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Firewall Blocks Connections - Anonym - 2024-06-05
I have set up my Jellyfin server and it has worked fine for a while, but the firewall always interfered. for a while it helped to just turn it off until the device was connected and then boot it back up. but now, even with that, once i turn it back on everything immediately gets blocked again. is there any way to fix it? im on windows 10.
RE: Firewall Blocks Connections - pcm - 2024-06-05
https://www.howtogeek.com/394735/how-do-i-open-a-port-on-windows-firewall/
Please follow this guide and open port 8096 TCP and UDP in windows firewall.
OR you can run these two commands in Windows Powershell as administrator.
Code:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name= "Open Port 8096 TCP" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=8096
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name= "Open Port 8096 UDP" dir=in action=allow protocol=UDP localport=8096RE: Firewall Blocks Connections - TheDreadPirate - 2024-06-05
Your other option is to go into the Windows Firewall and allow jellyfin.exe instead of just port 8096.
When you ran the installer there should have been a prompt at the end to add jellyfin.exe to the Windows Firewall, but if the installer wasn't run as admin you may not have received that prompt.