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Yes, mapped drives would be a problem, although UNC can help with that. Won't help with network resources secured with user account though, which is typical for home networks. Local system account...

Cool, thanks. As I understand it should allow non-admin account to run GUI at least until user does something that requires service restart, like device profile change. But what happens then? And I...

even if it does make sense it does not solve the problem of protecting files for multiple users on XP :p

It is XP indeed. I wonder how it is on windows servers, because that is what OP is using.

I don't think local service account will be able to read protected user data. You need local system account for that. Anyway, far from presuming I can do better than you did, here is how I would...

In order to run Mezzmo GUI user MUST have an administrative account (at least I wasn't able to make it work under limited). How exactly does that prevent them from seeing everything on the computer?...

My comments above aside here is an answer to OP.

Are you sure you need DLNA server? If all you need is to access media from laptops and mobiles Windows servers are perfectly capable of streaming...

... still talking to myself, lol.

Tried an experiment tonight. Logged as administrative account, started Mezzmo and when prompted for user name/password entered another, limited account. Server...

This is the most confusing thing about Mezzmo. I did a trial using one account and everything worked great. I was going to buy it right away and then decided to try multiple users. This is where...

Actually, I'd like to expand the question above. It might be that I was wrong to dismiss the approach too soon.

Service running under limited account is obviously more secure than local system...

2 months of testing. 8 DLNA servers. 2 platforms.
The winner that should have been: Mezzmo, hands down
And the winner is: TVersity

Now, if you wonder what this is about look no further than...