I have a mix of clients including DLNA and I want to run Plexweb behind a reverse proxy.
I would love to be able to explicitly allow and disallow.
The current require authentication option seems to break DLNA and doesn’t reliably allow me to whitelist systems.
Why not just use your operating system's network filtration.
I don’t want to prevent access I want to force or not force authentication.
IE DLNA clients need no authentication, my Roku supports plex pass and if I want the web UI to go thought my ssl reverse proxy I need it to have forced authentication because Plex sees it as a. Local resource. I work around that with http auth right now but it limits things.
+1
'Require authentication on local network' works for me. other than localhost all other clients need to authenticate with myplex
However, i would like to be able to whitelist IP's within that same network
Under plex settings / network / advanced there is an option listing of allowed networks without auth. You could just add 192.168.1.x/255.255.255.255 to that list with the IP of your DLNA device, provided it didn't change IP's very often. This combined with require local network auth acts as a kind of white list.
I have tried that. That functionality simply does not work, soon as you comma separate entries the setting fails to parse correctly.
This is what i tried
127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255,192.168.1.1/255.255.255.255
Others have also failed with this setting
In my testing DLNA stopped working all together once require local auth was enabled.
In one of the threads I believe that someone states the smallest subnet it works with is a /24, not individual /32s.
The feature more or less does not do much / is broken.
