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<font face="Arial">Yet another idea ... have you considered setting up
an Xserver on the windows system? Xming </font>(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/</a>)
advertises that it will work on Windows 7. Using an Xserver does create
quite a bit of network trafffic but it will give you access to the
Linux machine as a user using an xsession directly (linux must be set
up to allow an xdmcp connect). I am assuming you have not thought of
this possibility.<br>
<br>
It will look and feel like you are using the linux machine's xwindows
directly, and so you are not faced with the problem of versioning or
compatibility of the database - all files and activity remain on the
linux machine. You are just using a window manager locally on the
windows machine to display what you would see locally on the linux. You
need a fast network as the mouse movements can be a bit jumpy. Just
create a user for your wife with access to a common photo area (set up
a group that you both belong to with the correct permissions). Link to
the photo area from each user and you should be away.<br>
<br>
You will notice a speed loss on the windows machine as all the graphic
activity is also via the network. i.e. You start DK and wait for the
program to load from the Linux machine, every key press and mouse
movement is networked.<br>
<br>
If you have enough excess power on the windows machine to easily run
the graphics of a remote DK or Gimp session you may consider running a
linux live CD and making an xdm connect from that. Most of the well
known live releases offer a xserver capability - you find it at the
logon menu.<br>
<br>
I do not have the latest version of DK yet and so cannot comment on its
(mulituser ?) ability with MySQL, but assuming that only one user is
making updates to the database at any one time then there should not be
a problem with table locking.<br>
<br>
My wife and I have different aspirations and different cameras. With
hers was included good software on Windows 7 but not as good as DK.
Her files are never over 8Mb. I use a DSLR and film scans which produce
some pretty large files. Our files are commoned on a Linux machine
which is used as a file server - effectively a NAS. This discussion
thread caused me to consider an Xserver alternative, especially as DK
can manage several camera types, so we would use one common database. I
am still new to DK and haven't pushed it yet but so far it does all I
need except a small problem with the RAW / NEF files - a point I want
to raise elsewhere.<br>
<br>
Having said all this, setting up an Xserver can have problems. It is
worth reading the website above to get some more ideas and to see if it
is an option you might want to look at.<br>
<br>
Then again ... seeing that you both use laptops this might not be such
a suitable solution, and what you're doing is about as good as it will
get ... only bottleneck is the USB, and you will not be able to access
the database or files concurrently.<br>
<br>
GL<br>
<br>
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On 10/12/10 19:39, JD Rogers wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTik7zMQ5ocewLKO4B6t7rByypCJVz=v2pAbCJ02J@mail.gmail.com"
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I have a similar problem (but without the windows bit).<br>
> I went with removable media, so it should be manageable..<br>
<br>
Tell me more.<br>
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Well, I have a 1TB usb drive which is my 'primary' storage of albums (I
mirror it occasionally with rsync onto a second 1TB drive that stays in
a different location). I configured digikam to keep the database in the
photo directory on the usb drive with the idea that my wife could use
the same db and then when either of us wanted to access the photos, we
plug in the usb drive to either of our laptops and everything should be
fine. <br>
<br>
That was the plan. In practice, I haven't really tried it much to see
what kind of problems might come up, but she do some browsing without
digikam using nautilus and that went ok. I also keep as much info
(tags, etc.) in the photo metadata, so rebuilding a digikam database
should be no problem. <br>
<br>
As Jim said, I think it should be ok, especially if she's not moving
the directories around. Read-only should be fine, and if she wants to
do editing, you could have her copy/save to a seperate dir (which is
good idea regardless of who is writing changes).<br>
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each computer then have its own database or does the database sit<br>
on the removable drive ?<br>
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That was what I was thinking would be the advantage of the db on the
drive rather than local, but hopefully someone else weighs in with
actually experience on the pros and cons of doing that.<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm
thinking of doing something is network storage at the same time. I<br>
should have added NAS into the subject line. Actually, I just did.<br>
<br>
Thanks !<br>
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