Emby Connect Assistance / observations

[vaise 340]

I have been using emby, media browser for years.  I also have an unused plex on my nas as a backup that has only been used once in its life.  I have finally got a reasonable upload speed now in Australia we have been connected to the NBN.  I used to have 10 down, 1 up, now I have 100 down and 40 up (tested at 97/38).  This means for the first time I can have emby delivered to the kids when they are at friends houses etc etc.

 

I read up on the emby connect instructions, and searched emby connect in the forums but would like a bit of clarifiction.

 

For background, my internal users (6 of them including me) do not have passwords on them.

 

I added an emby connect invite to the users, accepted, then tried to connect remotely but no servers found.

 

I then opened up port forwarding on my dd-wrt router.  All fine then

 

My question is thus however - seeing as my router will redirect anyone who hits the wan ip and port 8096 to the emby server, present the 6 users (with no passwords) and allow them in - that is a big issue.  Am I correct in that ?  And further to that, emby connect would be obsolete.

 

I also got a noip dyndns to make it a bit nicer name - but the direct access to anyone who sniffs around is an issue.

 

As two areas (of the 6 roku's) in our house are not auto logon areas (lounge and media room) having passwords each time is a bit of a pain.

 

Can anyone clarify ?  Anywhere I am going wrong here ?

 

Ideally, I would like to either :

 

1 - allow a special user to have remote access, and need a password, but the internal only ones do not - never prsent internal users externally

2 - if a user comes in remotely, then present a password screen, no password if local.

 

Thanks,

vaise.

[Luke 42086]

Emby connect associates a single emby server user with an online emby connect account. Therefore they will log into Emby Connect with a password, and from there they'll go straight into your server using the local server account that is tied to the emby connect account. They will not be presented with a user selection screen.

 

Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[vaise 340]

Cheers @@Luke,

 

I get that and that works - but as I have to open up my router to forward the ports to make that work - it means I an opening up anyone to the emby system that goes direct - i.e http://myserver:8096 and they get the user logon screen - and all users have no passwords. 

[Luke 42086]

So give the users passwords, and while doing so, check out all of the options on the password screen.

[vaise 340]

Well, that was easy...... 

Maybe those extra options should be visable on that password screen - as that is exactly what I needed but I never knew they were there as they only show when the password is created.

Cheers for that.

[Luke 42086]

Well if you don't have a password then they are not needed. They are also discussed in our wiki:

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Passwords

 

Thanks.

[vaise 340]

That blank pin for internal users is exactly what I needed. 

 

It is just that I def did not want to enable passwords as its too intrusive for the internal users.  But you have to either read the wiki on passwords (which you are not inclined to do if you dont want to have them), or actually go through the emby 'add a password' screen before you see those extra blank pin options for internal users only.  It would be best if those pin and blank on internal would have been shown on the password screen before actually having to add one (even if they are greyed out).  Just a design thing that would have meant I would have not had to raise this post.

[Luke 42086]

Thanks for the feedback.