Forward TCP port 21400 to your NAS IP (i.e. In your router, set up a port forward for this port to your nas, and plex port. In Plex settings, Remote Access, check the manually specify port, and specify the port to use for external access (i.e. I am seeing issues with some of the newer ISP routers, where uPNP is not working correctly, and periodically removes port assignments made by applications. Set up a manual port forward in your router, and do not depend on upnp to set up the port. Have I done anything wrong? I don't have much knowledge about computer networks and would appreciate any help from you guys, thanks. Then when I try to enable the remote access on plex again, it lights green for a few seconds and gets red immediatley. Here is a portforwarding rule I created on my router, with the same ip and port number from plex (according to some googling and youtube, that's how it's done). Here is plex' ip adress from the settings Here are some screens of my settings, in German unfortunaltey: I fiddled around a bit in the network and router settings, but I couldn't get it running again. Last week I did the same thing again, but now the remote access seems to have stopped working.
#PLEX PORT FORWARDING INSTALL#
Everytime, when my volume is full, I add a new drive and have to create a new one and refill and install everything and I always could access plex from outsite my network without doing anything in the settings. Hey guys, my plex runs from my Synology NAS for a few years now and never had any problems with the port forwarding.