Please help, I want to use my TC as media server

Question

I have a TC 1TB and I have three Macs at home, I want to copy all my music (iTunes), photos (iPhoto) and video on the TC and share it with all the Macs, and when some one add a photo, song or video the other can see it too, and don't have to duplicate the files, so how can I do it, specially with iTunes

Answer 1

1) connect TC to your network and make sure you have no network problems
2) use Disk Utility /Disks/File Sharing to set up the TC; check box share and wan and how you want others to share your TC
3) use Finder preference to check box "show connected servers on desktop"
4) use Finder GO command to connect to server
5) in the blank window type afp://10.0.1.1 that is the ip address shown in Disk Utility for your local network...you could also connect over the internet using the ip address shown under Internet.
6) once TC is mounted, copy your files to it ; do not use TC as your sole backup.
7) launch itunes and use the "add to library" command; this points itunes to the source of the files
8) just make sure you mount the TC before launching itunes each time.
9) only one Mac is going to stream files from that TC at a time.