The simplest and best thing would be to get a separate drive and put all the libraries on it and move it to each machine as needed. Would also take out the headache of networking things. You really need to have all the content on a separate drive to begin with so if things go south you still have access to your content. And you wouldn’t be stressing your other machine needlessly.

If you’re on a Mac you’d have to use target mode. Google is your friend for that. Also it would be good if you included your basic info like operating system when asking for help here.

• This post was modified 22 hours, 44 minutes ago by drumjack52.

Actually I have a laptop I occasionally use the files from the Mac Studio on, I simply just share them on the network, that works fine. You would just have to make sure you have the shares available before starting SD3 or Product Manager. Obviously some of the larger libraries take a while to load, so it’s not something I do a lot of, but it is doable.

One more option I didn’t mention and from the way the OP is talking I’d take a look at VE Pro. One ethernet cable between the two machines and VE Pro takes care of the rest. No streaming library content from one machine to another. It does use iLok now as Vienna dumped the Steinberg key a couple of years ago. I ran it when I had two Mac desktops running at the same time. It’s also good on just one machine to help with hosting plugins outside a daw cpu draw.