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[varkey]

How are you testing this? ZeroTier is doing what exactly here?

Please explain the network setup in both cases. Also, is there direct connectivity between the two ZeroTier members?

 

[varkey]

Other Setup (theoretically doing same thing what zerotier is supposed to do) / It's not LAN:

Please explain this too. As I had shown earlier, it can easily do much higher speeds, so I'd like to understand how you have it setup, and what is the role ZeroTier is doing your use case. Cause from the screenshots, both appears to be showing Jio as the ISP (so you are not using a cloud VM), so which segment of your network goes via ZeroTier?

 

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@varkey Any idea, What I can use to download the files using the Web Browser from my Windows Plex Box?

Right now, I have to mount the drive, then copy paste it.

But, what if I could simply open a simple page in the web browser and download the file from there without need to have the password or login or anything.

Secondly, since I don't have port-forwarding. Yes, I will be using it on the local network only.

 

[varkey]

@ajgamer Just curious, why do you need to download the file? If you want to play the video file on VLC or some other player, you could just directly open the file using the player and it would play over the network (NFS or CIFS)

Anyway if you need an HTTP interface, you could setup a web server and map it to the folder containing the videos or files.

 

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@varkey I am using this media server as downloading other stuff too for example softwares and other stuff (which aren't media).

So, to copy / fetch those files onto my main system. I am using Map Drive right now.

But, there are many devices where I don't want to use map-drive because of security reasons.

How can I get the files without map-drive?

 

[varkey]

If you are running Samba server on the box and have the folders shared accordingly, you could just open Windows explorer and access the files.

//<plex server ip>/

 

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[Deleted member 63558]

No, I am using Windows 10 on the Media Server.

Secondly, I don't want to map anything.

 

[varkey]

Just enable folder sharing for the required folders, enable anonymous access as required, you wouldn't need to map anything. Just open Windows explorer, and enter //<plex server ip>/

Even if you needed to access over HTTP, you'd need to do the same, so I'm not sure what's the difference. Actually in case of accessing over HTTP, you'd need to first create a copy of the file before executing, however in this case you can simply run it over the network.

 

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Got any idea, How can I access it on the HTTP?

I have two virtual drives (partitioned the HDD)

So 500 GB is for the Plex and 500 GB is for the other stuff. I have no problem making the other stuff 500 GB as Public. If that what you mean?

But, how can I make it HTTP?

Since I have IDM on the main system, HTTP >> IDM >> Easy Management of Files.

My IDM is very well managed to download the files on their locations.

 

[varkey]

I am still not following why do you want to work around the problem by creating a duplicate local copy of the files. If you simply enable folder sharing on the media server, you can access the files over CIFS just like how a local folder works. You don't even need to copy it anywhere, you can just run it from the remote folder.

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If you absolutely want HTTP (I don't see the point in this and its an additional over head), as I said, you can just install a webserver and make it accessible over HTTP.

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