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    From post@post@vatolin.de (Friedrich Vosberg) to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 22:53:02
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    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

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    Kinderlärm ist Zukunftsmusik.
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  • From Elijah Baley@lije@foundation.org to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 08, 2006 22:21:06
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    In article <1hdhzem.inoyzngvvogfN%post@vatolin.de>,
    post@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.

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    "You can't fix stupid." -Jim White, local radio personality
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  • From post@post@vatolin.de (Friedrich Vosberg) to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 11:25:30
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    Elijah Baley <lije@foundation.org> wrote:

    In article <1hdhzem.inoyzngvvogfN%post@vatolin.de>,
    post@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

    --
    Kinderlärm ist Zukunftsmusik.
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  • From Doug Anderson@ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 03:30:16
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    post@vatolin.de (Friedrich Vosberg) writes:

    Elijah Baley <lije@foundation.org> wrote:

    In article <1hdhzem.inoyzngvvogfN%post@vatolin.de>,
    post@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?
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  • From post@post@vatolin.de (Friedrich Vosberg) to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 20:42:44
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    Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@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

    --
    Kinderlärm ist Zukunftsmusik.
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  • From Doug Anderson@ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:53:53
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    post@vatolin.de (Friedrich Vosberg) writes:

    Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@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.

    That _may_ be your problem. I don't know what group iTunes runs as,
    but if your user name is (say) vosberg, then the default group for
    file you create is also vosberg.

    My iTunes library is user: anderson, group: anderson.
    So giving it 770 gives privileges to anyone else in group anderson.
    That doesn't include any other user on my computer, regardless of
    whether they have admin privileges.

    So I would start by trying 777 - you can always change it back to 770.

    It is easy, and easy to fix, so if it fails you aren't out much.

    If it works, you'll have a clue as to what to do. Of course 777
    doesn't open things up to the whole world, just to all users on your
    computer.

    But if you don't like that, you can try to figure out how to get
    iTunes to read and write in some group other than the default group
    for the person running iTunes, and use chown to change the library to
    that group. I don't know if that is possible.
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