Hey all,
First time I've actually been able to sign in to the forums, I could never log in on previous attempts!
Therein my set up:
Environment:
A shared house with erratic patterns and consumption methods, 15+ people living here. Drop folder set up for everyone in a semi-organised fashion (TV, Films, etc) for people to drop their files in, main storage ripped and shared by myself for everyone.
Network:
I double NAT myself (don't play many games or do much VOIP so meh), my private LAN is where all my machines and test boxes sit, this is on top of the house shared LAN where all the Plex clients exist. Static DNS pointing maps Plex to a nice hostname on both LANs, for example: plex.h.lan
Host:
Windows Server 2008 R2 - hosts storage/virtualisation
Available only on my private LAN.
Core i3, 16gb RAM
VM:
Debian 8.1 x64 - dual-honed network, house/private internal
Kernel: Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u1 (2016-09-03)
PMS: 1.2.7.2987-1bef33a-debian
8gb RAM allocated
Media storage available via NFS to Windows host.
Has dual-interfaces to the private LAN for storage as well as access for the shared house LAN.
Runs Apache2 to proxy plex to port 80.
Networks without Auth setting:
192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0,172.16.0.0/255.255.0.0
Public / Private
Clients:
Xbox's, Playstation's, Plex Web, VLC via iOS, PlexPlayer on communal and some housemates computers/consoles.
Issue:
I've had no issues as such with Plex or serving of any content (other than my underpowered server and **** house wifi!), the issues I have basically fallen upon is Plex Server at some point has asked for a sign-in, I've not been thinking then gone ahead and done this, this has then enforced some forced sign-in for all users, not too bad, go and sign my users in and the cookie stays in place.
So, I took a VM snapshot then attempted to sign out of Plex server, Plex server disappeared and couldn't be discovered any more?!? So I rolled back the VM Snapshot then voilla Plex is back!
Whilst I attempted screwing with disabling all these sign-in requirements, I incidently enabled plex pin, so set this to 1234 and notified the housemates.
Resolution:
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE someone educate me on how to reset Plex back to it's factory install setting of no server being signed in and integrated - I do not need, nor do my users need any form of remote access.
Security isn't really an issue here, I have no users with much curiosity or malicious intent on f**king things up.
I could really do with a solution that doesn't require I re-index all 10+TB data for days.
I'm fairly sure there has to be someone running Plex in a similar set-up to mine and must have a solution, Hands down Plex is the best streaming server package I've ever used, played with PS3 Media server, Emby, etc and they've never quite cut the mustard.
Plex community, you are my only hope! :D