[Digikam-users] digiKam network collection problem

[Duffields]

Been using digiKam more and more over the past two years and am mightily 
impressed with it.  I now use it for 85% plus of all my photo work.  It just 
keeps getting better and better! 

I am currently testing Kubuntu 9.04 ("Kubu") on a small network consisting of 
three computers, the other two of which are running Ubuntu 8.04.  The 
computers share common files located on two hard drives on a D-Link Network 
Accessible Storage Device (NAS) which is auto-mounted at startup by entries 
in fstab.   It is formatted NTFS and uses Samba Shares because I also run 
Virtual Windows for two essential apps that do not, yet, have Linux 
substitutes.

Kubu sees the network drives and can read the drives. All applications Except 
digiKam can write to the drives (one other appears to also have a problem).

DigiKam can see the drives but when I try to add a collection of photos to it 
that is located on the NAS I get the message: "The selected folder does not 
exist or is not readable". 

Both Okular and Gwenview can see the networked photo files and display them. 

I had high hopes that digiKam 0.10.0 would have a more elegant way of 
maintaining multiple collections over a network.  I hope I do not have to 
resort to the previous method of creating symlinks to the photo files.

Does anyone know the secret to gaining access to network photo collections?

Mac