Aperture in two machines sharing the same library... possible?

I want to have one library which I could share between two machines (Ive got an iMac and a MBP). But I'd like to keep the library in iMac and access it on MBP over the network. I don't need use it simultaneously, but I don't want to use an external drive for it either... Any ideas? Thanks

Ian, and others,
I am maintaining multiple boot volumes on my Mac Pro, with the primary ones being one for Tiger and one for Leopard. At the moment I am separately maintaining Photoshop CS3 and Final Cut Studio on each of those. I have recently installed Aperture on that Leopard boot. I now plan to establish another Leopard boot (using a WD 750 GB drive), primarily for the pro apps such as PS CS3, Aperture and Final Cut Studio 2 (an upgrade) while maintaining FCS 1 on the other boot drive. With FCP, the projects and voluminous files are of course maintained on drives other than the boot volumes, and thus FCP, for example, can use those files whether I am in the Tiger boot, or the Leopard boot.
I have been wanting to fire up Aperture while in the Tiger boot, to test some odd printing behavior, but don't want to create another Aperture Library (which is not yet populated to any real extent) just to do the test. Also, I would like to administer the Aperture Library from the planned new Leopard boot, but not create separate libraries if I should wish to use Aperture while in other boot volumes.
It seems clear (but I could be wrong) that this can be done, but is it advisable? Practical? Obviously, with the separate boots, I would never be using Aperture from but one "computer".
Ernie

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