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Plex wants you to have all your digital movies available on your Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nvidia Shield whenever you need it without having to maintain expensive storage drives and finicky routers.
I built an unRAID server on the same network and everything has been working great so far, except for Plex losing remote access. I have not done anything else with my network: no ports forwarded, etc. My router settings are all at default. I have not seen any other network issues with unRAID besides Plex. Thanks for any advice.
The company revealed today that it is partnering with Amazon to power the new Plex Cloud service that is live now as an invite-only beta. This new premium offering from Plex enables you to keep an unlimited number of movies, television shows, and movies stored on a remote Amazon server that is always on and ready to serve up your content to your gaming consoles and other devices. Plex is already one of the top services for organizing your personal media, and now it wants to remove the step that causes the most headaches: running your own local server. This means that even total novices can start their own version of Netflix or Hulu with the content they own without having to buy a 4TB hard drive and without having to keep a PC or Shield running 24/7.
Hi, I imagine the VPN client is taking over the routing on the VM, therefore disconnecting your remote desktop session. Depending on the client you are using you probably need to look at 'split tunneling'. There are lots of potential causes. Mine was that I had a second server (my old server) that would auto start Plex and automatically turn on remote access, causing my new primary server to lose remote access. Looks to me like the issue isn't so much clients communicating with the NAS as the NAS is dropping connection to the DC. If it can't use LDAP, it won't authenticate users. I'd be interested to see if the same thing happened if you checked access to sysvol on the DC.
Up until this point, Plex was primarily for power users who own a lot of media. The company made an effort to ensure its product is friendly, but it's not really for the typical consumer. It's something I've done, and I love it. But it's not an option I've ever suggested to other people because it's way more difficult than logging into Netflix. Plex Cloud could solve that simply by removing the hardware requirement.
Plex Cloud does require both a Plex Pass membership and an Amazon Drive account. The premium Plex Pass goes for $5 per month, $40 per year, or $150 for a lifetime membership. Unlimited Amazon Drive storage is $60 per year. While that cost could build up over time, it does come with some obvious benefits over running your own hardware.
Storage is not cheap. A large reliable hard drive can easily cost you more than $150. And that space is finite and is susceptible to failure. Amazon Cloud is unlimited in most countries, and it is also much less likely to lose your movies and pictures to corrupted data. If you are regularly expanding your media library or your vault of home videos and personal pictures, going with Plex Cloud could save you money and it could save you from losing important files.
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The company revealed today that it is partnering with Amazon to power the new Plex Cloud service that is live now as an invite-only beta. This new premium offering from Plex enables you to keep an unlimited number of movies, television shows, and movies stored on a remote Amazon server that is always on and ready to serve up your content to your gaming consoles and other devices. Plex is already one of the top services for organizing your personal media, and now it wants to remove the step that causes the most headaches: running your own local server. This means that even total novices can start their own version of Netflix or Hulu with the content they own without having to buy a 4TB hard drive and without having to keep a PC or Shield running 24/7.
Hi, I imagine the VPN client is taking over the routing on the VM, therefore disconnecting your remote desktop session. Depending on the client you are using you probably need to look at 'split tunneling'. There are lots of potential causes. Mine was that I had a second server (my old server) that would auto start Plex and automatically turn on remote access, causing my new primary server to lose remote access. Looks to me like the issue isn't so much clients communicating with the NAS as the NAS is dropping connection to the DC. If it can't use LDAP, it won't authenticate users. I'd be interested to see if the same thing happened if you checked access to sysvol on the DC.
Up until this point, Plex was primarily for power users who own a lot of media. The company made an effort to ensure its product is friendly, but it's not really for the typical consumer. It's something I've done, and I love it. But it's not an option I've ever suggested to other people because it's way more difficult than logging into Netflix. Plex Cloud could solve that simply by removing the hardware requirement.
Plex Cloud does require both a Plex Pass membership and an Amazon Drive account. The premium Plex Pass goes for $5 per month, $40 per year, or $150 for a lifetime membership. Unlimited Amazon Drive storage is $60 per year. While that cost could build up over time, it does come with some obvious benefits over running your own hardware.
Storage is not cheap. A large reliable hard drive can easily cost you more than $150. And that space is finite and is susceptible to failure. Amazon Cloud is unlimited in most countries, and it is also much less likely to lose your movies and pictures to corrupted data. If you are regularly expanding your media library or your vault of home videos and personal pictures, going with Plex Cloud could save you money and it could save you from losing important files.
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