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

[Brano]

On 10-06-25 11:00 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 14:22 +0200, Stefan Grosse wrote:
>    
>> Am 23.06.2010 00:54, schrieb Linuxguy123:
>>
>>      
>>> Does anyone have any ideas for accessing images from a Windows
>>> computer ?  Ie, one NOT running Linux ?
>>>        
>> How about using a NAS?
>>      
> Good qestion.   You mean I should set up a network storage system
> whereby I could run digikam on my computer and manipulate the images
> with my database and she could do the same ?
>
> Is anyone doing this ?
>
> For some reason I thought that digikam didn't work with networked
> storage.   Does it ?
>
> Thanks !
>
>    
We're talking about two things here

1) How to share the photo folder?
Simple, on linux you export it via SAMBA and win can mount it. This is 
exactly what NAS does. No need for dedicated NAS (but you can put one in 
if it fit's your bigger picture)

2) digiKam binary / DB install? Up to version 1.2 each user should have 
it's own local digiKam/db install. Each user can have the same share 
folder with photos mapped. For linux this is traight forward ... use 
your favourite package manager to install, on windows you need to follow 
steps for digiKam on windows (the KDE project).
This will give each user it's own "view" into the albums with two 
completely indenpendet DBs. You can re-sync metadata between each DB by 
writting the metadata to files and then re-scan by the other other DB 
respectively.

On version 1.3++ you can also share DB. The DB needs to run on one 
server (PC) and can be accessed by multiple users. (Not sure if DB 
replication is supported yet, that would allow multiple DB instances 
...good for laptops. I'm still on 1.2 so I have zero practical 
experience with full MySQL implementation in digiKam ...hoping to 
upgrade with suse11.3 in a month or so)