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Ask Slashdot: Keeping Your Media Library Safe From Kids?
Serenissima writes "I've spent many hours building my Media Library in XBMC and scraping all the DVD Covers and Fanart. And I love it, I can pull up movies on any computer or device in the house. I played a movie for my son the other day so I could get some cleaning done without him being underfoot. I noticed shortly after that the sound coming from the other room was from a different movie than I played for him. I snuck up and watched for a few minutes and saw him use a trackpad to navigate to the stop and play buttons of different movies in his folder. I know it's only a matter of time before he realizes he can see all of the movies. I don't want him to have nightmares because he saw the T-1000 stab someone in the face. The quickest solution I can think is a screen saver with a password. It's mildly inconvenient to me, but would stop him from accessing anything. However, I remember how much more I knew about computers than my parents when I was a kid, and I have a feeling he's going to surprise me one day. There's a lot of ways out there to stop it, the way we do it now is to not let him watch anything unless we're there (but there are only so many times I can watch the same kid's movie). How do YOU guys find yourself dealing with the convenience of running your own server while keeping your media safe from prying eyes?"
RTFM
Did you even attempt to find something yourself?
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
One set of movies has "kids only" group permissions
The other set of movies has "Adults and kids" permissions.
Your son doesn't belong to the "adults and kids" group.
????????
Profit.
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BMO
...from a NAS device. Like you, I've spent HOURS getting all the TV cataloged, named correctly, and with images. Like you, I have kids I don't want watching certain things and I solve it thusly:
1:Create a share on your NAS which has the items you DON'T want them to watch and make it so that it needs a password or whatever credentials you need to connect to it.
2:Add the share to XBMC, but put it under a Master Profile.
3: Create another Profile for your younglings that can't access the shared files. Double bonus, since you password protected the share, if they do go scanning the network, they'll have to have to know the (hopefully) different password to mount the share with your non-kid content.
4:??? Profit?
Check this out: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=108232 I think it will help you sort your media out with haste.
I know what you're thinking. Did I forward 65,535 packets or 65,536 packets?
did you try it
http://www.xbmchub.com/blog/2012/08/13/parental-control-for-xbmc-addons/
Keep all shares password protected with mounts/drives only available to xbmc PCs.
the modem was set to IRQ 2
For people who still don't get it: http://bucarotechelp.com/computers/anatomy/90032101.asp
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Buy a humongous hard drive (3Tb is good). Make a giant Truecrypt partition, like at least 1 Tera, ensuring that it's the type that can accommodate files larger than 4 gigs. (NTFS for Windows, HFS+ for OS-X)
Copy all those movies to this partition while it is mounted. Unmount it... Then just mount it again with password when needed to either watch a movie or copy new ones into the partition.
If you run out of room, make a second partition on the same disk with the same password.
All done.