Help with Remote WAN Access

[EmbyTye 1]

Hey everyone.

I have spent a good part of my day trying to figure this out.  So I have given in and came to post on here.

I am an unhappy remote Plex user and looking for a better alternative.

In Home LAN Emby server works flawlessly.  It is in testing and setting up remote WAN access that is still failing.

I have read every article I feel I could at this time.

My setup is a Bell Hub 3000 modem and a Google Wifi router connected to it.  There is no bridge feature so the Google Wifi router is just plugged into it.

I have tried forwarding both 8096 and 8920 separately in the Google Wifi app.  Still says:

Your Internet access is blocked

Firewall or antivirus software may have blocked the connection.

Try:

• Checking the connection
• Checking firewall and antivirus configurations
• Running Windows Network Diagnostics

ERR_NETWORK_ACCESS_DENIED

 

I have tried adding a rule in the Home Hub 3000 to also forward those ports.  Still nothing.

I do use VPN on my server and therefore the ip keeps changing.  Even with that I still can't get even get it to work remotely once.

Internally my server has a reserved ip that I was forwarding the ports to.

Any help in the right direction is much appreciated.  

Thanks!

 

[Abobader 3464]

Hello EmbyTye,

Please wait for someone from staff support or our members to reply to you.

It's recommended to provide more info, as it explain in this thread:

Thank you.

Emby Team

[pwhodges 2012]

Have you checked all the steps in the guide?

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001849007-connectivity

Paul

[EmbyTye 1]

Yes that’s the first thing I looked at and tried. 

[EmbyTye 1]

Ok I fixed my issue. 
I just kept googling 8096 port forwarding pictures and happen to see a PIA pic. Then it got me thinking and then also found a related post on this forum about it. 
I turned off my PIA VPN and everything worked! Then I saw in PIA there is split tunneling. I added the Emby server as an app exception and it still works. 
Finally I can sleep tonight. 
 

[pwhodges 2012]

Well done!

Paul

[Silverserved 0]

My ISP provider did maintenance today and my router has reset the ip addresses. i have changed them in my port forwarding and put them in my firewall and also split tunnelling but since this happened this morning i still cant access my emby server remotely. does anyone have any ideas as this is starting to annoy me now. everything was perfectly fine before this damn maintenance 

 

thanks

[Carlo 4561]

Normally, you shouldn't have had to change this in your port forwarding if the WAN address changed.

Can you show a screen shot of your port forwarding setup?