If you run Sync as a service, you can manage it remotely across a LAN

[jdrch]

Not sure why I never thought of this before, but I don't recall seeing anyone else talk about it, or reading it in the documentation. Additionally, a Google search turned up nothing.

You can access Sync's Web UI running on any machine on your LAN by entering ThatMachinesIPaddress:8888/gui.

As a corollary to this: if you use Sync as a service do set a UI password, otherwise you run the risk of giving anyone (including malicious apps) access to your config and files, which is really bad.

[Timbo]

This is generally a firewall thing and outside the scope of the app developers themselves.  Most people behind a NAT router isn't going to have this problem.  On my public VPS running sync, I had to open the port to access it.  Home users will generally be put into a Home profile and public computers into the public profile. So by default, LAN users will be seen as friendly to the computer but not public ones.

[jdrch]

I didn't mean it's a security risk. It's actually convenient because it means you can admin Sync from any device on the same LAN, which is neat. Plenty of other apps allow this: Pi-hole, UniFi Controller; your router, modem, and AP, etc.

[Timbo]

47 minutes ago, jdrch said:

I didn't mean it's a security risk. It's actually convenient because it means you can admin Sync from any device on the same LAN, which is neat. Plenty of other apps allow this: Pi-hole, UniFi Controller; your router, modem, and AP, etc.

Hmm. I guess it was just obvious since they had this for NAS'.  Search the forum for "webgui" and there's hits from 2013, 2014...

 

https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001184490-Configuring-WebUI-

[jdrch]

NAS has never been a use case for me. And for that I always thought it was accessed by opening the NAS' desktop UI and then launching Sync from there.