Ethernet hard drive w/ iPhoto & iTunes??

I run a G5 and my wife will run a new iMac, and we would like to share/use the same iPhoto library and iTunes library via our ethernet connection and ethernet switch. Currently we are doing this by placing these libraries/files in a shared folder on my G5, and sharing them from our two accounts on the G5 only. The way we would like to use the two computers (with the new iMac) would include the capability of NOT having both of them powered on all the time. So, could I place my iPhoto libray and my ITunes library on a ethernet hard drive connected to my ethernet switch, and then be able to access/use the programs from both computers? (I know that we would not be able to use the same iPhoto library from both computers simultaneously. Has anyone tried this? Thanks!

should work... i wouldnt however redirect ituens and iphoto the network directories... instead id replace the Music and Pictures directories in each users symlinks in each user home folder with symlinks to the mounted share.
Youll also want to make sure you get an ethernet disk that can be formated as HFS or NTFS (or maybe UFS, not sure on that though) and that supports AFP or NFS sharing in addition to or instead of SMB. IVe found SMB to be not so good for this kind of thing.

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