ITunes Extras file locked on External iTunes Server - Help Appreciated

Hi all,
Here's the set up.
I've just put our entire iTunes library (it's all housed within one iTunes account) on a new LaCie Wireless Space NAS unit. So basically everyone in the household (me, wife and two kids) can access the same music library etc.
I've pointed everyones ITunes preferences to the external library on the NAS and they can all individually access and play tracks OK.
The problem seems to arise when, for example my son fires up iTunes on his MAC starts to play some tracks, but then my daughter wants to do the same, she cant get on to the music library on the NAS as we get an error message that says- "The iTunes Extras is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file"
I've tried trashing various .plist files, checking access privileges, but cannot seem to solve the issue.
She can access the library OK when it seems no one else is doing the same, it seems to be an issue when multiple users try to access the same iTunes library on the NAS.
Any help, suggestions or work-arounds would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

Is iTunes running on MB A when you open iTunes on MB B? If so, that is probably the reason iTunes is saying the file is locked. Only one iTunes can read/write to the DB files at a time.

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Handler classes have to implement the IF_HTTP_EXTENSION Interface. You implent the method HANDLE_REQUEST.
Here is an example implementation of the HANDLE_REQUEST:
* Inform ICF to "keep" (reuse) this handler, and that we answered the HTTP request
if_http_extension~lifetime_rc = if_http_extension=>co_lifetime_keep.
if_http_extension~flow_rc     = if_http_extension=>co_flow_ok.
* Determine image name from URL ~script_name/~path_info (= image_name)
data: name type string.
name = server->request->get_header_field( name = if_http_header_fields_sap=>path_info ).
translate name to upper case.
if strlen( name ) >= 1 and name(1) = '/'.
    shift name left.
endif.
* Application logic
data: content type xstring.
content = me->load( name ).
if xstrlen( content ) is initial.
    raise exception type cx_http_ext_exception exporting msg = 'Invalid URL!'.
endif.
* Set up HTTP response
server->response->set_status( code = 200 reason = 'OK' ).
server->response->set_header_field( name = if_http_header_fields=>content_type   value = 'image/png' ).
server->response->server_cache_expire_rel( expires_rel = 86000 ).
server->response->set_header_field( name = if_http_header_fields=>cache_control value = 'max-age=86000' ).
server->response->set_data( content ).
3rd option would be to create an ICM File Handler. I detailed this functionality in the SAP Press book Advanced BSP Programming. It is covered in Chapter 16.2. Here is an exerpt:
The Internet Communication Manager (ICM) allows just such access to any file
system accessible to the underlying operating system. You can map operating file
system directories into ICM URL paths using the profile parameter icm/HTTP/
file_access_<xx>.
If you have never maintained one of the system-profile parameters, now is good
time to make friends with your Basis administrator. With the following additions
to our instance profile and a quick restart of the ICM, we are now able to access
file system directories via HTTP.
icm/HTTP/file_access_0 =
PREFIX=/doc/, DOCROOT=/usr,BROWSEDIR=2
icm/HTTP/file_access_1 =
PREFIX=/doc2/,
DOCROOT=
server\SAPPatches\Netweaver04,BROWSEDIR=2
In the first entry, we are just going to map to the local directory usr. We are able
to control the useru2019s options to browser a directory via the additional parameter
BROWSEDIR. The possible values are: 0 u2013 no browsing allowed, 1 u2013 only file names
are displayed, and 2 u2013 file names along with their size and last change date are displayed.
The second entry really shows off the power of this profile parameter. We are able
to expose a directory on a remote server via UNC paths. Of course the security on
that directory would have to be open to allow read-and-browse access. There is
also no real mechanism to apply security to the ICM URL for this file access node,
so you will want to be careful what you expose through it.

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