Help needed setting up users on home network

Hello all. I’ve downloaded and setup Plex server on a pc in my home without any problems at all. From that PC I can view all content without issue.

However, I want my wife and kids to be able to watch from their own PCs which are on the same network. I am having trouble setting this up.

I have created a number of managed users, and my understand was that on the client PCs I would go to server_ip:32400 to access my plex server. But when I do this no media is available and the only option is to login. When I try to login using my own plex account details it says that the account or password is wrong - which clearly it isn’t.

What is happening? What am I doing wrong?

Try the “incognito” mode of the web browser on your client machine. If login succeeds that way, you need to delete cookies of the domain plex.tv and the web browser cache.

/huge sigh.

I found the problem. It was because I had not set a password under Account > Password. Now I can login using the username and password I’ve set and then switch user.

FFS what a nightmare. Cheers.