Sharing iPhotos library accross more than 1 MAC

As I now also own a MacBook Pro I want to have access to my photo library which is based on my Mac Pro rom my MacBook, how is this done?
Thanks
John

John
There are two ways to share, depending on what you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other machine to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then network the two Macs together, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and on the other Machine, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both machines for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc. then:
Quit iPhoto on both machines.
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to an external HD set to ignore permissions.
On each machine in turn: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting dialogue, select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new library location. From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both machines will have full access to the library, in fact, both machines will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Regards
TD

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