Regularly get "Not Authorized" message and have to do the regedit dance

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.42.2.10156
Player Version#: 1.112.0.359-0d79a49f

Plex Media Server Logs_2026-02-07_01-24-00.zip (4.0 MB)

As title states. Installed the media server last year, but after every few weeks, I randomly get the “Not Authorized” message on my server and I have to do the registry editing dance, have done it so many times that it’s the only thing I used regedit for and opens up the plex keys for me to delete. Is this a known bug or is there some setting I am missing somewhere?

and to the technical question, yes it happens on the latest updates. Happened on 6/2/2026 and the server is on the latest release. I haven’t changed the password in between the issues, it has been running on the same hardware since too.

I am totally stumped.

<If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled>

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Do you have more than one Plex server set up? (in your local network)

Or do you use more than one operating system on the same machine and have tried to run Plex server under more than one of these?

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Nope, one plex server on my pc, which I access maybe once or twice a week. No other operating system either.