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haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 days agoawesome. thanks for chiming in. I will have to check how to do external streaming without opening my network up to the world (metaphorically).
Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 6 days ago
Can your router open ports from a hostname vs an IP? If so, clients could run dynamic DNS.
WG client side isn’t really that hard, though. All the fam run WG 24/7 on devices, and only traffic for the internal network goes through it.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 days ago
I know. the issue is my friends dont have networks run by me. So I have to gain access to them and have to change setups which makes the situation likely to blow in my face. its just not a good solution imo. People have already suggested a relay server which will likely be the best solution.
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I used synology and reverse proxy. It was pretty easy to set up. The tricky part was going into jellyfins setting and connecting your reverse proxy to the path you made.
Overall my kids and family can now access it anywhere.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 days ago
I run a reverse proxy too. are you talking about a public one? I’m probably gonna use a relay server for it which essentially is the same I guess.
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yes, the public one. I just use synology ddns as the public address. I’m good with programming, but when it comes to IT stuff, I’m dead in the water. So, their infrastructure helped
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 days ago
Neat. Thanks for suggesting.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 6 days ago
…wireguard
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 days ago
Thats not what I meant. I of course have wireguard set up for administration and my own streaming needs. But friends of mine who were able to use plex by just making an account but now they cant because of course there is no relay server etc. I’ll have to think of a way to make it available to them (easily!) without putting my network at risk.
skoell13@feddit.org 6 days ago
This is how I do it: codeberg.org/skjalli/jellyfin-vps-setup
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 days ago
That is pretty much how I imagined it. Sadly, its A TON of work. I have most of this set up in many VPSs for both me and customers (with other services of course) and I can imagine its probably the best solution. I still hate my life when thinking of implementing it. :D I bet its gonna be easier than I think but you may get my point here. Thank you very much for sharing.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
My primary worry for this is that something in the jellyfin stack gets an open vulnerability, like there’s an overflow you can use on a post call to a piece of media allowing remote code execution.
Tautulli had a leak once that provided the user’s private token. Then there was a way in Plex with a private token to pull data from elsewhere on the server. That’s how LastPass got nuked I hear.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 6 days ago
Thanks. That’s well laid out, straightforward. I have resources at home that I want to share. This is a good blueprint.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Mine is public, but I block every state but the one all of my users live in(family) and I never get unwanted visitors. Couldn’t say the same if I lived in NY or CA.
If they have static IP addresses, you may be able to whitelist them in your proxy, or maybe there’s some sort of dyndns client/relay software you can run if their ips change.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 days ago
yeah, thanks. but thats not gonna work for me. i live in a big city and none of us (me and my server included) have static IPs nor am I gonna get them (at all) and I dont want to pay for them either (because ISPs here want you to pay for them). in any case, thanks for trying to suggest something. it might help someone else who has a different setup. :)