I don't know how I missed that, but I wanted to post this here for anyone else struggling. If the services are enabled, try toggling them off and then back on again and try to connect the server once more If they do, you may need to switch the feature on in the router’s software Hidden in there is a step I'd missed somehow.įind your router’s user manual or on-line documentationĬheck whether your router supports UPnP or NAT-PMP I was about to pull out every hair on my head, until I read this troubleshooting article from Plex for the 9th time.

I finally reinstalled Plex through terminal (I had initially done it through snap, I don't remember why), set up the split-tunnel through the VPN for the Plex DLNA Server, Plex Media Server, and Plex Relay (I think I read that somewhere), restarted the server, rebooted like fiddy times, and it still would not work. I read everything I could find, tried most of it, picked Chat GPT's brain, fiddled with my router. I struggled for weeks to get remote access enabled behind a VPN. Linux is really neat, and I want to learn it. I opted to set up a new Plex server on Linux because. Let me preface this by saying I'm new to Linux.

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