I know - my comment was a bit controversial. What I meant - you go for a budget price ISP you get budget price features - probably aimed at the user that just browses the internet and not more.
Anyway - hope we have a way forward to get a reliable remote access configuration and then see if we have DNS Rebinding Protection.
If there is and you find you cannot get round it, then you could just go for disabling secure connections and configure plex apps to always fall back to insecure connections
sorry for pm but i didnt want post on here regarding which options to press as i thought it drag post out to much for others. i do have in total 5 plex servers because when i install plex on each pc it gives that pc a server although they dont have anything on them only 1 pc which is what has films etc on it. all the other pcs switch to homeserver to watch everything on their pcs.
still unsure what to put down for service, internal host and external host in port forwarding
Service is name you give it - eg Plex HomeServer
Protocol is tcp
Internal host is the local ip of the server eg 192.168.1.11
External host if present in table just leave blank
External port eg 32440
Internal port 32400
On remote access settings advanced in Plex web must tick manually specify port and enter 32440
This assumes that 192.168.1.11 will always stay the same I.e. static IP address and must be outside dhcp range to ensure no clashes with other devices
You are installing the wrong application on the machines which do not contain any of your media. You should really be installing a client (e.g. Plex Media Player) on these devices and not Plex Media Server.
well if i port forward on 32400 i set both internal and external ports on homeserver pc i dont get public access. if i untick manually specify a port it will change port number in public but it does say i can reach server outside but still indirect. if i opened port for 32400 how can it not be reachable.
will look into that thank you
I did not say 32400 for external port. Please read my post
i also tried changing it to another port with internal still sat at 32400 same thing mate.
got pop out thanks guys i be back on shortly for another round at it. it will not defeat me there will be a way around this im sure
Stick with it and investigate -
Restart both router and pc after setting it up
Open the remote access setting page and show advanced and see that it shows 192.168.1.11 and external port 32440
Get server logs and attach zip here
Thanks for the screenshots - they show a port forward of 32440 external to 32400 internal as advised … but in the Manually Specify Port box you entered 32400. It should be 32440.
Please enter 32440. and disable and re-enable remote access - making sure it stays as 32440 in the box
please do not click retries too quickly - leave a gap of 30 seconds
and if you still have problems get fresh logs after restart of the server and opening the remote access show advanced page and get me fresh screenshots
ok mate will try now
same thing post logs below. i have just tried installing plex media player on work pc and that went through fine. i done that prior to changing port and just checked after and still works fine. no indirect message. i think i need uninstall all plex servers and change them to plex media players other than the homeserver which everything is on and see what happens. not sure if related to issue im having but thought id sharePlex Media Server Logs_2018-07-06_17-26-05.zip (3.1 MB)
works on player fine on main pc too were getting somewhere
well i havnt touched anything this end i was waiting for a reply but it has now got remote access in green. so i think leave that alone and just redo all pcs in house to plex media players and fingers crossed hopefully it will work fine.
for anyone else with same issue
WOULD LIKE SAY BIG THANK YOU FOR EVERYONES KIND REPLIES ESPECIALLY SA2000 as he has continously been trying to help with this. i am very grateful for everyones kind replies and help.
thank you guys
Glad it is ok now -
This was only necessary because you have a number of servers on the network with all must have internal port as 32400 so to allow access through external port to each server we must have different external and internal ports. So you could do the others like this
server 2 - external 32441 internal 32400. Manually Specify Port 32441
server 3 - external 32442 internal 32400. Manually Specify Port 32442
etc
This will only work if the local IP Addresses (internal host IP address) for each stays fixed. If it changes by DHCP then the port forward would not reach the server
i made them static ips in windows so it never changed on there but yes as you said its best to do it in router settings. thank you my friend its still working
It is fine doing it in windows but you must make sure all the static ip addresses are also outside the DHCP Range in the router - otherwise the router may allocate these ip addresses to other devices and end up IP clashes. So DHCP range needs to move. If all your static IP addresses are below 192.168.1.40 then you can change the DHCP Range in the router to start at 192.168.1.40 and any other devices with IP addresses below 192.168.1.40 but are not static, need to be rebooted / powered off /on so new IP address within the new DHCP Range is picked up
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