Getting a gold account

You make the account with gold the other person home with the Xbox with no gold on it

Account with gold add it to xbox without a gold account make gold account home on that xbox pretty much it they get games and gold on both accounts afterwards

It's essentially the same, let me try to explain.

You need 1 gold account for every 2 consoles.

Let's say you have 4 consoles. With 4 accounts. You make 2 gold accounts, and 2 home gold consoles with those accounts. The gold accounts play on the non gold consoles and they get their benefits because they are gold members. The 2 non gold accounts play
on the home gold consoles and get the benefits because it's a gold console.

When you share gold the accounts that are sharing the gold get access to online multiplayer. Only the account that purchases the gold gets access to things like gold discounts or games with gold games. However, the games with gold games can be shared once
downloaded.

does the account you are trying to get it with actually have gold or is the gold shared from another account.

only the subscribed account can get them.

gold games are in you account, so you account needs gold to get access.