Possible to run 2 separate servers from 2 different plex accounts on the same network?

General Discussions
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A friend of mine is travelling and his server is proving less than reliable at times so I wanted to provide him a backup. Plan was to sign in as him on one of my other computers, connect to my hdhr and broadcast another server.

However, when I installed the plex software, it never gave me an option to create a new server. It just went into the web interface.

Is there a trick to do this or do all servers have to be on the same network?

2

Only 1 pms can be on the same network using port 32400(you cannot change plex’s internal port)

You can run multiple plex servers on the same machine using docker however.

3

I’ve ran multiple servers on this network on my account. Can I add another account and run a server for it when it is already running servers on a different network?

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@RyanDungeyMX said:
Only 1 pms can be on the same network using port 32400(you cannot change plex’s internal port)

That is not true

The local port has to be 32400 which means that normally you can only have one server per machine (per IP address)

However you can have multiple servers on the local network - no issue with that. If you need them to be available remotely or have a DNS Rebinding protection issue that stops secure connections via local plex.direct IP Address urls then you would need to have a public port open in the router and each server on the local network can have a different public port forwarded to local port 32400 on each server

eg
PMS 1 Public/WAN Port 32410 forwarded to Local/Private Port 32400 to local IP Address 192.168.1.100 (PMS1)
Manually Specify Port selected in settings and 32410 entered

PMS 2 Public/WAN Port 32420 forwarded to Local/Private Port 32400 to local IP Address 192.168.1.101 (PMS2)
Manually Specify Port selected in settings and 32420 entered

Servers do not have to be signed in to same account (ie owned by same user) - however client app access to servers will be restricted to the account the client is signed into (Eg plex web / plex for ios etc …) and servers access determined by server ownership and server sharing settings

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i figured it out. I had used this mini-pc as a server awhile ago and it had defaulted to that on my account. I deleted the server and then claimed it on the other account. All set!