How to use NAS as a library.

I have all my media on a NAS drive and want to access it from 2 PCs running windows 8.
Up until now if I've been using one PC as my "MAIN" system. using it to add ne media. I'd then copy the library files across to my other PC and ergo a carbon copy of my library is on both PC's.
However this is a lot of cutting and pasting and work to keep both systems "synced" and running the same library. Surely there is a better way!?
Can I set my computers to auto sync. So if I add media on one it updates on the other without me doing anything? the media is all in one place on the NAS drive. a buffalo LS-XL2AC link station.

I used to do this, or a version of it:
I had a server and a PC. Server was always on, so I just mapped a network drive, and had both PCs access the same iTunes library folder on the HDD in the server. This didn't work very well, so eventually I just kept the server as the iTunes library (iTunes is now always running on my server), and home shares everything to my other devices, PC, ATV, ipad/iphone etc, and means backing up my idevices is done automatically when I put them on charge every night.
However, you don't have a server, you have a NAS, so unless you can designate one of your pcs as a server and keep it on running iTunes and then have it home share all the content, there isn't really an easy way around your current messy config.

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