PS Elements 7; network drive; two computers

Hi,
I am running PS elements 7 on a home PC with all photos on external network drive.
I would like to install another copy of elements 7 onto the home laptop and allow both PC and laptop to have full access and editing rights for our photos.
How can I have elements 7 installed on both systems and share tags, ratings, notes, books, edits, etc.
Would we have to limit one pc to access photo files at a time or can both pc access files concurrently. I would expect we would generally only access via one computer at a time.
Is there a walk through to set this up please?
many thanks
Andrew

Let me clear one thing which I noticed in main query :
PSE does not contain files, it keep all references of files and their metadata in a database, so you actually will be sharing the Catalog database. And there are limitations of databases that you can't use one databse through two applications effeiciently becasue there m,ay be access right problems at a particular time....
So remember that apart from sharing files you are also sharing catalogs, If I understand it correctly...

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