How to see Photos on a external hard drive from diffrent computers?

My wife uses a laptop to down load all of our photos on to an enternal hard drive. I have the same Adobe 5.0 on my desktop as her laptop. I would like to know how to view and if possable organize and edit the photos on the hard drive form my desktop ?
Thanks, Jeff

And I know I can see the photos on the drive, but I realy need to see the photos that have been taged by the other computer to make it easier to find them.

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