Aperture 3 with Library on a network Disk

Please, someone who have buy the full version, could tell me if Aperture 3 works with a library on the network disk. Because with the trial version it's impossible. Thanks for our reply.

I have been experimenting with Aperture 3 and this workaround for a couple of days and I can say that Aperture 3 is pretty much useless over a network - at least in my case.
I migrated all of my iPhoto libraries (about 33K images / 200 GB) to A3 on Mac 1. The library is on an external disk connected to Mac 1 and everything works fine on this computer. I do notice that A3 with one large library is considerably slower than iPhoto was with smaller libraries. Not too much of a surprise, but the big surprise was how differently it behaved over the network:
- It takes 45+ seconds to load the library over Gb Ethernet.
- None of the thumbnails show up. None of the faces in Faces show up. However, if you open the Viewer on a thumbnail, the image appears quite fast. Nothing I tried could make the thumbnails appear. Looking at the library XML files, the paths and everything look just fine...
- Importing takes forever. I tried importing a small set of 53 images. This would take about 30 seconds with iPhoto (over the network) and after about 20 minutes, I cancelled the tasks. 5 minutes later, Aperture is still trying to cancel.
I don't see anyway to replicate the workflow I had in iPhoto that I was hoping to improve upon using a better tool. I would run iPhoto on Mac 1 with all of the photos in libraries on an external disk connected to Mac 1. From Mac 2, I could open and use the libraries on Mac 2 with negligible speed difference compared to working on Mac 1.
I need a configuration like this to work because my wife and I share the same libraries. I could create a library with referenced masters and somehow sync that library between the computers, but that's not what I wanted. Syncing creates a whole new set of problems...
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