Allowing Plex Remote Access

[psilver486]

Does anyone know how to allow Plex Remote Access to go through with the firewall on?

[futuretech]

Just make an allow Incoming global rule for the port that are needed and then make the same rule for the application itself.

[psilver486]

Thank you. I’m a novice at this and there are a lot of choices that I do not understand which to select for the Global Rules:

What protocol do you choose?
I’m assuming the direction is IN only?
Do you specify a source or destination address? A source or destination port?

@futuretech post:2

Just make an allow Incoming global rule for the port that are needed and then make the same rule for the application itself.

[futuretech]

Just to be clear you are running a plex media server on your computer and you want to allow other devices to access the server? If you are then you add a global rule that is configured as follows: Action= Allow, Protocol = TCP/UDP, Direction= In, Source Address= Any, Destination Address=Any, Source Port = Any, Destination Port = A single Port = the port number plex media server listens on (default 32400). Then make the same rule for the plex server application under application rules or you can just use the pre-defined ruleset “Allowed Application”.

[psilver486]

That did it! Thanks!

@futuretech post:4

Just to be clear you are running a plex media server on your computer and you want to allow other devices to access the server? If you are then you add a global rule that is configured as follows: Action= Allow, Protocol = TCP/UDP, Direction= In, Source Address= Any, Destination Address=Any, Source Port = Any, Destination Port = A single Port = the port number plex media server listens on (default 32400). Then make the same rule for the plex server application under application rules or you can just use the pre-defined ruleset “Allowed Application”.