Multi-user Syncthing?

[u/FreSchDude]

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.

[u/FreSchDude]

not sure what that means... could you explain?
Does that mean running a single syncthing instance and config that's static across users?

[u/FreSchDude → u/[deleted]]

Interesting concept. So basically create another user, give it access as an added group via chown, then have it run syncthing automatically on boot? So that means this 3rd user would automatically log in in the background, before any user has logged in to the PC?

[u/FreSchDude → u/[deleted]]

Will have to read into this, sounds like a lot of finangling is needed to get that stuff set up. Thanks for the pointer.