Share Aperature Photo Library. IS THIS POSSIBLE???

Thank you in advance for any advice you may have for me!
Currently, I have an iMac with an Ext HD where my Aperture photos reside. The Aperture library itself resides on the iMac, and the photos are all externally referenced.
I need to be able to use another computer to edit/work with the photos (ie my MacBook Pro).
Is it possible for me to access my "master photo library" using my Aperture running on my MBP or using Aperture running on my iMac to work with a given photo - so that changes I make via the MBP will be seen when I later look at the pix via the iMac?
Thanks in advance for your help with this!
Message was edited by: MCKravMaga

Speaking only theoretically here, I don't believe that Aperture was designed with a transactional database model beneath it. That means that if one copy of Aperture is doing Complex Task A and another copy is doing Complex Task B they each might see the database beneath them as "corrupted" and in an inconsistent state. As an example, imagine a piece of code which was going to rotate all the pictures in a particular project. It gets a count of how many pictures, then gets the first image, then the second, etc. Imagine another copy of Aperture rearranging the photos in that particular project, moving some to a different project and reordering the others. What will the first think when it asks for picture 137 and the database says there is no such picture? What will happen if it rotates picture 99 and then the other instance adds a new picture at position 98, so that when it asks for picture 100 it ends up getting the same picture it already rotated as picture 99?
In other words, at least in theory, yes, it's crossing the beams. Just don't do it.

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Between this hassle -- hours of time wasted -- and recent debacle of upgrading iTunes which erased my library and all of my playlists, which also took hours and hours to restore ... my 25 year devotion to Apple products is taking a major hit. I'm getting very weary of heart-pounding fear every time a new software upgrade arrives ... but that's a topic for another time. ;-)
Thank you very much indeed for all suggestions.

I'm going to start from scratch as the link you references is very, very old.
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