Everything RickH has put together is doable with the tutorials he and others have posted.
From what I’ve read, sharing of DBs was common early on. But with all the customisation and variation in DBs and setups, how he has it setup may not work out of the box for others.
Here’s RickH’s tutorial on the matter:
I, too, looked for plug-and-play solutions early on as I was being lazy and just wanted to get things working. I’m glad the contributors guided me to read and learn. However, instead of having a system that works how I want, I have a system that works how I want and am able to add, change, debug things as I go along as I finally understand (most) of how things work.