iTunes for all users?
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From: Friedrich Vosberg on 8 Apr 2006 16:53 Morning. I have a Mac configured for three users. All of them want to use the same iTunes music and all of them want to share one iTMS account. How can I configure there own iTunes to use one and the same iTunes library and music? TIA and kind regards. Friedrich -- Kinderl?rm ist Zukunftsmusik.
From: Elijah Baley on 8 Apr 2006 18:21 In article <1hdhzem.inoyzngvvogfN%post(a)vatolin.de>, post(a)vatolin.de (Friedrich Vosberg) wrote: > Morning. > > I have a Mac configured for three users. All of them want to use the > same iTunes music and all of them want to share one iTMS account. How > can I configure there own iTunes to use one and the same iTunes library > and music? > > TIA and kind regards. Friedrich In the root directory of your boot drive you will see a folder named Users. Inside the Users folder is a folder named Shared. The Shared folder can be accessed by all user accounts. Place the iTunes folder normally found in the Music folder of a user account into the Shared folder. Now all users will have access to the single iTunes music folder. Launch iTunes in each user's account, select iTunes->Preferences->Advanced and set the location for the iTunes music folder to YourHardDrive/Users/Shared. Now the users have access to the same iTunes music folder. All this assumes you are running Mac OS X of course. When each user is logged into their account they can login to the ITMS with the same user id and password. Be aware that if any one user adds or deletes music it changes for every other user too. Hope this helps. -- "Momma always said, "Stupid is as stupid does."" -Forest Gump "You can't fix stupid." -Jim White, local radio personality
From: Friedrich Vosberg on 9 Apr 2006 05:25 Elijah Baley <lije(a)foundation.org> wrote: > In article <1hdhzem.inoyzngvvogfN%post(a)vatolin.de>, > post(a)vatolin.de (Friedrich Vosberg) wrote: > > > Morning. > > > > I have a Mac configured for three users. All of them want to use the > > same iTunes music and all of them want to share one iTMS account. How > > can I configure there own iTunes to use one and the same iTunes library > > and music? > > > > TIA and kind regards. Friedrich > > In the root directory of your boot drive you will see a folder named > Users. Inside the Users folder is a folder named Shared. The Shared > folder can be accessed by all user accounts. Place the iTunes folder > normally found in the Music folder of a user account into the Shared > folder. Now all users will have access to the single iTunes music > folder. Launch iTunes in each user's account, select > iTunes->Preferences->Advanced and set the location for the iTunes music > folder to YourHardDrive/Users/Shared. Now the users have access to the > same iTunes music folder. It doesn't work. Although I've additionaly changed the permissions to sudo chown -R 770 /Users/Shared/iTunes only the original user have access to the music, others not. Kind regards. Friedrich -- Kinderl?rm ist Zukunftsmusik.
From: Doug Anderson on 9 Apr 2006 06:30 post(a)vatolin.de (Friedrich Vosberg) writes: > Elijah Baley <lije(a)foundation.org> wrote: > > > In article <1hdhzem.inoyzngvvogfN%post(a)vatolin.de>, > > post(a)vatolin.de (Friedrich Vosberg) wrote: > > > > > Morning. > > > > > > I have a Mac configured for three users. All of them want to use the > > > same iTunes music and all of them want to share one iTMS account. How > > > can I configure there own iTunes to use one and the same iTunes library > > > and music? > > > > > > TIA and kind regards. Friedrich > > > > In the root directory of your boot drive you will see a folder named > > Users. Inside the Users folder is a folder named Shared. The Shared > > folder can be accessed by all user accounts. Place the iTunes folder > > normally found in the Music folder of a user account into the Shared > > folder. Now all users will have access to the single iTunes music > > folder. Launch iTunes in each user's account, select > > iTunes->Preferences->Advanced and set the location for the iTunes music > > folder to YourHardDrive/Users/Shared. Now the users have access to the > > same iTunes music folder. > > It doesn't work. Although I've additionaly changed the permissions to > > sudo chown -R 770 /Users/Shared/iTunes > > only the original user have access to the music, others not. Did you mean chmod instead of chown? And did you mean 777 instead of 770?
From: Friedrich Vosberg on 9 Apr 2006 14:42
Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Did you mean chmod instead of chown? And did you mean 777 instead of > 770? Yes I've meant chmod, but no, I did mean 770, because both users are administration privilegues, so I thought it's not necessary to open my music for each and all mankind. Kind regards. Friedrich -- Kinderl?rm ist Zukunftsmusik. |