

Dope! This is exactly what I needed! I would say that this is a very “hand holding” explanation which is perfect because I’m starting with 0% knowledge in this field! And I learned so much already from this post and your comment!
So here’s where I’m at, -A backend is where all the weird c++ language stuff happens to generate a response from an AI. -a front end is a pretty app or webpage that takes that response and make it more digestible to the user. -agreed. I’ve seen in other posts that exposing a port on windows defender firewall is the easiest (and safest?) way to go for specifically what I’m looking for. I don’t think I need to forward a port as that would be for more remote access. -I went to the whatismyipaddress website. The ipv6 was identical to one of the ones I have. The ipv4 was not identical. (But I don’t think that matters moving forward.) -I did the ipconfig in the command prompt terminal to find the info and my ipv4 is 10.blahblahblah.
- I ran netstat -abn (this is what worked to display the necessary info). I’m able to see 0.0.0.0 before the 11434! I had to go into the settings in the ollama backend app to enable “expose Ollama to the network”.
I’m ready for the next steps!
There are 3 lines with the :11434 in them. No brackets or anything like that. -1 has 0.0.0.0 in front -2 has 10.#.#.# in front and has a foreign address that is something other than 0.0.0 -3 is like the 2nd but a slightly different foreign address
The iPhone does have a 10.#.#.# ip number that is slightly different than the PCs.
The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
Oh yes. I’m on windows 10 as well.
I have taken a pause here while we trouble shoot the subnet mask. We’re getting close!!