Home Sharing options

[Stephen.R]

I’m hoping this also works if the account isn’t logged in? My media server is a headless Mini, and now I have it set to auto login to an account and launch iTunes on reboots. I’d like to just be able to turn on the home sharing in preferences, log out and have it continue to work across reboots without the auto login.

I’m guessing this is how it’ll work, but it would be nice to get confirmation.

It did not keep it open when I log out. But it is run by launchd, so it may be possible to set it up to run at boot via editing or creating a launchd plist.

I wonder if that's a consequence of things like FileVault (if the media is in your home dir), and/or the default "unmount external drives on logout" behaviour.