Workgroup needs to access same catalog

We just purchased and installed six Lightroom licenses on computers in our research lab. Several of us work on the same project, using photos that reside on our network drive. I have sadly just discovered that catalogs cannot live on the network drive and each individual user cannot see the edits, tags etc. that other users have made to a set of photos on the network drive. This presents us with a big problem, as we all need to be working on the same catalog. Is there any way to solve this issue or to work around it?? This will almost defeat our entire purpose of purchasing this software if we cannot figure out a solution. Thank you for any suggestions!

I think that working simultaneously on the same photo and live view changes is impossible.
Let me tell you what we figure out during group work. First of all we import all material on selected computer (automatically write changes into XMP selected) and synchronize global things like tags, camera calibration, noise reduction etc. We agreed to use the same ratting method and color flags.
Then we divided arbitrarily all RAW files into separate folders (one for each of us) and copied all files on each hard drive. Then each person import files to his Lr, keeping in mind responsibility for his sub-folder. After postprocessing we share only XMP's with others and use scan for metadata updates to see results. We used picassa album to comment results. Group leader fixes minor things or asked individuals to change something and send back XMP.

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