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Reach local iTunes library over the net
Authored by: cyberkni on Wed, May 13 2009 at 7:12AM PDT

This works!
One catch with it though:
I needed to allow remote hosts to connect to my ssh port forwards via the -g option(or GatewayPorts yes in ~/ssh/.config for that host)


ssh -gNf -L 3690:localhost:3689 remote-machine-with-itunes

dns-sd -R "remote itunes" _daap._tcp. local 3690 localhost 127.0.0.1 &