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Originally Posted by starrigger
Hm. No. "Cannot connect with current settings."
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You almost certainly will not be able to use the computer name from your PDA. Without going into alphabet soup, windows machines have a proprietary system for sharing their names with each other, and most PDAs don't play.
In addition, 127.0.0.1 will not work. That is always the local machine, never some other machine. You need to find the real IP address of the machine running the calibre server. On windows, one way to do this on all versions of windows is to open a command box (start, run, type 'cmd' and OK), then type the command 'ipconfig'. It will print a lot of gobbledygoop, but buried in there will be a line IPv4 address ..... On that line will be a set of four numbers separated by periods. The first two numbers will almost certainly be 192.168. The third number is probably 0 or 1, but not necessarily (mine isn't). The relevant portion of mine looks like:
Code:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::1c6a:f6f5:6049:83f6%11
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.9
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.220.1
Once you have that number, open the browser on your PDA and try the URL
http://192.168.x.y:8080/ where x and y (and in fact all the numbers) come from the output of ipconfig. When I do that, I get the calibre server. If that works for you, then try that URL in Freda.
Good luck!