So I setup my mother with her own Plex Server with her having her own admin account (me doing maintenance). Each of us have separate PLEX Lifetime Passes with separate emails to those servers. I have my own Plex Server setup but since I was living with her for a while and did not have a need for managed users, I decided to join her HOME on her Plex Server. This allowed for us to switch in and out of our servers quick and easy. Some time has flown by and now I wanted to experiment with, if I were EXIT her HOME and create my own HOME with my own managed users, will she still have access to my libraries? The answer is YES. But then, on further investigation, I noticed that the libraries I had shared with her managed users were no longer accessible. Even though my mom, as an admin has access to my shared libraries, she’s not even able to share that access down to the managed users.
For instance, I have more content for kids (cartoons) so when I was attached to her HOME I was able to assign these libraries to whatever user I wanted, even the kids accounts. But now that I have left her home, I was thinking that my mom’s admin account would allow the sharing of my libraries since she the admin and still has full-access to those same libraries. Couldn’t she be able to share them with her managed users and why wouldn’t this be a check box option when creating restrictions?
No, You are sharing your libraries with her. No one else.
Shares libraries can only be given to that one account.
Managed Users can not get access to share from other plex.tv accounts.
Because the idea is you share to someone specific. On top of that Manange Users have limitations.
No unique username is required
No email address is required
No password is required
Cannot sign in directly themselves (a full/regular member of the Plex Home needs to sign in first, before switching users)
Cannot share with users outside the Plex Home
Cannot run a Plex Media Server of their own
Another way and maybe easier way to look at it is, they don’t exist outside your own account.
And to be fair, it shouldn’t. You share with ONLY one person then you find out they are sharing with 14 other people. Not cool. Not cool at all. Remember you control access to the share and have given one person permission to view/sync/etc your library.
