Accessing a library from a second computer (not simultanously)

With Aperture 1.5, I used to be able to access a library in computer A from computer B through our Ethernet network.
Now, when I try with Aperture 2, I get the following message: "Aperture cannot access this library. To use this library, make sure it is on local disk and file permissions are set correctly."
Did I miss something?

When you're dealing with data integrity, it's not really about how long you can push your luck. It's more about what the potential is for a complete disaster. Rarely, amongst databases, SQLite (which is what Aperture uses) has *no recovery code* built into it - I know because I use it too. If you lose a single byte's worth of integrity, you are completely and utterly dead. Restore from a backup, if you have one. On a local disk, this is taken care of by flushing disk-writes all the way through to the disk platters. That's not available over a network filesystem.
With that in mind, I can easily see the argument going along the lines of "disk is cheap, losing a photographer's entire library through no fault of ours is a disaster, let's turn off the network option".
As a bonus side-effect, it'd stop people trying to share access to a single library at the same time (I know that's not what you were doing, but I'm sure others have tried). That would screw up a library PDQ - CoreData (which, given the schema, seems to be what Aperture uses) doesn't support that at all.
From the text of that dialogue (the inclusion of the 'local' word), it seems clear to me that networked access to libraries is no longer supported.
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