Server Version#: latest Player Version#: latest Got a weird issue going on. I run Plex from docker. The container is running (see logs below) but I cannot seem to access the server from the UI. Both https://app.plex.tv and accessing through ip, does not show the server. [image] When going to “M…

Ok I figured out what was wrong. After running the script, nothing happened. So I removed the Preferences.xml file (guessing that it was disposable). Which also did nothing. Then I went to the actual log files. Don’t know why I didn’t sooner. In the log file I saw that the container could not res…

Hi, thanks for the swift reply. I have network access enabled. Just checked to be sure. It also did work until a few days ago. We had a power outage. Don’t know whether that can have anything to do with it. If data would be corrupt, I would expect an error log though.

That IP address above is not a private IP.

Good point. I use tailscale to connect to all of my servers. This makes the ip local to my network. However, I had not yet tried to connect to it using the ip without vpn. No change though… [image]

You’ll need to claim the server first. before you can use it. See https://github.com/ChuckPa/UserCredentialReset

Thanks, I will try the solution later today. Why do I need to claim the server? Last week it was working fine.

[image] Wim07101993: Why do I need to claim the server? Because it won’t work otherwise. This is not a new requirement.

I am looking at the github page you sent. This is a tool to reclaim the server. That implies I lost control over it. How could that have happened? I have been running plex for longer than that script exists and have never had to do something like that. Still a bit confused on why.

Cannot access server from local network

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