Photoprism with originals on an SMB share (dataset)

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Hi guys I need some help:

I placed my pictures in a dataset which is share via smb.

I now installed photoprism and mounted the subfolder with the pictures.

But photoprism finds 0 pictures. (no permission denied in the log)

What am I doing wrong?

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According to my google-foo, Photoprism needs to run a scan of the folder to index the pictures into it’s database. Only mapping the folder does nothing. The Folder should be mapped to:
/photoprism/originals
or a subfolder
/photoprism/originals/smb

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when i tried to deploy photoprism with the catalogue (but take this with a grain of salt, was really with the EEL release), i couldn’t set more than 1 volume for originals.
Tried with a custom app, the yaml inserted was rejected for i don’t know what reason.
What i was try to do was map more than 1 folder to scan, like

    volumes:
      ...  
      - /mnt/Pool/Photo1:/photoprism/originals/gallery  # main file folder
      - /mnt/OtherPool/OtherPhoto:/photoprism/originals/subgallery
      - /mnt/OtherPool/OtherPhoto2:/photoprism/originals/subgallery2

This structure worked like a charm deploying the app in portainer.

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This is exactly what I did in the container options.

I was starting with one but it failed

I used the bash in the docker container and can see the folder in “originals” but the folders belong to root with

drwxrwx—+