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Ok, the site is up again, and Transmission 2.52 is now available in all 3 flavors: ffp-0.5, ffp-0.7-arm, and ffp-0.7-oabi(!).

Check the first post for download links.

Newbie here, will be grateful for some help with initial setup.  Numbered my questions to make the post easier to read.

1.  I installed Transmission 2.52 to my DNS-325 running ffp 0.7.  It works, but I don't have a /ffp/start folder or the transmission.sh file that goes in that folder.   How can I get that file?  Right now, I use the following command to start Transmission (the username and password are for a new account I created for this purpose using the DNS-325 web interface):

transmission-daemon -g /mnt/HD/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon -u <username> -v <password>

2.  On the DNS-325, how many torrents is it safe to run at once?  Can you have over 50 torrents seeding (with only a few actually uploading) without issue?

3. When I try to modify folders created by Transmission using Windows XP (with the DNS-325 mapped as a network drive), I get permissions errors.  Is there any way to reconfigure Transmission so I can modify the files/folders from my PC?  I get the errors when I move folders (even if Transmission isn't running) or try to add files to folders created by Transmission.

Some details below about my installation process.  They're probably irrelevant, but may help explain why I don't have an ffp/start folder with transmission.sh.

I ran into a few problems during setup.  First, "funpkg -i curl-7.18.1.tgz" and "funpkg -i Transmission-2.52-1.tgz" didn't work (returned file not found errors) at first.  I had to use wget to put the files in /ffp/pkg, which didn't exist until I created it using mkdir.

Second, I ran different variations of the following command until I found one that worked:

$ su nobody -c "transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon -w /mnt/HD_a2/Downloads -t -u <username> -v <password> -a 127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*"

After running it as pasted above, I changed /mnt/HD_a2/Downloads to /mnt/HD/HD_a2/Downloads.  Also, I first ran it as root, then I created a new user and am now running it with the new user.  I think I gave the new user permission to modify the .transmission-daemon and downloads folders, but I'm not sure.

Last edited by jm2012 (2012-06-02 03:51:51)

Also, a little reminder: any packages ending with .tgz are for ffp-0.5.
Packages for ffp-0.7-arm end in arm-1.txz
Packages for ffp-0.7-oabi end in oabi-1.txz

Yes, that particular install script is meant for the DNS-323 devices. It has some paths wrong.
But as a result, you shouldn't have any ffp installation available at all!

If you haven't installed/configured that many programs, I suggest you start fresh with a new ffp-0.7-arm installation.
Use this fun_plug script instead of the original from fonz, as this one also works properly on the DNS-325.

Don't unpack and .tgz or .txz packages manually, use slacker or funpkg instead.

Regarding your issues with renaming downloaded files etc.: The default installation of Transmission is set up to be run as user 'nobody'. This is a special user in Linux, with the result that anyone accessing the NAS via Samba can delete/move/rename files and folders.

You _can_ run Transmission as a specific user (open the startup script transmission.sh in an editor and change "user=nobody" to "user=<your user>"

Then, only that user can modify files & folders via Samba (and on the console as well, except root of course).

I don't have much experience running Transmission with a lot of running torrents.
I know that my old device (the DNS-323) did struggle when you had 10+ torrents, especially large ones. The speed you can upload/download also impacts performance (with very high speeds Transmission has a lot of work to do).

The DNS-325 has much better hardware, especially the 4x RAM provide quite some power.
I'd say give it a try with 50 files or so and see what happens (you can use the tools 'top' or 'htop' (the latter is available in some slacker repository) to see how the system performs).

Make sure the Transmission port is open in your routers firewall.

It doesn't matter where you put them on the NAS, but funpkg needs to know the correct location.
If you downloaded the packages with a desktop browser and then copied them (via Samba?) to the NAS, the files are most likely located at /mnt/HD/HD_a2 or /mnt/HD/HD_b2.
You can also search for the files:

$ find / -type f -name "*curl*.txz"
$ find / -type f -name "*Transmission*.txz"

Of course, logging into the NAS via ssh and using 'wget' to download the files will work as well.

Using wget on the console would be another option, of course.

Go ahead and translate, I have no problem with that

badd wrote:

@KyleK i wonder how do we add ( install ) transmission-remote - gui like :http://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/downloads/list
Thanks in advance
Have a nice day.

You just install it on your PC, and configure it (IP, port, user-name/passowd) to connect to Transmission.
You can also consider http://code.google.com/p/transmission-remote-dotnet/

Komano wrote:

Hey Kylek,

I noticed something about transmission. I've set Transmission to move files from a "working" folder to the "main" folder once it's done downloading. I've got permission problems when the torrent contains a folder. When it contains a single file, it works properly and i can cut or copy the file. But when it's a folder I can't cut or copy or modify it in anyway. Is this a bug? I've had to chmod -R 777 to modify the files.

I use that feature myself. It works fine for both folders and single files.
It probably is some permissions (chmod) or ownership (chown) problem on your end.

I have a strange problem - seeding torrents are being removed randomly from the list of torrents as viewed in the web interface - the files themselves are not being touched. I have to keep re-adding the torrents if I want to keep them seeding - then the data is verified before the torrent is added again.

I have a DNS-323 with FFP v0.5 and Transmission 2.52.

Any ideas what could be going wrong?

I followed the instructions (if I remember rightly) at http://dns323.kood.org/dns-320#installa … ith_addons - although I haven't installed automatic yet. I don't know about any completion script being run - but this http://pastebin.com/Z5Gu8t7B is my torrent_utils.sh

Thanks for alerting me to the log file ffp.log - the last few lines of it are http://pastebin.com/zMWH0NCU - it obviously has a problem with the non-existence of the watch directory, so I've now created a watch directory and will wait to see what happens.

@FunFiler, scaramanga

Weird. It's working correctly? I've checked the and the owner is still nobody and allaccounts. The only difference is the permissions are different for a folder. Do you think i can what's causing this in a log somewhere?