Can someone please give me some advice. I have asked this question at three different genius bars and received three totally different answers which contradict each other.
I have a 24inch 3GHz iMac, a 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro and a 2.1Ghz Macbook pro on the network (wired or wireles). Attached to the IMac by Firewire 800 is a Lacie 500GB external drive with the iTunes music folder on it. Attached wirelessly to the network is a Pinnacle M1001 Soundbridge wireless music player which plays the music through a standard audio system.
What I would like to do is have the music on a networked drive accessible to all computers on the network and the wireless music player, so that each computer can have it's own itunes library to either play or sync with an iPod and the music player has access to all the music as well. (about 170GB)
It would also be a bonus if the networked disk could work as the back up disk for Time Machine for the iMac.
I was going to buy a Time Capsule. However I have been told 1) iTunes will not work very well on a networked drive 2) As long as everything supports DLNA everything will be fine and 3) Ask Pinnacle.
Can anyone please tell me what I need to do to make this plan work. I am running OSX 10.5.7
Thanks
I have a 24inch 3GHz iMac, a 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro and a 2.1Ghz Macbook pro on the network (wired or wireles). Attached to the IMac by Firewire 800 is a Lacie 500GB external drive with the iTunes music folder on it. Attached wirelessly to the network is a Pinnacle M1001 Soundbridge wireless music player which plays the music through a standard audio system.
What I would like to do is have the music on a networked drive accessible to all computers on the network and the wireless music player, so that each computer can have it's own itunes library to either play or sync with an iPod and the music player has access to all the music as well. (about 170GB)
It would also be a bonus if the networked disk could work as the back up disk for Time Machine for the iMac.
I was going to buy a Time Capsule. However I have been told 1) iTunes will not work very well on a networked drive 2) As long as everything supports DLNA everything will be fine and 3) Ask Pinnacle.
Can anyone please tell me what I need to do to make this plan work. I am running OSX 10.5.7
Thanks