New Pertino Convert at Work
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So a coworker of mine spends pretty much all his time between calls watching shows on Netflix, etc. Well, I guess he has a pretty extensive collection at home and he uses a Plex server. Now, he made it so he could access the Plex server over the WAN, but streaming over our corporate network for his Plex server, which uses port 32400, is screwy. I had an idea that encapsulating the traffic a little differently might bypass those issues. So, I told him about Pertino sometime end of last week or early this week. Anyways, he created his account, installed Pertino on his test box, Teamviewered into his Plex server and installed Pertino, looked at me and said "now what?". I told him "you're on the VPN...that's literally it". I had him run an ipconfig and showed him the Pertino interface and IP. After that, he just navigated to his Plex server by IP, so "http://50.203.224.3:32400/web" and his Plex interface pulled right up. Now came the true test.
He fired up an episode of the classic Batman cartoon, put on his headphones, and a large smile broadened his face. He just looked at me and said "you did it!" He turns to one of our co-workers and says "what now mofo?! I got Plex at work!" Now the guy I helped with this is moving to L2 at some point in the near future and changing back to a different product. He's extremely diligent and shows up anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes early every day just to make sure he touches all his cases and nothing gets missed. He is one of the most reliable guys I work with. That's why I didn't mind helping him. The company really doesn't care either, as it's on his test box.
It was just cool because we got it figured out, I got a new Pertino convert, and life was good.
Thanks,
A.J. -
He could add an entry for the Plex server in his hosts file too on his work machine. The he could just go to http://plex:32400/ and be good to go. Plus he could fix the port number and make that unnecessary too. Then he could just go to http://plex/
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@scottalanmiller not the point I was making.
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@thanksaj said:
@scottalanmiller not the point I was making.
Just saying that it could be super easy with effectively zero effort.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
@scottalanmiller not the point I was making.
Just saying that it could be super easy with effectively zero effort.
Yeah, I know. A bookmark in Chrome works just as well. Lol
