Hi!
I created a Smart Playlist for my movies that contains just Child movies (rating).
This Playlist will be my default "Movies" point in the main menu.
Now I want to protect als higher rated movies with a PIN.
How can I do this? Maybe there is a way to protect Smart Playlists or something like this?
Ideas? Hints?
Thanks
Tom
split your movies in two dir, add two different sources, enable the master code and lock down your adult movies.
That's not really an option - cause my movies structure is
Movies
|-Action
|-Adventure
|-Animation
|-Film noir
|-Horror
|-...
... so on
Genre sorting. And in most of theses categories there are mixed contents, for younger childs and for older childs, adults...
No porn or something else but movies like "Saw" and other content that should be not accessible by any child.
Is there really no other way to prevent access for them?
Nope. Split them up is your only option.
Too bad.
But thanks for your answers
Do you store these files on a Windows server or a NAS etc?
In that case, you could create two profiles on xbmc, one for the kids, one for the adults each using different credentials to the share.
Use NTFS permissions on the server to define which films are kids, which ones are adult.
Install ABE (you can download from microsoft.com) on the server. Access-based enumeration effectively "hides" files/folders to which the user does not have permission as opposed to just giving "access denied" when the user tries to open the resource.
ABE is the key to the solution - without it XBMC "sees" the files on the server and attempts to access them.
Hope this helps?
Jon
Actually, having re-read what you've put ... Server 2008 has ABE installed and enabled BY DEFAULT.
Just permission each folder/files correctly and the kids won't be able to "see" the folders containing adult films.
Seems to be a good attempt.
I will give it a try.
Thanks for you hint! I never thought about it.
Tom
jpennell Wrote:Actually, having re-read what you've put ... Server 2008 has ABE installed and enabled BY DEFAULT.
Just permission each folder/files correctly and the kids won't be able to "see" the folders containing adult films.
But they will still show in the library and an error will appear if they are attempted to be watched. Also, a library clean will remove them, so be careful with that.
So not really an option.
Maybe I'm going to write my first plugin...
stoli Wrote:But they will still show in the library and an error will appear if they are attempted to be watched. Also, a library clean will remove them, so be careful with that.
I'm lost - it didn't behave that way before Dharma. Has something changed?
I *DID* say the OP needed to create two different profiles connecting to the NAS with two different user IDs - the profiles can have different libraries, no?
I mean, the key to ABE is that files/folders to which the profile user doesn't have permission are effectively HIDDEN from XBMC when it scans the share. This is different to pre-2008 behaviour where the files would show up in the share but be inaccessible - which DOES cause entries to be added to the library which are subsequently unable to be played.
Sorry to bring this back from the dead...
My home menu is basically SmartPlaylists. I even hid the original "Movies" and created another one.
I followed the instructions stated in the second post to enable Master Lock (Numerical) and then tried to lock-down a playlist. Unfortunately, I don't see that option. I can lock-down Videos, Programs, and other areas, but I don't see any of my playlists there.
Am I missing something?