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Old 06-24-2011, 03:40 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
All I did was browse to http://<IP ADDRESS OF MY PC>:8080

Depending on what type of firewall software you have on your PC, you might have to open that port as well.
I did much the same thing but in mycase my :8080 port is inuse for my tivo

however

under the calibre menu click on "preferences" once there a window will open up
go to "server" and select "shariing over the net" under server port choose a port which would be in my case 8081 the typical default is 8080 but some aplications use that port, and it is not available for me. you can leave user name and pass word blank. the defualts will work best for therest. click on "start server" and while calibre is running it will show up as your current ip address

you get to it by typing someting like this in your browser. 192.168.1.xxx:8081 you will change the xxx to reflect your true ip address and the port number is what ever you set it up via calibre as. calibre has a test server function. Also your firewall may interefere with access. Dont panic just tell your firewall to allow access to that port and ip addresses from your devices on your home network. Every firewall is dif so you will have to examine that your self

some routers may use 192.168.2.xxx:8081 as the ip address you can check your ip from the cmd line in windows and using the "ipconfig" comand
to do this select "windows start button" the little space where you can type in type the "cmd" this will bring you to dos window

in the dos window type "ipconfig" hit enter
the results you see will be your ip address



hope this helps

regards

jack

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