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

[Goose]

I've read digikam having a development version using mysql instead sqlite,
so sooner or later we'll have multiuser environment.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Brano <branob at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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