[Digikam-users] How do I set up Digikam for network access by multiple users ?

[Brano]

On 09/15/2009 05:49 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:41 -0400, Brano wrote:
>    
>> I have a same situation, all my photos are on NFS share, my digikam DB
>> is on my desktop local.
>> My wife has also the share mounted and needs to be able to tag the
>> pictures for printing/sending to various friends.
>>      
> At least I'm not the only one with this need.
>
>    
>> I'm planning to implement this (once I get to re-install my wife's laptop).
>>
>> 1) Keep all photos on NFS (or CIFS) share ...mounted to me and my wife
>> (I have complete backup copy elsewhere)
>> 2) Keep my digikam DB on my desktop
>> 3) Let my wife have digikam on her laptop with local DB
>> 4) She'll be tagging pics and digikam will save the tags to exif info of
>> each photo (as well as her local digikam db)
>> 5) Then I can re-scan the pics on my PC and get all the tags from exif
>> and process further as instructed (by her :))
>>
>> By this I'll get (somehow) the two DBs in sync ...at minimal I'll get
>> the info I need from her to my db.
>>      
> Hmmm...  I'm skeptical that this will work (without issues).  Can
> someone who has done it comment ?   If everything is stored in the EXIF
> tag field, what does DigiKam need a db for ?  Obviously lots of things.
>
> Why can't a DigiKam application connect to a remote db, other than for
> reasons of concurrent access ?  I wouldn't have a problem ensuring that
> my wife and I aren't both using DigiKam at the same time.
>
> Thanks for the replies !
>    
Not everything is stored in exif. Actually, by default digikam does not 
store tags in exif, you have to turn it on in settings.
Granted, this is not perfect solution, but it just exactly meets my needs.
Multi user DB would be nice to have, but I can definitely live without it.