2 or more pms servers under one account

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Hi, I am sure someone has asked this before I tried to find something related on the forums and google but I failed and it is getting frustrating, I have a PMS running on my seedbox and I recently got a dedicated server which I would like to merge with my PMS, how can I do that? I have been wandering online for the last 4 hours and im totally lost and confused

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you cannot ‘merge’ servers (meaning keeping one replicated in two locations or run two on the same physical machine). On each box, each runs independently. As long as their names and internal identification numbers (UUID) are different, both will be listed under your account.

It is possible, if you are willing and know how to link (mount) media from one to the other, make media on one network box available to the other and serve as a ‘remote NAS’ funciton.

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@ChuckPA said:
you cannot ‘merge’ servers (meaning keeping one replicated in two locations or run two on the same physical machine). On each box, each runs independently. As long as their names and internal identification numbers (UUID) are different, both will be listed under your account.

hey chuck, thanks for the quick response, That is exactly what im failing to do, i cant get my second server listed under my account

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To add/confirm what Chuck said - You can have 2 (or more ) PMS pointing to the same media or media on the other box.

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@arbox said:

@ChuckPA said:
you cannot ‘merge’ servers (meaning keeping one replicated in two locations or run two on the same physical machine). On each box, each runs independently. As long as their names and internal identification numbers (UUID) are different, both will be listed under your account.

hey chuck, thanks for the quick response, That is exactly what im failing to do, i cant get my second server listed under my account

To get the second machine into your account (at the moment) takes a little trick (we think there’s a bug in the Web/ui we’re trying to identify).
We’re going to do simultaneous sessions (one in each tab)

  1. Open a second tab to your existing (machine #1) and in that tab, sign your existing Plex/web out of your account
  2. Now open the IP of the new machine using the same SSH-tunnel you did for the other remote machine (aka… by IP address)
  3. Go through the standard first-run wizard on http://127.0.0.1:8888/web (tunnel address from your machne) to it. (registers it to you)
  4. When you sign it in through the tunnel, and arrive at the dashboard when done, you’ll see both machines on your account in that tab.
  5. Switch to machine #1 tab and sign into your Plex.tv account
  6. Verify the new machine is also listed.
  7. When both are listed, you can close “Tab 2” (machine 2) and the ssh tunnel… you can now administer it from local because it’s registered to your account.
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Thanks Chuck, I missed number 2 ! it was the ssh tunnel I forgot about, its up and working now ! thank you for helping guys