Two macs sharing an iTunes lib stored on a NAS?

I know there are many discussions/articles pointing to how I can move my iTunes library to an external drive, but my questions re- moving the library are:
1. Can two macs share that library (as long as there are no concurrent users)?
2. Can multiple users on the two macs share it (again, as long as they are not concurrently trying to access it)?
3. Does the external drive have to be Mac OS X formatted?
4. Can the "external" drive be a NAS?
FYI, I am using iTunes 8.0.2.

Yes you can!
The way i did it was open a new iTunes account on in a folder on you NAS drive and open your itunes from there.
If you change the location of your iTunes files by preference,advance then change - your Library data base file is still on your mac, thus you cant open from anywhere on your network.
But if you create a new iTunes account on your NAS its all located on there and all you have to do is locate your iTunes library file from any computer with an iTunes program to open and use your complete iTunes account and what's stored on it. but remember for other people to open the account you have to log off yourself.
The good thing is i can open it from my iMac on my profile so when i sync my iPhone i get my ical,address book email etc and when my wife opens it from her MBP and from her profile she gets all her ical,address book mail etc and we get to shall all the music, movies and applications.
the only downside i can see is its a bit slow over NAS especially over WiFi but thats what you get for all your eggs in one basket.
any amount of people can use your account this way and as for formating you will find the software that comes with your NAS will format it in its own way usually FAT that way any computer can connect.
any problems give me a shout.
N

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