i've wrote about this myself in great depth in the past...
My reasons why a media server should have multiple user accounts.(infinite would be stellar)
1. Keep my kids out of my adult life
2. be able to be on the road, and login and check out my adult life stuff, while allowing my son to be able to login , my GF, family members, friends etc... All At the same time, I dont want friends seeing my family member stuff, and visa versa
3. The HUGE one for me.. the ability to have a DEDICATED library for just work stuff, that i can totally customize with jrivers awesome taging system, and then be able to give that webgizmo link/S to customers to see our products lines, videos, slide shows etc. Basically one could just have a onenote of all Server libraries for all contacts/groups made that all had dedicated login credentials, with dedicated read/write access.... maybe in the future one could implement (if not already available) an upload option as well, customers could be given a link to webgizmo, then can have a look around, and upload files if need be. Or Friends family members, being able to login to your webgizmo, and upload there Spring break pics.vids right to the dedicated folder you have set from with jrivers settings, and then by using an auto tagging/Move folders system that watches for clients ip's or logn credentials it would transfer there files to the dedicated folders on the appropriate drives, And then jrier could be set to watch those drives and auto import them into the library with your set rules.
4. It's cheap in the long run, people dont need to buy multiple pc's, just buy hard drives. (who wants 10 pc in there house? who wants 4 virtual machines on one machine?)
5. you can charge extra for it.. I'd pay an additional $30 a yr to pay for that type of service, sell packages 3 year $80.00
another example of what I mentioned briefly above... the sharing option such as what Droid offers, be anywhere and just share your files, give someone your QR code from your droid for that dedicated Library/View.( ya could have them start out 5 layers deep, instead of having them goto the main directory (
http://johnnystires.com::52199/library,) just send them a direct link for the keyword tagged (ip
http://johnnystires.com:524578/Low Profile Tires/ Brands) that fits that person your dealing with. The customer would then have access to the JRiver, goathead, johnnys tire, general mils, bestbuy, bob's bug collection library, Then they're could be an upload option available for them and they could upload any image from there phone directly to your library. so when ya get home it's already auto imported under the correct HDD/customer folder and library view, johnnys tires/ customers/ low profile customers uploads.
I've went day dreaming again.. but those i feel are some good reasons to at least look into it.
'm not one to pretend i know what goes into doing this stuff, but i i used to use a program called easy file share web server, and easyfile share ftp server. and most of things i ve mentioned were doable then, the only kicker is there software wasnt a media player. But hey you guy got the media player and the server already started
i'm unsure of conflicts, code issues that may arise... But if do-able there would be some flexibility!