Comments on: HOWTO: Have Multiple Users Share an iTunes Library on One Machine http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/ Imagine Something Clever Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:40:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dan http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-69433 dan Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:31:53 +0000 http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/#comment-69433 modified the tty file...but now I do not get the log in screen (list of users) when I start up the computer...just a pretty blue screen...I'll have to use the startup disk and undo my edits to the file...any ideas? I'm on Mac OSX 2.4 modified the tty file…but now I do not get the log in screen (list of users) when I start up the computer…just a pretty blue screen…I’ll have to use the startup disk and undo my edits to the file…any ideas? I’m on Mac OSX 2.4

]]> By: julien http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-63473 julien Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:07:57 +0000 http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/#comment-63473 I got around all this Unix permissions stuff by having the 'master' itunes music folder on my external drive with the folder name "iTunes". I then (as an administrator) gave "Everyone" Read and Write access to this folder applying this to enclosed items using Get Info on the folder. Next I replaced the iTunes folder in my Music folder with an alias to the folder on the external drive called "iTunes", as did all the other users on the computer. Now we can all access the music and add to it as we want. The only downside I guess is that we all see all Playlists, so I have my 10-year old daughter's playlists on my iPod too! I got around all this Unix permissions stuff by having the ‘master’ itunes music folder on my external drive with the folder name “iTunes”. I then (as an administrator) gave “Everyone” Read and Write access to this folder applying this to enclosed items using Get Info on the folder. Next I replaced the iTunes folder in my Music folder with an alias to the folder on the external drive called “iTunes”, as did all the other users on the computer. Now we can all access the music and add to it as we want. The only downside I guess is that we all see all Playlists, so I have my 10-year old daughter’s playlists on my iPod too!

]]> By: Aaron Schaefer http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-59161 Aaron Schaefer Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:46:01 +0000 http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/#comment-59161 <blockquote>"I’m trying to implement it however I cannot edit the ttys file. I changed the priviledge of everyone to read/write but I still can’t save the edited file. I am an administrator-level user."<br />--Alex</blockquote> Even if you are an administrative-level user on OS X, certain system files are still owned by root: <pre><code>$ ls -l /etc/ttys -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1.4K Jan 28 2008 /etc/ttys </code></pre><br /> So you'll have to use either <code>sudo</code> or <code>su</code> in order to gain the privileges to edit the file: <pre><code>$ sudo vim /etc/ttys</code></pre><br /> If you meant that you ran <code>chmod</code> on the file and set permissions to 666, then I'm not sure why that didn't work without investigating further. Did you do that as root?

“I’m trying to implement it however I cannot edit the ttys file. I changed the priviledge of everyone to read/write but I still can’t save the edited file. I am an administrator-level user.”
–Alex

Even if you are an administrative-level user on OS X, certain system files are still owned by root:

$ ls -l /etc/ttys
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1.4K Jan 28  2008 /etc/ttys

So you’ll have to use either sudo or su in order to gain the privileges to edit the file:

$ sudo vim /etc/ttys

If you meant that you ran chmod on the file and set permissions to 666, then I’m not sure why that didn’t work without investigating further. Did you do that as root?

]]> By: Alex http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-59135 Alex Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:55:34 +0000 http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/#comment-59135 Great article! I'm trying to implement it however I cannot edit the ttys file. I changed the priviledge of everyone to read/write but I still can't save the edited file. I am an administrator-level user. Thanks! Great article! I’m trying to implement it however I cannot edit the ttys file. I changed the priviledge of everyone to read/write but I still can’t save the edited file. I am an administrator-level user.
Thanks!

]]> By: borstenwurm http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-49074 borstenwurm Mon, 19 May 2008 17:56:39 +0000 http://elasticdog.com/2007/04/howto-have-multiple-users-share-an-itunes-library-on-one-machine/#comment-49074 great article! i haven't had the time to try it myself, but it sounds great and i was looking for a solution for this for quite a while. so thanks in advance! great article! i haven’t had the time to try it myself, but it sounds great and i was looking for a solution for this for quite a while. so thanks in advance!

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