Best way to have different security on different galleries

cstrombe

Not sure if there is a good way to do this. What I have set up now is a single password for my site. My main use is for family photos that I want to share with family but not the general public. This works great--it's nice that once a family member gets in, they have open access to everything. But now I have a situation where I'd like to also share an album of little league photos with the parents of the team, but I don't want them seeing my family galleries. Ideally they could visit the little league album w/o entering a password, and my family galleries would remain hidden from them. And family visitors coming in with the password would also have access to the little league gallery.

Hopefully that makes sense. Is there a clean way to set this type of thing up?

Thanks,
Chris

jfriend

I don't know of a good way to do this. I had this exact same situation and I ultimately decided to get a second Smugmug account for the sports team and school photos I wanted to share broadly with other school parents.

To share anything with someone outside your family, you will have to remove the password from your site. At that point, you could put the same family password on all your existing galleries and your family members will still only have to enter it once. Subsequent galleries with the same password will "just open" without prompting again. Anyone without the password who found your site could browse the gallery listing, but not actually see the photos in any galleries.

Then, if you just need to share individual galleries with other parents, you can make them Hide Owner. They will not have any of your customization associated with them and they will have only a generic www.smugmug.com/gallery/xxxxx URL, but they will also not have any connection or link back to your regular site. You can share just their URL and parents can view them individually.

cstrombe

Thanks for the info. Hide Owner seems like it might help. I wish there were a way to flag galleries as "open" but still maintain the site-wide password for everything else.

Maybe some combination of Sharegroups (which I just noticed in the Help pages) and Hide Owner will work.