How to allow all local clients?

Plex Media Server
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Regarding the server setting “List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth.”

What do I enter so that all of our clients can use our servers?

Our gateway address is 10.0.0.1 and our server address is 10.0.0.11.

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You can use a “network address”. Either 10.0.0.0/[network mask]
or CIDR notation.

The value of the number after the slash is depending on how big your address pool really is.
If your adresses only vary in the number after the last period (254 possible hosts), your network mask is /255.255.255.0 or /24
So the full content of this input field would be 10.0.0.0/24 or 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0

If you also vary the 3rd “octet”, you’d use 10.0.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/255.255.0.0 (65,536 possible hosts)
If you use the full address pool (16,777,216 possible hosts) of the 10.0.0.0 private range, you can use 10.0.0.0/8 or 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0

Keep in mind that this will only work for clients in the local network, but never for remote clients.
It also won’t work if your server has only an IP from a public, routable address block.

And you should not use this if you want to restrict content for kids. It will defeat all restrictions.

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Thanks.

The 10.0.0.0/24 should work for us. We have no reason to restrict.

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I changed the setting to “10.0.0.0/24” and now I get this:

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It worked okay when I used a specific IP address.

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Isn’t it 10.0.0/24

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I followed OttoKerner’s instructions in his post above.

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I realize that :slight_smile: I was commenting that I thought you left the last octet off before the /24 …

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No, the issue is that the URL above is missing the folder.
try http://10.0.0.11:32400/web

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Thanks again. It’s always something, isn’t it?

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Don’t forget to restart the server after making the above configuration change.

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Of course :smiley:

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I’m not going to forget something I never knew!

It seems to be working with the proper URL without a restart, but it looks like there’s an update that needs to be installed, so it will get its restart.

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Some options on the ‘network’ page require a restart, some don’t. I recommend it, just to be on the safe side. :wink:

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