Move the external drive of Lightroom on new server

I use Lightroom 6 (standalone - latest version) on an iMac. All Lightroom files are on an external drive attached in a hierarchy like this:

Photos (folder)

Lightroom Files (folder)

LR-2 Previews.lrdata library (folder)

Library of LR - 2.lrcat

Photos of LR (folder)

1999 (folder)

2000 (folder)

etc.

etc.

I would like to move this set of the player to a network attached server and continue to access it from the iMac. Can I move the player, point Lightroom for the .lrcat file and continue? Additional measures should be taken?

The connected server network is a Mac Mini running Mac OS Server (last).

Thanks for any help.

Previews and catalog file should stay together, if you don't move the previews they will be re-created by LR in any case

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