When I started the server on the new PC, all the users I had granted remote access to had lost their library access and I needed to re-add each one by one.
So I rolled back to my old server as I am wondering what else might not have worked.
Apart from the PC being more powerful, the only thing that changed between the upgrade is the Windows PC name from “PlexServer” to “PlexServ01” so that I could have them both on the network at the same time.
Sounds like you created a new server, not migrating the original one (=replacing it). The shares are linked to specific libraries. If there’s a „new server“ Plex will consider its libraries to be different from those you had previously shared.
Nope, I did not create a new server, I copied all the files from the old PC to the new PC (almost 1.5 million files), everything else was there, all libaries, all settings, all user details etc.
When I went to my plex player, all was there and showing as normal.
The only thing that differed was when I looked at which users had access, all of them had no access to my libaries.
As I said, the only difference between the two PCs was the Windows machine name.
Yep, also all the registry entries. (To be honest, this is not my first migration).
I used these instructions last time without issue, that’s why I find this very odd.
Yes everything is the same, the physical media has not moved locations and I always use mapped drives, this way if I do move the media location Plex does not need to know as all I do is change the drive mapping.
When I am talking data here, its the local PC info, like metadata, database etc.
