I had to reset my password while away from home. Of course my server was logged out so i lost access to media. If i connect to the server forward port and log in remotely it does not show me media or the server. I thought if i connected to my servers forward port i would reach my server. Is there any way to get the server logged in remotely?
Ah, thanks. I don’t have ssh port open to my house though. Would be nice to just have an endpoint like …/local that still went through the Plex login so it remained secure.
You don’t need to have ssh port open; if you’re trying to claim a server remotely, you’ll just need to establish a „local connection“, e.g. using a ssh tunnel; that ssh tunnel needs to point to whatever port you had configured for your remote access setup (in the example from the linked support article that’s port 32400) [edit: wrong info… you’ll want to establish that connection to the server’s local Plex port → 32400]
The command in the article will establish a connection over ssh port 22 and then create a tunnel transferring data between 32400 to 8888 locally. I don’t have port 22 open on my router so I cannot create the tunnel. Or are you saying that somehow Plex can respond to ssh? That would require -p 32400 but it didn’t suggest overriding port 22 and I’m skeptical Plex can do ssh.
Not sure what you mean…
ssh -L 8888:127.0.0.1:32400 ip.address.of.server
will establish an ssh tunnel to ip.address.if.server from local port 8888 to port 32400 on the remote machine.
Unless you have some super specific firewall rules blocking outbound connections from your local network via port 8888, that should be working from pretty much anywhere. Port 22 isn’t involved but iirc you can pick the outbound port rather freely.
[edit: I recognize this might be an issue if your remote server is in another home network where the router is by default blocking ssh]
Another option could be to establish a remote desktop connection and access your Plex server „locally“ from within that remote desktop session.
The connection to 32400 is done after ssh connects over port 22. The ssh port can be changed with -p #. I have three ports open on my router, 80, 443 and 32400. None of them can respond to an ssh request.
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