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caleb72 · 07-02-2011, 10:24 PM

Hi all,

I would like to do something particular with Calibre and I'd like some help from gurus to set it up. Actually it's more a network/router/vnc type question, but hopefully we have some boffins who have done this type of thing before.

I'm going to be setting up a media server at home for movies, music and ebooks. For the ebooks component I was going to set up Calibre and run it as a content server.

For the PCs/laptops in the home I was going to use VNC to remote to the media server when adding books to the library or using the Calibre interface as I understand using multiple Calibres running on a single library has problems.

Outside of the house, or on Kindle or mobile, I would access content via the content server as that should be more of a serve only unless I can be bothered VNCing again.

My problem, I'm not sure how I'd set up my router to allow access to the Calibre server. Which IP address would I use?

Sorry - it really ends up not being a Calibre question at all - but I'm hoping someone can give me a pointer or two.

07-02-2011, 10:24 PM	#1
caleb72 Indie Advocate Posts: 2,863 Karma: 18794463 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: Kindle	Specific use case... Hi all, I would like to do something particular with Calibre and I'd like some help from gurus to set it up. Actually it's more a network/router/vnc type question, but hopefully we have some boffins who have done this type of thing before. I'm going to be setting up a media server at home for movies, music and ebooks. For the ebooks component I was going to set up Calibre and run it as a content server. For the PCs/laptops in the home I was going to use VNC to remote to the media server when adding books to the library or using the Calibre interface as I understand using multiple Calibres running on a single library has problems. Outside of the house, or on Kindle or mobile, I would access content via the content server as that should be more of a serve only unless I can be bothered VNCing again. My problem, I'm not sure how I'd set up my router to allow access to the Calibre server. Which IP address would I use? Sorry - it really ends up not being a Calibre question at all - but I'm hoping someone can give me a pointer or two.