How to copy between Libraries?

I have a Seagate Black Armor NAS. About a year ago I copied the iTunes music files from my MacBook. I turned on media sharing on the NAS and I can see the music files as a "shared library" in iTunes (currently 11.0.1) but I can't copy files between the shared library and the on on my MB. The only way I've found that works is to manually copy the files in finder. I would prefer to do it inside of iTunes.
What I wnat is to use the NAS as primary storage and only keep on the MB what I want to listen to in the short term. Also, I would like to copy from the NAS to my iOS devices without having to do the interim step of putting it on my MB.

Hello there, ThumbelinaPM.
Looks like you're off to the right start. The following Knowledge Base article provides some great steps to continue with for accomplishing what you are looking to do:
iTunes: How to share music between different user accounts on a single computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1203
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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Please check if the link is useful for you:
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If this issue still exists, please go to the log file to check more information about this error. The path of the log file is: C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS.
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