Setting up syncthing with Docker/Portainer

Hi there,

how do I have to bind my directories to my Syncthing container so that I can access them from the Syncthing GUI?

The directories to be synchronized are

/srv/dev-disk-by-label-Daten/Daten/me/folder_x

/srv/dev-disk-by-label-Daten/Daten/my_wife/folder_y

Do I have to bind every particular folder to /var/sync or only the folder which contains my sync-folders (/srv/dev-disk-by-label-Daten/Daten/)?

My test installation in VB had only one shared folder, now I have the challenge of using several.

(The test installation was done with a friend who works with Docker but unfortunately isn't available atm; I'm not too familiar with it)

Thanks for any assistance,

fahrer17

Ok, I was able to solve the problem (tbh my friend was ), I try to describe it for the next container beginner looking for help.

Actually there were two problems:

1. Binding the right directories:

You have to bind every folder you want to syncronize to a particular subfolder in the container's data folder

e.g.

/srv/dev-disk-by-label-Daten/Daten/me/folder_x -> data/me

/srv/dev-disk-by-label-Daten/Daten/my_wife/folder_y -> data/my_wife

2. Permissions

Make sure no folder is owned by root. In my case /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Daten/Daten/my_wife belonged to root; no idea why, my data drives+directories were created with OMV1(?). Changing the owner solved it.

As mentioned before I'm a docker beginner myself and therefore did start with a simple container. But a Pihole is next on my docker list (Pihole's instructions still look pretty complicated to me).

As soon as I know how to do it I can try to explain how to do it, maybe this can help others too.

Sorry, your txt doesn't tell me a lot but maybe this can help you:

My volumes look like this:

If I look into the container's terminal the permissions are like this

/data # ls -la

total 16

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 4 19:48 .

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 May 4 19:48 ..

drwxrwsr-x 3 1000 users 4096 May 4 13:34 my_wife

drwxrwsr-x 19 1000 users 4096 May 6 21:10 me

After a couple of days I discovered there were problems during synchronizing my wife's files (belonging to user my_wife). Whenever a file was synced from her Win10 machine to her OMV5 folder the owner was changed from my_wife to me so that she could not change them any more. I don't know much about the concept but I'm pretty sure this was caused by Syncthing running with PUID me and not being able to decide between different owners.

For example:

My wife creates a file on OMV so this is owned by user my_wife and she can modify it as she wants. This file is now synced to the Win machine and she can modify it again. Now this file is synced back to OMV and while this the owner is changed so she can access and change but not save it back.

chown'ing folders+files to her was no solution because with this Syncthing (running with my PUID) had no permission for her stuff any more.

After reading, guessing and trying a lot with Linux permissions and Syncthing manuals I ended up starting a second Syncthing container running with her PUID for her stuff only (take care about the ports and change them to something else but :8384!).

Now everything's running fine.

But please let me know if you know a simpler way

Sounds to me like something's wrong with your files' and paths' ownership.

Is the your user allowed to access the paths you want to write to?

Sorry, I'm a bit out of practice. I set up my system and forgot about it since it's running since. Hmm, thinking about this I maybe should check for updates...

Zitat von @nduliu

Good afternoon.

If it is correct my OMV user has all the permissions in order. Writing, reading and execution, in the folders that I want to synchronize. It is something that I have taken into account after multiple readings, to be able to configure the portainer.

It was much easier for me with docker and the Techno Dad Life video tutorial. I do not understand that I am doing wrong since I even copied the previous configuration.

A little goat for this

Ok, I will try to check your settings with mine but first I have to remember my Portainer password - the one I've written down doesn't seem to be the right one...

But remember: I'm no pro and I'm glad I managed to start my container stuff.

Zitat von @nduliu

...self-taught in this world, as in life.

So am I

Ok, I remembered my password - thank god

Now I "only" have to remember what and why did I do what I did. I'm going to examine my setup, check permission etc. and will come back.

What exactly is your system setup? How many drives, what to sync from and where to etc.

I had the idea of recreating it in Virtualbox, maybe my Docker setup is successful.

Sorry, I don't find a mistake in your config (well, TIMEZONE is missing the city - no idea if this is important though). Again, I think it has something to do with permissions. I had quite trouble syncing my wife's stuff with my user and her permissions.