Running I-Tunes on my home network

OK...I'm clearly more stupid than I thought...so I think I need some expert advice here.
In brief here's what I've got going.
I've upgraded all of our home computers this week and set up a home network.
Currently, in our home we have set up a PowerBookG4, two IMac's, and a MacMini. It's all connected through a new AppleExtreme Base station.
Swearing never to lose data again like I did last week, I've set up a InfrantNAS Raid 2Terabyte server down in the basement on which to back up all our hard drives. It will also be the repository for all of our family photos, and our 100+gigs of music (which I had thankfully backed up onto an external before the crash).
OK...getting to the point. So I want no music taking space on any hard drives in the house, which should help them run better.
So..all the music is now on the server.
I go to the MacMini (connected to our PlasmaTV) and open I-Tunes. I go to PREFERENCES > ADVANCED >ITUNES Music Foler Location.
I then Browse, and go to the file on the server labelled MUSIC in which I have all the music folders stored. No problem finding and selecting the folder. I click OK, and expect that after I quit and restart I-Tunes, that all of the songs, album titles, etc...will show up in ITunes just like it used to do when it was all on my hard drive itself. I just assumed that if I did that on all 4 of my computers here that my ITunes screen would automatically show all the music.
Obviously I'm doing something wrong...so rather than spend the rest of my life trying to figure it out, I thought I'd ask you guys for help.
Open to any ideas, as long as they don't move files to the hard drive on my MacMini, which they wouldn;t all fit on anyway.
Regards
Steve
powerbook G4, IMac, MacMini Mac OS X (10.4.9)

When you get this it's usually due to a conflict either with other Samba versions installed (manually) or because OS X's native Windows File Sharing is enabled.
The console.app logs may provide further info.
SMBUp is just a front-end to Samba so if Samba fails to open the problem is usually with Samba daemons starting up or the program not being able to installthe startup scripts.
In some situations SMBUp may not be able to figure out if Samba is running. In these cases you nee to check the console.app program to see what error is showing up.

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Airport version 7.4.2
IP address 192.168.0.192
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wpa wpa2
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radio mode: 802.11n only (5 GHz)
channel: auto
wireless security: WPA2 personal
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updated…
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back to airport utility
manual setup:
internet menu:
connection sharing: share a public IP address
update
--> 2 problems
DHCP Beginning address: 192.168.0.2
DHCP Ending Address: 192.168.0.2
chose 'assist me'
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Your Apple Wireless device does not have a valid IP address. Make sure your Apple wireless device is connected to your broadband modem or local network… etc
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Hi Preston,
I would recommend not starting the numbering scheme for the IP addresses using a '0'. Yes the range is 0-255, but some numbers are reserved, and not generally good practice.
Also, assuming you have reset all factory defaults, start anew and have the modem --> router using NAT for dynamic IP addresses --> (other side of the house) Airport Extreme --> not a NAT configuration, but you need a simple switch. Do not use the NAT capabilities on this one. Maybe, just maybe the computer will work now. This will eliminate your double NAT and also help (hopefully) with the D-Link.
Sorry I cannot help more, I do not own any of the products you talk about, however I have networking experience. Hope it helps.
--Morris

How do I create an Itunes playlist on an ipad 2 for a shared library on my home network

Hi, please help? How do I create a playlist on tunes on my i pad2 with a shared i tunes library on my home network?

no need to create a secondary library - too troublesome, IMHO. you can spread your library over as many drives you can connect to your Mac (wired or wirelessly):
iTunes > preferences > advanced.
point iTunes media folder location to the external
on the same tab, ensure the copy files ... when adding option is checkmarked
okay out of preferences
highlight the content to be moved in iTunes and right-click
select consolidate files from the pop-up menu
wait for the process to finish
when done, you may delete the original files from your boot drive.
alternatively, you could move the whole shabang to the external HD:
copy the entire iTunes folder (not just the iTunes music or media folder) from <MacintoshHD>/users/<yourname>/music to the external, launch iTunes while holding the option(⌥) key, click on choose library when prompted, and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external.
when done, be sure to point iTunes media folder location to the external so that new additions to your library will be put there. also, you need to make sure the external is mounted on your desktop before you fire up iTunes.

Running I-Tunes on my home network

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