FYI (slightly off-topic, but I think is better to know it). There have been (and maybe is still lingering around) a very bad (and probably badly underrated at the start) bug in the combination of gvfs and smb in a lot of gnome-based Linux. I have the link here for ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1075923 but there are version of it in almost any Linux version. That made the "automatic" mounting crash, lock, and generally doing bad things during the best part of 2012 and 2013. I even had to recover photos from a backup due to a bad interaction between gvfs locking and gthumb crashing on it during a file move. It seems fixed now --- but if you can, and the network is secure, good old NFS is a secure bet. And as Rob says, when using SMB shares heavily, a direct mount is better. Romano On 2014-01-28 03:44, Rob Z. Smith wrote: > Yes that's correct I think. I also use an NFS mounted NAS drive for my > photos and it is rock solid - no problems at all. > > Samba mounts also worked fine provided I explicitly mounted them up > via fstab myself. Trying to use the automounter for the CIFS volumes > was however a complete pain with dt as half the time the volume wasn't > visible (this was a good while ago so things may have changed but I > still recommend an explicit mount). > > Rgds, > > Rob. > > FROM: Jordi Besora [mailto:[email protected]] > SENT: 28 January 2014 05:36 > TO: [email protected] > SUBJECT: Re: [Darktable-users] How to connect Darktable to a network > drive? > > Hi > > I use NFS as well to mount my NAS, and have no problem with dt seeing > it as a local directory. > > I'd think if the NAS was mounted via SAMBA instead, dt would just see > it as a local directory. Or am I missing something? > > Best regards > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > * Christopher Ryan <[email protected]> [01-27-14 15:36]: > >> How can Darktable connect to the network RAID drive where I keep my > > existing photo archive, so the images there can be imported? > > > > I am running Ubuntu Linux (12.04), and with SAMBA, I can see the > network > > drive in the "Home Folder" file-manager program in the operating > system. > > It's at the location "smb://mybookliveduo/public/PhotoArchive". > > > > However, I am not seeing a way for the Darktable Import Folder tool > to > > point to that folder. 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