  Quantum secret-sharing and quantum error-correction schemes rely on
multipartite decoding protocols, yet the non-local operations involved are
challenging and sometimes infeasible. Here we construct a quantum
secret-sharing protocol with a reduced number of quantum communication channels
between the players. Our scheme is based on embedding a classical linear code
into a quantum error-correcting code. Our work paves the way towards the more
general problem of simplifying the decoding of quantum error-correcting codes.
