Sharing Lightroom 4 catalog with multiple users on the same Windows Machine

Hi:
I just started out using Lightroom 4 for managing family photos. What I want to do is to share the LR catalog so that my kids and wife can access the database from their own accounts. I tried sharing the directory with the catalog and all the photos. But when I open lightroom from my kids's account, I keep getting an "unexpected error openning the catalog".
I am using Windows 8, 64bit
The catalog was created in my account (adminstrator)
the other accounts are normal accounts
I have searched around but all the questions ask about sharing on network drives. But I just want to share the catalog on the same machine on local harddrive. I made sure that all the other lightrooms are closed in the other accounts (everyone else is signed off) before I tried to open it from my kid's account.
Any ideas?
thanks a lot for your help,
Herman

It sounds like the other user accounts don't have permission to access the catalog. You could mess with permissions and try to get everyone access to the catalog, or an easier way might be to just move the catalog and the images to their own volume formatted as FAT 32. FAT 32 volumes don't user permissions, thus everyone would have read/write access by default.

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