So I set up a guest account which a friend of mine has access to. We were about to watch a movie when I noticed not only is the guest account showing items that are in the process of being watched on MY admin account, the guest account also has access to libraries it shouldn’t. If it helps, my friend has a SONY TV. Not sure why it would, but I included it just in case.
Just to say it so it’s said, I have verified that the ONLY TWO libraries I initially gave access to were the only two libraries checked. Not sure what’s going on. Anyone have any insight?
Does that user happen to be in your local network too? In that case, you probably have all libraries shared to the home local network and every user, even not signed in, might be able to access them. Setting List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth in Network.
So update: it appears you can’t actually PLAY the content, but you can still SEE the content in the libraries that are not supposed to be visible on the guest account.
Are you talking about the actual “Guest” account that you can enable/disable on this page https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/plex-home
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That is a managed user in your own Plex home. It doesn’t have its own email address and password. If you gave out the access credentials to this account, you practically shared your own (server admin) account.
Don’t do that, ever. The guest account is for use within your own home, on devices that you own. You “Switch User” to the Guest account on them if you have guests staying over and want them to provide temporary access.
Oh yikes!!! I was misinformed on how the guest account worked!!! Thanks for clarifying. I do have some individuals who created their own account for the purpose of accessing some of my content, but I thought I was doing others a favor by enabling the guest account. Soooo yeah, how can I disable that guest account altogether? lol
Keep in mind that disabling the guest account won’t revoke your own credentials which you seem to have shared with some friends.
You might want to change your account’s password.
So I meant to come back and clarify on that; I didn’t share my credentials. I (at least what I THOUGHT I was doing), was setting up a means for friends (and for me when I travel and stay with friends) to be able to access CONTROLLED content without having to sign into anything - they/we would just be able to click on the Guest account. But I never shared my log-in info. Upon disabling the guest account just now, I noticed something called a Managed Account - maybe this is more in-line with what I was trying to do?
A managed account is simply a sub-profile of your own account. If you set up a managed account for your friend they will have to authenticate the app using your admin account credentials. It’s meant more for in-home usage for family members besides the Plex account holder all using the same device.
Your friend needs their own, completely separate, Plex account. They will be able to use the server remotely with no issue because you have a Plex Pass on your account.
awwww okay! thank you for the clarification. I’ve used Plex for a while, but only recently started to mess around with Guest Accounts and all that. thank you again.
); I live in South Carolina and I’m at my friend’s in Florida.
