Remote connections

General Discussions
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Is there a way to have remote users connect to my servers not using Plex TV connection…
but still using their current clients, or is there substitute clients that would work…

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What do you mean?
Usually, remote connections are directly from server to client.
plex.tv is only acting as a user authenticator and DynDNS-like service in one.

Only if the server is not directly accessible, the client will fall back to a Relay connection, which then routes the data over some datacentre. (But is still fully encrypted.)

3

Can my servers work with remote connection without that … authentication DynDNS-like service or a relay connection.

4

Only if you:

  • disable all user authentication (i.e. sign your server out of its plex.tv account)
  • sign out all the clients out of their plex.tv accounts
  • set up a DynDNS-like service for your server
  • set up a VPN to make all your remote clients appear as if they were in the local network of the server

Doing so is unsupported, because it has some massive drawbacks:

  • You will have no way to differentiate between users. All playback progress and played/unplayed status will be attributed to the admin user.
  • The clients won’t be able to switch their Direct Play/Transcode preferences automatically, depending on the used connection, since they will always believe they are in the same local network as the server.
  • some client types won’t be usable at all (those which don’t allow manually setting the server IP in their preferences)
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