Image browsing via network

Hi all,

I have the following needs and am having trouble finding a solution:

1) I have a 60GB (and growing) archive of images on a hard drive (I
have them archived to CD and DVD as well, which is beside the point)

2) I want to be able to browse those images over the network,
particularly from the laptop (801.11G).with comfortable speed.

3) I only desire screen sized/resolution images for fast browsing.
I'll take the speed hit if I decide to edit an image.

3) I don't particularly need strong database support, though that
would be a plus.

4) Needs to support JPEG as well as NEF (Nikon's RAW format) images.

Suggestions?

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Not A Speck Of Cereal

Not A Speck Of Cereal <> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I have the following needs and am having trouble finding a solution:
>
> 1) I have a 60GB (and growing) archive of images on a hard drive (I
> have them archived to CD and DVD as well, which is beside the point)
>
> 2) I want to be able to browse those images over the network,
> particularly from the laptop (801.11G).with comfortable speed.
>
> 3) I only desire screen sized/resolution images for fast browsing.
> I'll take the speed hit if I decide to edit an image.
>
> 3) I don't particularly need strong database support, though that
> would be a plus.
>
> 4) Needs to support JPEG as well as NEF (Nikon's RAW format) images.
>
> Suggestions?

One approach would be to run a web server on your host and have your pictures
in a web page, where the thumbnails come up, and if you click on a link it will
give you the full size image. I keep ALL of my photos in web format, and I
have albums that are either topic based or month based (ie, my daughter and now
wife are actors at the Maine ren. faire, so I have an album devoted to just the
faire, no matter whether I took the pictures in July or August, while more
general pictures get uploaded to the months picture album). Each album shows a
thumbnail for each picture, with links for the small (800x600), large (full
size after editing), and original pictures. I have seen software in the past
for Linux that would allow downloads and uploads as well, but at the moment, I
use my own hand crafted perl scripts, and haven't gotten that far.

In terms of the laptop, I keep the small and thumbnail versions of all of my
pictures, but only keep that last year or so full size pictures, and only the
last month's original pictures, and I use rsync/ssh to keep the main system and
laptop up to date (both systems are Linux based). Basically at the start of a
session, I do a rsync on the laptop getting any changed files on the master
system, and after editing, I rsync the files back to the master, which updates
any changed files.

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