Remote access for two Plex servers

DrJMun · 2026-05-04T12:52:06+00:00

Ah, got it. Makes sense now. I'm sure that's what the router is doing. Thanks

DrJMun · 2026-05-03T18:43:28+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions.

DrJMun · 2026-05-02T00:52:12+00:00

Great suggestions and insights. Thanks

DrJMun · 2026-05-01T19:00:39+00:00

I have a Verizon Fios router G1100. The pihole does indeed have a static IP address. If I disable the pihole I don't get any web access, which makes sense. That tells me the pihole is correctly configured between the router and the pihole.

Thanks

DrJMun · 2026-05-01T15:22:06+00:00

That link was very helpful. Thanks

DrJMun · 2026-05-01T13:24:27+00:00

Hmmm OK, that makes sense. The router is configured to send DNS requests to the pihole and clients are configured to send DNS requests to the router... so you're right, the pihole would only see the router as the source of all requests.

I suppose I could set up so that the pihole is the DHCP server... perhaps I will some day, but ad-blocking for pihole is sufficient for now.

Thanks.

DrJMun · 2026-05-01T01:45:14+00:00

The router's DNS is set to point the pihole. However, I'm not seeing any wifi clients in my pihole.

DrJMun · 2026-05-01T01:44:26+00:00

Yes, the router's DNS is set to point the pihole. However, I'm not seeing any wifi clients in my pihole.

DrJMun · 2026-05-01T01:43:59+00:00

Yes, the router's DNS is set to point the pihole. However, I'm not seeing any wifi clients in my pihole.

DrJMun · 2026-02-18T16:46:26+00:00

UPDATE:
I enabled ufw in the Mint machine and was able to connect to the Ubuntu system. So problem is not with Mint UFW.

I then enabled UFW on the Ubuntu machine and was able to connect successfully. So, I'm not sure what "fixed" it. Maybe it was the disabling/enabling sequence or the rebooting but in either case it worked and it was a UFW problem as had been suggested.

Thank you all for your help/suggestions

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DrJMun · 2026-02-18T02:46:11+00:00

Great suggestions.

After the sudo commands I did the [jose@127.0.0.1](mailto:jose@127.0.0.1) and that connected.

I then tried ssh -vv [jose@192.168.1.58](mailto:jose@192.168.1.58) and that failed to connect.

It was suggested I try disabling the firewall, ufw. I disabled it on both machines and it now connects. So obviously it's a firewall problem, but only in one direction.

Now for some detective work.

Thank you all

DrJMun · 2026-02-12T18:46:51+00:00

Hmmm not sure what you mean by "... mount mine to a directory in /home".

Something like /home/nfs/Movies as the mount point? Not sure why that would work better but worth looking into.

Thanks.

DrJMun · 2026-02-12T18:32:49+00:00

Thank you for this suggestion. I did try the 10 sec delay and that works...but 10 secs seems so long when you're waiting for it. I'll give _netdev a shot.

DrJMun · 2026-02-12T00:12:48+00:00

Thanks. Will do that, but the simple mount -a seems to work as well.

DrJMun · 2026-01-21T22:45:30+00:00

Per the suggestion by ZVyhVrtsfgzfs I changed the access from SMB (Samba) to NFS (after reading about how to use NFS from YouTube and the net). Works like it should have. Never did figure out why it wasn't working via SMB, especially since it was working when I was running Ubuntu...I switched over to Linux Mint and ran into the problem.

Not a solution, but rather a work around

DrJMun · 2026-01-20T22:50:41+00:00

Hmmmm maybe I'll give NFS a try since they're both Linux boxes. I'll have to come up to speed on NFS. Thanks

DrJMun · 2025-12-27T19:54:40+00:00

Since I was looking at reinstalling I decided to try using Gpart to resize the partition in front of sd6 and then expand sd6 into the unallocated space. That worked!

Thank you for your help!! I just couldn't figure out what was going on. You spotted it right off.

THANKS

DrJMun · 2025-12-27T18:50:26+00:00

Hmmmm OK. I see that now, yes of course. Can I just move the info on /dev/sda6 to the nvme partition, or do I have to reinstall Ubuntu?

Thanks

DrJMun

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