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solomon · 05-21-2010, 04:29 PM

Take a look at the sticky thread about Calibre-server. Here in Post #125 I asked about running *JUST* calibre-server on WHS and the GUI on a client machine. KovidGoyal says it should work, since the server process will be Read-Only and the client will be Read-Write.

I think that will work for you as well - by pointing your GUI Calibre to the WHS directory for its library.

If you are *VERY* careful, you might be able to run the GUI on multiple machines - but like Ghostbusters, NEVER CROSS THE STREAMS

I would NOT recommend this myself though - as you must be 100% certain that only one machine has Calibre running at any time.

(There's another thread here which goes through that multi-client idea in excruciating detail.)

HTH,
Richard

05-21-2010, 04:29 PM	#3
solomon Connoisseur Posts: 94 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Win 10	Take a look at the sticky thread about Calibre-server. Here in Post #125 I asked about running JUST calibre-server on WHS and the GUI on a client machine. KovidGoyal says it should work, since the server process will be Read-Only and the client will be Read-Write. I think that will work for you as well - by pointing your GUI Calibre to the WHS directory for its library. If you are VERY careful, you might be able to run the GUI on multiple machines - but like Ghostbusters, NEVER CROSS THE STREAMS I would NOT recommend this myself though - as you must be 100% certain that only one machine has Calibre running at any time. (There's another thread here which goes through that multi-client idea in excruciating detail.) HTH, Richard