* I. Ivanov <iv3...@gmail.com> [01-30-19 21:09]: > Hi Guys, > > I am storing my images on a share drive. I am planning to connect 2 > computers to use the same images. I stumbled on > https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/66083/darktable-on-multiple-machines > > and > > man darktable allows > > Options: > > --cachedir <user cache directory> > --configdir <user config directory> > > I assume the above can be a network location > > I am planning to use same DT version but different OS build (Ubuntu 16.04 on > one and Ubuntu 18.04 on the other) same mounting structure. Connection to > the shared drive is SMB CIFS. > > My hope is that I can switch back and forth between the 2 machines and it > would be seamless. Currently I don't expect both machines to _edit_ images > at the _same time_ but each one would edit at one point or another. I hope > both machines to view images at the same time. > > Anybody tried that? If you can please share your experience?
I utilize nfs/cifs/smb I don't see a problem as long as you save your xmp file and configure dt to check for changed xmp files on start up. what I do is designate one machine as primary and run dt on the secondary as: darktable --library :memory: and check for changed xmp files on startup on the primary/ -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
