Using remote folders as default iTunes music location

Hello,
I have all my music on a RAID5 Windows server that resides on my LAN. In Windows Media Player, I have the application monitoring my music folder on the server. WMP correctly displays music from the shared folder in my library. In other words, it references the music on the server without copying it to my desktop computer's hard drive. When I play songs, they play "across" the network from the server.
Id there any way to do the same thing in iTunes so that I don't have to actually copy the music to local hard drive? Can I "point" iTunes to my music folder on the server? I can't seem to figure it out! I want to have my various workstations, including two iMacs, using the same music folder so that I don't have duplicate files all over the place.

I have a similar problem. I have a MacBook Pro, Apple TV and Time Capsule. I am only using time capsule to store my 500 GB of music and videos. All system back ups are done on a seperate hard drive.
In order to get apple tv to see all my music on the time capsule, I have to first have itunes see time capsule and then add the music. i of course changed the path and disabled synch so that the music is not trying to copy itself. Since apple decided to make this a three device process, its a pain. Itunes gets the music from time capsule and apple tv sees the folders in itunes then redirects to time capsule to pull the music. If itunes on my laptop is not running or the laptop is not at home, apple tv cant see my music. I have no other pcs as all my systems are in VM's
I have heard rumors on how to resolve this but need some opinions. I have heard that if you copy your itunes library paths from your laptop to the time capsule, that apple tv will see it in TC and pull from there thus having all media from TC going to Applt tv insteat of TC>MBP>APTV
Thanks for the help.

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