Digikam with Network shares on Win10

Software digiKam
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So, I’ve been playing around a bit with collections.

I’ve got all my photos on a Synology NAS which I map to a drive (Y:) under Windows.

If I add a “Local Collection” and navigate to the mapped drive, Digikam will find everything just fine.

If I add a “Collection on Network Share”, Digikam comes up empty. Nada, bupkis…

Any idea why?

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The network share option tries to connect directly to the share using sftp or smb. If you already have it mounted, then digikam sees it as local.

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Okie dokie. So definitely not a Windows thing then as I definitely am not able to access via the IP address of the NAS.

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Have you tried entering a URI for smb, such as smb://192.168.1.123/path/to/share.

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I have an SMB share mapped as a drive and added it to digiKam as a network collection. Everything works. Windows 10. I suggest you run Debug View in parallel and see what it is spots out after you add a network collection