SyncThing Plug-in on TrueNAS 

Awesome tutorial that sums up a long process into a short one! We have shared this on our social channels! Great work!

Setting syncthing to ignore permissions on the folders helped a lot, as syncthing was trying to set different permissions for some files.

A few years ago I set up my first instance of syncthing and I've been reluctant to set it up on my backup NAS because I remember what a nightmare it was to get it up and running. The online resources at the time were confusing and overly complicated. Thank you for a simple step-by-step tutorial that didn't assume I had a master's degree in networking!

The best video about this topic. Thanks!!

看了你的视频，很好的解决了我的问题，感谢。

Awesome tutorial, and awesome results. Thank You!!!!!🙂

@9:15 there are several errors that leave nasty security holes. First it would be best to create a group with matching gid just in case. Then choose it as a primary group, instead of making a new one with unpredictable gid. Then you don't need password: just select "disable password" and "nologin" as shell. Nobody can break your password if there is none in the first place! Don't need to fiddle with home directory permissions, as there will be no home directory. Uncheck all that "Microsoft Account" and "Samba Authentication". And most importantly, what do you allow sudo for? I'm not an expert, but that smells of possibly escaping jail and executing arbitrary code as root on your TrueNAS host!

Very helpful, thanks a lot!

Love your channel you are my go to Nas expert

Ay thanks bro, much appreciated!

Finally, a great tutorial that I finally understood that explains the setting up a mount pt and a user to get rid of the permission's error I kept getting, Now the hard part to duplicate it and remember how to do it over and over, Thanks!!!

I was going to abandon syncthing on truenas until i found this video , mount points and the user ID were my lackings. Thank you !

Was looking for a video to explain how to sync a windows machine and this was perfect. Thanks a lot!

Man i need to thank you, i´ve managed to do it thanks to you sir... Following!

Thank you, very helpful

Great tutorial, but will you make another for TrueNAS Scale as there is no "jail" and setting it up appears to be a bit different. Have it installed but can't seem to get the permissions set correctly to pick a data share.

Thank you so much for taking the time to share this. It saved me a lot of time trying to get Syncthing up and running for the first time.

I really appreciate you making this video. You have made a fairly complex task easy to setup - Thanks!!

Thank you for sharing this video! It helped me get Syncthing up and running in no time!

By far the best tutorial on Synthing/TrueNAS I have seen. I finally got everything working after watching this video.

Summary: The dataset's owner *has* to be sync (983), owner group has to be 983 and you need to give full permission to 983 on the folder and children. Anything else I've tried, like different owner, but still has permissions, didn't work at all and ended up in errors.

I cant find the actual directory of the /mnt/directoryname on what I did for the synchting folder location on my nas, it just gets added to the dataset of the main pool I chose and I cannot view a list of the filenames or files of the files that are being synced to the pool dataset

thank you thank you THANK YOU!

I heard lots of chatter about this but after watching a few videos it seems tedious to setup. There is too much going back and forth. I think I'll stick to the good old Seafile cloud sync setup.

very good video you are amazing, I really liked it and I have done eveything you explained and my syncthing works, tthanks you

Thank you very much. You have great videos. I built my first stable truenas server with your help. Plex. Qbittorrent, netdate etc... I'm so happy you have clear and precise directions.

awesome video ever thanks mate!

I was wondering about being used across the internet. But having the nginx now makes sense. Thx !

Nice tutorial! Thanks for this clear explanation!

Thank you!

explained very well. thanks !

I had everything running great until i added another device to the backup list, now im greated with the error: Failed to create folder root directory mkdir / Error on folder "Câmera" (fotos-de-sm-a336b_nr4s): folder path missing I´ve tried editing the permitions even with all open...zero sucess ;(

Thanks for this, it was doing my head in, works like a charm. cheers 🍻

Great job on this. The explanations really helped me out. First day of using TrueNAS and you have helped me setup a great file share program! if you get the error you could also have a typo... like I did.

Thanks a lot!

Thank you so much for a great tutorial,,,, step by step was easy to follow and now I am sync'n my Android phone photos to my Proxmox/TrueNAS/SyncThing plugin.... ..... now to expand on more folders and more devices.... thanks again...edit: earned my sub

you dont need to create an user "sync" in truenas for synching. its fine when you go into the dataset permissions and authorize an user through the UID

Hi. How to fix that I have on receive only (TrueNas) folder locally changed files when I change/edit files in send only folder on Windows computer? I need to manualy click Revert Local Changes to fix this.

"Fart around, or whatever." My new favorite phrase. Thanks for the walkthrough!

Great Tutorial, i have been having so many issues to try and get this to work properly and you solved it all for me. Thank you for your hard work and effort. You have a new sub,

Thank You.. Just the video i needed!

Hi all went extremely well with this until I tried to map the syncthing drive in windows and it tells me I do not have permission ? Any help appreciated

How do I view my share. I want to view the files I sync over to my nas?

Great tutorial. Really appreciate the help.

After setting it up. Constantly: Permission Denied, despite the permissions being correctly setup... What am I doing wrong?

Hi LoRes, awesome video! have a quest for you... where is the folder on my TrueNAS where kept my Sync files? Because I only see my local (hdd) folder, not my NAS Sync folder and the Sync was complete for my E:/ . Thanks!

Many thanks. This was very useful. I was already familiar with Syncthing between laptops. But with a NAS, it is another story. I have gone through many tutorials on TrueNas+SyncThing and this one is the clearest and simplest. Now I am quite scared by the complexity of Truenas and all the parameters. I wonder how you discovered what to do when configuring SyncThing... Anyway...Again, thanks a lot and best regards from France.

This was helpful in many ways. Have you moved to TrueNAS Scale? I tried installing Syncthing on Scale and it just doesn't work. Looking through the forums also didn't help as it seems no one's really paying attention it. You have a knack for explaining things in a simple way and it would be great if you can make a similar video for installing Syncthing on TrueNAS Scale. Thanks!

Muito bom o tutorial, resolveu um problema que eu tinha na minha rede, parabéns.

I followed your guide and managed to get it set up and running, and after adding some ignore patterns it's mostly running okay but now I've got this issue where my NAS loses it's network connection (not just SyncThing - The Web GUI, its not in the list of connected devices on the router, plex is down, the whole shebang). I then have to reboot my NAS to bring it back online. Anybody come across this?

I noticed the Group ID in the shell command was also 983... Do we need to create a group with ID 983? because the one created when creating the user has ID 1002 on my system. the User does have the 983 ID just not the Group that was also created. Seems to be working except I can't access the shared SyncThing folder through the network. I mirrored the permission I have on another data set (with the addition of the SyncThing user)... but still get the message I do not have enough permissions to access the folder.

How about an update for TrueNAS Scale and SyncThing?

I keep getting "stopped" and it says it failed to create the directory. I have watched and rewatched the steps. ensured I changed the user id to 983 after checking to make sure that's what it was and no matter what it's not working. i used all the same ACL settings for the pool etc. any help would be appreciated. this is my first day with truenas but I got help from a friend setting it all up.

This is great, thanks!

Please do a soup to nuts on ClamAV antivirus on TrueNAS.

Thank you for this tutorial, very helpful. I have a question on the final connection between Windows and TrueNAS. In your tutorial, you had a folder with video files in it in a Windows VM---that Windows folder was synced with TrueNAS---that is, files were synced from the Windows device ---> TrueNAS. My question is---can the other direction be had (TrueNAS folder with files in it ---> Windows device) at the start? That is, I already have a bunch of files on TrueNAS, and I want to share a folder on my TrueNAS with a connected Windows device (so when SyncThing is setup on a new Windows device....the data from TrueNAS is dumped onto the new device....and if I add a second device, the data from TrueNAS is dumped onto that new device as well). I assume this is possible and looking to try---just curious if you have attempted this. Again, thank you for your complete tutorial. Really helps.

very cool ! I got already shared folders with 2 computer via TrueNAS samba share, how do I add syncthing?

I don't think I missed anything but when I type in "id syncthing" I get no user name found. When I just type "id" it comes up with uid for root group ids an wheel.

Hey there Lo-Res DIY Greate video tutorial and very helpful I have 1 question I have connected my Domain Directory for my users to be able to access a Dataset i have created. How can i enable them o access the SyncThing Dataset so they can see the backed up files and folders? I tried to add in the ACL the Domain users group with no success Thank you

Hi, thanks for the video but I would like to see syncthing on Truenas Scale, can you made a video for that?

Great video ! I also have nextcloud running on same treunas where i set syncthing like you. but i am unable to backup nextcloud data via syncthing to remote PC with syncthing running for backup. Please make a tut to achive this.

Why did you go SyncTrayzor portable instead of the installer?

Once the files are backed up on TrueNAS, how do I gain access to them? I know how to do it normally, but not with SyncThing

There at 6.17 soneonw can see the frustrating bizzard way zfs shows how much storage each program/process uses. All tank uses 3.61tb and iocage even though it seems to use from scratch 2.83tb you have to substract 3.61-2.83 to find the real usage (probably I am also wrong and needs to calculate other factors as well like compression. For me is where zfs sucks biggggg time. As about syncthing i tried to use it back when I wanted to sync =transfer my AD user shared folders when I found out that the sync finished without transfering the ACLS and the attributes in general from the files. It was useless for me and used robocopy instead. I know slightly different usecase but I dont think it was to hard for syncthing to add extra options if someone wants to keep except his files their attributes as well Nice video by the way

Awesome tutorial, I was struggling last few days setting it up lol. I was wondering how would I go about showing files on TrueNAS or SyncThing on my phone but not actually downloading all of the files on to my phone? Say I have a document on TrueNAS or SyncThing folder and I just want to pull it up on my phone and view it or only download that one document.

Done this with success, is it possible to access the folder from the saved photos and documents with a smb share?

First off, mahalo for all these detailed tutorials! One question, how do you get the 'browse' button to appear next to the Folder Path? SyncTrayzor doesn't show me that. I tried opening up in Firefox and Chrome as well and still no browse button. Any advice would be appreciated!

dose this work even if you are not on the same network

I'm using Syncthing onTrueNAS Scale and getting errors in syncing comparable to what you showed at 22:08. I see your reference to setting the user's UUID to 983 at 8:46. However, in Scale, there is no user named "synthing". The user I created has a UUID of 3000. I also added the "apps" user to the ACLs, which has a UUID of 568. I'm trying to sync with Windows computers. But I assume that the problems is the ACLs set for the storage datasets in TrueNAS Scale. Can you comment on the proper user credentials for using Syncthing on TrueNAS Scale?

How is this different than just running "backup" ?

Uma sugestão de tutorial, Plugin Duplicati com o Truenas.

I was wondering if you were running Truenas scale bare metal or vm? Which way do you think is best?

@Lo-ResDIY, I know it takes alot of effort to get content out like this. Especially in tech where things changes so much. I'm having trouble with permissions and I think I can no longer change jail permissions as the syncthing plugin create the jail data set. I wasn't able to change the owner and group. Here is what I'm trying to do... I have a central set of folder on my TrueNAS server with source files (layer images etc) for my website... want to share that out to my laptops for us to use if we are on the road and need to make changes and those update to the source fields synch back to server for my home server when I get back home or online. I've been trying to add mount point to the syncthing jail data sets to the folders of source files. kinda thought the management portal would see the folders I added to mount... but it doesn't. Then I try to add the folder in the Syncthing Management portal and I get the error you mention at the end of this video... seems I have permission issues or the system is trying to keep me from accidentally overwriting my source files folder. I feel I'm missing some understanding here and am stuck. Do I need to give permission to the entire dataset that the web source files sit in to the Syncthing user or group? If yes, I wonder if I should create a new data set to move these files to as I don't think I want syncthing to have access to all of it. Honestly I don't quite understand how jails work with the source data sets and am I giving too much access to syncthing.

5:00 if you don't name your Syncthing jail anything including sync, it will be much faster and won't stop at 20%. This is a bug, still not fixed -.-

My former installation broke. When I try to install by clicking save 4:26, I get "Error: HTTPConnectionPool(host='download.freebsd.org', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /ftp/releases/amd64 (Caused by NewConnectionError('< urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x8282151f0 >: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 8] Name does not resolve'))"

Thanks a lot !!