I messed up my Plex server today. It wasn’t connecting to any of my libraries, and in a moment of frustration I removed the Plex server from within the Plex server UI hoping it would let me add it back again. It didn’t.<\/p>\n
Eventually I figured the issue was with DNS on the Synology server where it was running. So I fixed that, but now I was stuck with a library-less Plex server. There was no way as far as I could see to add the server back. Of course, I tried uninstalling & reinstalling but that didn’t help. I also deleted the PlexMediaServer shared volume after uninstalling, but that didn’t help either. Even if I do a fresh install and don’t claim anything, I am automatically signed in with my Plex account and unable to add the server back.<\/p>\n
The solution seemed to be to run the setup wizard that is run upon first login, but there was no way to launch that as far as I can tell. This forum post<\/a> gave the idea that going to On my laptop I ran the following:<\/p>\n Then I tried browsing to the URL but it failed. In the SSH prompt I was getting the following errors:<\/p>\n Weird.<\/p>\n Googling on that made me realize it is because port forwarding is disabled<\/a> by default. So I SSH’d into the Synology, ran Launch the port forwarding tunnel again, try What a waste of time. All because I had a single DNS server entry on the Synology and that server service stopped responding. Other devices weren’t affected as they had two entries and the second one was working. At least I learnt some Synology stuff in the process. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I messed up my Plex server today. It wasn’t connecting to any of my libraries, and in a moment of frustration I removed the Plex server from within the Plex server UI hoping it would let me add it back again. It didn’t. Eventually I figured the issue was with DNS on the Synology server … Continue reading Manually launching the Plex setup wizard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6945,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}http:\/\/127.0.0.1:32400\/web<\/code> should do the trick, so I figured let’s try and do port forwarding to the Synology.<\/p>\nssh -N -L localhost:32400:127.0.0.1:32400 synology.server.fqdn<\/pre>\n
channel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed\r\nchannel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed\r\nchannel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed\r\nchannel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed\r\nchannel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed\r\nchannel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed<\/pre>\n
sudo vi \/etc\/ssh\/sshd_config<\/code> and changed AllowTcpForwarding no<\/code> to AllowTcpForwarding yes<\/code>. Then restart the SSH service:<\/p>\nsudo synosystemctl restart sshd.service<\/pre>\n
http:\/\/127.0.0.1:32400\/web<\/code> and yes! finally I was in. And it did launch the wizard and I was able to configure all my libraries again from scratch.<\/p>\n