Networks and local display Nautilus

[Ollie Killingback]

I have recently moved up from having several PCs in the house with
shared directories to a server running Ubuntu Server 9.10 while the
various laptops all run regular Ubuntu 9.10.

Mostly I show the contents of various directories in list form, but
for directories of images I use Icon view so I can easily spot the one
I want.  That works fine until I access from a laptop a directory of
images on the server.  In that event in Icon view all I get is a
standard JPG icon, so apart from the file name (which may or may not
be revealing) I can't tell one image from another:
"wifeOnDartmoor001" through to "wifeOnDartmoor100" doesn't help
greatly when I want the one near a tree where the sun is shining over
her shoulder, not the one with a horse in the background.  I could
download them all to the laptop I'm using, but that defeats the object
of storing on the server.

This is particularly important for my wife who takes vast numbers of
photographs but who only has a smallish HDD on her laptop, compared
the to acres of storage on the server.

Is there a way to show the image files on the server in the same way
they are shown on a local pc?

Ollie