Iphoto library sharing from remote imac

I have an external drive physically attached to my main iMac. I got my kids an iMac for Xmas. Currently, my iPhoto library is on the external drive and I would like to share it with my kids iMac so they can add and view photos from their iMac. I've turned on sharing in every place I can think of but continue to get an error on my kids iMac that says:
Caution
The iPhoto Library is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have permission to make changes to it.
Can someone help?
Thanks,
Stacey

There is no way to do it. It's not designed for networked access.

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