so I’m busy playing with building a new PMS at the moment.
When the new build installs the PMS and gets to the install screen, I specify my normal username/pw… and well here is where things go (into a not liked direction). It now seems to associate this PMS with my other one, pulls my media list into the viewing of the lab PMS, My devices in the house also see to get confused, it forgets about the original production PMS and suddenly want to only log/authorise into the lab PMS. If I go to my original PMS it now gets stuck “searching for media server”
I’ve even tried using a different username/password, they still seem to find each other like long lost lovers and upset everything.
You can do this and many of us run multiple Plex servers.
One of the things you probably will need to do is go into the network setup portion of Plex and setup up seperate ports for each PMS and then adjust your router appropriately.
So for example set PMS A to port 32401 and PMS B to 32402.
Then in your router setup up forwarding for BOTH servers redirecting 32401 to Server A 32400 and 32402 to Server B 32400.
The redirection on your router will be to port 32400 on both servers. Your router now listens on two different ports from the “outside” but knows to route these ports to two separate IPs but still use 32400 on each IP.
Ok, I’m lost, why all this port redirection. I’m not trying to make it available outside my network. simply inside, having 2 PMS’s it sees to associate the media on both with each other, and/or go into I can’t find a PMS server look.
Maybe not clear, my house PMS (this is on a Netgear ReadyNAS RN102 at the moment) and my lab PMS (this is actually on XPenology thats build on a VM on my laptop)
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I know… thats why I’m asking why redirection was mentioned by cayars.
I’m having situation where I currently have a ReadyNAS RN102 as my production unit, with username X, then when I play/build a lab unit and I happen to use the same Plex username it stuffs up my production unit, it suddenly can’t be found when I go to it’s URL, keep saying searching for Media server and my lab unit suddenly logs in and displays media thats on the production unit.
Other than using a completely different username, wondering if there is a way to keep the 2 divorced until I want them to know about each other.
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@cayars said:
If you’re not trying to make it available outside your network you don’t need to worry about port redirection on your router.
Sorry, typically when people talk about servers not being available when they add a 2nd server it’s due to ports and their router and the discovery protocol. Plex does goofy things on the server when you are logged in and the 2nd server may be causing your issues.
Just to make sure it’s not a problem I would certainly setup the two machines to use different ports. You can do this in less than 5 minutes and it completely rules this out.
not a problem…
Will try, Moved my PMS to a new XPenology that I build, shut the only Netgear NAS down (selling it), but still want to use my LAB/VM Xpenology+Plex to test things, thus the reason for the question, don’t want to have the same situation again with my prod Plex where it went into a searching for media station once I started up the lab VM.
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not a problem…