HP MediaSmart iTunes and AppleTV

Hi
I am trying to understand the workings of the HP MediaSmart server in conjunction with iTunes and the AppleTV.
I am storing all of my music files on the MediaSmart server and I am pointing the iTunes library to the MediaSmart server.
I do not want to store (sync) my music on the AppleTV, I want to stream to it. When iTunes is running, I can access all of my music on the AppleTV, however when iTunes is not running I cannot access any of my music.
I thought that the MediaSmart had an iTunes server built in. This seems to somewhat defeat the purpose of the server as I must have a PC/Mac running iTunes to stream music from the MediaSmart Server to the AppleTV.
1. I want to know if this is normal?
2. Is there a way to have the MediaSmart server stream music directly to the AppleTV without the need to have a PC/Mac running iTunes?
Thanks for your help
Kevin

I don't have one of these Media Srevers, but many say they have itunes servers - while they may have a server that itunes can access, most as far as I know will not be suitable for AppleTV as it does not use the standard library sharing method that allows one itunes program on a netork to see another library. The processes may be similar but you have to register AppleTV with an itunes program using a 5 digit code and generally teher's no way to do thsi with these media servers unless you can configure them to run a proper version of itunes.

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