Server Version#: 4.34.4 Player Version#: 2.013 So in the last 2 days both my Samsung 2011 era Smart TVs have stopped connecting to the Mac Laptop (2014 era) Plex server. When I put the TV ip address in the “allowed without auth” field on the plex app on my Mac, the TV asks for me to go to the pl…

Actually Plex version on my laptop is 1.20.3.3437

I have a 2012 model which had exactly the same issue at the beginning of this month, and it is very easy to fix as already reported in some other posts: In plex on the desktop, in Settings > Network, make sure ‘Secure connections’ is set to ‘preferred’ and not ‘required’ and enter the IP addresses …

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and your point is?.. just relaying the plex teams’s ‘advice’ to ‘upgrade your plex experience’ when a perfectly acceptable (at least for the basic use of Plex) workaround exists is hardly helpful… Unless it is just meant as an explanation of the cause of the issue?..

Meant as an explanation of the cause of the issue. Nothing more…

Strange but I did all that yesterday and it didn’t work, however today it has worked! Thanks.

Thanks for the above I’ll give this a try. This maybe the solution I was looking for.

Boup, you are amazing! A very easy solution to get things going again, thanks so much for reply to this message :+1::+1::+1::+1::beers::clinking_glasses:

Thanks @Boup , you’re amazing ! Cheers & virtual kiss !

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Orca November 12, 2020, 3:17pm 10

You guys made need this fix, if you cannot get it to work as described above.

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