Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago“Good luck setting up remote streaming with free Plex.”
Yes, Jellyfin does not forward ports for you. Same as free Plex. With this change both are the same difficulty to set up for free, the only difference is with Plex there’s a shortcut: Buy Plex.
horse@feddit.org 1 week ago
I don’t think simply forwarding the port actually works with free Plex anymore. I think if the server has a different public IP from the client it asks you to pay, even if you’re connecting to the server over LAN.
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Interesting, maybe they check whether it’s a domain/remote IP on the client side to prevent usage of a reverse proxy.
horse@feddit.org 1 week ago
I checked the logs and it said it was assuming a remote connection because there was an unknown hostname in the headers (I forget the exact wording). It was because the hostname I was using didn’t match the hostname configured in the server’s OS (one I set up on my local DNS server).