[Digikam-users] digiKam network collection problem

[Paul Waldo]

I have a similar problem.  I set up Digikam 0.10.0 on my wife's Windows box, using KDE for Windows.  My initial goal is to give my wife access to my image collection, hosted on a NAS box as a samba read-only share.  Digikam was able to locate the network collection, but when it tried to index the images into its locally-held database, it did nothing.  It said it was working, but there was no CPU activity, and it eventually crashed after many hours.

Under Linux, I would look in ~/.xsession-errors to try to find out what is going on, but what to do in Windows...??

Paul
----- "Duffields" <dhltd at telus.net> wrote:

> 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
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