▲ 113 ▼ Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week (arstechnica.com) submitted 8 months ago by along_the_road@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) Not OP, never used Plex, I make accounts for people and send them the address, username and password, that's it. As for the work I had to do, I run Proxmox so I copy pasted a command from the PVE community scripts, and set up a reverse proxy. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) Making accounts / passwords for other people seems like a bad enough idea that I’d rather pay for PlexPass. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) Would you rather allow everyone access to your server? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 8 months ago (1 child) With Plex, everyone has their own accounts they are responsible for. They create the account and set the password. You give those accounts access. I couldn’t stand the onslaught of “what’s my passwords.” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Damage@feddit.it 1 point 8 months ago* I've only had that issue like two times, and I've got 10 users on my server. And people can change their own password. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) Making accounts / passwords for other people seems like a bad enough idea that I’d rather pay for PlexPass. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) Would you rather allow everyone access to your server? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 8 months ago (1 child) With Plex, everyone has their own accounts they are responsible for. They create the account and set the password. You give those accounts access. I couldn’t stand the onslaught of “what’s my passwords.” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Damage@feddit.it 1 point 8 months ago* I've only had that issue like two times, and I've got 10 users on my server. And people can change their own password. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 8 months ago (1 child) Would you rather allow everyone access to your server? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 8 months ago (1 child) With Plex, everyone has their own accounts they are responsible for. They create the account and set the password. You give those accounts access. I couldn’t stand the onslaught of “what’s my passwords.” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Damage@feddit.it 1 point 8 months ago* I've only had that issue like two times, and I've got 10 users on my server. And people can change their own password. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 8 months ago (1 child) With Plex, everyone has their own accounts they are responsible for. They create the account and set the password. You give those accounts access. I couldn’t stand the onslaught of “what’s my passwords.” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Damage@feddit.it 1 point 8 months ago* I've only had that issue like two times, and I've got 10 users on my server. And people can change their own password. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 point 8 months ago* I've only had that issue like two times, and I've got 10 users on my server. And people can change their own password. permalink fedilink source parent