# Syncthing as a share platform (not replication)
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-as-a-share-platform-not-replication/11242
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 4, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-as-a-share-platform-not-replication/11242 "2018-02-04T14:41:28Z")
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### Author:  [@rs232](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/rs232)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-as-a-share-platform-not-replication/11242/1 "2018-02-04T14:41:28Z")
I was wondering if Syncthing could be set up as a share platform rather than synchronisation one.
E.g. I would love to access the NAS from my mobile but the only way right now would be to replicate the NAS on the mobile which is of course not do-able. So to rephrase, could a folder be shared on the NAS for remote consultation only? e.g. everything you browse/open is fetched remotely.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@scienmind](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/scienmind)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-as-a-share-platform-not-replication/11242/2 "2018-02-04T14:50:57Z")
This project would eventually be able to do what you want:
> [@New Android app "Syncthing Lite"](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/new-android-app-syncthing-lite/11086):
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> A year ago, Davide Imbriaco released an [alternative Android app](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/new-alternative-android-app/8808). That app had some great potential, but unfortunately, he stopped updating it some time this year. So I went ahead and forked the project, in order to work on it myself. For the Android app, I basically did a complete rewrite, to improve the interface and code. I also converted the entire project to Kotlin. For the library, I did some minor changes, like better exception handling and improved code formatting. I also fixed a proble…
(keep in mind - it’s in early stage, and may be buggy)
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### Author:  [@rs232](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/rs232)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-as-a-share-platform-not-replication/11242/3 "2018-02-10T08:17:13Z")
I’m sorry but I don’t understand the answer. There’s an official client (for android as far as i can see) and it’s updated frequently:
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> Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet.
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> Website: https://syncthing.net/
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> Source code: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android
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> Forum: https://forum.syncthing.net/
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> Issues: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issue...
Regardless, can I also suggest (and this is an important one!) that the clients should have an option to mimic dropbox?
I guess pretty much everybody here has or is familiar with the dropbox client but the layout of its directory structure is virtual e.g. different folders from different part of the filesystem are presented o nthe dropboxclient. Having such a option is a great step to migrate from dropbox to syncthing. On this very topic for Windows it would be great to have the Syncthing shortcut under Quick Access (to repeat myself: as dropbox does)
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2018, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-as-a-share-platform-not-replication/11242/4 "2018-02-10T10:31:08Z")
I think there’s two things here. One is the on demand download thing, which can be handled completely client side. Syncthing doesn’t do this, but there’s nothing fundamental that says it couldn’t. The linked new android project, on the other hand, does this by default I think.
The other is that the current architecture depends on both sides knowing what the other side has. This doesn’t scale if you want to use one central point to share files with thousands of clients.
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### Author:  [@cosas](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/cosas)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-as-a-share-platform-not-replication/11242/5 "2018-02-10T14:26:54Z")
You can :
1. On NAS run a script (cron or inotify) that creates/updates some “Content.txt” file at root of the shared folder.
2. On client, create an ignore list as this:
Done
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### Author:  [@totoba](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/totoba)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-as-a-share-platform-not-replication/11242/6 "2018-02-10T18:12:24Z")
If you are on android that is what I do.
Install tinc and use tincapp on android to access the local network. Then I use Mixplorer as my file browser which works great with network drives. It offers bookmarks, streaming from network drives etc.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-as-a-share-platform-not-replication/11242/7 "2018-03-12T18:12:26Z")
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