Is modifying server files directly supported?

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  • Syncthing on Unraid (docker)
  • I have a user share on server I mount on clients on my local network via NFS
  • One of the folders in the user share is a ‘syncthing’ folder
  • I run into issues with permisisons with syncthing because when a NFS client modifies files in the ‘syncthing’ folder it changes the permissions from nobody(99):users(100) to username:1000

Is this a supported workflow? Can I store my ‘syncthing’ folder on the server and modify files on the server directly?

If I change the docker container group permissions to run under 1000 then syncthing can read the modified files also (but probably also needs to be a member of users (100) too since that’s the unraid NFS default). Is this possible?

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Sure, Syncthing expects you to also change the files it’s herding, otherwise there wouldn’t be any changes for it to sync to other devices. As long as the permissions work out I don’t see a problem here.

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So I added the equivalent to each client in the unraid nfs config:

192.168.1.15(rw,all_squash,anongid=100,anonuid=99)

This should force all client file creations to default to the unraid nobody:users that is used for all storage files. Since syncthing runs as nobody:users I’m hoping there wont be any more permission warnings.

Thanks for your help!

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