How to play music from NAS to iTunes on MAC and PC (Win7)?

I have NAS in my home network and would like to play music stored on NAS to play in iTunes on MAC; iPad2, iPhone4 and PC which has Windows 7.
I have already changed iTunes Media folder location under 'Advanced' pointing to NAS music folder. Once all this done, I see exclamation i in front of the every song in iTunes.
Can some one please help me. I went to Apple store and ask this question, but no one seems to able to help me.
Thanks
-nlalani

Just seeing this as I was browsing for a way to stream music from my NAS drive to an airplay capable receiver. I've been using the "filebrowser" app on my iPad and iPhone 4 and am very happy with it. It allows me to access my NAS drive from both devices and stream music and video to said devices. For example: I dock my phone in the kitchen and use filebrowser to play music directly from the NAS...it works great. I also use it to stream bike training videos to my iPad while I'm riding on a trainer in my basement. The native controls are very user friendly for both mp3's and video mp4's. I'm not huge on apple programs(iTunes for music playback) as they are usually restrictive and don't play nicely with other non apple devices...for $3, filebrowser should do the trick for you....now I have to figure out how to stream from the NAS to a pioneer brand airplay capable receiver without using iTunes.

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