Just installed Syncthing on my Scale server. It looks like it doesn’t have users but rather folder IDs that are then used to sync devices. One of the cool features of Nextcloud is the ability to share files with other users. Can this be done with Syncthing?
https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sharing-folder-with-others/14024/2
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Then you need NextCloud, not Syncthing.
Run NextCloud on your NAS and you’ll be set.
Hum, no. The last thing I need on the world is a piece of non-working hard to maintain software.
I’d write something before trying Nextcloud again.