Remote access halts until rechecked from server

[Kiwi_Foo]

Server Version#: 4.45.0

I have a weird issue that seems to have cropped up in the past week or so.

In short, I reboot my Linux Mint machine each night, but when I go to use it during the day from off site (from both the Android app, and from the Plex.tv web app) I get an issue that the server is unreachable.

In fact, when I first head to the remote access menu, it says that remote access is working fine, but after a few seconds it flips to “Remote access isn’t accessible”

If I click on “Try again” it works, and seems fine until the next day.

My working theory is that when I reboot the server, the plex server is loaded before the network connection is established, but before I dig into my rusty python knowledge to try and script something, I thought I’d ask here to see if anyone else had had this issue, whether it’s a known bug, and to see if there is any advice.

Thank you for having a look. Any thoughts?

Edit: I should have mentioned, that media plays to the local network, even when there is an error for remote access, so the server seems to be fine

[ChuckPa]

On Linux, plexmediaserver.service is set to require network-online.target as a prerequisite. (After= network-online.target)

If PMS truly started before the adapter was ready, which can happen on fast SSD-based servers, the server would be not be able to start at all and terminate on that networking error. You would not have any access to it unless you restart the service.

[Kiwi_Foo]

Well, that’s probably saved me a day of frustration investigating that, thank you!

No, of course, I have no idea what the problem is.

Maybe I’ll manually port forward.