Actually , my remote access is working with my VPN activated and the green check mark isn’t activated. In fact, my Plex remote status in settings still says “Not available outside your network”, however when I use my phone to access plex, turn off my wifi network access and just use LTE to simulate external access, I can connect and play files remotely thru the active VPN. I also had a shared user try and it works for them also. It does transcode the file and throttle the connection, but is pretty stable. Again, the status still indicates Plex is not available outside my network. I am also using the original xflak script with a Task scheduler on Windows 10 with NordVPN. I followed the instructions written here --> Getting Plex Remote Access to work reliably with VPN by agossett on feb 3, 2018.
