I’m new to Syncthing. I just set it up on an android phone, tablet, and PC desktop and laptop primarily for syncing Keepass. I’m confused about when Introcucer should be enabled. I have them all enabled but keep getting messages that two are Introducers and only one should be. I followed a TroubleShute Youtube video on setting it up but not sure which devices should have it enabled. Can someone help with this?
Basically, you should enable the option on a device that is connected to all other devices. This is normally useful in a situation where you’ve got a server-type device which sits in the middle, and which is also preferably running 24/7. In your case, I assume the phone is actually on all the time, although depending on your configuration, Syncthing may not be running constantly.
To be honest, with just four devices, you don’t really need to use Introducer, because connecting them manually is very easy and doesn’t take much time. This would be a different story if you had, for example, a hundred devices. In that case, having a single device set as Introducer would make it easy to connect all of them together very quickly.
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I totally second this. This setting is default off for good reasons.
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Thank you. I will just enable it on my desktop and see how that goes.
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