digiKam network collection problem

[Duffields]

Been using digiKam more and more over the past two years and am mightily
impressed with it.  I now use it for 85% plus of all my photo work.  It just
keeps getting better and better!

I am currently testing Kubuntu 9.04 ("Kubu") on a small network consisting of
three computers, the other two of which are running Ubuntu 8.04.  The
computers share common files located on two hard drives on a D-Link Network
Accessible Storage Device (NAS) which is auto-mounted at startup by entries
in fstab.   It is formatted NTFS and uses Samba Shares because I also run
Virtual Windows for two essential apps that do not, yet, have Linux
substitutes.

Kubu sees the network drives and can read the drives. All applications Except
digiKam can write to the drives (one other appears to also have a problem).

DigiKam can see the drives but when I try to add a collection of photos to it
that is located on the NAS I get the message: "The selected folder does not
exist or is not readable".

Both Okular and Gwenview can see the networked photo files and display them.

I had high hopes that digiKam 0.10.0 would have a more elegant way of
maintaining multiple collections over a network.  I hope I do not have to
resort to the previous method of creating symlinks to the photo files.

Does anyone know the secret to gaining access to network photo collections?

Mac
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[Paul Waldo]

I have a similar problem.  I set up Digikam 0.10.0 on my wife's Windows box, using KDE for Windows.  My initial goal is to give my wife access to my image collection, hosted on a NAS box as a samba read-only share.  Digikam was able to locate the network collection, but when it tried to index the images into its locally-held database, it did nothing.  It said it was working, but there was no CPU activity, and it eventually crashed after many hours.

Under Linux, I would look in ~/.xsession-errors to try to find out what is going on, but what to do in Windows...??

Paul
----- "Duffields" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Been using digiKam more and more over the past two years and am
> mightily
> impressed with it.  I now use it for 85% plus of all my photo work.
> It just
> keeps getting better and better!
>
> I am currently testing Kubuntu 9.04 ("Kubu") on a small network
> consisting of
> three computers, the other two of which are running Ubuntu 8.04.  The
>
> computers share common files located on two hard drives on a D-Link
> Network
> Accessible Storage Device (NAS) which is auto-mounted at startup by
> entries
> in fstab.   It is formatted NTFS and uses Samba Shares because I also
> run
> Virtual Windows for two essential apps that do not, yet, have Linux
> substitutes.
>
> Kubu sees the network drives and can read the drives. All applications
> Except
> digiKam can write to the drives (one other appears to also have a
> problem).
>
> DigiKam can see the drives but when I try to add a collection of
> photos to it
> that is located on the NAS I get the message: "The selected folder
> does not
> exist or is not readable".
>
> Both Okular and Gwenview can see the networked photo files and display
> them.
>
> I had high hopes that digiKam 0.10.0 would have a more elegant way of
>
> maintaining multiple collections over a network.  I hope I do not have
> to
> resort to the previous method of creating symlinks to the photo
> files.
>
> Does anyone know the secret to gaining access to network photo
> collections?
>
> Mac
> _______________________________________________
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