Maybe this question has been posted 1 million times but there are so many articles I simply cannot find one (recent) article that looks applicable. If I am repeating myself…please do not just start shooting but rather point me in the right direction.
I run PMS on a Windows 10 Home Ed and auto boot (BIOS) and shutdown (task scheduler) every day. Obviously the PC boots up but does not log into any specific user. The PC stands in a corner untouched (not even a screen) an very much is purely my PMS that I access via several Apple TV’s throughout the house. Now if I log onto Windoes, man it works perfectly. If I do not log onto the Windows 10 (the default boot) , I cannot access PMS from the apple TV’s. Does this mean that every day I am forced to take up the keyboard, connect the PC to my TV and log into Windows 10 as me Windows user? I sincerely hope that is not the case. Please advise… Thx!
Yes by default it requires a user to login in order to start. You have various options for bypassing this. For instance, using autologin to login a user account.
Thank you! This should work perfectly. I will give this a bash tonight! I assume one can still set a passwd on the screensaver to be sure the PC is locked as that would be under the logged in user…right?
Correct. If you set your screensaver to around 10mins of inactivity, the PC should lock after that and leave PLEX still running but the user session locked.
I agree with gconcepts, if the PC is locked due to inactivity the Plex session also gets locked, but if the PC goes to sleep then I think you have to relaunch it.
Last night used netplwiz (user management) in Windows and simply set the current user to “not have to log onto Windows”. This takes you straight into Windows…no log on required. I then set the screensaver to 1 minute with the setting that the screensaver requires user to log on again. This worked perfectly. PC boots, logs on automatically, starts Plex and within 1 minute screensaver locks it whilst Plex remains running. To me this is better as it seems the autologon feature recommended by gconcepts requires you to provide your windows credentials which implies it is stored in the registry (albeit still encrypted but a security risk nonetheless)…any downside to this approach that I maybe missing? Feel free to comment…
