Darktable and comms

Software darktable
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I am a Darktable newbie. I have downloaded it onto my machine which runs Ubuntu 20.04LTS with all the updates and upgrades. Loads fine.

I try to access my file store which is on another Linux system (shared RAID10). I can ping to the storage system and can ping from it. Under Ubuntu I can access the files just from “Places”, but darktable doesn’t even recognise that there is an external store.

So, two questions:

(i) does darktable require a local store (I hope not)
(ii) does it require any special comms setup

Many thanks

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If you can mount that drive on your local machine darktable should be able to read it. As far as darktable is concerned it would look like part of your local filesystem.

3

He’s probably using a sandboxed environment like a flatpack or a snap image.

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Sounds like it has been mounted using gvfs/kio which makes it visible to the file manager but not to the rest of the system. Unmount it from the file manager and use the mount command from the command line.

5

Working now. Problem turned out to be at the RAID end.

Thanks for all the advice/tips.