Yes, that should work. The data can be anywhere, including on a volume accessed via the network. The library, on the other hand, must be on a drive local to the client computer from which Lightroom is running.
I have one large external drive, with FW400 and USB2.0 interfaces, setup with both the library and the data store so I can swap it between systems as desired. Godfrey On May 26, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Igor, what if you buy a USB drive (disk on key) and dedicate it to > your > LR library? Might it work? Say, if both your desktop computer and > laptop > dedicate the same drive letter to the USB drive - it might work. > >> I wonder if somebody has an idea of the most elegant to configure >> LightRoom for the following situation. >> There is desktop that has most of the photos on it and LightRoom >> database >> for those. >> There is a laptop that has some small portion of photos on its own >> drive, but also can access the harddrive of the desktop via the local >> network. >> I would like laptop's LightRoom being able to access the database >> of the >> desktop's LightRoom, so that this way I can use the same database >> from two different computers. The problem is that LightRoom refuses >> to open the database that is on the network drive. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
