Hello,
I have sharing my plex server with a Friend (It’s works, no problems for my user account administrator)
But when i’m connected with a manged-user I see only my plex server, I can’t see the plex server of my friend.
How can I make for sharing my friend’s prex in all my managed-users ?
Thank you in advance,
Cédric217
By design managed users can not share with users outside the Plex home (your server). Managed users are local users. See https://support.plex.tv/articles/203948776-managed-users/
By design managed users can not share with users outside the Plex home (your server).
We want to do something that doesn’t appear to be supported by the current managed users sharing design.
We are a couple, with Plex Pass, and we have friends with Plex (also Plex Pass) and we are sharing our libraries with each other. However, we can’t independently watch shared things.
This means, for example, that my partner has to use the admin user to watch things if I am away, but then if they don’t finish watching a movie, the position is saved under the admin user, not their managed user. If I then return home and want to watch the same movie, I also have to use the admin user and Plex will overwrite the saved position. Our friends have the same dilemma with the library we’ve shared with them.
The design appears to assume people watch things together as a household, not as independent people with their own timetables and preferences. My partner is not a child, but there doesn’t appear to be a way to treat them like an adult.
Is the use-case I’m describing possible?
It would be good to be able to designate managed users as “full” users (the adults) with greater privileges than guests (such as for children or visitors), but without having to provide them will full admin access, or having to run completely separate Plex installations.
Create a full plex.tv user account for your partner.
Share your server with this new account.
Ask your friend to share his server with this new account as well.
If you have Plex pass, invite this account additionally into your Plex Home.
That way you get a “hybrid” account, which appears on the Switch User screen, inherits the right to use the Plex mobile apps for free from your Plex Pass and can be shared with by your Plex friends.
Neato! I’ll try this out. Thanks!
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