Networks and local display Nautilus

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2010-03-22, Ollie Killingback <ollie.killingback at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Yes. In the Preferences window for nautilus, click on the Preview tab.
Change the thumbnails setting to 'Always'.

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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom