Lightroom across the network, is there ANY way?

Question

We have to process large catalogs with 8000 plus images and are under a time limit of about a week tp process them ...usually.
We put the catalog on one PC we call the Master and would like to be able to have other staff work on the catalog from one of the other PC's on the network. We have 12 PC's on a peer to peer network ( no server) and I need to split up the load and have several people working on it at once. I need to be able to open a catalog from another PC, while several other people are doing the same thing on different parts of the catalog so I can get these jobs out the door without one person or PC managing the whole job.
We don't put it on an external hard drive and move from one PC to another, that still defeats the purpose.
So far LR says it cannot work across a network, so I can't open a catalog from a laptop and work on the project from home ( for example) and I don;'t want to be duplicating all 8000 images on all the PC's so we are at a point where I need to ask for help...
Right now I export part of the master catalog to anoter PC with the oiginal images copied to the second PC, make my edits and Export back to the Master PC in a subfolder by the dancers name. Slow, but it does work. I would rather not have to do that on multiple machines to speed up the project.
Isn't there some way I can open the master catalog form another PC on the network, make the corrections and do the export right there?
Thanks everyone - any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

No.
There are risky workarounds that allow you to open a catalog that's on the network, but none that allow multiple users to access the same catalog.  Any such workaround is a sure-fire way to corrupt the whole thing.