Your users require standardised syncing software, but due to security constraints and possible intellectual property rights, syncing to off- site private servers is not an option. The software must also be supported under Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

 The software being mooted is “syncthing” . You have been asked to test syncthing and write an evaluation report.

The report must contain the following:

• A discussion of the syncthing application: how it is different from other syncing software, how it is configured, what informa-tion is required for configuration, how it actually synchronises data, what data is synchronised.

• Included with your discussion of syncthing you must include examples of syncthing being installed, configured and used.

• The environment used for the examples must be the course virtual machine and its host. This is important, as the guest machine does not have a windowing environment and the host will. So your discussion must include how to install, configure and use syncthing in a non-windowing environment.

• Discuss, with examples, the system and user systemd configu-ration required on the virtual machine, so that the user’s instance of syncthing will start running when the user logs in (or the system boots) and continue running after the user has logged out.

• The report with examples should be approximately two pages.

Notes:

1. For this question syncthing must be installed on the course virtual machine and its host.

1. To “bring-up” the host-only interface (the network that links the guests to the host) see the man-pages ifup(8) and inter-faces(5)

1. It is important to understand how “syncthing” can use the port 8384 for both configuration and data transfer. You need to under-stand which interface handles configuration and which handles data transfer. Once you understand how “syncthing” communi-cates for configuration and for data transfer then manually con-figuring “syncthing” by editing its configuration file is straight forward. Only the GUI configuration needs to be modified.