# Physically moved server location, remote access working, is it secure?

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/physically-moved-server-location-remote-access-working-is-it-secure/786915
**Category:** Remote Access
**Tags:** server-windows, plex-web, networking
**Created:** [April 7, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/physically-moved-server-location-remote-access-working-is-it-secure/786915 "2022-04-07T22:44:26Z")
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### Author: ![wallacek87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a183cd/32.png) [@wallacek87](https://forums.plex.tv/u/wallacek87)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/physically-moved-server-location-remote-access-working-is-it-secure/786915/1 "2022-04-07T22:44:26Z")

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So I moved my plex server to another physical location that’s behind a SonicWALL firewall attached to a comcast modem.

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Remote access is enabled and working but only when I deselect “Manually specify public port”. The public IP in the blacked out section has xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : 0 as the connection that’s working.

Is that ok and secure to run it like this? If I manually specify a port, remote access doesn’t work (I assume cause the modem and firewall aren’t configured to forward traffic to the plex server)

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### Author: ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/physically-moved-server-location-remote-access-working-is-it-secure/786915/2 "2022-04-07T22:52:50Z")

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Manually specifying a port is only for when you have already set up a custom port forwarding rule with the chosen port. So if you didn’t actually set one then it will fail.

With that field empty the server will request a port to use from the routers UPnP system, which will be a random port the router chooses.

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### Author: ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/physically-moved-server-location-remote-access-working-is-it-secure/786915/3 "2022-07-06T22:53:12Z")

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