Hello dear friends,
first of all thank you for the amazing product and the great community and support! I've been using Plex for several years now and have also recommended and implemented it for many of my friends.
I am currently having a very unexpected and annoying issue with Plex, however. Here's the situation: one of my friends, with whom I share my library is going on vacation for 3 weeks to a location with very bad / often completely non-existent internet connection. She want's to use the downtime catch-up on some series and movies, however.
My solution was to install a Plex Server on her MacBook Air and copy some of my movies / series to her drive. This way she can watch them offline when she doesn't have an internet connection and still have access to my server when she does have good connectivity. Here's my problem however: it seems it's impossible to authenticate offline and watch the content that is already sitting ON HER HARDDRIVE without an internet connection. How could that be? This is the dumbest solution I've heard of - or am I missing something?
I tired putting 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 in the list of clients who should always be authenticated under the "Network" tab in the Server Settings, but that didn't do anything... I can't think of any other possible solutions.
Can someone please help? Thank you very much in advance!