I was able to make a catalog on an EHD also. I did it when I was writing up the instructions the other night and didn't have any problems with it and with importing some pictures into it. A networked drive never occurred to me, although it probably should have. That's a bit of a different animal.
Hmmmm......but I wonder if a shared EHD would work. In other words, if she hooks the EHD up to her desktop and shares it on the network, when she's on her laptop maybe she could still accomplish the same thing. The warning though would be she cannot have LR open at the same time on both machines as this might still corrupt her catalog. This is something I can try between mine and my wife's computers. Will give that a try and get back to you on that one.
Hmmmm......but I wonder if a shared EHD would work. In other words, if she hooks the EHD up to her desktop and shares it on the network, when she's on her laptop maybe she could still accomplish the same thing. The warning though would be she cannot have LR open at the same time on both machines as this might still corrupt her catalog. This is something I can try between mine and my wife's computers. Will give that a try and get back to you on that one.