Editing a single SMB share iTunes repository from Mac and Windows iTunes clients

Editing a single SMB share iTunes repository from Mac and Windows
iTunes clients.
Two options -- any experience?

I have iTunes 4.1 installed on a Win2K and WinXP box and on an iBook.
The tunes all sit on a single SMB share. As a fairly expert OS X and
Windows user who's been using iTunes for about 6 months, I feel it's
blown away the entire PC music management world. Hence this question.

Has anyone tried the terrifying experiment of pointing every version
of iTunes at the same iTunes library? Does the whole thing explode?

Thus far I've one machine (the iBook) that manges the main library and
does the burning. I dropped the library folder on the other machines
to build their view, so they each have their own repository.

For various reasons, depending on compatibiilty with the photo Vault
feature of my iPod, I may switch the library management to the WinXP
machine, redo my iPod with FAT32[1], and also sync my iPod there.

If I do that, I have two options for library management:

a. Point iTunes 4.1 on the other machines to the main machine and
manage the respository from any machine.
b. Use Microsoft Remote Desktop from the other machines to control
iTunes on the XP machine and share the library to the other machines.

Anyone experiment with option a? It seems by far the riskiest.

john
jfaughnan@spamcop.net
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[1] I'll put an HPFS+ image on the iPod drive for mounting on a Mac,
but be able to use the iPod with a USB cable as a very large "thumb
drive". An iPod that's a PC mountable USB drive, a firewire mountable
HPFS share, a music box, a Photo Vault, a recording tool and a
lightweight PIM is an intriguing proposition.

PS. Anyone else ever notice that with the iPod Jobs acheived the dream
he lost with the original MacPlus? A totally closed architecture with
all software and hardware controlled by Apple. The man must be an
AMAZING control freak. I like how it works though!