Same itunes different accounts

Just purchased an Imac! Great first time and moving from a PC. Decided because of youngish children to create them induvidual accounts, but how do I enable them to see and sync their Ipads to the 1 itunes library i had on my PC
i.e if any of them log in under their user accounts I want them to see one itunes library common to the IMAC.
Home sharing does not help in this situation, just wondered if anybody else had had this issue and solved it....
Im sure there is some doc, or advice but not been able to find it.

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I recommend you to move your iTunes library from the PC to your Mac. To do this, follow these steps > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1751 (Do the "Restoring your iTunes Library backup" step on the Mac).
If you want to use the same iTunes library for all the users, you can put the iTunes library on the Shared folder. To copy the iTunes library to the Shared folder, follow these steps:
1. Open a Finder window (press the left icon on Dock), select the Go menu (on the menu bar) > Go to Folder, and type /Users/Shared
2. Now, open a new Finder window (you can do this from the File menu), select your external drive in the Finder's sidebar (under "Devices"), and copy the "iTunes" folder you have there to the "Shared" folder. If you want, you can just drag the "iTunes" folder to the first Finder window you opened.
3. On all your users, open iTunes holding the Option key, search the iTunes library stored on the Shared folder and choose it. Now, iTunes will open automatically with that iTunes library

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