[Digikam-users] Albumroot on remote filesystem

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> Hi all.
>
> When starting digikam for the first time, Digikam requests me to enter the
> albumroot - and displays a note to "not use mounted path hosted by a rmote
> computer".
>
> Why? What is the problem? If it is only network traffic, it's no problem
> to me.
> Has anyone ever tried with success?

See here, section 6.0, third paragraph:
http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html

SQLite is operating on a file on disk, and, as a database featuring concurrent 
access (and digikam using this), has to use file locking. Someone said it 
worked with NFSv4; I dont know about SMB.

>
> I just moved my entire album root to a samba server and wanted to use the
> mounted smb partition for album root, so I am a little nervous to just
> try...
>
> Best regards and thanks in advance,
>    Morten