Server Version#: 1.19.4.2902
I made the tremendous mistake of moving my PMS to a new platform. Most of the documentation is wrong in one manner or another. I have been fighting this for hours.
I’m trying to verify that I have a secure setting and found this information:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/206225077-how-to-use-secure-server-connections/
I can not find Settings > Sever >Network
Here is a shot of my sidebar:
It is missing the KEY Server.
Thanks, Fred
Yeah the wording is a little bit off. “server” was meant to refer to the section for your server. That settings page also has options for the Plex Web client above the area of your screenshot. People get these 2 mixed up.
All of their documentation needs serious improvement. They change the operation of PMS and don’t update their app notes and at the same time searching through the forum becomes futile.
For example to change the location of your media drive, you now have to fiddle in windows registry. Give me a break.
That is not correct.
The location of the Plex data folder is not necessarily the drive with your media.
In fact, I’d recommend it to be separate from the media.
The menu item was removed due to it being a security vulnerabilty.
Because you have so many names for everything and your documentation is so out of date I could have easily made a mistake. I am talking about the drive that has the directory of all of my media files, the ones that I ripped and named according to the Plex convention. For me that was e:\media, on the new server I was try to build it is now d:\media.
As to a security threat, if I remember properly it was buried down three or four levels when I first started using Plex about 3 years ago. How many PMS systems were hacked out of how many are there?
Last I did not say “Plex data folder”, I said “media drive”; which to me implied it was on a separate drive.
“media drive” implies to me that this is the drive that is holding the actual media files.
If the preference is in the GUI, it can be exploited by an attacker. The precise location within the GUI doesn’t make a difference. Here is the announcement which has a link to the relevant CVE Security: Regarding CVE-2020-5741
You can’t fix that with the registry. The location of your media files is store in Plex’s database. If you move your media, the location no longer matches. See https://support.plex.tv/articles/201154537-move-media-content-to-a-new-location/.
Fred I cannot agree more they keep making it more user unfriendly taking away features and then point you to outdated fixes which require arcane Reg edit work around that most of us shouldn’t have to even touch.
Then the moderators are so busy patting themselves on there own backs they ignore assisting you in solving the issue… cus hey they provided you a Security alert link telling you what you’re used to would go away.
I think this will help what your trying to do with steps four and five.
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