I use plex on dsm7，Recently, I found that plex exists in all users created. Is that right? How do I choose to open plex for different users.
For help, thank you.
I set up a test account, log in to the test account, and found plex. However, I can’t choose how to close plex for this test account in syntax.
I confused me.
Are you trying to share your media / Plex server with other users ?
If so,
- Open the Plex/Web browser
- Settings
- Users & Sharing (upper left corner)
- Add / Invite those users who you wish to share with.
If you had Plex on DSM 6 before, there are a lot of changes in DSM 7.
Your Plex share should have migrated to the new configuration.
Can you tell me more? I ask because DSM 6 has user plex. DSM 7 has user PlexMediaServer (name change was forced by DSM 7)
Hello, thank you for your reply.
All my new accounts in synology are given plex permission. I don’t want to. In fact, I don’t want to let new account members see plex. But I don’t know where to turn off plex permission for new accounts.
You mentioned plex member sharing.
What I am puzzled about here is another problem, how to choose to turn on or off plex permissions for different synology accounts.
All in all, thank you very much for your help.
PMS is a service on the NAS. It’s not an application like FileStation or the Text Editor.
DSM allows you to restrict access to “Applications”.
Services are only controllable by the administrator.
Everything you show in your list are Synology applications. Nothing is 3rd party.
DSM 6 didn’t list apps either.
Well, so there’s a problem here. Even administrators who set up a lot of users can’t choose which users need to have plex and which users don’t need plex. Because after these users log in, they all have plex.
So I wonder if there should be a permission setting for these? Let the administrator decide who should own plex.
I think you’re really misunderstanding the relationships here.
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PMS is installed by the DSM user with administrator privilege.
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That same person is usually also the same person with the master Plex account who owns the server once installed and configured.
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While it’s true, any person with access to the NAS can open the Plex/Web , doing so does not grant any permissions to the local server unless so granted by the Plex account holder in Settings - Users & Sharing*. Those users could go watch content from Plex directly. Watching Plex-sourced content does not use your Synology at all. It is a direct connection from the Plex.tv master server to them. All they did was load the app from your NAS.
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Only the Account holder can make changes to the server , including which users can see which media libraries.
The architecture & implementation, like many other apps, is “I don’t care if you load the app. I only care about what happens once you do.”
I am a long-term loyal user of plex. This is just a puzzle. How can I make the new accounts of users A, users B and users C created by the administrator not contain plex, or give the administrator permission to make a choice?
The problem now is that there is a plex under all new accounts, not every user needs a plex.
I mean, synology software can assign permissions to each account to decide which software each account should have. But plex doesn’t have these, it automatically gives them to all accounts.
Synology does not control access to third-party installed applications.
They only control access to their applications.
I looked in the Synology Developer’s Guide documentation again, for both DSM 6 & 7, and could not find any mechanism like what you want.
It is the responsibility of the third party to control their own application.
Plex does this internally.
I still think you’re confusing Services and User applications here.
If you’re the administrator then you WILL see it.
I do place it on the general Start Menu. I do this because Synology advises disabling the admin account. I cannot predict which non-privileged account a user might choose.
Let’s do a test. I’m an administrator. I’ll create a new “test” account, give the account “user groups”,
and only give the account “DSM” and “synology photos” permission.
At this time, I log into the “test” account. Why is there a plex by default? I didn’t give this account. Why does it have plex?
Let’s do a test again. I use the administrator account. I installed “玩物下载”. We see that it is installed just like plex.
Well, again, you can’t find control on “玩物下载” in the “test” account. Plex also has no control rights.
We log in to the “test” account, The administrator has installed “玩物下载” and the “test” account has not been affected,
It’s more reasonable, isn’t it? I think it’s really unreasonable to have plex in every new account. I don’t know if this is a dsm7.0 problem or a plex problem.
Although the administrator owns plex, the administrator also loses control over it. It’s out of control. 
Thank you for your patience and answer, but I really don’t understand what the problem is. Thanks again. 
I did some research. I know where that control is now.
It took some digging.
If I disable it it is not visible for anyone – including the administrator
It appears the “Run-As” setting (which is RunAs: 'package' in PMS case) influences this.
testing reveals, that changing it to running as the user controls visibility but that’s not how PMS works.
Plex doesn’t run as the user so therefore it’s not tied to a user privilege.
This is how it must be on DSM
Thank you for your patience and help. Although I am still confused in this matter, I will always be a loyal user of plex. Thanks again. 
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