Syncthing ... where are the users?

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• Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  forum.syncthing.net/t/…/2

  Syncthing is not a public sharing tool, it’s for your own devices. Perhaps you are trying to fit it to a scenario it’s not made for.

  Quote from the maintainer/developer.

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  • JASN_DE@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is one of the occasions that a Dev sticks to the original feature list instead of trying to shoehorn in some features which wouldn’t really fit.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean you can kinda do it with one way syncs (e.g. read only shares and give a friend the code so they can connect to it).

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Syncthing keeps folders in sync between multiple devices, it doesn’t have any concept of users since it’s not designed for that.

  You want Nextcloud or similar ‘google drive’ replacement if you want to share individual files and folders with specific users easily.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personally, I’d really like if it could have different users on its management interface, with their own file shares.

    It’s understandable why they don’t bother, but I would like to share my NAS without running several instances.

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    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well each share can choose which devices it shows up for, so you don’t really need users in that sense. But also if you run it under another user account it will have its own clean profile too.

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    • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then you need NextCloud, not Syncthing.

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• pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If both people have Syncthing installed, you can do that by sharing a folder between you.

  But it is not like cloud services where you can generate a shareable link - Syncthing is mostly designed for syncing files between your own devices real-time.

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are you trying to achieve?

  xyproblem.info

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  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    man this is getting real popular (kinda like “why not both?” a while ago)

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Por que no los dos?

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  • TseseJuer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i like this, so many wasted meetings with people that don’t know their head from their ass

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• Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Syncthing is more like P2P tool for syncing files between own private devices rather than being things like torrents.

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• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Syncthing is not a cloud storage or tool for sharing. It can be used like this on a stretch, but it’s a continuous two-way synchronization tool.

  I portrait it like this: select a folder on one device, select a folder on second device, Syncthing would keep their content synced as if there were one folder :).
  This is in contrast to Nextcloud that needs central location and user, to rsync that is oneshot and not two-way.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You got the wrong application. Since other users already mentioned plenty of alternatives this comment is also redundant and can be ignored.

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• lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seafile is a file platform that’s more in line with what you mean. It can do sync but also sharing and collaborative editing.

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  • trilobite@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mmm, Seafile is is developed by an for±profit organisation. Looks interesting bit might stock with nextcloud

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seafile has a free open source edition, and even their paid enterprise license is free under 3 users

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    • faethon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can easily selfhost Seafile and make a ‘dropbox’ like system with as many users you like, and as large a storage you can handle / afford. Although there is an enterprise version, the community edition provides with many features to make it really a great service. It is mighty fast, and has native clients for many different platforms, in addition to using the Seafile website to acces, upload and download files.

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• TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Syncthing sync files, it is all does.

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• Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, by my understanding this is by design. However, there’s nothing stopping you from running multiple instances for each user account on a computer, assuming you are running Linux and are using the Syncthing CLI. Probably can’t do that on windows though.

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
  IP	Internet Protocol
  NAS	Network-Attached Storage

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