New Linux Plex Server - No Remote Access

Plex Media Server Remote Access
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Piece at a time if I may? I’ve got “The 'vid” and struggling.

Parts 1 and 2 of this part are in your debug server logs.

Part 1 - If you have your own FQDN, you’ve created a P12 file for PMS to use

  1. It must be OpenSSL v3.0 compliant now. That happened in April of 2023.
  1. How it works
  • You turn it ON
  • Plex/Web opportunistically turns the indicator green (before anything happens)
  • It notifies PMS
  • PMS sends out a reachability test to Plex.tv with an ID number (Test ID)
  • Plex.tv attempts direct connection on the given port at your WAN IP.
  • Pass or fail, the result message is sent to PMS
  1. Every part of this is in your DEBUG server logs. Search for ‘reachability’
    “:0” = false (not reachable)
    “:1” = true (reachable)

If you think cert/key is failing –

  1. Are you giving PMS a URL to contact your server with or are you using the default ?

  2. If so, are you also complying with OpenSSLv3 cert creation above?

Q: Are you using UFW and IPTables concurrently with Pfsense ?

  • If so, urge you don’t. Conflict and makes mess
  • You don’t trust pfSense ? UFW or IPTables -plus- pfsense
    – double firewall? unnecessarily redundant
    – what are you not using correctly ?
  • I’ve turned everything off with only Pfsense enabled.
    – VLAN isolation is performed in the switch (VLAN ID level 2)