[digiKam-users] Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB

[Donald Samuels]

Yes it is.  I started with a windows and mac but had issues with “local” being slightly different (in US), it kept rebuilding the database each time I switched, so for now I have two windows 10 boxes accessing.  The database is on a synology NAS, served by Mariadb.  I think I could make the mac play nice if the “locale” check had a choice to “ignore”.

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> On Oct 21, 2021, at 8:29 PM, Fred Wilhelm <siliconfalcon at live.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> So it is not possible to connect multiple computers to a single MySQL database?
>  
> Fred
>  
> From: Maik Qualmann
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:38 PM
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB
>  
> Sometimes nobody just doesn't know the answer. I don't know the specifics of a 
> Docker installation, nor do I know what a "Guacamole" client is. When I google 
> for the word, a dish of Mexican cuisine comes out. Yes, I also found it to be 
> an HTML5 web application, but I don't know it. Nobody can know everything.
> 
> Usually connecting to a MySQL server is not a big deal. But without some debug 
> logs from the terminal we cannot help. In addition, digiKam is not really 
> suitable for multi-OS, since the collection base path is different between 
> Windows and Linux. There is an undocumented solution for this and I plan to 
> make this available in the GUI, but currently it is not possible without 
> manual changes to the MySQL DB. 
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2021, 19:57:20 CEST schrieb Fred Wilhelm:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong? I have been asking this question for months now
> > with no response. I’ve asked in tech forums and Reddit groups supposedly
> > dedicated to Digikam. No responses. If my question is too stoopid, please
> > tell me I am a moron but please tell me why. I simply can’t find the answer
> > to this anywhere.
> > 
> > Fred
> > 
> > From: Fred Wilhelm<mailto:siliconfalcon at live.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 7:00 PM
> > To: digikam-users at kde.org<mailto:digikam-users at kde.org>
> > Subject: [digiKam-users] Need help connecting to an existing SQL DB
> > 
> > Hi Friends,
> > 
> > I have an Unraid server with the Digikam docker installation set to use a
> > MySQL server. Everything is working great and I love the product. Now,
> > however, I would like to install the Windows version of Digikam on my
> > laptop due to functionality issues in the Guacamole client. When I go
> > through the install, I am asked for the database connection info (which
> > connects fine) but, when it completes the install, it creates a new set of
> > empty tables and dumps my current database. I do not want to run the
> > Digikam server from my laptop because I have a cron job running to detect
> > faces as pictures are uploaded to my personal cloud and the Unraid server
> > is always running.
> > 
> > I am looking for the documentation to install Digikam on my Windows 10
> > laptop to use the existing MySQL database on my Unraid server.
> > 
> > 
> > Fred
> 
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