Managing Stills & Video across linux and windows clients

[tedbar]

I think I have resolved the issue. The key is that the Linux client has to mount the filesystem using CIFS and not NFS. Then provided the path under the mount matches it seems to work.

Ted




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On Monday, 1 September 2025 at 10:31, tedbar <tedbar at protonmail.com> wrote:

> I tried to set it up so that there was only a single collection, however, the client set up first loses the path to the images as soon as I configure the second client. Thumbnails are seen but the path to the images fails. Here is my setup:
> 

> 1) MySQL is set up on a server running on a headless Ubuntu V22 server.
> 2) The photos are shared via NFS for the Linux client and Samba for the windows client.
> 3) The NFS share is /mnt/Multimedia with Pictures and Video being sub directories on the server.
> 4) The Samba share is [Multimedia] with the path /mnt/Mutimedia.
> 5) The Linux client mounts /mnt/Multimedia at mount point /mnt/Mutimedia and DK points to the collection at /mnt/Mutimedia/Pictures.
> 6) The windows client maps the network drive to Z: at \\server_ip\Multimedia and in DK the collection points to Z:\Pictures
> 

> What exactly should I set the mount points and consequent paths to to get a single collection?
> 

> Noted using Exiftool for the video files, will check on the limitations regarding file types.
> 

> Ted
> 

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> On Sunday, 31 August 2025 at 22:39, Maik Qualmann metzpinguin at gmail.com wrote:
> 

> > You'll probably have duplicate collections now, one for Linux and one for
> > Windows.
> > 

> > Different operating systems use different root paths to the collection.
> > 

> > First, create the collection as a network collection on one operating system.
> > Then, on the other operating system, add the corresponding root path to this
> > network collection using the "+" tool button.
> > 

> > Now both operating systems use the same collection in the database, despite
> > different mount paths.
> > 

> > To save tags to video files, you must enable metadata writing with ExifTool.
> > Please note that ExifTool does not support all video formats.
> > 

> > Maik
> > 

> > Am Sonntag, 31. August 2025, 14:32:24 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb
> > tedbar:
> > 

> > > I am running Digikam, V8.7, on Linux (Mint) and Windows clients. They both
> > > access a MySQL DB on an Ubuntu server. This has some challenges,
> > > particularly around Tag management (probably captions too), however, I am
> > > not using Captions at this point.
> > > 

> > > To get both Linux and Windows clients working there are effectively two
> > > collections for Pictures and two for Video. I tried aliasing the paths to
> > > get both to 'see' the images/videos in a single collection but was
> > > unsuccessful.
> > > 

> > > Having two collections, Linux 'sees' one while Windows 'sees' the other.
> > > 

> > > For Pictures metadata (i.e. Tags) are written to the files and from time to
> > > time the DB is updated from information contained in the files. This works
> > > OK but is very slow on a moderate size collection.
> > > 

> > > With video files (AVI format) this does not appear to work. Checking the
> > > files using exiftool the tags do not appear to be written to the AVI
> > > files.
> > > 

> > > How does Digikam store the Tag info for AVI files?
> > > 

> > > Is there a smart workflow for using both Linux and Windows clients, against
> > > a common DB, which allows Tags set using one system to be recognised by the
> > > other?
> > > 

> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > 

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