Install Syncthing For Mac

Start on Login Starting Syncthing on login, without a console window or browser opening on start, is relatively easy. • Find the correct link of the Windows binary from the (choose amd64 if you have a 64-bit version of Windows) • Extract the files in the folder ( syncthing-windows-*) in the zip to the folder C: syncthing • Go to the C: syncthing folder, make a file named syncthing.bat • Right-click the file and choose Edit. The file should open in Notepad or your default text editor. • Paste the following command into the file and save the changes: start 'Syncthing' syncthing.exe -no-console -no-browser • Right-click on syncthing.bat and press “Create Shortcut” • Right-click the shortcut file syncthing.bat - Shortcut and click Copy • Click Start, click All Programs, then click Startup. Right-click on Startup then click Open. • Paste the shortcut (right-click in the folder and choose Paste, or press CTRL+V) Syncthing will now automatically start the next time you open a new Windows session. No console or browser window will pop-up.

Oct 10, 2015 - Then I installed Syncthing. On my mac, the browser opens at 127.0.0.1:8080 and displays a login screen. This is the htauth type, not a webpage.

Access the interface by browsing to If you prefer slower indexing but a more responsive system during scans, copy the following command instead of the command in step 5. Warning There are important security considerations with this approach. If you do not secure Syncthing’s GUI (and REST API), then any process running with any permissions can read/write any file on your filesystem, by opening a connection with Syncthing. Therefore, you must ensure that you set a GUI password, or run Syncthing as an unprivileged user.

With the above configuration, Syncthing only starts when a user logs on to the machine. This is not optimal on servers where a machine can run long times after a reboot without anyone logged in.

In this case it is best to create a service that runs as soon as Windows starts. This can be achieved using NSSM, the “Non-Sucking Service Manager”. Note that starting Syncthing on login is the preferred approach for almost any end-user scenario. The only scenario where running Syncthing as a service makes sense is for (mostly) headless servers, administered by a sysadmin who knows enough to understand the security implications. • Download and extract to a folder where it can stay. The NSSM executable performs administration as well as executing as the Windows service so it will need to be kept in a suitable location. • From an administrator Command Prompt, CD to the NSSM folder and run nssm.exe install • Application Tab • Set Path to your syncthing.exe and enter -no-restart -no-browser -home=' as Arguments.

Note: Logging is set later on. -logfile here will not be applied. • • Details Tab • Optional: Set Startup type to Automatic (Delayed Start) to delay the start of Syncthing when the system first boots, to improve boot speed. • Log On Tab • Enter the user account to run Syncthing as.

This user needs to have full access to the Syncthing executable and its parent folder, configuration files / database folder and synced folders. You can leave this as Local System but doing so poses security risks. Setting this to your Windows user account will reduce this; ideally create a dedicated user account with minimal permissions. • Process Tab • Optional: Change priority to Low if you want a more responsive system at the cost of somewhat longer sync time when the system is busy. • Optional: To enable logging enable “Console window”. • Shutdown Tab • To ensure Syncthing is shut down gracefully select all of the checkboxes and set all Timeouts to 10000ms.

• Exit Actions Tab • Set Restart Action to Stop service (oneshot mode). Specific settings are used later for handling Syncthing exits, restarts and upgrades. • I/O Tab • Optional: To enable logging set Output (stdout) to the file desired for logging. The Error field will be automatically set to the same file.

• File Rotation Tab • Optional: Set the rotation settings to your preferences. • Click the Install Service Button • To ensure that Syncthing exits, restarts and upgrades are handled correctly by the Windows service manager, some final settings are needed. Execute these in the same Command Prompt: • nssm set syncthing AppExit Default Exit • nssm set syncthing AppExit 0 Exit • nssm set syncthing AppExit 3 Restart • nssm set syncthing AppExit 4 Restart • Start the service via sc start syncthing in the Command Prompt. • Connect to the Syncthing UI, enable HTTPS, and set a secure username and password. Without homebrew Download and extract Syncthing for Mac:. • Copy the syncthing binary (the file you would open to launch Syncthing) into a directory called bin in your home directory i.e.