Metadata?

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Okay, will do.

[pwhodges 2012]

Or you could have cgNAT to contend with...

Do a tracerte (or however it's spelt in your OS) to any outside site and show us the result.

Paul

[Zenith Media 1]

Okay, I can do that as well. 

 

Thanks for all of the help.

[Luke 42078]

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

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[pwhodges 2012]

First, decide whether you are using uPNP to set up the port forwarding, or doing it manually.  Manually is best practice, and so you should turn off the uPNP option in the router (and then you can in Emby too).

When you set up the port forwarding, the external host must be specified as * (as your uPNP entry has done, but your currently disabled manual entries have not).

At present you have no port forwarding to port 8096 - because (a) it is disabled, (b) you don't have * for external address, and (c) you have a different address for the server than your uPNP entry has provided.

Now it may be (I don't know the setup) that your internal IP addresses change when you enable the VPN, which is why you have multiple addresses - in which case it might be easier to remove the manual entries and go with uPNP - though I suspect that would require restarting the server each time the VPN is enabled or disabled.  Someone with a similar VPN setup would be better to advise you on that.  I would suggest getting the system correct and working without VPN before looking into that further.

Paul

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Okay. The internal server address on emby, I placed into the internal host section of port foward, it says "Invalid IP Address"

[pwhodges 2012]

Then either you have the address wrong or there's something about your network that we haven't been shown yet.  Probably the first, because I suspect that means that what you typed is actually not a valid address syntactically, not that there is no active device with that address.  But it could mean that the address is not on a subnet which the router has a route to.

Paul

[rbjtech 5284]

I would turn off upnp - and then manually create the rule below

Emby Server - Internal Host = 192.168.68.64 (according to what's listed in Emby Dashboard) External & Internal Port = 8096 as you are not use https. External Host (aka Source) is * (any)

delete 'Emby' & 'Emby Deco'

Edited August 1, 2023 by rbjtech

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It is still not accepting the internal host.

[pwhodges 2012]

What is the actual IP address of the machine you are running Emby server on?  I don't mean what Emby says, but what the OS says.  And for confirmation, what is the internal address of the router?  I'm suspecting there's some mix-up over what your internal subnet is (192.168.254 or 192.168.68 or something else?). 

If the machine address is different from what Emby says, you can correct that in Emby's network settings and then use the correct value in the port forwarding..

Paul