Banging my head against the desk here. Yesterday I figured it would be a great idea to enable 2FA on my plex account.
In the popup prompt there’s a tickbox for ‘Sign out of all other servers and apps’.
I figured, why not, have a clean start so I know its secure, I went ahead and ticked it without giving it too much thought.
Next thing I know I’m completely locked out of my plex server, cant get back in or access any of my content.
I’m signed in no problem, 2FA is working, but my server thinks I’m not authorised:
So I’m sort of at a loss right now, I stumbled across this article:
Which I’ve followed, and it’s still the same after logging back in.
Any ideas?
Think I answered my own problem here. I’ve realised that support article is about signing in locally.
I changed the key value for allowedNetworks to my remote PC ip and that worked, let me then ‘claim’ my server.
It appears you succeeded in squeezing a square piece through a round hole.
“connecting locally” means you need to be on the same subnet.
If your server is in a different network, you can achieve that by establishing a remote desktop session or using a SSH tunnel. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200288586-installation/
As for your “workaround”… don’t forget to remove your remote network from the LAN networks configuration.
