Will iTunes in the Cloud work with an iTunes library that's being served up on a networked drive?

I'm wanting to put my large (650 gigs) music library on a networked drive, and access it from various macs and iOS devices around the house. Will I be able to use iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match etc., with that, or does it have to be  directly connected to an iMac running Lion?

Thank you, Prime Minister! Thats very true about the size of the library. There are some 65000 songs, but id e cutting dow n/cleaning upi the library to fit into iTunes  match. Hopefully that will work!
Im wanting to keep my iMac on Snow Leopard for a while (I use it for music production with logic and that's not all that stable with Lion yet). As best I understand network drives, there wouldn't be any main iTunes application controlling the iTunes library, I would just access it from my iMac, my MacBook pro, which is running lion and iCloud, and my iOS devices, iPhone and iPad, which are also using iCloud. But none ofnthose devices are always on. Do you think this arrangement would work with iTunes Match, or does a Mac running lion always have to on and running?

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