Dan33702 0 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 After nearly a year of not being able to connect remotely, I finally got it working today...only to realize that my VPN had been turned off. As soon as I realized that, I turned it back on. A few hours later, my girlfriend, who only got access to my media for a brief time, called to let me know that she could no longer connect. What can I do? Other than canceling my PIA VPN account, which I really don't want to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richt 73 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 The suggested answer is to enable Split Tunnel in settings and add a rule for Emby Server with Bypass VPN. However, this may or may not work per this thread Is my VPN preventing remote access? - but it is worth trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan33702 0 Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share Posted December 1, 2022 I've set up split tunneling and it seemed straight forward setting up, but apparently that's not the correct solution for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Dan33702 said: I've set up split tunneling and it seemed straight forward setting up, but apparently that's not the correct solution for me. Hi, why do you think it's not the correct solution for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan33702 0 Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share Posted December 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Luke said: Hi, why do you think it's not the correct solution for you? It's just not working. I can't connect remotely at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Hi @Dan33702 were you able to figure out remote connectivity with the VPN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan33702 0 Posted December 11, 2022 Author Share Posted December 11, 2022 No, I haven't. You have helped me, my VPN provider has helped me. Unfortunately, none of the solutions worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldoo 14 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) I just got mine working today, heres what i did. Forward ports 80 443 on your router and open those ports in the incoming system firewall. buy a domain from google domains and set up your A records to point to your public ip. get caddy from caddyserver.com set up a reverse proxy that points your google domain to your private ip. That will get you ssl. In the network tab for the remote 8096 put 80 and the 8920 port put 443 Put in your domain you bought and for connection type: reverse proxy use mulvad for the vpn keep emby server not split tunneled but split tunnel the browser you use and radar and Sonarr if you use them. I’ll probably make a guide tomorrow with mullvad i can keep emby server vpn-ed and keep my public ip connected to remote server Edited December 14, 2022 by Waldoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 @cayars may have some PIA VPN tips to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 On 12/14/2022 at 5:08 PM, Waldoo said: I just got mine working today, heres what i did. Forward ports 80 443 on your router and open those ports in the incoming system firewall. buy a domain from google domains and set up your A records to point to your public ip. get caddy from caddyserver.com set up a reverse proxy that points your google domain to your private ip. That will get you ssl. In the network tab for the remote 8096 put 80 and the 8920 port put 443 Put in your domain you bought and for connection type: reverse proxy use mulvad for the vpn keep emby server not split tunneled but split tunnel the browser you use and radar and Sonarr if you use them. I’ll probably make a guide tomorrow with mullvad i can keep emby server vpn-ed and keep my public ip connected to remote server That seems rather complex. Did you by any chance follow the instructions here? https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44002137137-remote-setup There are some diagnostic steps listed that will let us know what is and isn't working. If you didn't follow that guide can you step back from your current setup and try this simpler approach? What I'd suggest for step one is to forward 8096 on the router directly to Emby Server. In Emby's network menu set these options: Public http port number: 8096 Secure connection mode: Disabled Allow remote connections to this Emby Server: This should be check marked Leave these blank: External domain: Custom ssl certificate path: Certificate password: Do you have anything in these fields? LAN networks: Local IP address: Remote IP address filter: Uninstall the Port Mapper plugin. Stop Emby Turn VPN completely off Reboot the computer running Emby. After it restarts and you can log into the web interface open another browser tab and run the canyouseeme test using port 8096. Follow the section "If this doesn't work continue with how to verify your public IP and port." Private Message me your trace route results as well as your WAN address and I'll run a test from my side to see if I can make it to your router or if I get a login page. Carlo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebo51 15 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) I too am trying to get mine working while still being able to have VPN active. I"m using Nordvpn. I have statically mapped the port I'm using so everything works when VPN is disabled. But when enabled obviously Emby is grabbing the external IP of the VPN. I turned on split tunneling and added the Emby Server process but that doesn't work, still showing VPN external IP. I did restart emby after making the change. EDIT Nevermind, after rebooting it is now working. Weird that starting and stopping my VPN, and starting/stopping emby server didn't work, took a complete reboot. Edited December 22, 2022 by zebo51 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebo51 15 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Spoke too soon, while it works for that part, it couldn't go out and find meta data/identify content and download it. So while the split tunneling allowed regular surfing to go out over VPN and for a remote user to watch my media, emby itself couldn't reach the internet. Turn off VPN and all works normal. So I guess for now I'll have to leave it disabled :(. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Let us know if you're able to figure it out with the VPN. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmaniv 1 Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 Hello. I'm having the same issue as zebo, with NordVPN and Emby not working even if the VPN is disabled for Emby. Did anyone find a solution for this since ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 7 hours ago, greenmaniv said: Hello. I'm having the same issue as zebo, with NordVPN and Emby not working even if the VPN is disabled for Emby. Did anyone find a solution for this since ? Hi there, what exactly is not working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmaniv 1 Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 While NordVPN is active, I am unable to access to my Emby server. The error being a "Connection Failure". Even when I am split tunnelling Emby with my VPN, it gives the same error. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 On 2/1/2023 at 8:20 PM, greenmaniv said: While NordVPN is active, I am unable to access to my Emby server. The error being a "Connection Failure". Even when I am split tunnelling Emby with my VPN, it gives the same error. OK thanks for the update. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDSII64 4 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 On 12/25/2022 at 7:50 PM, zebo51 said: Spoke too soon, while it works for that part, it couldn't go out and find meta data/identify content and download it. So while the split tunneling allowed regular surfing to go out over VPN and for a remote user to watch my media, emby itself couldn't reach the internet. Turn off VPN and all works normal. So I guess for now I'll have to leave it disabled :(. I know this is an old post, but if my memory is correct ExpressVpn supports split tunneling. Maybe you can give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caveman456 1 Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 To add my 2 cents worth that may help, I was running Express VPN for 3 years with split tunnelling active and no issues with remote access, the remote (wan) ip was the same as my actual ip address. Then after both had an update (not sure what version, around 4.6) the remote (wan) for emby then changed and was somehow being affected by the TAP server network connection that Express VPN installs, the only way to get Emby back to my actual IP address was to uninstall Express VPN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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