After upgrading to the iPhone 3GS and OS 3.0, I've been plagued with Stanza synch issues. The phone simply would not see the shared books. I'm fairly tech-savvy and went through all the possible scenarios with the firewall, ports etc. without any luck.
Your solution worked perfectly and I believe that its far more useful in the long term. I now have Calibre setup on multiple machines and can share all downloaded eBooks on both iPhones (2G and 3GS) with minimum maintenance.
I'm sure this has been mentioned by someone since your post, but the easiest way to get your computer's IP is by opening up a command line prompt (If using some flavor of Windows) and then typing ipconfig at the prompt
You should see something like this:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 6:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : xxx.xx.xxx
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.128.80.127
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : xx.xxx.xx.x
'IP Address' is what you need.
Also, something to note if you use DHCP and reboot your machine often, the IP address may change. If Stanza is having problems finding the catalog, check the computer's IP and update the info in Stanza.
Cheers.
