Trying unsuccessfully to get Remote Access working again. Seeing that outside world can’t connect to my server, I’m looking into the causes of that situation. I’ve mapped 32400 to go to 32400 internally. I’ve run the canyouseeme app and yougetsignal. The latter scanned 20 common ports and determined that only Port 22 SSH was open. Windows Firewall, Norton Security turned off. My ISP is Xfinity.
Dunno where to go from here, can anyone help guide me?
I suppose 32400 is not a common port – hence I wouldn’t necessarily stop after checking those.
Have you checked if the port is available through http://canyouseeme.org (no need for an extra app)?
If it’s not, this implies the issue is either on your router or between router and internet (could be your ISP) – your next step should be to verify the router configuration for the port forward.
If it is working, this implies the issue is in/on the actual Plex Media Server and the router.
Thanks for the reply. I did use canyouseeme - couldn’t see anything but port 22. Ran another port checker and got the following ports that didn’t work:
21 FTP
22 SSH … did work. Open!!!
23 TELNET
25 SMTP
53 DNS
80 HTTP
110 POP3
115 SFTP
135 RPC
139 NetBIOS
143 IMAP
194 IRC
443 SSL
445 SMB
1433 MSSQL
3306 MySQL
3389 Remote Desktop
5632 PCAnywhere
5900 VNC
6112 Warcraft III
Looking at your support article, I don’t know what you mean by scenario #2.
If canyouseeme.org cannot access the given port, the issue appears to be in your router configuration (let’s not dig into your ISP potentially blocking the port for you).
Can you elaborate how you have configured your router to establish the port forward?
PS: #2 referred to my 2nd bullet point -> the port is visible from the outside but users cannot access it (=issue in your home network or on the Plex Media Server).
I have an Orbi router. Logged in to the router, went to ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Port Forwarding/Port Triggering. Set External Port at 32400, Internal Port at 32400, Internal IP Address as 192.168.1.55 (static IP that I established).
The indication of non-communication in Plex goes from my computer IP (Public) to the 192… IP above.
Sometimes, the indicator within Plex (Settings > Remote Access) doesn’t get its status updates in time and might end up showing a false error.
Have you verified it’s not working from a device outside your home network? You could do this by accessing your server via https://app.plex.tv/desktop from your mobile while it’s not connected to your wireless home network.
hmm… in that case you might want to contact your ISP and ask them if they block certain ports.
As an alternative you could assign a different external port (e.g. tcp 8080) and link this to the internal port 32400. When doing this, don’t forget to change the configuration in Settings > Remote Access to match the public port you used in the port forwarding settings of your router (check Manually specify public port and enter e.g. 8080 as the “public” port).
Hi, a lot has happened since we last communicated - I’m confused about what’s going on with all the IPs. I went to my Orbi and changed the “Internet Setup”, putting in info on the 192.168.1.55 static IP that I set for my “Intel ® Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V”. Well, that crashed the network and I had to reboot the Orbi. When it was coming up, it said it was resetting the Orbi Router IP from 10.0.0.50 to 172.16.0.1. Fine, I said, not knowing the significance of that.
When I reran Plex and went to Remote Status, it showed the “Private” Address as 172.16.0.5:32400, close to what Orbi had said it set itself to, but not exactly the same. Still a red X at the right. Do I need to indicate anything about a static IP in the Orbi “Internet Setup”? (I used PortForward to specify a static IP for my Intel Ethernet Connection, to 192.168.1.55) Confused yet??
Now more crazy things. After rebooting Orbi, trying Remote Access a few times, I now get blanks in the Private and Public fields (with red Xs), but above, it says "Fully accessible outside … ", and I can access it from my cell.
That’s great, but I’d love to know what’s going on. I hope the success lasts.
When I log in to my Xfinity router it still says I’m in Bridge Mode. Now Plex is saying it’s not available outside, but it also shows one person streaming, and it’s me on my wifi-less cell phone.
Is the wan / internet ip showing on the wan status page on the orbi router, the same as the ip that shows on canyouseeme.org ? If not then you have a double NAT