ubersoft

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  1. Good to know. As to whether or not the server package is the right thing for me, the main advantage of running it as a server is I don't have to log in to activate it, right? You could run it without having to deal with an xserver at all. I can certainly see the advantage of that--I installed the desktop version on an old laptop that I'm using as a makeshift file server and I do absolutely nothing else with it, so there's no reason to log into it unless something is wrong. For the other machines I use, the desktop version makes more sense...
  2. First, I've read this thread but I don't have a lot of experience doing admin stuff so I'm probably going to ask dumb questions and make dumb assumptions. I'm OK with that I just wanted to give fair warning. Here is my situation: I've been using the user version of the desktop version of btsync (btsync-user) to synchronise three machines with the same set of files, and it's working pretty well so far. I appreciate how much easier it is to set up using apt and having access to the notification widget in my Kubuntu toolbar. [] I'd stayed away from the server stuff because it looked more complicated, but lately I've been thinking it might be useful if the machine that was running as my server for this (the one that generated all the secrets, essentially) was using it, since it *appears* that the server scripts run at a lower level, and I like the idea of being able to specify all those configuration options--especially the file priorities, and controlling how long the archives are kept. The problem is that all the information I've seen in this thread *appears* to be focused on how to set up btsync from scratch. This makes sense, because usually you install the server before you configure clients, but my process was backwards: I was using the pure web btsync executable first, then moved to your user client because I wanted the web notification on my work machines, then thought "well, the server stuff would be nice to have." Is there a way to configure btsync on a machine that already has btsync-user and already has files that are being synchronised on it? (Is this the wrong thread for a question like this? If so I apologize. It seemed relevant.)
  3. [removed this because I intended to put it in the server thread, not the desktop thread. Apologies.]