Your network configuration will be very important, and your set-up will determine lots of stuff specially from reverse-proxy and accessibility. There are a lot of different configurations, i will not bother covering them all but only my specific use-case which is the most restrictive possible (that i can think of) for a home system that is also connected to the internet.

So i have a flat home-network (1 subnet) with one upstream connection (ISP provider) that offers a private IP address and zero port-forwarding capabilties at all. I will get a bit more in details:

  Flat home network: subnet 192.168.0.0/24, media server is on 192.168.0.1, ISP gateway is on 192.168.0.254. All home devices are within this range.
  ISP provider with private IP (like over 4G or 5G, or some fiber ISPs too) that prevent you from using any DynDNS services
  No port forwarding at all, even if the ISP router do provide a "port forward" section, it does not work due to the private IP.

If you are, like me, in this situation you really don't have much choice. You can still obtain remote access if you have access to some kind of public IP like a VPS or if you can lease/access a server with a public/static address… Otherwise, there might be other solutions (like Plex) which i will not get into details here.

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