Accessing a LR Catalog across a network

I asked this question previously but maybe I wasn't clear. Four people ata local university have Lightroom on their computers. They all have access to a main server where photos reside in folders along with a LR Catalog. The photos will eventually all be keyworded. Will each person (who has Lightroom) be able to open up that catalog and do keyword searches?

Lr is not a multi-user server application, and only one instance of Lr can have the a catalogue open at a time. Putting any file permissions issues aside, they will be able to open up the catalogue and, assuming their desktops can figure out the paths to the photos, access image data.

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