Using remote to play shared music from NAS

Unfortunately, search is off, so I can't see if somebody has already posted similar question.
All of my music is hosted on a ReadyNas Duo NAS unit. A couple of my computers use this as an only way to play music. I'd like to be able to control it using the Remote application, but shared music is not available. Is there a way to make this work?
For the record, on one machine I have a regular iTunes database that uses links to songs on the NAS - that is playable using remote, of course.
Thank you very much!

At Last !
Following the recent iTunes 7.1 update I can now share the music from my HiFidelio and play it in Front Row . The first time I try to access the shared music , it fails , but the second time it does indeed load correctly . I think it just takes too long to load the track listings from HiFidelio and Front Row simply doesn't wait long enough for the first attempt to respond , it must still load it in the background which means that the second attempt does work . I suppose if I kept iTunes open I wouldn't have any problems .

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