Using an external ethernet hard disk to store photos

I would like to use an external hard disk to view my photos with iphoto from different macs connected to the ethernet external hardisk
Is it possible? and how should I set my machines?
thanks ,
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Are you wanting each machine to view those photos thru iPhoto? There are several ways of sharing and others can fill you in more on the conventional ways. Some are:
http://ad.hominem.org/log/2005/07/acl.php
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030925091034677&query=share+iphot o
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030925091034677&query=share+iphot o
Let me suggest another possible way.
That is use iPhoto in it's alias mode on each of the machines. Then store your source files on the external HD and let each machine create an alias based library of those files. Each machine will have an independent, unique library whose edits, slideshows, etc will be unique to that machine. Those machines can only delete the alias files from their library, they can't touch the original source files. The only caveat is if the external HD is not mounted the library will only be able to be used in a limited way, viewing thumbnails, adding comments and keywords only. You can put a few photos in a folder on the external HD and create a test alias library to experiment.
I've created some Tutorials to assist users in converting over to an alias based system.

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