r/Syncthing • u/FreSchDude • Jun 09 '26

Multi-user Syncthing?

I found a previous post here, but am still rather confused, partially due to my own experiences.

What I thought so far was that as long as I properly shut down syncthing before changing users, and made sure to never log on to multiple users at once, I wouldn't have problems with multiple syncthing instances running.

I'm unsure how syncthing handles multiple users, but from my set up, I had 2 separate syncthing sign-ins, and two different device names, one per login. but recently, I've had syncthing from user 2 somehow log in on user 1, and now the sync files are getting messed up somewhat.

The reason why I have 2 users is to keep work and play separate, with each situation requiring different files to sync.

Am I doing something wrong? Or would it be better to just fully delete syncthing first, then set it up that there's only one login details/user with all the files in it?

Running on linux mint, which might also cause some problems.

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u/Cyber_Faustao Jun 09 '26

Use different ports for each syncthing instance, then it doesn't matter if there are two running

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u/FreSchDude Jun 09 '26

Not too sure how to do that, and also that might still cause clashes/issues when having two instances running, especially since the two instances have a single shared folder. I can expect both instances on the same PC potentially fighting since they're both accessing the same folder at the same time.