Plex DLNA not discovered by xbox 360

[jcdenton]

I have FreeNAS 9.2.12 installed in a VM (as I am testing) and I installed the Plex plugin but none of my DLNA devices can see it. I have found that if I leave the VIMAGE option checked in the jail config that I cannot access the Plex webgui nor does sockstat show that Plex is running.
If I uncheck VIMAGE in the plex jail settings I can access the webgui and sockstat shows that Plex DLNA is running;

USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS
972 Plex DLNA 22651 12 udp4 192.168.0.71:1900 *:*
972 Plex DLNA 22651 15 tcp4 192.168.0.71:1142 *:*
972 Plex DLNA 22651 18 udp4 192.168.0.71:9480 *:*
972 Plex DLNA 22651 21 tcp4 192.168.0.71:32469 *:*
972 Plex DLNA 22651 24 udp4 192.168.0.71:18994 *:*
972 Plex DLNA 22651 27 udp4 192.168.0.71:60650 *:*
972 Plex DLNA 22651 66 udp4 192.168.0.71:32414 *:*
972 python 22395 9 tcp4 192.168.0.71:38962 *:*
root python2.7 22309 3 tcp4 192.168.0.71:12346 *:*
972 Plex Media 22097 52 tcp4 192.168.0.71:32400 *:*
972 Plex Media 22097 53 tcp4 192.168.0.71:32443 *:*
972 Plex Media 22097 66 udp4 192.168.0.71:32414 *:*
972 Plex Media 22097 71 udp4 192.168.0.71:32410 *:*
972 Plex Media 22097 72 udp4 192.168.0.71:32413 *:*

Any help would be appreciated because I would love to go out and purchase some hardware to get this setup permanently

 

[Yatti420]

That is odd because I find vimage makes MiniDLNA pop up immediately on the majority of clients.. You are also testing inside a VM which can cause problems.. It's been awhile so I'm not sure how restrictive the environments can be.. It looks like plex is doing what it should..

 

[jcdenton]

Thanks for the reply but I will clarify a little. if I have VIMAGE selected I cannot access the web gui and sockstat does not show that plex is running from the FreeNAS root but is running inside the jail. If I deselect VIMAGE I can access the webgui and sockstat does show that it is running from the FreeNAS root as well as inside the Plex jail.

I do not think that running it in the VM has anything to do with it because I setup an Ubuntu 13.10 server in a VM and installed Plex and my DLNA devices can see it just fine. I think that there is some setting that I am missing or that the NAT between FreeNAS and the Plex jail is not working correctly.

 

[jcdenton]

Got it working (not the way I would like to but working none the less). I performed a factory reset and started from scratch. This time I left all the defaults and re-installed the Plex plugin. I can now access it from the Web gui and my DLNA devices see it as well.
It would appear that if you try and set a static IP on the main network interface instead of letting the machine grab an IP for itself it screws everything up.