ewhac
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The other night, I installed the Plex Media server plugin to FreeNAS, with an eye toward finally making media available to all the devices in the household. The experience could not be described as successful.
Installing the plugin and launching the jail went well enough and, once I worked out what to click on, was able to get the Plex logo up in a browser window. Unfortunately, it never got beyond that. I run a secure browser (Firefox with NoScript plugin), which apparently Plex doesn't know how to cope with. I found a post in the Plex discussion fora describing the same problem I was having. However, applying the described fixes had no effect. Even disabling NoScript entirely had no effect; the Web page refused to do anything. The Web console reported an insecure operation was attempted -- my Web-fu is not strong enough to determine the exact nature of what it was objecting to.
Just before giving up, I decided to try using Chrome on my Android phone. After the thing thrashed around for a bit, I found myself confronted with a login page. I found this confusing, since I had configured no users in the FreeNAS jail. Nevertheless, I entered the login for one of the FreeNAS users, and was promptly informed that Plex never heard of them. It then dawned on me that the Plex page wanted me to enter a login ID created at Plex.tv's Web site.
So, let's review: A media server whose Web UI loads scripting components from outside my LAN (what, my disk wasn't big enough to hold them locally?), which in turn use insecure scripting practices, and which further demands login credentials be established at an external site, all so I can (allegedly) distribute and view my media inside my LAN.
Uh, no. Thank you for playing; please enjoy this lovely consolation rm -fr command. What's on my servers is none of your damned business.
Installing the plugin and launching the jail went well enough and, once I worked out what to click on, was able to get the Plex logo up in a browser window. Unfortunately, it never got beyond that. I run a secure browser (Firefox with NoScript plugin), which apparently Plex doesn't know how to cope with. I found a post in the Plex discussion fora describing the same problem I was having. However, applying the described fixes had no effect. Even disabling NoScript entirely had no effect; the Web page refused to do anything. The Web console reported an insecure operation was attempted -- my Web-fu is not strong enough to determine the exact nature of what it was objecting to.
Just before giving up, I decided to try using Chrome on my Android phone. After the thing thrashed around for a bit, I found myself confronted with a login page. I found this confusing, since I had configured no users in the FreeNAS jail. Nevertheless, I entered the login for one of the FreeNAS users, and was promptly informed that Plex never heard of them. It then dawned on me that the Plex page wanted me to enter a login ID created at Plex.tv's Web site.
So, let's review: A media server whose Web UI loads scripting components from outside my LAN (what, my disk wasn't big enough to hold them locally?), which in turn use insecure scripting practices, and which further demands login credentials be established at an external site, all so I can (allegedly) distribute and view my media inside my LAN.
Uh, no. Thank you for playing; please enjoy this lovely consolation rm -fr command. What's on my servers is none of your damned business.