Itunes library on NAS, new laptop, old one dead

Hi,
My itunes music library is on an external NAS, my laptop has died, so I have bought a new one. Do I just install itunes 9 on the new laptop and point it as the NAS? Will it then find all my music ok?
cheers
Andrew

can anyone help?

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