[Digikam-users] Giving my wife access from her WINDOWS computer ?

[Brano]

On 10-06-22 03:18 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 14:07 -0400, Brano wrote:
>    
>> On 10-06-22 01:15 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>>      
>>> I'm looking for ideas on how my wife could have access to the images
>>> that I store in Digikam from her Windows computer.
>>>
>>> Preferably I would be able to control some aspects of her access such as
>>> she could edit tags but not delete anything ?
>>>
>>> She is running Windows 7, if that makes any difference.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> LG
>>>
>>>        
>> For now, I have a read-only share for my wife where she's accessing the
>> pictures.
>> She has her own DB on local drive.
>>      
> Is she running Digikam on her Windows machine ?
>    
Actually, my whife is running linux on her netbook ;)
>    
>>   This is with digikam 1.2 This allows
>> here to create her own tags.
>>      
> I'll have to investigate that.
>
>    
>> Once in a while I switch the share to read-write and sync her tags to
>> files. Then I sync my tags from files back to my DB.
>> Not a perfect solution but works nicely for us.
>>      
> Very interesting.  Thanks for sharing.
>
>    
>> Later I'm planning to get us on shared DB with digikam 1.3.
>>      
> Tell me more, please.
>    
Digikam 1.3 supports SQL backend with multiple users. So the plan is to 
have one DB only on shared disk with read/write access for both, 
pictures will be read only for her (or both for added security).