Cannot play musice on a second computer.

I have my iPhone synced to my home computer because that is where all my music is located.
When I try to just play the music on my work computer it has all the content under iPnone/Music grayed out and I am unable to play any of it.
I want to make it clear that I DO NOT want to sync my music to this second computer I just want to PLAY it.
I am able to do this on my iPod so why is it not allowed on my iPhone?
I have set the Sync options on both iTunes to Manually manage music and videos but it still does not work.
Thanks in advanced for you help with this.

This is possible - you can transfer iTunes content that was purchased from the iTunes Store from an iPod or iPhone, and you can transfer your entire iTunes library from one computer to another computer. You can have up to 5 computers authorized with the same iTunes account which includes iTunes content purchased with the same iTunes account.
This has nothing to do with the OP's question.
The iPhone does not support what is called disk mode which is required to do what the OP wants, which does not involve transferring iTunes content from his/her home computer to his/her work computer. He/she want to play iTunes content from the iPhone when connected to the work computer, which is not supported with the iPhone as is supported with an iPod since the iPhone doesn't support disk mode as is supported with an iPod.

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