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Originally Posted by caleb72
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.
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Router setting: two 1/2 things.
1/2) Strong password your VNC access
1) reserve a internal IP or assign a Static IP to you host.
2) Port forward the port you assign to the Calibre Server.
2.5) Port forward port 5800(or the port you set) for VNC access
all this Assumes your router has a Static IP 0r a service like
DynDns.org on the WAN side so you can get at it from anywhere.