Server Version#:1.18.0.1944 Player Version#: Hello, For the past couple of weeks I’ve been seeing an issue with my Remote Access. It says it’s “Not available outside my network”. I’ve tried everything that I’ve read to fix it, server is on a static IP, I set a port forwarding rule on my router…

Indirect just means your port forwards aren’t working. You’ll have to check if they’re still correct, or if you’re behind CG-NAT which means you won’t be able to access your server from the outside (without some major workarounds). Do incoming ports work with other applications?

[image] Remote Access recently Remote Access Make sure your server machine has still the same local IP address. Make sure your network connection is still classified in Windows as ‘private’ and not ‘public’. If you created a manual portforwarding in your router, check if…

So my IP address has not changed. I did go to canyouseeme.org and it gave me a error with “connection refused”. Could the problem be with my ISP router? I just don’t understand how form working fine it just stopped working all of a sudden.

Checking with canyouseeme makes only sense if you previously created a portforwarding in the settings of your router. While you are there, check also for firewall settings. After creating the portforwarding in your router, you must tell Plex that you did this and also which external port number yo…

Trouble with Remote Access

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OttoKerner October 27, 2019, 12:53pm 3

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