External Drive On Network

What i want is for the library on one computer's external drive to show up when the "music" tab under "library" is selected on another computer on my wireless network.
I have two computers on a wireless network. I want to have the second computer just use the music folder which is on an external drive attached to the first. I have network shareing enabled. I have also set the "itunes music folder location", on the second computer, to the path, to that external drive, over the network by using edit/preferences/advanced/itunes music folder/ change/ and then selecting that path, and that didn't seem to work.
Am i missing something?
Any suggestions would be greatly apreciated.
TIA

If you set your library folder to the external harddrive you may still have to add all the songs allready in the folder.
Make sure you uncheck "Copy songs to my itunes folder" before you do it and recheck if you want to do so afterwards (its in the advanced settings)
Then you just add your library folder to your library.

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