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I'm looking for the best solution for sharing our family photo library on our home network. I first looked at Lightroom, but it has the problem of not wanting to work over the network.
Basically, I have a 1 TB RAID 1 NAS in the basement and all desktop PCs/Macs are now using hardwired CAT6 networking, so network speed shouldn't be a problem.
So what I need is a cross-platform photo library software that works over the network (storing all the metadata on the network drive as well).
What's the best thing to use?
Thanks
Tobias Timpe
UPDATE: Maybe I should have told you this more clearly in the first hand: I'm looking for a photo management app that supports network drives, something like Lightroom, Aperture or Picasa.
Unfortunately, questions seeking product recommendations are off-topic on SuperUser because they tend to become obsolete quickly. The Q&A format also works best when a question can be answered with a single, authoritative answer (imagine someone has infinite knowledge and ask yourself "can such a person write a single answer to the question I'm asking?"); as it is written, multiple different answers to this question can be equally correct, and what's more, the set of correct answers will likely change with time as vendors develop their respective products.
– a CVn – 2013-10-12T22:18:01.200Some NAS has their own Photo Library sharing package, have you checked if your NAS can install it? One example was Synology with their Photo Station. I don't know what NAS you have, so that is one option you can try to check. But yes as Michael commented above, this kinda falls under product recommendation which is off-topic. – Darius – 2013-10-12T23:34:56.900