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Ok, I feel silly here. I have 0 experience with *nix so if I skipped some obvious command along the way, sorry!

I got everything installed fine but am having connection issues as no torrents will connect to any tracker. The web interface works ok so I can obviously reach the box. I also tried the remote-gui which connected fine. I assumed it was some kind of port blocking issue I forwarded TCP and UDP on the port from Transmission but that did not fix it either.I tried the log-error and log-info commands via SSH to see if they had anything but using those commands provided nothing (do they dump the log file somewhere else or will it display in the console if it has anything?). I finally tried -m (for portmapping) just to make sure it was on but no go as well.

One addition: I can connect fine with the same torrents via my PC using uTorrent with just the default settings.

Is there some obvious step I am missing?

Thanks

Last edited by Existenz2K (2011-03-14 21:05:12)

eggeh1982 wrote:

Existenz2K wrote:

I got everything installed fine but am having connection issues as no torrents will connect to any tracker. The web interface works ok so I can obviously reach the box. I also tried the remote-gui which connected fine. I assumed it was some kind of port blocking issue I forwarded TCP and UDP on the port from Transmission but that did not fix it either.I tried the log-error and log-info commands via SSH to see if they had anything but using those commands provided nothing (do they dump the log file somewhere else or will it display in the console if it has anything?). I finally tried -m (for portmapping) just to make sure it was on but no go as well.

Is there some obvious step I am missing?

Thanks

Im getting the same problem

Any ideas?

Thanks

Also

Fixed it, set a manual ip address fixed it for some reason the routing table had messed its self

Okay, I figured it out.  The torrent files are stored in the config folder in a folder called "torrents", so it seems you're not able to change this folder location.  Good to know for the future anyways; I lost the folder before from not knowing where it is and now I have to redownload all of those torrent files to reseed the data I have.  Not too big of a deal though, and at least I can preserve it for the future.

As for the config directory, it's not changed in the release of Transmission 2.22 by Kyle.  But I liked that idea so much (since I hate dirtying the root of my Volume_1 with so many folders) that I decided to modify the config folder to point to /mnt/HD_a2/ffp/var/transmission.  Of course, you have to modify the transmission.sh file as well and also chown the /var folder.  Here's my install directions to myself for future reference, but if anyone else is interested, check it out:

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1. Put curl-7.18.1.tgz and the transmission file in Volume_1 (or whatever folder you want)
2. Do the following:     funpkg -i curl-7.18.1.tgz
                 funpkg -i Transmission....tgz
3. execute the following so that the configuration files can be stored in the ffp folders:
            chown -R nobody /mnt/HD_a2/ffp/var
4. execute the following:
    su nobody -c "transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/ffp/var/transmission -c /mnt/HD_a2/download/torrentwatchdir --no-incomplete-dir -w /mnt/HD_a2/download/torrentdata -t -u user -v pass -a 127.0.0.1,192.168.*.* -O -Y -ep"
5. edit the settings.json file at /mnt/HD_a2/ffp/var/transmission (using vi) so that the "rpc-whitelist-enabled" line is "false" and so that the "preallocation" line is "2". (for vi, press i, navigate to line, backspace delete, write, press esc, then type :wq (return))
6. edit the /mnt/HD_a2/ffp/start/transmission.sh file so that the "TRANSMISSION_HOME=" line points to /mnt/HD_a2/ffp/var/transmission.  Use vi similar to above directions.
7. execute /ffp/start/transmission.sh start to start the daemon.  The daemon should also automatically start upon boot of the DNS-323.

The url to the web interface is http://dns-323:9091/
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I put a bunch of settings that are useful to me in there.  As mentioned before, the config files are in the /ffp/var folder, I have a watch directory, no incomplete directory, no DHT, no LPD, and encryption preferred.  I also disabled the whitelist and setup preallocation cause I was having heavy fragmentation before (Kyle says it can be pretty tough on the CPU since it has to allocate all files and fill with zeroes, but we'll see how it goes).

Hope this helps someone else out.

Gah!

Sorry guys for not answering your questions. Sometimes the forum doesn't send "new post" emails even when there are new posts.
Glad you found your solutions anyway

blizzak: I do prefer the config folder to be at /ffp/var/transmission as well, but it's a major change for most people who are updating (especially with the chown'ing and stuff), so I decided to leave it as is. One can always change the path later on.

That's not much information to go on.
How does it not work anymore?

Is Transmission still running? (Check on the console via 'top' or 'ps -ef | grep trans').

If lighttpd is configured to use the same port as Transmission for the web interface, (e.g. 80), one will block the other.
you have to use different ports.

Other than that, I don't see how one app could influence the other.

Hello, I am having problems at the configuration stage. I admit that I am mainly copying/pasting the commands without much understanding about what is going on in the background. However, I have transmission working on another dns-321 at my aunt's house so it worked at one point.

I've been using this thread in addition to http://www.shadowandy.net/2009/01/trans … ns-323.htm

What I want to accomplish is access to the transmission web interface for all computers on the local network 192.168.1.* I don't need a username or password. I'm sorry for the noob question. I would really appreciate any help.

FunFiler wrote:

contractcooker wrote:

What I want to accomplish is access to the transmission web interface for all computers on the local network 192.168.1.* I don't need a username or password. I'm sorry for the noob question. I would really appreciate any help.

Check post #1 in this thread. The exact command you need to add 192.168.1.* to the whitelist is listed there.

Thank you for the response. I've already tried what it says in the first post.

When I input:

su nobody -c "transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon -w /mnt/HD_a2/Downloads -t
-a 127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*"

This is returned:

transmission-daemon: can't load library 'libcurl.so.4'

FunFiler wrote:

Also in the first post, you will find a link to install curl

If you're installing Transmission for the first time
Make sure you have the following packages installed before installing Transmission:
- curl-7.18.1.tgz

It pays to follow the directions.

I feel like such an idiot. I was SURE I had done that already. thank you for your help and sorry to clutter the thread with nonsense.

Now I have another problem. I'm getting to the web interface but it's asking me for a username and password.... I never set one up.

This is the command I used. I'm guessing I need to remove -a or -t?? Basically how do I remove/add a username and password.

su nobody -c "transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon -w /mnt/HD_a2/Downloads -t
-a 127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*"

2.22 crashes every 2-3 hours, so I'm stuck with 2.13. Anyone else with same problem?

Hi Kylek,

I tried several times installing Tranmission on my DNS323, I followed shadowandy(http://www.shadowandy.net/2009/01/trans … ns-323.htm) guide
it works ok, but after restarting NAS,
I can`t add any torrent, I got the error Error: Permission denied (/home/nobody/Downloads, also Transmission doesnt start automatically,
but unless I restart it works like a charm, way better than the default application,
I tried the latest version of transmission not the 1.42 which is in the guide,

Since your guide is a bit for advanced users, could you post a dummies one, like the Andy`s, I`m new to Linux, and it seems a bit complicated..

Thanks,

FunFiler wrote:

Did you follow the directions in post #1? There really isn't much to installing. Sounds like a permission or mask issue to me.

Yes, I`ll try that, just dont want to brick my DNS,
It seems that after restart its forgeting the download directory, even if I  change it inside Transmission seting error persists,
since I want to fresh install, is there a way to uninstall previous, without formating hard drive?

Last edited by sonci (2011-04-11 15:08:02)

FunFiler wrote:

If you installed it with funpkg, then you can uninstall with the same tool or worst case delete the directory.

You can only edit the settings.json file while transmission is SHUT DOWN or the changes will be lost.

I edited .json file, after shuting down Transmission, setting the download directory to where it was, now everything works again,
THANKS!!

How`s possible that download directory changes magically, after NAS restart??