I can't believe it - network issues not fixed in Logic 8 ?

Question

I like to have my Logic Projects stored on a network volume but couldn't do it because Logic 7 had one major network problem. If an audio file in your project is located on a network volume then you cannot edit that audio file in the Sample Editor. All the commands in the functions menu are greyed out. Now I tried that in Logic 8 and to my horror, the bug is still there.
I tried the scenario on different mounted volumes on my LAN and it is the same problem. Also creating cross-fades results in an -64 Error when trying to play back the cross-fade. Somehow the audio file (or directory path) is locked, at least as Logic sees it. The permission look ok. I set everything to read&write.
Can somebody confirm that behavior.
Here is the link to the threat on that issue in Logic 7:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1880622&#1880622
Strangely enough, if I use my iDisk as the network volume, then it works. At least that improved from Logic 7. But I have no idea why the local network volume still have problems.

Answer 1

First of all, when I talk about network volumes, I talk about local network (LAN) not the internet, although you can do that to (i,e, iDisk).
Here are some of the reasons why:
* I like to have as little as possible data on the local drive(s): Projects, Apple Loops, EXS instruments/samples, plug-in data you name it.
* All the data is stored on an XRAID in RAID5 mode that provides maximum security and an Xserve running OSX server acts as the file server
* Easy central retrospect backups of the XRAID for off-stite storage (security)
* When running a multi computer setup, i.e multiple Logic machines configured as one "über-Logic" (think about big EXS libraries, Vienna Instruments, etc), all the 100s of Gigabytes of data have to be stored only once (on the RAID)
* Same storage access convenience when having a multi room stup: mixing room, production room or drop in with your laptop.
* When editing one sound (i.e. EXS instrument) , that edit is available on all the Logic machines that access that network volume.
* When swapping out a Logic machine, you don't have to deal with 100s of gigs of sounds and data stored on that machine.
Networking should be on Apple's top ten list and I'm sure it is. Everything is about networking: Network MIDI (in Audio MIDI Setup Utility), Logic Node, Cluster compression (in Compressor), Bonjour, etc ...
Logic is a professional DAW used in very professional setup. Putting Logic on an iMac to play with some dance loops is just one very limited use of it. Even the disaster version 1 of Cubase SX (5 years ago ?) allowed me to work with the song from the netwok volume.
Logic 8 still not working properly in a network environment is really embarrassing, unless someone can report that it works and I'm just missing something here.