Using FrontRow with Bonjour on a NAS drive

Is it possible to have iTunes running on a Network Attached Storage drive connected to a router and have FrontRow on the New Mac Mini still find all the media? I'm just wondering this since I will have all my media on a NAS making it easier for all the computers on my house network access the media. I plan on using the Bonjour feature so I don't have to put all the media directly on the Mac but want to make sure it will find it even if it is not directly on another PC.

I would obviously have iTunes running on the Mac Mini I purchase but I would have the acutal songs stored on the NAS. If I do this I should be able to pull them up using FrontRow on the mac and just using normal iTunes on my PC correct?

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Looking forward to any help. Like others I've spent many hours trying to ascertain the best way to share a single iTunes media store around the house.
I know I could leave my main PC on and have the other PCs get at the content that way. However the power consumption of my desktop setup is not insignifcant and we will have a NAS drive running 24/7 anyway for other duties.
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+When I transferred the lossless codec files from the hard drive on my computer to a Network Attached Storage (NAS) connected by a hard-wired router (designated “Z:”), I configured iTunes to locate the files under “Z:/Music”.+
+Here’s the glitch: Although iTunes is finding “Z:/Music”, the iTunes program reports: “The song __ cannot be played because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?”+
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...JER
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