[Digikam-users] remote digikam acces to server

[Martin (KDE)]

Am 28.01.2013 00:08, schrieb Jean-François Rabasse:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> A few comments about this topic and the more general issue of non
> local (local disk) collections data, often raised on this list.
> 
> First, to answer to Martin :
> 
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> 
>> Ist sshfs required? If not, did you try smb and/or NFS for this? I use
>> NFS for central photo storage since about 6 years ago.
> 
> You're right, NFS can be a good solution for non local images storage
> but NFS restricts to a local network. You can use NFS at home, if your
> desktop PC is connected to a LAN server, you can't use NFS if your
> storage is on an Internet server (e.g. ako web hoster or cloud provider.)
> I use sshfs too, to access data on my web hosting workspace, NFS would
> be impossible.

Well yes. As my photos are my original source I never store them on a
server somewhere in the cloud (it is way to slow with current internet
bandwidth in germany - 16Mbit download and 1MBit upload is ridicolous
for a high tech nation). But thats something every user has to decide
for herself/himself.

> 
>> To your problem: The path to your collection is stored in the database
>> (afaik).
> 
> Pathname is stored in the DB, sometimes, not always, cf. below.
> 
>> Unless you use two different databases this is expected. Why do
>> you use mysql instead of the local sqlite db?
> 
> Dominique will reply, but I guess he runs Digikam instances on two PC,
> called PC1 and PC2, and wishes to have one and only one database.
> So a MySQL solution, installed on the common server. SQLite3 can be
> used only on local disks.

I run digikam on three different PCs (at least) and use sqlite. But I
sync my home directory from/to the server at login/logout. I thought of
using mysql as well but dismissed that idea as I began to use notebooks.
WLan access is not always available and if not you neither can use
remote collections nor the locale ones. That's the reason for switching
from NFS home folder to local home folder as well (and that is the
reason for the sync).

And it is highly recommended to solve the ugly path/UUID stuff for the
collection places.

Regards
Martin