Isolating / Restricting Multiple Plex Media Servers from from Multi-Nvidia Shield Plex Media players
okay… so here is the scenario:
i have multiple Qnap Media servers running Plex Media Servers in 2 different parts of the home and 2 different purposes… ie in the TV and family Room I have 1 Media Server and it can serve a few players in my home (I am putting the Nvidia Shields all over my home in different rooms etc…) It will have kids movies etc etc…
I have another Qnap Media server running Plex Media Server but will have content that the kids cant watch etc with its own Nvidia Shields…
Also Now I have personal photos and family home videos I do not want friends or to be able to view in the other rooms or guests in my flat let to be able to see…
How do I Isolate Multiple Plex Media Servers from from Nvidia Shield Plex Media players…
In Other Plex Media clients I have noticed there is a place in the settings you can manually put the IP Address of the Server in the clients Network settings, however, on the Nvidia Shield there are no such advanced IP settings…
PLEASE HELP… NEED SOME OUT OF THE BOX THINKING HERE IT SEEMS…
## PS, I even created a VLAN and put the Media servers and Players on different IP Ranges, but somehow all Media players still can see all Media Servers… I don’t want this… I want to be able to force each Media player to only have restricted access to specific servers… I don’t need to complicate it by specific access to certain folders, I just want to be able to not allow the entire media server to be viewable on certain players… Hope this makes sense… I thank you kindly!!!
@BigWheel said:
Don’t share your server #2 with the kids accounts or other accounts. I’m not sure I understand the issue.
the hard drives are full and have already purchased the servers… also by adding users will cost me more money, i have alrerady purchased the lifetime plex pass membership…
cost you more money? you can share with up to 100 plex accounts for free. Plex Pass allows you to let 15 of those people in your “Plex home” so among other things they do not have to pay for mobile apps. Plex Home is meant for folks you actually live with. it also enables fast user switching for folks in your Plex Home
There is no plan to allow you to go over 100. we don’t charge by number of shares
@BigWheel said:
cost you more money? you can share with up to 100 plex accounts for free. Plex Pass allows you to let 15 of those people in your “Plex home” so among other things they do not have to pay for mobile apps. Plex Home is meant for folks you actually live with. it also enables fast user switching for folks in your Plex Home
There is no plan to allow you to go over 100. we don’t charge by number of shares
Thank you for your kind reply, so i created another user and when i log in, it asks to upgrade to plex pass… odd… i clicked later… is that a glitch or am i doing something wrong?
you created a regular account( with it’s own email and password) and shared with it or do you mean you created a "Managed user
if you made a managed user ( which is really only recommended for children for the most part ) it should not be showing you options to upgrade.
if a regular account have you added them to your Plex Home? You can share with someone without added them to your home. like you could share with me. I may have my own server and want a Plex Pass for the extra features. I won’t join your home since i manage things myself. if you made an account for your spouse for example you can after creating the account add them to your Plex Home. to do that log into the web app as yourself. go to settings>users with My Home highlighted on the left ( it should be by default) click the Add user button then “an existing user” and type in the user name or email of the account and it will send an invite to the user to accept being in you home. they can then accept it when they are logged in a the same place Settings>Users. they will see your name and they click a green checkmark next to it to accept. once they are in your Home the offer to upgrade to Plex Pass should go away since it is not generally needed by a user who is in someone else’s home.
