[Possible to specify my own tracker?]

That's unfortunate. I was evaluating bt-sync for an enterprise solution, but inability to specify my own tracker creates at least 2 security vulnerabilities off the top of my head. First, anyone with access to the tracker is going to see the "secret" hashes, which means they can attach a client and slurp my data. Second, anyone can attempt to mine the hive by creating random hashes trying to find a collision. Admittedly the second is a longshot, but attackers are creative and resourceful. Also, as the service becomes more popular it will both become a more attractive target and correspondingly the likelihood of collision with a random string becomes more likely.

[Can I use advanced options in a Linux conf?]

You are using the wrong quotes. Take a close look at them. Most of them are straight, those are the correct ones. Some are titled a bit, those are wrong. Did you use Word to edit your config?

Good catch! No, I did not use Word, but I did copy the syntax directly from the PDF. Unfortunately I did not notice the curly quotes in the original, and furthermore assumed that when I pasted it into the terminal that the double-quotes I was seeing were the right ones (they certainly looked right).

Fixing the quotes did the trick. Thanks everyone.

[Can I use advanced options in a Linux conf?]

I dumped the sample configuration, and it says this:

// Advanced preferences can be added to config file.

// Info is available in BitTorrent Sync User Guide.

So I pulled the options from the guide, and attempted to add them to the config file (using the ppa from here).

I'm no JSON expert, but I fail to see where I'm going wrong:

{

"pid_file" : ".btsync.pid",

"storage_path" : ".btsync",

"listening_port" : 0,

"check_for_updates" : true,

"use_upnp" : true,

"download_limit" : 0,

"upload_limit" : 0,

“disk_low_priority” : true,

“lan_encrypt_data” : false,

“lan_use_tcp” : true,

“rate_limit_local_peers” : false,

"webui" :

{

"listen" : "127.0.0.1:9999"

}

}

When starting with those options I get the following error:

Error while parsing config file: Unexpected end of config file (are you missing '}') ?

If I delete the 4 "advanced" options, it works again. Are they supposed to go in their own section? If so, what does that look like?

TIA,

Peter

[Possible to specify my own tracker?]

I like the software in concept, and am considering using it in an enterprise environment. I am wondering if it is possible to specify my own tracker.

TIA,

Peter