File and Plex Server issues

[TBBZ8X8]

Ok so I have a Plex/File server plugged via Ethernet directly into the back of my main desktop. I know this is not typically a good practice but because I am on the Universities network I have to be kinda sneaky. Anyways Windows wont detect the server. I have had it working in this exact config before but now after I had to restart the server for some upgrades Windows keeps giving me an unidentified network error. Please help...

[Electronics Wizardy]

What is the ip config on the systems?

 

Just get a router for your patience and the server and you can do whatever you want.  

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7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Just get a router for your patience and the server and you can do whatever you want.

Not all school networks allow them. I know for a fact that the network in my dorms won't work with routers which is intentional and the CIO advises to use the method that the OP is using.

 

11 minutes ago, TBBZ8X8 said:

Ok so I have a Plex/File server plugged via Ethernet directly into the back of my main desktop. I know this is not typically a good practice but because I am on the Universities network I have to be kinda sneaky. Anyways Windows wont detect the server. I have had it working in this exact config before but now after I had to restart the server for some upgrades Windows keeps giving me an unidentified network error. Please help...

Is the error on both machines?

[TBBZ8X8]

Both static

 

Ya I tried the router thing. They detected it almost immediately and I didn't have internet for almost 2 months.

[TBBZ8X8]

2 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Not all school networks allow them. I know for a fact that the network in my dorms won't work with routers which is intentional and the CIO advises to use the method that the OP is using.

 

Is the error on both machines?

No only on my windows desktop

 

my Ubuntu server is fine

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1 hour ago, TBBZ8X8 said:

No only on my windows desktop

 

my Ubuntu server is fine

I had a similar issue when I had a pretty much identical setup. The bridged connection would only work if I booted the Linux machine first, then the Windows machine iirc.

[TBBZ8X8]

13 hours ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

I had a similar issue when I had a pretty much identical setup. The bridged connection would only work if I booted the Linux machine first, then the Windows machine iirc.

Just tried that. Didn't work...