ITunes will not work on network drive Error (-54)

Greetings.
I recently got the new 27" iMac, and am converting my old Mac Pro 2009 to a "server."
On my Mac Pro, I had my iTunes folder on a separate drive, which was formatted exFAT. This was done specifically because I work cross-platform. So "Drive A" was my OSX Boot drive, "Drive B" was my Windows 7 Bootcamp drive, "Drive C" was my exFAT shard data drive and "Drive D" was Time Machine. The goal was, and is, to be able to use iTunes cross-platform without having to manage separate libraries.
Now, I would like to connect my iMac's iTunes (Mac side) to "Drive C," but I keep getting an error message: The iTunes Library file cannot be saved. An unknown error occurred (-54). At first I thought it was due to the fact that the Mac Pro kept going to sleep, so I changed the setting. That didn't work. I then checked permissions - and the permissions give my iMac read-write permission, so that *shouldn't* be the issue. I can write to the network drive just fine.
The issue can't be connectivity, because I am using ethernet, not wifi to connect the drives.
I cannot use target disk mode, because "Drive C" is not a boot drive.
So I need to know why iTunes cannot now write the Library file when permissions should be fine, it never had a problem with exFAT formatting in the last year I had that configuration and what can I do now to get iTunes to work over a network.
Both versions of iTunes are current.
The only remaining variable I can possibly think of is that the Mac Pro is using the latest version of Lion and not MacOSX Server.
Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

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