RE: sharing photos across a network with Lightroom

I own Lightroom but haven't starting using it, mostly because I've heard that it doesn't work if you accessing photos from multiple computers across a network. Is that correct? Or is there a way around this?

I do use Lightroom on multiple computers that can work on a single network and, I believe I have the same question. So let me see if I can ask it in a bit clearer fashion to get more complete advice from others.
My workflow for LR has been to use the licenses on my desktop and on my laptop.   That works fine once my postprocessing flow is done and the processed raw files are exported in jpg form to working folders and incorporated into the LR Catalog.   Those ppd images can be transferred by Windows across the network and the exported jpgs can be imported into both LR catalogs and both catalogs are easily synchronized.
Where the workflow seems to break down is for the unprocessed RAW files. If, for instance, I use my laptop for pping the images, than the actual processed raw files only appear with their changes on my laptop and in its LR catalog. If I use my desktop for processing, the Raw files on the Desktop have the processing changes embedded but those changes don't appear in the RAW files in the laptop. So I end up with raw files on 2 computers and only the LR catalog that actually processed the image has its processing data saved.   The other computer only holds unprocessed Raw files.
Is there anyway to transer the processed raw files from one LR catalog to another along with their processed data?   Currently I find myself processing the Raw files on the other computer a second time quite often, which seems redundant.
To the OP, is this what you were thinking about?
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Jacob:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
a bunch of square boxes with dotted borders appear.
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For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
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RE: sharing photos across a network with Lightroom

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