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Hi KLStringer,
Calibre is a different product than calibre2opds ; the former is used to maintain a database of ebooks and their metadata, the latter uses the database (alongside the ebooks files) to generate a static catalog in OPDS (xml) and html formats.
So, provided you can share a few directories between your "production" machine (the web server) and your "gui" machine, you absolutely can use Calibre and calibre2opds in the way you described.
On the "gui" machine (either Linux with a WindowManager, OsX, or Windows) you can run Calibre and make it generate its database in a shared directory of the webserver machine. Then you can run calibre2opds on the gui machine, and make it generate the catalogs on the same shared directory of the webserver machine.
Finally, you have to setup Apache so it serves this shared directory on the internet, and voilą : your catalog and ebooks are online.
Hope it helps,
David.
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