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bmp · 09-06-2021, 11:52 AM

I'm a curator at a museum, and we have a pretty large pool of researchers who use our digital collections when they need it. I'm the one in charge of building an actual library anyone could use no matter where they are. Right now we have a local server where everything is stashed that can't be accessed off site and it honestly horrible to search through.
I have been using Calibre for years on my own elibrary, so I started importing our digital collections to Calibre, added metadata, etc.
Now I've been trying to make this library available to our researchers. I initially thought I could put everything on Google Drive, but we don't have enough space on the cloud.
So I'm trying "sharing over the net" using Calibre version 5.25.0, but I'm not very tech savvy.
I now have a web browser that is only accessible on my computer. Cool, but not what I'm looking for.
I think what I need to do is use something like boringtunnel to allow other people to access my local server over the internet, but boy am I confused on how to do it.

Any advice?

09-06-2021, 11:52 AM	#1
bmp Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2021 Device: Windows 10 Desktop	Using Tunneling to connect Calbre Server over the internet I'm a curator at a museum, and we have a pretty large pool of researchers who use our digital collections when they need it. I'm the one in charge of building an actual library anyone could use no matter where they are. Right now we have a local server where everything is stashed that can't be accessed off site and it honestly horrible to search through. I have been using Calibre for years on my own elibrary, so I started importing our digital collections to Calibre, added metadata, etc. Now I've been trying to make this library available to our researchers. I initially thought I could put everything on Google Drive, but we don't have enough space on the cloud. So I'm trying "sharing over the net" using Calibre version 5.25.0, but I'm not very tech savvy. I now have a web browser that is only accessible on my computer. Cool, but not what I'm looking for. I think what I need to do is use something like boringtunnel to allow other people to access my local server over the internet, but boy am I confused on how to do it. Any advice?