10-24-2012, 11:10 AM | #1 |
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Transfer books from desktop to iPad wirelessly.
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I just discovered the brilliant facility whereby calibre allows one to copy books from my desktop to my iPad across the Internet! I set every thing up according to the manual and entered my local IP Address eg something like 42.5.1.8:8080 into the address bar of my browser and was delighted to see a list of books from my desktop PC and was able to copy a couple! However when I tried this from somebody else's wireless system (without changing the IP address) I got a message saying server not responding even though calibre was running on my PC with Internet transfer enabled. What am I doing wrong? I know there are two IP addresses (the other one is something like 192.184.56.2:8080) but that one never worked so I assume the local IP address is the one to use - it works perfectly when my iPad is accessing my own router directly, but I'd assumed I would be able to download books from anywhere in the world, assuming I had an Internet connection. Has anyone got this feature to work remotely? Any help gratefully received. |
10-24-2012, 11:29 AM | #2 | |
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your router isolates and shares internally. You need to 1)open a inward bound port (in your case: 8080) Warning: Pinholes in the firewall expose your system to IMHO get security advice, minimize exposure times. 2)forward the port (8080) to a static/permanently assigned internal IP for the server |
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