Hi,
I have Plex Pass. All have been good for several years. After a friend added me to his Plex Server yesterday, suddenly I can only see all his other users when I login and I have become a “managed user” on my own account.
All my other users I can see under friends, but I can’t choose them when I login.
Please advise.
Best, X
You were invited to his home and when you accepted, your old home dissolved. You have to leave his home again to setup your home. Unfortunately your managed users are gone I am afraid.
Your friend should add you as a friend/share instead of adding you to his home.
Is there a notification message telling you exactly this before you are thrown out of your own home?
Thanks - Crazy. Spend hours on this. I left his home, removed it. Didn’t work - my home was still gone. Then I removed my own server - but it cannot be added again. Great work Plex. Configuring a brand new Plex will take hours (Unraid/Nvidia GPU)
Nope. Nothing I noticed anyway.
In times of patchwork families and mobile homes, tiny houses and flexible work conditions, Plexies should be allowed to be at home at more than one place.
Yes you get an email with the invitation link. The consequences are disclosed there. The OP probably didn’t read this.
Correct. Because I didn’t read this in a an email I have to spend a day reinstalling, reconfiguring, re-inviting. Think I’ll just use Emby permanently now…
" Please Note: We show that you are already part of a Plex Home. If you accept an invitation to join another Home, you will leave any current Home. If you are the admin of that Plex Home, then it will be deleted, causing other members to leave and any managed users to be deleted."
I turned on Home once - and added someone to it.
It pretty much went downhill from there.
All my users are in my “Home” and I have never had an issue.
This should set you straight https://support.plex.tv/articles/204281528-why-am-i-locked-out-of-server-settings-and-how-do-i-get-in/
Well Thanks 
- But after I did the “Reclaim my server”, nothing happened (“Surprise”) - I started reinstalling the whole thing. Besides, I run in a Linux/Docker set-up, and really have no idea how to edit individual config files.
I don’t think you understand the problem. Anyway, just have a friend add you to their home, accept the invite - that’s when the magic really happens… Great architecture…
I understand fully. I know the consequences of being added to someone else’s home.
I meant to answer in reply to Juice comment, so apologies for the confusion.
Fair -
Honestly: I think this is your main issue here.
Docker is supposed to improve life for a server admin.
In your case (and many other users who’re flocking to the oh-so-convenient pre-made docker containers) its usage appears to cause the opposite.
If you don’t understand the concepts behind it, you should probably not use it. Use Plex on an operating system which you know how to handle and administer
I’m the ‘confuser’ around here - and don’t you forget it.
I just don’t need Home.
Everyone, including Aunt Gladys, bought their own apps. I mean what else is she gonna spend her money on? She’s 103, quit smoking in her late 70s when her boyfriend wouldn’t let her smoke at his house and wouldn’t come visit hers. She outlived that one too, but the point is she’s rich on all those savings and is too old to go to Disney World (“you have to have been born after 1950 to board this ride”).
Home was more trouble than, any worth it may have provided - to me.
For me nothing to do with free apps.
More to do with the easy ability to disable all the online stuff for everyone.(Which becomes more relevant each year.)
Oh… right…
No confusion there.
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