Force non-LAN sync

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Hi'

I'm trying to set up a small filesharing system between two offices using a Raspberry Pi and BitTorrent Sync. It's only a few documents so the performace of the Pi isn't that important.

But I have encountered a problem: It rarely syncs between the two offices, but it does once in a while. I have a theory that when it finds one of the other computer in Office A it never searches for computers in Office B. Is there a way to counter this behavior?

I'm thinking that it could force the use of relay servers, but I can't find a setting to do that.

Could you please help!

Best,

[fukawi2]

Are you using the WebUI or a config file?

In the WebUI, you can open the Settings for the shared folder, and there are check-boxes in there to enable Tracker Server and Relay Server etc.

If you have a config file, then you need to set the appropriate options in the shared folder:

[

{

"secret" : "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",

"dir" : "/blah/blah/blah/",

"use_relay_server" : true,

"use_tracker" : true,

"use_dht" : false,

"search_lan" : false,

"use_sync_trash" : false

}

]

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Thank you!

 

The use of relay server and tracker was already enabled but the problem seemed to be that when the computers found shared folders internally on the network they never used the tracker and relay. So fore it seems that is has helped to disable the "search lan".

 

Is this a error or just a feature?

 

Best,

[fukawi2]

As far as I'm aware, those options are not mutually exclusive. I've not had issues syncing between devices on the same LAN, and devices on a remote network.