Sharing my Movie Library

[lesliesales 0]

I searched for step-by-step instructions on how to share my movies with family. Didn't find anything...

[Abobader 3464]

Hello lesliesales,

** This is an auto reply **

Please wait for someone from staff support or our members to reply to you.

It's recommended to provide more info, as it explain in this thread:

Thank you.

Emby Team

[Carlo 4561]

Setup Users for each member and assign the privs you want each member to have:
https://emby.media/support/articles/Users.html

Edited November 6, 2025 by GrimReaper
KB article link updated

[lesliesales 0]

Thank you... When I follow the link it appears different on my screen. Would I need to purchase Emby Premier.

Also - does Emby send an invite email to new Users. Users have said they didn't get one.

Thanks for your help

Edited June 25, 2021 by lesliesales

[Carlo 4561]

I probably need to update that article a slight bit as we have had some minor changes.

If you create the users on your system you just give your server location, username and password to the person and they will be able to login directly to your server.

Optionally (slight change here) you can have a user create an Emby Connect username/password combination and give you their Emby Connect username or email address they used to register.  You then add either of these to the optional Emby Connect field.

That would then allow them to also login using Emby Connect.

Edited June 27, 2021 by cayars

[lesliesales 0]

Please let me know when you update the article... Thanks for your help

[Carlo 4561]

Have you setup your server for remote access yet?

I'm assuming that some of the people you wish to share with are not on your LAN correct?

[lesliesales 0]

That is correct... Neighbors.

[Carlo 4561]

How about the 1st question?

[lesliesales 0]

There is a check Mark on "Allow remote connections to this Emby Serve... 

[Carlo 4561]

Have a read through of this article and make sure to do the tests to make sure remote access is setup and working correctly.

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44002137137-remote-setup

[Happy2Play 9781]

I am a little confused as your WAN:8096 take me to Server setup not user login.

@Lukewhat would cause this?  Does that mean there is no configured server?  This is potentially bad as the startup wizard will allow anyone to make an account.

[Luke 42079]

21 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

I am a little confused as your WAN:8096 take me to Server setup not user login.

@Lukewhat would cause this?  Does that mean there is no configured server?  This is potentially bad as the startup wizard will allow anyone to make an account.

Are you sure it's the same server? He should complete the startup wizard if that hasn't been done yet.