Multiple user catalog

How can I share a catalog between multiple users? I'm sharing on three iMacs and using Lightroom 4.

You cannot have the catalog on a network drive, although you can put your images there.
The easiest way in my opinion would be to put the catalog and the images on an external drive that can be plugged in to each of the computers - subsequently.
Keep in mind that three computers cannot have access to the catalog at the same time. The Lr catalog can be opened in one version only (By "catalog" I mean the Lr database) .
So each of the three computers would have to plug in the hard drive in turn to open this (one) catalog and work on it. A bit more elaborate would be that each of the three computers creates its own Lr catalog that subsequently had to be merged with a "Master Catalog". Merging catalogs is done by using the "Import from another catalog"-feature in the File menu. But for this scenario you would have to "assign" certain images to each of the three computers since only one computer can have access to a certain image at a time.
Also, keep in mind that the "normal" Adobe license allows Lr to be installed on two computers only.

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