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Plex Media Server is a software application that organizes and streams your personal collection of movies, TV shows, music, photos, and more to nearly any device. It runs on a computer, NAS, or compatible server hardware, cataloging media with rich metadata like posters, episode details, and album art for a polished, Netflix-like interface. Once set up, Plex lets you stream content locally on your home network or remotely over the internet, and it supports user accounts, parental controls, transcoding for different devices, and optional features like live TV and DVR with a tuner. It’s widely used as an all-in-one hub for managing and enjoying digital media libraries. | |||
==Common Tasks== | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:08, 10 September 2025
Summary
Plex Media Server is a software application that organizes and streams your personal collection of movies, TV shows, music, photos, and more to nearly any device. It runs on a computer, NAS, or compatible server hardware, cataloging media with rich metadata like posters, episode details, and album art for a polished, Netflix-like interface. Once set up, Plex lets you stream content locally on your home network or remotely over the internet, and it supports user accounts, parental controls, transcoding for different devices, and optional features like live TV and DVR with a tuner. It’s widely used as an all-in-one hub for managing and enjoying digital media libraries.
Common Tasks
Plex Server Not Authorized
In some rare situations, you may find yourself “locked out” from being able to access your Plex Media Server and unable to directly access the server settings. One of the most common causes for this is if your server is signed in to one account (perhaps one used with an old, previous installation) and your web app is signed in with a different account that doesn’t have permission to connect to the server.
It can also occur after you change your password, remove your server “Device” entry, or otherwise invalidate the existing authentication token that your server uses.
You can try the instructions here: [1]
But likely you'll need to "re-claim" your server. See instructions below.
Claim Plex Server
This must be done by accessing http://127.0.0.1:32400 locally on the Plex server. Of course, this is difficult to do on a headless Linux box with no GUI. So we tunnel!
You can pretty easily tunnel with PuTTY:
- Go to Connection > SSH > Tunnels
- Add a new forwarded port:
- Source port: 32400
- Destination: 127.0.0.1:32400
- After you open the SSH connection, point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:32400