I have a few friends that I have shared my libraries with and these people o my have plex accounts to stream from my server. I am trying to find the easiest way to restrict content for their children without being a major pain, because I would end up being tech support(more than I already am). I can create managed users in my plex home and set restriction on the managed account, but is that the correct way to do this for a remote user? One friend has a tv in the basement that sometimes he will watch, but the kids always have access to.
It is not possible.
If you share your content with another Plex user, he is not able to “re-share” your content to the members of his Plex Home.
So there is only the way of creating full Plex accounts (i.e. separate email addresses and passwords) for every member of your friend’s household.
Which then again is preventing them to use “Fast user switching” for e.g. the shared plex client in the living room.
The only alternative would be to invite everyone involved into your own Plex Home.
But there are several problems with this:
- the number of ppl you can invite is restricted to 14
- all members are appearing on the Switch User screen
- security is low, because all what prevents your friend’s kids to switch to your admin account is your 4-digit PIN
What if I gave him a spare computer and set up a plex server on it, set up his account, and create a plex home group that he can moderate, he can control the users, and still view my shared libraries. Kind of a plex user proxy. Would his home users(his kids). Have access to my libraries under his home and his restrictions?
Nope.
His plex home would only control the content on that particular server.
Setting each kid (or group of kids) with a dedicated restricted account is the only way.
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