I'm not sure whether this is just a Plex thing or a DLNA server thing in general (I'm thinking the latter), but I have the "force users to login through myplex" option selected and it works great when someone on the LAN is using a Plex app, however, just viewing any device(s) on the LAN will show the Plex server in the network, which anyone can still sniff through all of the folders in Windows Explorer (for example) and see mah n00dz!
Is there some way to only allow specific PC's on the LAN to be able to access the Plex DLNA server? (via IP or something?)
I think I understand what you're getting at. Maybe this will work. Set your DLNA server to use ports like 192.168.0.30 to 192.168.0.256 for example, then setup the Plex server on 192.168.0.5 as a example as a Static address, as it really needs to be static anyway. Any other PC's you want access to the Plex give them their own Static address, anything under what DLNA would assign, so up to 192.168.0.29 for this example. Ummmm,. maybe that won't make any difference. I'm going to have to think about this. Where are all these devices you don't wanted connected to your Local Network? Seems strange to me. You have family members you don't want on your PLEX server????
Hey. I think you can do this with Windows Firewall. Go into the “inbound rules” setting of Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, and you’ll see a rule that was created when you installed PMS. It will be named “Plex DLNA Server” - double click that rule, go to the tab “scope” and set the IP addresses you want in the “remote IP address” section, changing it from “any IP address” to just those specific ones. Obviously, you’ll need static IP addresses to the devices you want to allow to access the service like StarDogg said.
I went back to my other Windows computers, and the Plex DLNA icon in Explorer was still there, but after clicking on it, it opened very slowly and was empty. Then I got a windows error, and when I opened Explorer again… the Plex entry was gone.
Plex DLNA confirmed still working on the device(s) I want it on though.
Sorry to necro an ancient thread but I didn’t see any solutions like this posted online, so hopefully this might help someone else out in the future.
Yes, the “Skybox” player for my GearVR has a lot more video options (tilt, zoom, etc) than the actual VR plex client does. So for VR, I never use the Plex client and only use Skybox via DLNA. Works great and I’m only ever on my home network with my GearVR so I don’t mind losing out on transcoding settings.
I don’t like seeing the DLNA client on all my random windows computers (and other random users of my wifi) so my Windows Firewall option has allowed me to neatly segregate DLNA to only the static IP clients I want.
