Media on Network Share - What are Best Practices

I love my first Mac computer- the Macbook Air, but I've definitely been hitting a lot of obstacles migrating over to the Mavericks. Getting iTunes working in a similary fashion to how I had it working on WIndows.
Today its been automatically mounting the Media files on my NAS when I log into my Macbook so that I can start using iTunes right away .
Originally I had an nfs share called /mnt/Media that FInder put on /Volumes/Media , but would not do it automatically.
Next, I created a CIFS share called Media and Finder mounts it on Volumes/Media. Not only that, but I was able to share the password to my keychain, and add it to my user account's "login items" menua, and it connects on login, even after a reboot
So far, so good.
Now, I assumed since the mount path had not changed, that ITunes would open up and start using the libary as every was exactly where is was before.
But no, it could not find anything, all my media came up as "not found" and it acted as if was in my home folder Music/Itunes/Media folder.
I copied the Itunes medial library.xml file to a temp folder, changed the paths to the /Volumes/Media folder, and I am now imported that as a playlist. I hope that this works.
Question: What is the best way to manage a library where the media files are on network storage? I fear that another glitch is waiting to happen. I'd store them on my Mac, but my collection of media files is larger than the SSD hard drive. Way larger.
*Me Whining* I can't be the first one to have these issues, and with home NAS servers becoming more popular every day, I feel that Apple should come up with an official solution.

After tons of research I just see the same problems over and over. It looks like there isn't a good solution now. I discovered that if a save credentials in my keychain, add the share to my login items, and a shortcut to my desktop, that at least makes it easier to reconnect to shares. I have to remember to reconnect before firing up iTunes , but it's the best solution for now.

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