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Share iPhoto4 libraries across the Internet
Authored by: Fofer on Feb 14, '04 11:35:59PM

myPhoto references aside - this is a great hint. Since personal photos don't have the same copyright issues as commercially produced music, I wonder why Apple didn't include sharing over the Internet as a standard feature (as it did in the initial release of iTunes 4.0.)

I can only imagine that it had to do with concerns over upload speed. Big albums and large photos would make it slow.

Still - great hint, thanks! Can't wait to try this with my folks.



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Share iPhoto4 libraries across the Internet
Authored by: peewit on Apr 21, '04 03:54:00AM

Following a request from a macosxhint user who has used this (and got it working) - here are the full details of how to set up iPhoto 4 to share libraries across the Internet:
Let's say you want to look at a friend's iPhoto Library. His machine is the SERVER.
Your machine is the CLIENT - you need to have Network Beacon running on YOUR machine set up as follows:
1. Service name (eg Friend's Photos)
2. Service Type: _dpap._tcp. (check you have the underscore and the point in there and in the right order)
3. Port Number: 8770
4. Check 'Enable Host Proxy'
5. Host name: Your Friend's Host Name
6. IP Address (THIS IS THE IP ADDRESS OF YOUR FRIEND'S COMPUTER - YOU WILL NEED TO GET THIS FROM HIM)
7. Click OK
8. Tick the enabled box in the Network Beacon main window.
9. Ask your friend to make sure that he has the Sharing Preferences set correctly in iPhoto 4 - tick 'Share My Photos' - he can share ALL his Photo Library or choose to just share 1 or 2 albums - (it is better just to share 1 album initially as there are heavy network overheads in downloading all the thumbnails for an entire Library)

10. You need to have 'Look for Shared Photos' checked on your machine in iPhoto preferences.

You should then see the Network Beacon name (eg Friend's Photos) appear in iPhoto 4 (the left pane, underneath 'Last 12 months' album)
If YOU click on this then the album he has shared with you will appear. The speed with which the photos will appear will be dependent on the speed of his Internet UPLOAD connection.

*If it does not work then you MUST make sure that your friend has port 8770 open and forwarded to his internal LAN address if he is behind a router

For your friend to access YOUR libraries he will have to set up Network Beacon on his computer with YOUR details in 5 and 6.

Can I suggest that you get yourself and your friend a DNS name from http://www.dyndns.org. This makes setting these things up much simpler.

Get Network Beacon from here:
http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/NetworkBeacon.html



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