Share from MBP to Mini

My main computer is my MacBook Pro, which I use at my desk, and take with me to the office or on the road. So I have my music library on there, and it works fine.
I've set up a Mac Mini in the living room, which I want to attach to speakers so it can be the hub of my home entertainment system. It will share the music library on my MBP, but there are times when the MBP is powered down or away, and I'd like to duplicate my music library on the Mini. What's the easiest way to copy the music files from my MBP to the Mini ... and keep them in sync.
(I know I can do iTunes Match and just have everything in the cloud, but until I'm ready to wrap my head around that, I'm looking for a simple, old-fashioned way to just copy all the music from to the other ... and then keep them in sync.)
Any advice?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks. That worked for me (different "Full Name" on each computer). I didn't realize the OS was not capable of distinguishing these. Usually user entered info (file names, folder names etc) are symbols for a more complex underlying ID assigned by the OS. Also the distinction between account name and full name were certainly not obvious to me nor was the consequences of changing either of them.
Thanks much for the tip!
Apple - how about a few tweaks to manage this. eg Inform users when creating accounts of the possibility of conflicts and/or pop up a dialog when the conflict arises telling the user there's a conflict (don't have to expose the other name) and/or fix the OS to recognize the same full name on different computers as unique ID's. There's probably more/better ideas but you get the drift.

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