Calibre Content Server question

[amalthia]

Has anyone used this feature to share their calibre library with people outside of their home network? I'd like to share my library with my brother in Texas and while I can see it just fine, he can't. I already have a no-ip account and I created a host name using my external IP address that I obtained here: http://www.canyouseeme.org/

I'm not sure what it is I'm doing wrong. I've also forwarded the web server port on my router, only I'm not sure which IP address to use there either...I'd appreciate any and all advice or a link to a decent guide on how to set this up.

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[rebecca2525]

This has not so much to do with calibre, but more how your router/internet access is set up.

A few things to check:

Let your brother try without the hostname from canyouseeme, but with your external IP address, just to rule that out as a potential culprit. (Note that if you don't have a static IP, your external IP changes regularly, so make sure that you use the current IP.)

Does the router run a firewall that you have to disable for the requests to the calibre server?

Re forwarding: Incoming requests that arrive at the router need to be forwarded to the machine the calibre server runs on, that is to the internal IP for that machine (which might change on every re-boot of that machine, dependig on your router setup. You might be able to set the router up in a way that the server machine always gets the same internal IP based on the server machine's MAC address.) You probably need to configure the port the calibre server listens on in that setting, too.

Does the server machine run a firewall which might block incoming requests?

[amalthia]

I think I was missing the port forwarding aspect. I will have to add the ports and give it another try.

Thanks for the tips. :) I'll give them a try.