My Setup: Lifetime PlexPass Server (v0.9.16.6 - Public update channel) w/ about 6 Managed Home users. I’ve also shared my libraries with a friend, who is able to stream my Shared Content just fine. I’ve just recommended that he subscribe to PlexPass himself so he can create his own Managed Home users. Problem is, his Managed Home users cannot see my shared content. Is this by design? I wasn’t able to find any setting that allowed me to share my libraries with his Managed Home users, either on my server or his, and I’d like to keep our 2 “Plex Homes” separate from each other. Do I need to subscribe to the PlexPass Update channel for this to work?
This is by design.
You share with the other user, not all of his managed users as well.
This has nothing to do with the type of update channel.
If you want to share with other users, those users need a regular plex.tv account.
A managed user has no plex.tv account.
If your friend has 5 different email addresses, he can create real plex.tv accounts for his users (for free).
Then he invites these users into his Plex Home.
Then you can share with them as well.
The problem with this workaround is the watched/unwatched statistics which these managed user have collected so far. They can’t be easily transferred from the ‘managed’ to the ‘normal’ user accounts.
Gotcha. Thank you for the quick response!
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“The problem with this workaround is the watched/unwatched statistics which these managed user have collected so far. They can’t be easily transferred from the ‘managed’ to the ‘normal’ user accounts.”
Luckily in this case they are brand new Managed user accounts and have no statistics yet 
It sure is by design. You shared with your friend, but not his Home Members. If you want to share with them as well, they will need a full Plex.tv account, so you have visibility of who they are, and can add them to your Friend’s List.
Right now there is a cap on the number of users per Pass (or non-pass for that matter) of 100 total shares. This includes Cloud Sync accounts as well, so if you share to 25 people and all 25 have access to Cloud libraries, that’s 50 shares you have on your account. I honest don’t know if the 15 Home user accounts count in on that total to 100 or not, but I would venture a guess they do.
You know your friend, and maybe the people he has sharing his media, but for maybe the one off Cousin Guido from Okanoggin. If your friend had the ability to share out your media to his user lists, then you would be sharing with Guido, and have no say over it short of stopping the original share to your friend.
Yeah, by design, and honestly I will fight tooth and nail to prevent someone sharing my content without my setting up the share myself. It’s MY media, MY hardware and MY internet connection. If my friend wants his friends or home members to view my content, then he needs to get the content himself so they can see it from his stuff. If this goes Live, then bye-bye Plex, because I would be done with it the day it comes out. The clients already have entirely too much control of my hardware and connection. This control would be abuse!
Thanks Mike! Makes sense now why it is setup that way.
P.S. Love this community BTW.
