Paul Kaplan wrote:
On Sunday 08 Jan 2006 10:49, Paul Kaplan wrote:
What is the URL a user who is not on my LAN should use to access a
kpf
shared
folder? My machine is behind a firewall and has a 192.168.x.x IP
address.
I'm trying to share photos with family.
TIA
Paul
Assuming your family are not computer geeks then I assume the easiest
way to
view pictures is with a browser.
In that case set your firewall to forward port 80 to your computer and
set up
a web server. There are a number of applications available to display
pictures on a web server. Gallery is nice (I use it)
http://gallery.menalto.com/ (Gallery 1 is simpler to set up than
Gallery
version 2)
Isn't kpf supposed to do the server stuff? The documentation for
setting up kpf is fine, but there's nothing for using it.
Paul
Paul, let me ask a 'dumb' question.
if money was no object, would you rather have a Hummer that never used
fuel, or 1992 datsun 510 that used 2 gallons a mile?
To me, Apache (the Hummer of http servers, [imnsho]) is free, and sets
up under Mand-ex with out near as much sweat (fuel) as kpf and has tons
of documentation and folks willing to help.
this is one of those times when, it seems to me, that you will still
need to setup a dyndns address (or at least an address dns can resolve),
and still configure the webserver, and still create a gallery and
linked thumbnails (etc...) but you will only get the datsun of
webservers after all that sweat/effort (fuel) of configuring the
webserver (and router) and not have anywhere near the abilities and
support that you get with Apache.
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