How can I share a library (or other image files) across computers

Hi All;
My wife and I are both freelance photographers. We recently bought aperature ad per the license agreement installed it on my laptop and her mac desktop. We also just bought a 2-Terabyte network RAID storage array.
I want to be able to pull up the images on the network array from either machine (via aperature)
What's the best way to do this ?
Thanks in advance

First off, even if you are allowed to install it on both computers Aperture will not let you run two copies on the same subnet with the same serial number at the same time.
Second, Aperture is not designed as a multi-user concurrent access application. The workflows that I have helped people design for multiple photographers do not revolve around accessing the the same library at the same time. They are more like a project check-out/check-in when more than two people contribute to what ends up being a consolidated library. I have monkeyed around and gotten what you ask to work but it is highly inadvisable due to the nature in the way Aperture accesses and modifies the data (a disaster waiting to happen if you access it concurrently). You can share masters but that is pretty much useless if you are working on the same images. If you are not I would suggest something more along the lines of what I have outlined here:
http://rwboyer.blogdns.com/managing-aperture-2-on-multiple-computers/
if my new test site is not functioning it is also here:
http://www.rwboyer.com/RBDesign/Blog/Entries/2008/9/6_Managing_Aperture_On_MultipleComputers.html
RB

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