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

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Freitag, 25. Juni 2010 schrieb 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.

But be aware that you have to rescan the whole photo collection to get 
changes in exif data of other users. A simple update will not work. 
This was discussed recently on this list. May be that digikam 1.4 will 
be able to handle this situation much better.

> 
> 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)

The downside is, that you share your whole database. If you have more 
than one album (i.e. local and remote) this will not work as expected. 
Afaik you can not share parts of your database.

Martin

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