to provide content to Airport Express, or would i still need to go via a PC?

One of the specifications of this drive is that it has a built in iTunes server. Can i use this server to provide content to Airport Express, or would i still need to go via a PC?
Based on the following feature comment: "iTunes® Support: Play music from the LinkStation through your iTunes application," I would be led to believe that you will still require an iTunes host (PC or Mac) to play the audio files stored on the Buffalo LinkStation.

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Hi all, im still looking for a solution to this problem...
I have 2 macs that use airport express for network / internet etc. The Airport express is connected to my router to get to the internet connection. I also have a PC that is wired to the router. All works great, until I got a Buffalo Linkstation Pro Network HardDrive. I have set up the buffalo by plugging it in to the router and config it on the same IP range and its set up for mac and PC, it can be seen and used via my PC both by using the ip address through explorer to see the config page and as an extra hard drive, but the macs just cant see it.
The only thing I do know is that the buffalo does show up on the macs if I turn off airport and hardwire the mac to the router.
Any ideas anyone, i dont really want to hardwire my macs again just to use this hard drive.
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Lee

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However, after the upgrade to 10.5.7 on one of the shares a single directory won't show up in Finder (all other directories on the specific share show up fine). Looking at the volume contents in terminal shows the directory. Likewise, Lightroom can access it with content that was imported earlier. Lightroom can't access the directory when trying to import new content.
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Dug out my old Netgear DG834G and connected that up in place of the Belkin - it worked. Next connected in the Netgear powerlines and it still worked.
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Hello, I hope somebody can help.
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