stevehughes Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 Hi, I'm doing a trial to see how well I can get Daminion Server to work in a multi-site environment. I have a WAN link between my home and office. At home I have a NAS with all my photos \\QNAP\Photos At the office I have a similar NAS with the same name and path to the photos \\QNAP\Photos. These are replicated so the contents of both locations are identical. I have installed the Daminion Server on a server at the office and ingested the photo collection, leaving the photos in their location on the NAS. I find that I can open the shared catalog at either location and it works. Catalog viewing works slower at home but it's fast enough to be useable. The real surprise comes when I double-click a photo to open it full-screen. At the office it opens in a second or so, but at home it takes absolutely forever. This surprises me because whether at the office or at home I expected the image to load from the local NAS because it is referenced via \\qnap\photos. Instead it appears that the image is being transferring from the server. Is there something I have overlooked, or anything I need to change to make this work ? Thanks, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 How do you connect to your Daminion Server from your Home PC? Do you use your server IP address or the server Name? Which file is opened by after invoking the "Item > Locate in Explorer" command? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehughes Posted October 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 (edited) How do you connect to your Daminion Server from your Home PC? By its LAN IP address Do you use your server IP address or the server Name? Which file is opened after invoking the "Item > Locate in Explorer" command? The file on the local (home) NAS. I verified this by copying the file from the explorer window to the desktop and noting the almost instantaneous transfer. Edited October 3, 2013 by Steve Hughes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted October 3, 2013 Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 I tried to arrange a similar environment using VPN connection, but can't reproduce the issue on my side. Does it possible to give me a remote access to your PC via TeamViewer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehughes Posted November 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 I tried to arrange a similar environment using VPN connection, but can't reproduce the issue on my side. Does it possible to give me a remote access to your PC via TeamViewer? Hi Murat, Just confirmed that this behaviour is still occurring in 2.0 build 911. Do you still want to have a look ? I can setup a remote session if you wish. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Hi Steve! Unfortunately if you'll select a thumbnail in your Daminion Client with reference to a local file, and then double click it - Daminion Server doesn't pass a link for this file to your Daminion Client. Instead it generates a JPEG preview for a file and passes this JPEG preview to the Daminion Client as an array of bytes (technically speaking). In case of original JPEG files, it resent the hole image without decoding. Why? - Because there are a lot of different media formats which can be recognized by the Daminion Server. - To decrease the traffic between client and server and improve the full screen performance This is why you should wait until Daminion Server reads and sends the JPEG preview to your client. Possible solutions in your case are: 1. Check your WAN speed. How fast you can copy a 100 MB test files from your office PC to your Home PC? 2. Migrate to Daminion Standalone version. You can store and sync 2 Daminion local catalogs along with your NAS images 3. You can view your thumbnails by external viewers, for example FastStone. You can just press the V key to view a selected thumbnail using an external viewer. However it's not convenient to view a set of images by this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehughes Posted November 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Thanks. Is there a safe way to sync a local catalogue between sites without risk of file corruption? Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Is there a safe way to sync a local catalogue between sites without risk of file corruption? You need to find a third party tool for this that will check CRC of the copied files. And I recommend you to create daily and weekly backups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Hey Steve, In the latest Daminion 3.3 (1064) version we added the posibility to open photos from your local \\QNAP\Photos folder. You need to check an appropriate option in the Preferences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehughes Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Brilliant :-) I'll check it out. Regards, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Hey Steve, how do you connect the networks? I suggest you to install to Fritzboxes from AVM. Like the 7390 or the 7490 and connect both networks via a VPN Connection, than you could even work with one Server Computer and one license. At work yoou would have access to the printers and all other network appliances at home and the other way arround. for more questions just contact me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 One of the options for the replication of files between two remote computers is the Windows Distributed File System Replication (DFSR). But unfortunately it's available in the Windows Server versions only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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