The Multi-user / sharing feature is awsome but i find it a bit troublesome to go through the internet (myplex website) to handle the permissions, etc. I personally would much much prefer to handle this locally on my PMS and hence also won't have the need to publish my PMS to the internet / keep …

Surely, the solution through the myplex website has advantages but IMHO most of the people only (seriously) share within the family / own network hence keeping everything "within the own walls" would be quite nice. I can understand your point of view - but I think you'll find your last statement to…

I can understand your point of view - but I think you'll find your last statement to be highly untrue. Many, many Plex users share their Libraries with friends far and wide. But the "local only" discussion has been happening for quite awhile. It will play out one way or another. No doubt, the…

Sure that will still work. In fact the "no internet access" issue was resolved some time ago - discovered by a user who setup a Plex environment on a private jet when he discovered PMS stopped working without an internet connection. We're a lucky community to have so many users using Plex in so ma…

:) sweet, ya, a private jet is a good way to create a isolated scenario... :) ya, sure, using iOS devices as server is great and absolutely the way to go if you visit a friend's house to watch the latest two episodes of breaking bad but I use the Laptop-PMS, router n ATV/iOS device when travelling…

Offline availability of Sharing / Multi-user Feature

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offline Multi User Feature Feature Suggestions	2	101	June 10, 2021
Local Multiuser support for Servers blocked by NATs Feature Suggestions	4	97	June 13, 2021
[Request] Option to Restrict Friends/ Additional Users, to Local Access Only. Feature Suggestions	28	187	July 1, 2019
Local User Accounts That Don't Require Internet Connectivity Feature Suggestions	2	237	January 3, 2019
[Feature-Request] Built in local authentication server (prevent plex.tv outage) Feature Suggestions account	87	5467	November 24, 2025

Offline availability of Sharing / Multi-user Feature

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