Hello, A friend (Tom) has shared their server with me (Belly). Under my plex account, I have multiple users (example: Belly, Joe, Bob). Under the user “Belly” I am able to access “Tom’s” media. However, under “Joe” and “Bob” I cannot access Tom’s Media. Since Belly is the main user and everyone lo…

That’s kind of the expected behavior. Tom has shared with _Belly, not with Bob and Joe. Only the owner of a Plex Home can share (their) libraries with managed accounts. Other users can only share media to full Plex accounts. Plex is not designed to forward shares. There’s a feature suggestion …

Thank you Tom for the reply. Hopefully they allow this feature. Do you have a timeline on when they would decide? Since Bob and Joe log in via Belly’s Credentials, it doesn’t make any sense for _Belly to not be able to allow Joe/Bob to access Tom’s files. For Example, if Tom decides to share his l…

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