Now you will need to reorganize your library a bit. Ok, so you got accounts and locked down your server. By default Plex will let any local network user in with master access meaning any of the restrictions you make later on will not take affect for users on your local network. What this does, is stop local users using being able login to your Plex Library without an account. You will then see the option below ‘Require authentication on local networks’. Step 2: Locking down your local access and requiring MyPlex loginsīrowse to your Plex/Web interface on your local network and click on ‘Settings’, browse to MyPlex and select the Show Advanced Settings. You don’t need to do this for any of additional accounts you created for family / friends as they will be users, and not owners of the server. This account will now be the one that owns the server, so think of it like a Master / Admin account. To achieve this, login to your Plex Server via the web interface and in the ‘Settings > MyPlex’ sign in your server to your myPlex account.
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If this is the first time you have made a myplex account, your need to login with the primary account on your actual plex server to assign it as the ‘owner’. When making accounts, if you only intend to use them on your home devices and not fussed about making proper accounts with details (or if say your making accounts for your children who don’t have email addresses) you can easily just temporary email addresses or the + trick on Gmail (ie: and make some accounts for family usage. Ok, first thing’s first fire up your web browser and navigate to the MyPlex site and create some accounts for you and everyone who will need access to your library.
Plex server download content how to#
Here is a step by step guide on how to achieve this:
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However you can take advantage of MyPlex sharing (even on your home network with this guide) to achieve a similar result and lock out different users from accessing certain parts of your library.
Plex server download content movie#
One would have hoped Plex made this easy to do, as it has all the movie / tv information and could easily lock out content based on say Age Restriction, however the feature isn’t just there yet. Say for example if you have young children in your home and you want them to be able to watch movies but wish to restrict violent or adult movies from them or if you want to download TV Shows specifically for one user temporally but don’t wish for whatever reason to share with everyone else in your home or via the internet. Plex is a great way to index and provide libraries of content to all the screens and devices in your home, but sometimes for various reasons you may wish to restrict the content different users can view.