Plex Media Access

Question

I have a plex media server and cannot access the content outside of my home network. I have created a security policy in XG Firewall to port forward port 32400, but the connection still fails. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance for the help.

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DaMaN841 · Answer

Hey gdavis17, 
 This setup works for me, where Source Zone is WAN connected to the WAN Port and the Protected Zone is LAN with my local Plex Server as the Application Server. Also be sure that your Plex Server is setup in manual mode for 32400. It can behave erratically due to a bug that may still exist. I'm actually glad I saw this thread, as I noticed my Plex UDP was setup using TCP (I'm not sure if UDP is necessary, however, I did it anyway, not that this current policy works...oops).

MichaelHigginson · Answer

Not sure if you were able to get it working or not yet. I was able to get it working by creating a new policy where source was WAN and service = "Plex" and destination was LAN with network set to my plex host. The Plex service was a new service I created using TCP srcprt = 1024:65535 dstprt = 32400. The issue I was ran into when I was first trying to set this up was random source ports not being allowed through. Fixed that by setting srcprt to 1024:65535.