Thread: Calibre Content Server - Basics
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Old 12-09-2011, 11:10 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by ddjohn View Post
That was EXACTLY what I needed!!!! Thank you so much. We set it up and gave it a test run. So far it looks pretty good. We will experiment and get familiar with this.

Is it that easy to set it up for long distance also? My daughter lives have way cross the country from us and would love to be able to share our book collection too. Is this possible if you have several computers on the local network and Calibre is only running on one of them? Will the router know which computer to connect to for this?
Long distance, better known as WAN/internet is a lot more complicated.
You will need to assign (or reserve) a Static IP to your Calibre server so it is ALWAYS the same.
Then your Router needs to forward the port being used (8080 is the default) to the IP of your server. (every one doe it differently but the end results are the same)

lastly, you need to know the current Public IP (Not the 192.x.x.x) or use a service like DYNDNS.org so your daughter can enter THAT in her browser.
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