1. Why my friends cannot see the files on my computer from their computers in their homes?

There could be firewall software on your computer, which blocks all outside requests. Please configure the firewall to enable the port number of UBest Digital Photo Album Manager to respond outside requests.
Change the setting
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Under Control Panel, click Network Connections.
3. Right-click the connection that you use for the Internet, and then click Properties.
4. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings.
5. Click Add to open a new port (If your installed SP2, please first click Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Network Connection Settings).
6. In the Description box, type ubpam: Port 91.
7. In the Name or IP address of the computer hosting this service on your network box, type 127.0.0.1.
Note you can specify the IP address of an Internal computer. But you typically will use 127.0.0.1.
8. In the External port and Internal port boxes, type the port number 91. Generally, this number is the same.
9. Click TCP, and then click OK.

Note: Your ISP may block port 80; even they block all ports up to 1024.

2. I'm using UBest Digital Photo Album Manager on a LAN, How to visit it through the Internet.

If your computer is on a LAN and it connect to Internet with proxy software such as Sygate or Windows ICS, your friends cannot visit your site because they cannot access your computer directly. To let them visit your computer, please make your computer connect to Internet directly via a modem, ISDN, ADSL and so on. Otherwise, you need to redirect the port on your LAN gateway (the computer running proxy server) with some TCP/IP port redirectors such as www.steelbytes.com.

3. How to use UBest Digital Photo Album Manager behind a router?

You need to forward requests from the router on port 80 (or the port you use) to the computer IP running UBest Digital Photo Album Manager.
First, You must have a static IP address assigned to your computer. Click here to see how to setup a static IP address.
If your computer's Internal IP is 192.168.1.216, please log into your router with a web browser (This is usually done by entering the Internal IP address of your router 192.168.xxx.xxx in the Address field, and pressing the Enter key), then enter the port number 80 and the IP 192.168.1.216 on the "Forwarding" or "Virtual server" page (suppose that you set port 80 for UBest Digital Photo Album Manager), and then people outside can visit your web server. Please note do not tell 192.168.1.216 to your friends directly because it is a Local IP address. You should tell an Internet IP address to your friends so they can access your files on the Internet. To find the Internet IP address of your computer, please visit: www.whatismyip.com
(Note: you cannot access your site using the Internet IP from behind the router, it will only work from outside, so you must use the local IP.)
For more information, please refer to the router's manual. Each router has its own configuration method and this configuration method is often called 'Port Forwarding, port mapping'.

4. Do I need a domain for UBest Digital Photo Album Manager?

No, you don't have to. Just tell the visitors IP Address of your computer. If you have a dynamic IP address that changes every time you connect to the Internet, You can register a dynamic domain at www.dyndns.com for your computer.
When you dial-up to Internet, or otherwise, usually you will get a dynamic IP address from ISP. It means that every time you connect to your Internet Service Provider your computer usually gets assigned a different IP address. Actually you can use a domain name to replace your IP address. There is some other software that can associate a domain name to your dynamic IP address, Such as www.dns2go.deerfield.com.

5. How to make a backup of UBest Digital Photo Album Manager?

To backup all the data of UBest Digital Photo Album Manager, just backup ubpam.mdb.

6. I have more questions, where can I get additional information?

Please send your questions to support@kerriasoft.com

7. How to upgrade?

To upgrade, uninstall the old version (the uninstall program will not delete database), install the new version.