# Friends with granted access cannot access my PMS

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/friends-with-granted-access-cannot-access-my-pms/933506>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [November 14, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/friends-with-granted-access-cannot-access-my-pms/933506 "2025-11-14T18:30:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![talfriedman518](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@talfriedman518](https://forums.plex.tv/u/talfriedman518)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/friends-with-granted-access-cannot-access-my-pms/933506/1 "2025-11-14T18:30:22Z")

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Server Version#: 1.41.8.9834  
Player Version#: 1.41.8.9834

I gave my brother access to view my plex server libraries. While plex shows clearly in the access tab that he has full access to my libraries, when he tries to access the server itself he gets a message that he is unauthorized.

I tried looking into it and google said to try to recreate the PLEX-TOKEN, so I viewed it first. It showed SERVER\_NOT\_SUPPORTED as the plex token. I tried changing his password like the forums suggested, but still it only shows SERVER\_NOT\_SUPPORTED.

What can I do so he can view my server again.

Just a note - a couple months ago, everything worked just fine. This all started about 2 months ago, and I haven’t been able to solve it for him since.

Please help, and let me know if there is anything I can upload to help the debug process, I tried looking at it on my own, and I couldn’t see on my server side any logs of him trying to connect…

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/friends-with-granted-access-cannot-access-my-pms/933506/2 "2025-11-14T19:15:38Z")

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PMS versions 1.41.7 to 1.42.0 were compromised. Therefore Plex announced they’ll block access to those for anyone but the owner.  
You should update your server to the current public release (version 1.42.2.10156).

> [@Plex Media Server - Security Update](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-security-update/928341/3):
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> As a follow-up to the original report and in an abundance of caution due to a population of servers still on an affected Plex Media Server version (versions 1.41.7.x to 1.42.0.x), we have made adjustments for access to affected servers. Specifically, other users to which the server owner has granted access to the server will not be able to connect to it while the server is running an affected version. Once the server is updated to a fixed version, other users will be able to access again. Server…

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**Author:** ![talfriedman518](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@talfriedman518](https://forums.plex.tv/u/talfriedman518)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/friends-with-granted-access-cannot-access-my-pms/933506/3 "2025-11-14T19:39:43Z")

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Thanks you!!

This worked 😀

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/friends-with-granted-access-cannot-access-my-pms/933506/4 "2026-02-12T19:40:28Z")

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