Calibre server access with local calibre

[IAmLostForWords]

Hello!

I have a calibre server running from within a calibre client running on a linux machine. My aim is to access that server as well from a windows machine calibre client instance.
The server is configured to run on 10.1.1.19, port 8081 with a URL prefix of /calibre and has username/password auth

According to the commandline documentation of calibre, on the windows machine I should start calibre.exe --with-library http://10.1.1.19:8081/calibre/#Calibre_Bibliothek in order to connect to the library server remotely.

It does exactly nothing (no return, no error, nothing). I tried combinations of
http://10.1.1.19:8081/calibre#Calibre_Bibliothek
http://10.1.1.19:8081/calibre#library_id=Calibre_Bibliothek
http://10.1.1.19:8081/calibre/#Calibre_Bibliothek
http://10.1.1.19:8081/calibre/#library_id=Calibre_Bibliothek

all those also with
http://username:password@10.1.1.19:8081/[...]

Calling simply calibre.exe opens calibre with access to the mapped drive network calibre db (which I want to avoid for obvious reasons)

Accessing the library server using a browser with
http://10.1.1.19:8081/calibre#library_id=Calibre_Bibliothek or "http://10.1.1.19:8081/calibre#library_id=Calibre_Bibliothek" leads to the library selection page, appending &panel=book_list leads to the library view

Have I missed something, what else could I try?

thanks,
Marcus

[theducks]

Calibre is not a Client of Server. Calibre-companion WAS a good client until the current owners could not keep up with Android/iOs changes (save your $ )

also, https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...rked-drive-nas, that should only be a COPY of the Library folder.

To interact with a 'Server' instance, just use your web browser Firefox, Edge... with that URL

[IAmLostForWords]

Thanks for the response, but why then

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/de/...e/calibre.html --> option "--with-library"
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gen...n-library-path

Does that mean that --with-library is just for executing "commands" to the database remotely, but not for opening up the UI?

[chaley]

You can't have an instance of calibre and a separate instance of calibre server using the same database. If you want that then you must use calibre with its embedded server, and leave calibre running. If you don't want to leave calibre running then you must make a copy of the library and deal with merging updates or make the server read only.

[chaley]

Also, as said in calibre documentation, for the calibre comand with-library must be a path, not a url