Plex Media + FreeNas 9.1.1

[ESDC]

Ok so I installed plex media as a plugin on 9.1.1 and followed the instructions here:

http://www.freenas.org/whats-new/2013/09/plex-on-freenas.html

Based on the instructions if I enter the GUI page I'm supposed to see this

http://plex_jail_ip:32400/manage/

But instead I see a login page.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7icox7w58byxuy/Screen Shot 2013-10-16 at 9.54.40 PM.png

I then registered for a plex account and I enter my username and password I registered. It then forwards me to a sad face and says "This media server is unavailable to you. Please check that you have permission to access this media server."

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sldvqqvfn5xq7qe/Screen Shot 2013-10-16 at 9.54.56 PM.png

I already changed ownership of the dataset to nobody:nobody and 777 permissions. So there has to be something wrong somewhere ... Help please?

 

[zodiacq]

Maybe it needs to connect to the internet, are your nameservers set up correctly, so that it can resolve the ip address?

 

[ESDC]

Maybe it needs to connect to the internet, are your nameservers set up correctly, so that it can resolve the ip address?

Yes I entered the jail and got a ping reply from google. I also tried to use a different password on the login page and it can't connect so I don't think the Internet connection is a concern.

Do I need a paid subscription from Plex in order for this plugin to work?

 

[enemy85]

Hi, u don't need to pay a subscription because i installed the plugin few days ago and it works properly for me.
I can access it from
Http://plex_jail_ip:32400/web

 

[ESDC]

Hello enemy85 thanks for the reply. Yeah that's what I thought so too. Did you see the login page on first startup? Or did it go straight in like the tutorial? I'm getting a login page but as soon as I enter the username and password it goes to this page

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sldvqqvfn5xq7qe/Screen Shot 2013-10-16 at 9.54.56 PM.png

I've tried chrome, ff and safari all 3 required me to login

 

[ESDC]

Ok so to recreate this bug allow me to enumerate the steps I took to reinstall the plugin. Please comment what step I am doing wrong.

1) Delete plugin
2) Install plugin
3) Enter plexmedia jail (jexec plex_1 /bin/tcsh)
4) Add storage (source: freenas/plexmedia destination: plexjail/plexmedia)
5) start plugin
6) enter http://plex_jail_ip:32400/web
7) login page (username password)
8) enter username password registered
9) "This media server is unavailable to you. Please check that you have permission to access this media server."

 

[enemy85]

Hi, here it's what I did:

1) I installed the plugin directly from FREENAS web GUI "plugin tab"
2) automatically freenas created the plex_1 jail and installed the plugin in it
(he settles the plex media server ip address on his own)
3) then u add storage just selecting the media starting folder on freenas and the "media" destination folder in plex jail (note 1: the media folder in plax jail is created automatically; note 2 i just allowed permission to "0thers" at the media dataset in my freenas)

after that i just started the service and entering "http://plex_jail_ip:32400/web" there was no login asking for me (i read somewhere that it's default disabled if installed in this way)
then i registered at plex but just in orther to make it works from outside the freenas network.

 

[ESDC]

Did you change the permission in the dataset? I set user and group to "nobody" and the mode as 777 (read write execute) everybody. Thanks again for the help

 

[enemy85]

Mode 777 for me too, but with a user i created...try not to use "nobody" but an existing user u created. No any other ideas...

 

[ESDC]

Reinstalled again ... I am still getting the same error ... WTF dude? I am still being redirected to the login page

http://PLEX_IP:32400/web/index.html#!/login

 

[ESDC]

Mode 777 for me too, but with a user i created...try not to use "nobody" but an existing user u created. No any other ideas...

Hmmm ... is it probably because I'm using LDAP? Let me try to disable that

 

[enemy85]

I'm not using AD neither LDAP so i can't help in that case

 

[ESDC]

So turning off directory services still didn't work ... I give up lol :p

 

[nvader]

try this url
http://<your ip>:32400/web/index.html#!/dashboard

 

[ESDC]

Thanks for the help. I already tried that ... it didn't work as well. It just redirected me to

http://PLEX_IP:32400/web/index.html#!/login

 

[TurbineSeaplane]

Hi. Anyone ever figure anything out about this issue?
I'm having the same problem.
Simply can't login to myPlex at all. If I do, then my own media server is "unreachable" to me.
Thanks.

 

[ESDC]

Glad to finally hear I'm not the only one with this problem lol :P no luck on my end yet

 

[Myles Kennedy]

I can give you a workaround for this that I've used. In the jail edit the file Plex Media Server Preferences.xml file (in my case) located at:

/usr/pbi/plexmediaserver-amd64/plexdata/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml

and add the attribute

disableRemoteSecurity="1"

to the Preferences element.

Then give your server a restart and check again

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/plexmediaserver restart

 

[ESDC]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks man! :D