How do I share files without making a new copy of them.

I have my music library on an external hard drive, connected to my AE base station.
I have instructed iTunes (on my laptop) that its music library is on that external drive.
Now my teen has a laptop and I wish to setup iTunes on that laptop with the teen's own library, consisting of the age appropriate content from that networked hard drive.
Yet, when I tell the "Teen" iTunes to "add" an album to their Library, it wants to make a completely seperate copy of the music files instead of just adding a pointer to it.
How can I get the "Teen" iTunes to simply serve from the existing files (as my laptop does) and not have to create brand new, duplicate music files to play from?
BTW - Simply turning on "Sharing" from my music library turns out to be a bad option as all the song and podcast titles show up even if the parental content controls keep the teen from playing those tracks.

iTunes preferences > advanced, uncheck copy files.....

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