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Problems installing and running Plex Media Server - button "Open PLEX" greyed out
Hi I'm trying to setup the Plex Media Server on my new Nighthawk X10. Here are the steps I've taken so far: Went to "Routerlogin," Clicked on Plex Media Server, Clicked on Open Plex, Created Plex...
All right ... now open Finder on your Mac. In the left pane under "Shared", you should see the R9000 twice ... once as R9000 for AFP (or whatever system name is configured), and under readyshare SMB protocol (or whatever is configured for the workgroup). Connect to one of these as a guest, Ignore the "Kurt" and T_Drive folders ... and enter USB_Storage:
Try to create some folders, upload some files here. Does this work as expected?
Now drill down to Library -> Application Support -> Plex Media Server -> Logs ...
...if this folder exists, I would imagine there should be some log files, inlcuding a "Plex Media Server.log" file.
Can you open it, and copy paste everything to the community forum?
If there is nothing ... only Netgear can really help. I don't want to take you to enable the telnet access, and run some shell commands.
Yes i followed the setup instructions. Once Plex downloads, I hit open Plex and it brings me to the Plex website. Then i sign into Plex and it says cannot find server. It seems to me that Plex is looking for the server on my computer instead of on the Route/ Hard drive.
thanks,
Your R9000 is on the current 1.0.1.36 (or newer)?
R9000 Firmware Version 1.0.1.36
There was an issue (until these days) where this version was not pushed to the live update.
Yes it on the latest firmware. I restored the router to its factory settings last night and checked that it was up to date. When I go to router login and open plex it says the server cannot be found. I already downloaded Plex via router login.
You need PMS installed on your Mac, too? Get rid of it - Plex does not like multiple PMS on the same LAN.
The Plex (PMS) on the router will be installed internally, the external stroage is used for the PMS database only. Is the external sotrage recognized by the router, and accessible ie. using ReadySHARE by browsing the default \\readshare\?
All the following was done from the router login page. I installed plex on the router itself. Then I hit open Plex, and it said no server found/download Plex. So I downloaded Plex thinking that it had to download again, but it downloaded to my Mac instead of on the server. From there I restored the router back to factory default and checked for updates. Then I went back to router login re-downloaded plex onto the router and hit open Plex, and it still says cant find server. Basically, I'm back to where I started.