Hello all,
Hopefully someone out there can help. I was able to get a strong HP rack mounted server to replace my underpowered mac mini. The mac mini was working well but doesn't have the horsepower that the hp unit does (more, faster cpus & ram) and soon I'm looking to add my music collection to plex which, from what i've read, will require the extra power.
Anyway I initially tried to simply connect to my newly installed fedora server using local.ip.address:32400/web but after i logged in to plex/tv (i have plex pass) it seemingly swapped to my mac mini. Not sure exactly what was happening but there were a few threads talking about problems trying to access their PMS locally. I was expecting to see a blank slate.
At this point i shutdown the mac mini and rebooted the hp after first changing it's static ip address to that of the mac mini (i have nat/port forwarding set up to allow remote access and so keep the ip address static). I was still unable to connect.
When trying to connect directly i get 'the connection has timed out'.
If i try to connect via plex/tv i get the error "The server is unavailable"
I tried this once more after copying the mac mini database (com.plexapp.plugins.library.db) to the hp/fedora machine,
/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/ thinking that there may have been data there that would allow the connection but no change. (My media is on a NAS device which has the same CIFS mount location on both the mac and hp boxes so getting to my movies should be seamless).
It's quite possible my approach is flawed but it seemed logical. Any thoughts from those that may have done this before?
-jjd
- The PMS version on the mac is up to date.
- The PMS version on the HP is from Nov 2017.