New user with the iMac and MacBook Pro...

I just ordered Lightroom 3, and while I'm waiting for delivery, I did the research so that I set up correctly from the start.  My husband and I are amateur photographers, not professionals.  So, we have a lot of pictures, but not thousands.  I take most of the photos.  I do not use RAW, but sometimes my husband does.  We use Photoshop Elements 8 to edition and iPhoto to produce books, export to our iPad, etc..  We have 2 computers... an iMac and a MacBook Pro.   All the reading I've done, I think I should install the Lightroom Catalog to the shared drive on our iMac.  All photos that we can live on this share drive (when importing we can mark with our own name so that we can each make a collection of our own photos).  As I understand it, each of us could use our own space on the iMac's Lightroom to access this library shared, to make our own edits, etc.

First question... is what I said above correct and it seems like the best way to organize?

Second question... it is now quite easy to access my files from my MacBook on our home network bridge.  It will be easy to access files via Lightroom when they live on the iMac but I want to use the MacBook instead?

No help to you all, experts out there would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you, Cindy

Well, wireless will be /technically/ work. Because the wireless network connection simply provides a conduit through which is an extra layer of stuff system of sent files (probably AFP or SMBFS or something) for you give access to remote files and directories, you can see the performance is not acceptable.

Some people report performance ok with remote catalogues and managed files, but many have catalog locally, with the managed pictures on drive accessible via a protocol of remote files.  Despite this, I suspect that some of these people are connected via gigabit ethernet.

You will find that the network connection or the remote file system protocol may bring slow unreasonable things.

Another restriction is that, under the right circumstances, Lr will change behavior to prevent you from using it in network. I forgot the exact circumstances in which this happens (I think it was reported that in other threads). I remember that it is limited to the import dialog. It will probably cause problems for you since the paths you use will probably be impossible to distinguish from local paths, but I wanted to mention it just in case.

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