Disabling authentication for certain IPs

General Discussions
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In the advanced section of ‘Network’ settings (Server->Network), there is a field to disable authentication for specified networks:

List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth

I have entered my local network addresses, such as my PS4, and that did not work. I then tried my specific hostnames, whole subnets, a whole class B… nothing works.

This issue only happened when I started my Plex Pass - what is going on here?

There are much older forum posts regarding this, claiming you can’t have authenticated users and ‘whitelisted’ network addresses. Is this still true?

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Do you by chance happen to setup Plex Home?

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I guess I installed Plex Home? Not really on purpose - I just want the basic functionality.

I googled Plex Home and removal, no luck there - after removing all users and clicking ‘Leave Home’, local networks still require authentication.

This drives me nuts! Even visiting the plex webapp from my local machine requires me to login…

I’ve switched to VLC to avoid using Plex and deal with this annoying authentication. Please help!

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How exactly did you write your list of IP adresses into that input field?
It must not contain any space character.
And it can only contain IP addresses from IP ranges which are declared as ‘private use’. If you are using ‘routable’ IP adresses in your internal network, this won’t work.

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I believe you need to remove yourself from Plex Home before you can login without authentication.

I googled the following “how do I remove plex home” and the following article was the top result:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/203888038-How-do-I-leave-a-Plex-Home-

Carlo

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@cayars said:
I believe you need to remove yourself from Plex Home before you can login without authentication.

OP already did that.

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Opps didn’t see he actually did it, just the part he couldn’t find it via google. My bad!

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@cayars said:
Opps didn’t see he actually did it, just the part he couldn’t find it via google. My bad!

Not your bad. You cannot see it. :wink:

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@OttoKerner said:
How exactly did you write your list of IP adresses into that input field?
It must not contain any space character.
And it can only contain IP addresses from IP ranges which are declared as ‘private use’. If you are using ‘routable’ IP adresses in your internal network, this won’t work.

I’ve tried various ways. Single IPs and ranges in the form of (192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0, 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254)… and maybe some other ways, too.

Do you know the correct way to enter the IPs?

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@cdstelly said:
I’ve tried various ways. Single IPs and ranges in the form of
192.168.1.0/24

works

192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

works too

192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254

No.

Do you know the correct way to enter the IPs?

It is actually written down in the documentation.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200430283-Network