Can not access server with local player apps

i have similar problem but i can access through the url but not through the app. i am looking to access it locally only and not through remote. all the app’s cannot seem to connect to local server.

Which of our player apps are you referring to? Depending on app you might need it set to allow insecure connections

i have plexamp on ios and android. while plex on googletv. none of them are seeing the server
i have enable “allow insecure connections”

also, i can see this showing up in logs:

WARN - NetworkServiceBrowser: Error sending out discover packet from [10.0.0.131](https://10.0.0.131/) to [10.0.0.255](https://10.0.0.255/): Operation not permitted

is that from your server log?

yes, i downloaded a zip and it was in the “Plex Media Server.log”

Looking at your account your server appears to be in a Docker. It it on the same subnet as the rest of your network? Afaik docker defaults to it own vlan unless you set to to bridge mode

yes, my setup is docker and i have set it up as a bridge.

version: "3.3"
services:
  plex:
    image: plexinc/pms-docker:latest
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: bridge
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - VERSION=docker
      - PLEX_CLAIM=claim-code
 
    volumes:
      - /path/to/plex/config:/config
      - /path/to/plex:/data
    ports:
      - '32400:32400/tcp'
      - '3005:3005/tcp'
      - '8324:8324/tcp'
      - '32469:32469/tcp'
      - '1900:1900/udp'
      - '32410:32410/udp'
      - '32412:32412/udp'
      - '32413:32413/udp'
      - '32414:32414/udp'
    restart: unless-stopped

This is my docker file.

Ok can you please share the full server log

You dont have anything related to Plex in a hosts file do you?

is there a way to share it more privately, instead of in an open forum?

You can ALWAYS DM logs to moderators if needed :wink:

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sent as a message. attaching the latest error here. thanks

you have this incorrectly entered value in Networks settings allowed without auth which you should remove.

ERROR - Error parsing allowedNetworks '192.168.*.*': Invalid argument

also it seems to think that an IP in the 192.168 range is your computers?

Mar 22, 2022 08:15:05.917 [0x7f9328558b38] WARN - MyPlex: Invalid connection URL '"http://192.168.X.X:32400/"' ( they are local networks so it should not matter but I removed the last two digits from that local IP )

So I am wondering why those would be a 192.168.x.x range for your local network , if your local network is really in the 10.0.0.x range

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I was trying something there. but as it is docker swarm i presumed 10.x.x.x was its internal address, while my local are at 192.168.x.x

anything else i can try here? i ve deployed stack through portainer in a docker swarm.

Reboot your PMS, and after 2 min, zip the entire log directory and upload here.

Logs roll over, so last file doesn’t cover everything

i was testing some other network related stuff so it might be reflected in those logs right now. sent a message.

According to PMS logs, and granted, I’m not a Docker person, but your PMS has two IP Addresses bound to it, why ?

Primary IP: 172.18.0.6

So from your local LAN (192.168.x.y) do you have a route towards IP Net 172.18.0.0 ?
And is port 32400 allowed in local firewalls ?

Also, in PMS to define an IP Net as local, the syntax would be like: 192.168.1.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 instead of 192.168.*.*

Docker swarm has its own mesh routing inside so there are different IP’s. while i can access the url directly with (192.168.x.x./web:32400) means the ports and ip is discover-able.
I corrected the syntax for IP: now it is 192.168.1.0/24

Can I ask why you, when running bridge mode, still use two different IP Nets?

192.168.1.x and 172.18.0.x ?

It then has to route, so I personally would move my PMS to 192.168.0.x net