Need help accessing itunes files on a share

My roommate was running out of space on her macbook, so I created a share on my iMac which has 1TB of space.
We moved all of her music from her computer to the shared space on my computer
I redirected iTunes on her computer to make the share on my computer the default path to play music from
I opened finder on her computer and dragged all the music into iTunes. Everything worked fine. It was playing the music files from my computer on her iMac.
On her macbook, I unmounted the connection to her share on my iMac and reconnected. She can still read and write to the Itunes folder on my iMac, but now when we try to launch iTunes, a message comes up saying "The iTunes Library file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file." So now I can't even run iTunes because it automatically closes after this message comes up.
This doesn't make sense because a) she does have write read/write permissions b) the songs worked just fine until i unmounted/remounted and c) even though Itunes says we don't have access, we do because we can still navigate to the music files on the share from her macbook.
Help! Thanks in advance.

Update:
I removed the "iTunes Library" file from Home>>Music>>iTunes, which allowed me to get back into iTunes, but I don't know how to connect to the files without it locking up again in the event that the mount to her share on my iMac becomes unmounted again.

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