IPhoto library saved to SMB share?

Greetings,
My clients are Lion, running iPhoto 11. They are bound/authenticated to an AD server, while their files are served/stored on another Windows 2008 server (SMB). The drive is formatted as NTFS. So when a user logs in, their desktop folder/files actually reside on the windows share. Can their iPhoto library live on this server? We're getting an error:
'The library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsopported'
Please tell me that Apple doesn't ONLY allow these library files to be written to Mac OS Extended drives?
Thanks in advance,
Andy Z

iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, exporting, saving edits and sharing the photos.
See this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168
for more. Note also the comment:
“Additionally, storing the iPhoto library on a network rather than locally on your computer can also lead to poor performance or data loss.”

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