Library to mac mini

I moved my itunes library that was on a 2 tb internal hard drive on my mac pro to an external LaCie hard drive attached to my mac pro . The only thing i ran into trouble on was i had to copy the itunes folder to the LaCie drive because itunes could not find the library without the folder. All is working great now.
So now i want to move the external LaCie drive to a mac mini i just purchased and have itunes on the mac mini use the itunes library on LaCie drive. My intent is to use the mac mini as an itunes server so the library can be accessed from any computer or device in the house. I think i will have to copy just the itunes folder to the mac pro so itunes on the mac pro has an itunes folder otherwise itunes on the mac pro won't startup. Is that correct?
Once that is done can i just attach the LaCie drive to the mac mini and aim itunes on the mac mini at it? Can someone tell me if that is correct and how to go about doing this?

Connect the external to the Mac mini.
Hold Option, select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the external.
This is all you need to do.
On the Mac Pro, hold Option, select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the external connected to the Mac mini.

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