[Digikam-users] digiKam network collection problem

[Robert Zeller]

Hi Mac,

I have a photo collection on a QNAP NAS, filesystem is ext3 that is also
exported by Samba Shares and is mounted on my Linux PC by the following
fstab entry:

//qnap/Qmultimedia  /media/QNAP/Qmultimedia  cifs 
credentials=/etc/credentials, uid=1001,gid=100,auto,user  0  0

I have full access  (read and write) to the NAS resident collection via
digikam 0.10.0.
Maybe your problem is related to the NTFS file system on your NAS;
normally you don't have write access to an NTFS file system from a Linux
box. I don't know, however, if this is also true for an NTFS file system
that was exported via Samba Shares .

Robert


Duffields 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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