Syncthing: https://syncthing.net/
Syncthing is a free, open-source peer-to-peer file synchronization application available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Solaris, Darwin, and BSD. It can sync files between devices on a local network, or between remote devices over the Internet. Data security and data safety are built into the design of the software.
This is written using Linux Mint 18.1 Serena x86_64 using kernel 4.4.0-139-generic.
I couldn't find good directions for doing this, so here we go.
sudo curl -s https://syncthing.net/release-key.txt | sudo apt-key add -
sudo echo "deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install syncthing
If you get the following error.
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
N: Is the package apt-transport-https installed?
E: Failed to fetch https://apt.syncthing.net/dists/syncthing/InRelease
Install apt-transport-https
sudo apt install apt-transport-https
I don't like to run services from my personal account, I also wanted the user's home directory in a non-standard path. Use whatever path you want or /home.
sudo useradd -r -M -d /raidarray/syncthing/ syncthing
sudo passwd syncthing
Login, I use su - you can use whatever.
sudo su - syncthing
Run syncthing.
syncthing
This will display a bunch of status info, just wait for a minute then do CTRL-C to force quit it. The goal here is to create the .config directory and files.
Exit back to your regular user.
exit
I don't want syncthing to be able to login, so I change the shell to /bin/false.
sudo usermod --shell /bin/false syncthing
I use vi you can use nano or whatever editor you like.
Here we are going to edit the syncthing user config file, you will need to change the pathing of course.
sudo vi /raidarray/syncthing/.config/syncthing/config.xml
Look for:
<gui enabled="true" tls="false" debugging="false">
<address>127.0.0.1:8384</address>
Change to:
<gui enabled="true" tls="false" debugging="false">
<address>0.0.0.0:8384</address>
Save and quit.
sudo mv /lib/systemd/system/syncthing@.service /lib/systemd/system/syncthing@syncthing.service
sudo systemctl enable syncthing@syncthing.service
sudo systemctl start syncthing@syncthing.service
sudo systemctl status syncthing@syncthing.service
This should output something like:
● syncthing@syncthing.service - Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization for syncthing
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/syncthing@syncthing.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-11-24 16:07:43 EST; 29min ago
Docs: man:syncthing(1)
Main PID: 22558 (syncthing)
CGroup: /system.slice/system-syncthing.slice/syncthing@syncthing.service
└─22558 /usr/bin/syncthing -no-browser -no-restart -logflags=0
You should be able to browse to your syncthing WebGUI now.
http://hostname:8384
Login with syncthing and whatever password you set.