[Digikam-users] Re: shared and archived photos

[Gilles Caulier]

Personally, at home, i use this configuration :

1 netbook Linux/Win7 (Wifi)
1 macbook (Ethernet)
1 laptop Win Vista. (Wifi)

I setup recently a B3 server device to host all my photos B3 is
connected to network with Ethernet and has 1 Gb HDD. Network sharing
is Samba (windows/linux) and AFP (apple)

http://www.digikam.org/node/570

On B3 i tried setup Mysql server to host remote collection. It work
and you can share same database for all home computer. The disavantage
is that doesn't work if you use your computer outside home (for ex
with my netbook) The solution is to open database acess through
internet, but for security reason, i don't do iy currently.

About that On my netbook i switch from Mysql to SQlite.

Using remote collections and remote database can be a problem if
network is slow (typically with WIFI). The goal is to render all DB
registrations (scan, thumb, fingerprint, faceid) connecting computer
by ethernet. After that i disable scan new items at startup and do it
manually if it's really necessary.

i hope that it's help you...

Gilles Caulier


2011/2/18 Lluís Forns <lluis.forns at escoltesiguies.cat>:
>
>
> Al 18/02/2011 01:09, En/na gerlos ha escrit:
>> Il giorno 17/feb/2011, alle ore 10.18, Lluís Forns ha scritto:
>>
>>> I am looking for a software which allow me to:
>>> - Share my photos (shared server) and tag/album database between computers
>>> - Archive/add photos to/from DVD, and thumbails/tags/albums... keeps
>>> stored in database, so when I search for a tag and double click on a
>>> photo, I am asked to insert the correct DVD in order to open the file.
>>>
>>> Does digikam this? Thanks.
>>
>> If you use remote collections, afaik, yes, you can do this kind of things with digikam, just save your collection and its database in a shared directory.
>> But I'm not sure, I never tried these kind of things, just worked with local collections. In particular, I don't know how will digikam manage simultaneous, concurrent modifications to your collections from two different computers.
> Digikam support mysql as backend, so I think there will not be any
> probelm with this.
>
> What I miss is if there is any way to storage photos in external media
> in a way that digikam still knows about them, and when I try to open
> them it asks me to insert the external media.
>> Anyway, you can do something similar also using ResourceSpace, that works on the server, requiring only a web browser on the client side to work:
>> http://www.resourcespace.org/
>>
>> bye bye
>> gerlos
>>
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