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Old 02-19-2009, 03:43 PM   #1
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Calibre Server on a Mac

I've been playing with the calibre server.

On my computer it works great. But anywhere else... not so much. That kind of defeats the purpose.

I'm running Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and using a Airport Extreme Router.

Is there something I need to be doing to access this outside the computer I'm running the server on? I've tried using my "real" IP address with the port number, but no help there.

Also, try to keep the answers pretty.... simple. This isn't my area of expertise.

Thanks!

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Old 02-19-2009, 04:17 PM   #2
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the likeliest culprit is a firewall/router. You need to pass the port 8080 (or whatever port you chose) through both your firewall and your home router. Somebody more familiar with Macs will probably help you with the details of doing that.
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Old 02-19-2009, 04:40 PM   #3
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Yeah, that's kind of my thinking as well. I played with some of the port forwarding on the router but nothing really helped. But I also get the impression it's a bit more complicated than that.

And the software firewall on the mac took a real hit in customization in the last OS release.
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Old 02-19-2009, 05:06 PM   #4
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Yeah, that's kind of my thinking as well. I played with some of the port forwarding on the router but nothing really helped. But I also get the impression it's a bit more complicated than that.

And the software firewall on the mac took a real hit in customization in the last OS release.
Even if you change a whole bunch of port forwarding rules on your router, if the PC or Mac hosting the Calibre server is blocking access, it isn't gonna do jack.
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I started the server on my desktop and then browsed to $HOSTNAME:8080 (where $HOSTNAME is the name of your mac, usually <something>.local>) from my iPhone and it worked perfectly!

BTW, I didn't have to set up any form of port forwarding. I have set up the firewall so that it asks me everytime an app requests a network connection and I can allow/disallow it. So, when it asked me whether I should allow network connections for 'python' (calibre-server is written in python and so the interpreter is the actual app that's running), I said yes. And, then everything was fine.

Gideon, try that and if that doesn't work, I will be happy to help you out.

Caveat: BTW, once you allow incoming network connections for 'python', the firewall would remember that. So, in the future, if you don't want python applications to have access to the network, make sure to remove 'python' from the list of allowed apps in the firewall.

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Old 02-19-2009, 05:10 PM   #6
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Yeah, that's kind of my thinking as well. I played with some of the port forwarding on the router but nothing really helped. But I also get the impression it's a bit more complicated than that.

And the software firewall on the mac took a real hit in customization in the last OS release.
Turn off your firewall is a good first step.

So... are you able to access it within that lan from another computer?

Let's start there.

EDIT: Even better, can you browse to it from the same machine it is running on?

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Port forwarding is usually needed if you want access to the Calibre server from the internet. Say you're on the other side of the country and you want to retrieve a book from your Calibre server using the built-in Stanza catalog via your iPhone.
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Ah, good point, ilovejedd. I hadn't thought about that.

However, to do this, you would need to know your WAN side IP address, correct? Those are usually always dynamically assigned (at least for comcast in the US). However, there are lots of ways to find out the IP address of your own machine remotely. So, I guess it should still be doable.

Mightn't it be easier (and possibly more secure) to just write a cronjob that syncs your calibre database every night to a location that's accessible on the web. Like your iDisk (if you have one) or to your own server?

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Yep... that's why I was trying to see if he could get this working on the LAN first, to ensure at least that is ok.

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I can see it on the computer hosting it. I can't see it anywhere else. Either off network or on.

I know how to find my real IP, and when I "test it" I can see my IP as far as my Mac is concerned but I'm not sure what the computer's name ".local" or whatever might be. How would I find that out?

But when I use that IP address on anything else it comes up short.

Firewall on the Mac itself is not turned on, and while I know how to change port forwarding I am not sure which IP to tie that to. (there is a place for TCP Port, UDP Port, IP, and then secret TCP, Secret UDP)

So here's what the Port Mapping setup looks likePicture 1)
And what I'm seeing when I go to test it: (Picture 2)
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Okay... yeah.. "localhost:8080" works locally.. testing on the network (iPhone can't seem to deal with it)
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Okay... so.. getting a bit smarter (thanks for the help so far).

Using "gideon-addingtons-imac.local:8080" allowed me to get on it with other stuff on the network. Will try Stanza but that isn't a big deal to me (as stanza seems to absolutely hate my mobi format stuff).

More concerned about being able to access it off network.
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Okay... so.. getting a bit smarter (thanks for the help so far).

Using "gideon-addingtons-imac.local:8080" allowed me to get on it with other stuff on the network. Will try Stanza but that isn't a big deal to me (as stanza seems to absolutely hate my mobi format stuff).

More concerned about being able to access it off network.
Use epub for Stanza and remember that the Stanza desktop viewer is much worse than the viewer on the iPhone itself.
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Woohoo! Got it working.

Turned the port forwarding on with the IP of the main computer and it is working now. Thanks for all the help!
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So here's what the Port Mapping setup looks likePicture 1)
And what I'm seeing when I go to test it: (Picture 2)
You don't want to do port mapping on your Mac. You will want to do it on your router if you want to be able to access this on the internet. If you only want to access it on the LAN.. that isn't needed.

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