Connecting Ipod to new computer with Music stored on a network drive

So, a client of mine purchased a new laptop, and when syncing the ipod to the new computer with songs added to the new library, it says that the sync was successful, but the songs are not synced to the ipod. It syncs the time and date, but not the music. It will still sync properly on the old laptop. The ipod has been reset to factory settings and completely blank, and the songs still will not sync. I have contacted apple, and the only thing they can suggest is that there is a conflict with the drive letters since the music is located on a virtual network drive and windows does not take virtual drives into account when assigning drive letters to divices. I have not been able to verify this, but I will be going back to do some testing in the next couple days. Any information you may have to help would be appreciated! If I think of anything else I forgot I will come back and make another post. Thanks in advance.
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