For some reason, this post cant display on my Interenet Exploerr. works fine on Firefox.

Andy,

there seems to be a problem accessing your site via IE7, at least that is what I have tried.

Hi Shadowandy,

Have you tried using Transmission Remote GUI
http://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/
This multiplatform app instead of the web interface?

Its much better, permits selecting files to download within a torrent, you can set priorities and set bandwidth on a per torrent basis.

Cheers!

Excuse me, shadowandy – i’d like to know if I install / chroot to debian, can I run iptables on DNS-323? How can I have iptables on it?

Hi shadowandy,

there is new version of transmission released (1.50 beta 1)
would you build it for us?

Andy…Tried, and I’m getting:

wget: cannot connect to remote host : COnnection Refused

[...] guide has been superseded by “Transmission 1.42+ for DNS-323“ Required [...]

Using Transmission 1.42-1 on my DNS-313, with Transmission Remote GUI or Clutch and see my bitrate, is not stable
If I DL/UL the same file on Transmission, or Utorrent, Utorrent is much faster and have less variations in DL/UL transfert.

Don’t understand, my transmission port is forwardding in transmission and marked open in my Router

Does someone have an idea?

Thx a lot for your tutorial who help me a lot.

The directions helped a lot – got me farther than I was before.
Unfortunately, I can only connect to the Web interface for a few minutes before it seems like the Transmission daemon crashes, and the interface goes down.
Via telnet, I can’t see anything Transmission related when i ps -a, leading me to again think that the daemon is crashing.
Anyone have similar experiences or advice?

hey acnicklas…the initial release of transmission 1.42 had this weird issue in the code where it called some assert command. Basically Transmission kept shutting down everytime I used the WebGui. Not sure if it also happens on the command line. I ended up just using an older version of Transmission waiting until a stable release comes out and KyleK compiles a version for the DNS-323

Just wanted to give a big thanks to ShadowAndy for this Guide.
I am long time Windows user but completely new to Linux. Followed this guide to the letter (well cut and paste, it was pretty easy) and it worked like a charm!

Also a thanks to Index Monkey for suggesting using the Transmission Remote GUI, I got this working also and it is fantastic. (much better than the Web Interface)

Now I am working on figuring out permissions and such as I (on my pc with a mapped drive on the 323) don’t seem to have write permissions into the directories created by Transmission… so much to learn, ah the fun of it all!

Thanks for the link to the updated version and information about the install.

One thing that took a while for me to figure out – having already installed Transmission 1.34 – was that the “funpkg -i Transmission…” command wouldn’t work (reporting that it was already installed).

It seems obvious in retrospect, but – for others who might be confused – the trick was to just run “funpkg -u Transmission-1.42-1.tgz” instead, to force the upgrade.

shadowandy ,

Another excellent guide!! Thanks..

I am not trying Transmission. Nicer interface. Let’s see if it works

When I uploaded my first torrent, it showed up in the list, and then I got a popup saying “Could not connect to server, you may need the page to reconnect”

Then I think Transmission crashes! I have to start it again. If I look in the log file I see:

Flushed.Away.Trailer.720P: Couldn’t read resume file
Flushed.Away.Trailer.720P: Queued for verification
Flushed.Away.Trailer.720P: Verifying torrent
Flushed.Away.Trailer.720P: Got 17 peers from tracker
Couldn’t create “//Flushed.Away.Trailer.720P”: Permission denied
/ffp/bin/transmission-daemon: bandwidth.c: 428: tr_bandwidthUsed: Assertion `tr_isBandwidth( b )’ failed.

Flushed.Away.Trailer.720P is the torrent file name…

Did we miss to chmod any folder during the instructions?

When are you releasing a guide for the Transmission? Thanks

Thanks…

shadowandy,

Figured it out Default location was “/”. I just put in a proper path, and chmod it to 777…. That worked.

My only comment is that transmission crashed a lot… Looking forward for the new version.

Thanks…

Guys,

Is anyone noticing that Transmission is great in downloading, but h ardly any downloading happening!?! I hardly see any download even though one of my torrents has 611 peerss??

I have set it up for 50kb/s upload!

Thanks.

finally i got a decent speed with transmission.. i give up on mldonkey and tried transmission.. u have no idea how many times i’ve re-installed mldonkey and ffp and finally it paid off with this guide. thank you.. =)

alamak then transmission cannot add ipfilter?
mldonkey so much trouble after load miserable dwnld speed.. kaoz…
and the build in bt client in dns 323 also same like transmission w/o ip filter..

ok tks..

got it now =)

1 erroro fixed

new error

log

Transmission 1.42 (7500) started
RPC Server: Adding address to whitelist: 127.0.0.1
RPC Server: Adding address to whitelist: 192.168.1*
RPC Server: Serving RPC and Web requests on port 9091
RPC Server: Whitelist enabled
Loaded 2 torrents
Timbuktu 8.6: Got 17 peers from tracker
MacOSXUpdCombo10.5.6.pkg.zip: Got 12 peers from tracker
Port Forwarding: Opened port 51413 to listen for incoming peer connections
Searching for web interface file “/home/nobody/.local/share/transmission/web/javascript/transmission.js”
Searching for web interface file “/ffp/share/transmission/web/javascript/transmission.js”
Invalid socket argument

Help !!!!!!!

Andy, seem i made some mistake…

i tried to tape the command: “vi /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json”

and I have got the following:

whole screen of such simbols

~
~
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- /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json 1/1 100% – at the end of screen

Please, help me to find out what I made wrongly.
THX,
Andrey

Hi shadowandy thanks for the guide to setup transmission on dns-323 without this guide i think is totally impossible for me to set it up! all the command are so alien to me..

Btw can i check with you is it normal for transmission preferences setting to reset everytime i reboot/shutdown my dns-323?

Thank again

Hi.
I have just bought a DNS-323 and installed Fun_Plug on it. I have tried to install transmission but it do not seem to work. I can login to Transmission via both the WebGui and clutch… I can add torrents but just when they start the server disconnect and say “Connection failed”. What could be the problem. I have also tried Transmission remote gui and I can log in, add torrent but as soon as it is supposed to start downloading it says “Connection refused”. The thing is that I can see all the stats about the torrent, seeders, leachers etc.

I am very new to this so plz be gentle..

Thanks alot Shadowandy !!!
btw, i noticed the download directory was defauted at a different location,
I changed it to my original pre-1.42 transmission settings
“download-dir”: “\/mnt\/HD_a2\/ABC”

where ABC was my torrent directory on the dns323 volume. I got clutch to work right now, verifying the partial downloaded data now…

hi andy, great post. however it would be great if you could have a tutorial for setting up DDNS for dns-323 so users can access it at work. cant find any guide on that online and if there is, it isnt that comprehensive enough for ppl that arent tech savvy.

hi andy excellent post and very thorough! the url for the download is not reachable anymore, do you know if there is a mirror somewhere? (http://kylek.is-a-geek.org:31337/files/Transmission-1.51.tgz)

I’ve also tried getting the latest transmission via wget, but getting connection refused.

Hi I am getting this erro rmsg.

root@DNS-323:/mnt/HD_a2# funpkg -i transmission_1.51.tgz
FATAL: transmission_1.51.tgz: /ffp not found in package

Can someone give me some advise?

Andy, this post is fantastic, thanks for putting it up and maintaining it. I am having the same issue Kim reported with Connection refused for the Curl and Transmission library files from Kyle’s site. I was able to get the Transmission file from the alternate site you provided 2 posts up, but can’t find an alternate site for the Curl files. The main curl web site has a lot of different versions for different platforms. Any chance you could provide an alternate link for that library that works with the DLink?
Thanks again

I’ve that problem, at after 5 sek dl. Transmission say’s “no such fil or diectory”

I have made a download directory “/Volumes/Volume_1/Download”, but It will not accept it under perferences in >Transmission Web Interface..

My NAS is a DNS-323 fw 1.6

Plz help, is confuse

Thx for the help, men I get the same messages even with /mnt/HD_a2/download i preferences… I just can’t see what I’m doing wrong here

Linux isn’t my strong side

Thx for the help, but I get the same messages even with /mnt/HD_a2/download in preference. And the mappe do exist… I just can’t see what I’m doing wrong here

Linux isn’t my strong side

Hi
i have the same problem the web interface gave me and error after a few secs of downloading “no such file or directory”
and the preference setting is mnt/HD_a2/Downloads/

my setting file in /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json
is showing
“download-dir”: “mnt\/HD_a2\/Downloads\/”

but if i use transmission-daemon -d command
it shows “download-dir”: “\/\/Downloads”,

please advice.

btw i have successfully installed MLdonkey and it worked,
i don’t think there is something wrong with the network settings

Hi,
I was tryig to setup clutch with transmission 1.51.
Things were fine till the point where i have to point the link to transmission socket.

echo “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission/daemon/socket” > /mnt/HD_a2/www/pages/clutch/remote/data/socket.txt

In this version of transmission 1.51 (using Kylek’s compiled version), there is no socket file.

My transmission home directory is /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon.

There is also no “-s” option to create the socket from /ffp/start/transmission-daemon. For e.g. -> http://linux.die.net/man/1/transmission-daemon

The end result cause Clutch to prompt for transmission daemon when clutch is launched.

Can I know if you manage to get Clutch to work with Transmission 1.51 (using Kylek file)?

Hey shadowandy,

Keep up the good work! I’m a newbie & your instructions were even clear enough for me to get Transmission running…Many thanks to u!

Hi!
I’ve installed transmission and it’s working fine until I’m going to download files bigger than 300Mb.

Does anyone have the same problem? Is there any solution?

Small files dowload very fast and I would love to do it whith bigger ones too.

Thanks! (and thanks for this small guide! )

Shadowandy,

I have followed the instructions here and it works great. thanks. What I have installed was 1.51
Are there any instructions on how to upgrade it to 1.52?

thanks

To upgrade, just download the 1.52 file and re-run funpkg, basically:

# Type the command “wget http://kylek.is-a-geek.org:31337/files/Transmission-1.52.tgz” and hit
# Type the command “funpkg -i Transmission-1.52.tgz” and hit

But I noticed that transmission 1.60 is out, any one knows when/where we get that built for our nas?

Hi Shadowandy,

I have upgraded Transmission from 1.51 to 1.61. How do I know the upgrade when successfully? There is no version number on the WebUI to confirm.

Regards

Andy,
I could not get the same response when i “vi /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json”.
I have got the following response back, seems like the file is empty

~
~
~
- /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json 1/1 100% – at the end of screen

Any ideas?

Many thanks!

Alex

Ok Never mind I got it to work liao. Somehow in my setup the correct path for the setting.json file is on HD_a4 not HD_a2

“vi /mnt/HD_a4/.transmission-daemon/settings.json”

Hi Andy,
Yes I’m using DNS 313. Although i think i have finish setting up, I’m not able to download anything. I’m using Transmission 1.61 and the Transmission Remote GUI. I can see that after I click start that it sort of talk to and find out the no. of seed and download would begin but would stop almost immediately with error message “no such file of directory”

Andy,
You may be right, as I can ping outside world from the DNS. Can you tell me how do I check the directory permission and how do i change it assuming it was because of permission issues.

Thanks!

Alex

Hi Andy,

I upgraded from 1.42 to 1.61 using the 1.61 from the link you gave.

What I did was

1. “funpkg -r Transmission-1.42-1.tgz”
2. “”funpkg -i Transmission-1.61-1.tgz”

uninstall and install was successful, and can see from transmission-remote that its now running 1.61.

However, once I add in any torrents to download, it will tell me “no such file or directory” on the Web UI.

I have “chmod 0755 -R /mnt/HD_a2/torrents” (where /mnt/HD_a2/torrents is the directory for my downloads.

I have also changed the download directory in settings.json to “\/torrents”

Interestingly, all old torrents which were not completed earlier (before the upgrade), are still downloading fine after verifying.

Anyone has any idea what the problem might be?

Oh, there is also sufficient HD space. I have at least 300GB left and the file I am downloading is less than 1GB.

just to add on.

my /mnt/HD_a2/torrents and /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon directory can all be written by nobody.

infact, even when I changed the permission of /mnt/HD_a2/torrents to permission 777, same thing happens – i.e. No such file or directory

and in settings.json, I have tried some variations like “\/torrents”, “\/torrents\/”, “\/torrents\”, “\/torrents/”.

And everytime before I change anything, I will stop transmission first, change the settings, reboot, then once up, check the settings again to make sure that its running the new settings, and then run the torrent from the Web UI.

Unfortunately, non is working.

Can’t wait for 1.7. It finally appears to support DHT!
Can I beg? please pretty please!

Thanks shadowandy! That was quick!

Hey all, great tutorial and tips. I could use some help though. I am running 1.70.2, and after a certain period of time downloading a torrent, the webgui locks up and i am no longer able to watch whats going on. The LAN light on the dns323 continues to blink, so i would assume that the download continues. I am also able to ping and stop/restart the daemon. But without forcing a reboot, i am not able to get the webui back. I am a little new to this, can someone give me a hand? I ran a (what was it?) strace i think, and it stops…i would attach the strace log but i dont think i can here?

No biggie but the title of the article could be updated to reflect the version change – i.e. 1.7 and no longer 1.42.

Thanks heaps for this information, I’ve had a DNS-323 for a while and have emigrated so am waiting for the ship to arrive – it’s in the container!

I’ll be giving this a go when it arrives – fingers crossed

Darren

So I have my DNS-323 with 2 mirrored 1TB drives in it, running 1.05 firmware on the NAS.

I copy fun_plug to volume_1 and boot, no telnet.

Is the HD_a2 still correct if the drives are in RAID 1 / mirrored config?

I have tried editing the fun_plug.sh file to HD_a1 and still no go.

Any thoughts anyone? Keen to see Transmission going, the standard client on the DNS won’t even add a torrent file to download!

Darren

thanks for the guide shadowandy! everything is fine until the part where one has to edit the settings.json.
appears that is is full of
~
~
~
~

have i done anything wrong? Thanks in advance.

hmmm just did ‘ls’..my settings.json is not in /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon!! where could it be?!! sorry i just started messing arnd with my dns-343 so pardon me for my ignorance..

ok shadowandy! i got it! thanks..i did not start it at first.

hi shadowandy..sry to bother again =X i followed your instructions and checked again and again whether my nas’s ip is added to the whitelist

“rpc-whitelist”: “127.0.0.1,192.168.0.100”,

with 192.168.0.100 being my nas’s ip. still when i keyed http://192.168.0.100:9091/ into my web browser, i still get

403: Forbidden

Unauthorized IP Address.

Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it.

If you’re editing settings.json, see the ‘rpc-whitelist’ and ‘rpc-whitelist-enabled’ entries.

If you’re still using ACLs, use a whitelist instead. See the transmission-daemon manpage for details.

Any thing that i missed out?

I did kill transmission before i altered whitelist.

hi shadowandy,

I have also changed “rpc-whitelist-enabled”: true, to “rpc-whitelist-enabled”: false,

didnt seem to work either…hmm…appreciate it if u can drag me outta this mess =)

thanks in advance!

hi shadowandy..thank you so much! it works beautifully now!

Hi Shadow,

I tried your suggestion, but it did not help.

However, interestingly, after upgrading to 1.72, all is well… funny

Thanks!

Hi shadowandy, thanks for the guide.

Hi Andy,

I juz installed Transmission 1.72, but I keep getting this error

parent folder “/home/nobody/Downloads” does not exist

Can guide me how to troubleshoot it?

Zed

hi Andy,

I think I got it figure out, Thx for the great guide given!

Zed

Hi Andy,

Right now my Transmission is running smoothly, but when I’m accessing the DNS-343, either by streaming or copying files, do you experience connection being cut-off after about 10sec? it seems like while Transmission is downloading, I cant access the DNS-343 much.

Zed

Zed, what exactly did you do? I have the same error, and realize that it’s because indeed, the directory does not exist.

But – what is the best way to sort it out? What sort of permissions does it need, for example? Is the correct directory:

/mnt/HD_a2/home/nobody/downloads? or

A.B.C.D/home/nobody/downloads?

I will try to sort it out, and update this post, but if you’re still around, Zed, please send along a clue.

Cheers,

e.

OK – it just took two minutes scanning higher in the comments here.
All I had to do was create a folder:
/mnt/HD_a2/downloads (e.g.) and point Clutch’s preferences to it.

This is my second install of clutch, the first worked for over a year, then I updated h/drives – and lost all the data on two drives.

I’m now trying to recover the data, and in the meantime, installing the Transmission again was so so easy this time. But I am unclear about the what is secure or otherwise. For example, I was able to create the folder from windows without authentication, so my dns 322 is apparently wide open (at least from within my lan, not sure about http, e.g.).

Anyway, thanks again to Andy (bought a coffee last time).

e.

v1.73 just got released

Great work, all of you who have offered help here!

I have a small problem. I have Transmission Web Interface working, and hauling torrents for me. The other day, however, I had to reboot the device and lost all contact with it. I managed to get it back up and running, and my existing torrents were working (after waiting some time to verify the files).

However, now any new torrents that I add get Paused, then if I resume them, they run for a moment then come back with “Permission denied”. They are pointing to the same folder as the existing torrents.

Any ideas?

Here’s my settings.json file:

{
“alt-speed-down”: 50,
“alt-speed-enabled”: false,
“alt-speed-time-begin”: 540,
“alt-speed-time-day”: 127,
“alt-speed-time-enabled”: false,
“alt-speed-time-end”: 1020,
“alt-speed-up”: 50,
“bind-address-ipv4″: “0.0.0.0″,
“bind-address-ipv6″: “”,
“blocklist-enabled”: false,
“completed-dir”: “”,
“dht-enabled”: true,
“download-dir”: “\/mnt\/HD_a2\/Torrents”,
“encryption”: 1,
“lazy-bitfield-enabled”: true,
“message-level”: 2,
“open-file-limit”: 32,
“peer-limit-global”: 240,
“peer-limit-per-torrent”: 60,
“peer-port”: 51413,
“peer-port-random-high”: 65535,
“peer-port-random-low”: 49152,
“peer-port-random-on-start”: false,
“peer-socket-tos”: 0,
“pex-enabled”: true,
“port-forwarding-enabled”: true,
“preallocation”: 1,
“proxy”: “”,
“proxy-auth-enabled”: false,
“proxy-auth-password”: “”,
“proxy-auth-username”: “”,
“proxy-enabled”: false,
“proxy-port”: 80,
“proxy-type”: 0,
“ratio-limit”: 2.0000,
“ratio-limit-enabled”: false,
“rpc-authentication-required”: true,
“rpc-bind-address”: “0.0.0.0″,
“rpc-enabled”: true,
“rpc-password”: “(we’ll leave this part out!)”,
“rpc-port”: 9091,
“rpc-username”: “Jeff”,
“rpc-whitelist”: “127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*”,
“rpc-whitelist-enabled”: true,
“speed-limit-down”: 100,
“speed-limit-down-enabled”: false,
“speed-limit-up”: 100,
“speed-limit-up-enabled”: false,
“umask”: 18,
“upload-slots-per-torrent”: 10
}

If it helps… I have never been able to get the Transmission remote gui to work either. Again, permission errors (“Connection Refused”).

Thanks!

Well, I came downstairs this morning to find that I no longer have permission to any of my downloads. I chown’d the folders to my name, but I am still unable to resume any of my previous downloads.

I really doubt that I’ll ever buy a D-Link product again…

After several attempts, CHOWN finally resolved my permissions issue. So my two complaints above are resolved. Not sure why the permissions fell apart in the first place, though.

I think, given the multitude of other issues that I’m having with the DNS-323 that I’m going to spend the next couple of days copying out the data on it and reformat the drives. Hopefully this will let me get past some of the bigger problems that I’m having with this NAS box.

Keep up the good work on this site, it’s been helpful!

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the guide!
Got Transmission up, but not running exactly… Being a Linux illiterate, I’m not sure what’s meant by /mnt/HD_a2/ ?
The 323 is mapped as drive X in WindowsXP so I guess I’m not seeing the same names as in Linux. I’ve used this to set the download folder – transmission-remote 127.0.0.1 -w /mnt/HD_a2/Downloads – and it reported success, but the web gui still says “no such file or directory”. I set the same location in the web gui preferences.
Where should I have that folder? At the moment it’s in the root of X. Is that right?

Andy,
Thanks – that’s where it is, but I’m still getting “no such file or directory”.
Any ideas?

Can anyone tell me if the proxy works on transmission….. I swear it doesn’t. I’ve added these settings.

“proxy”: “canada.btguard.com”,
“proxy-auth-enabled”: true,
“proxy-auth-password”: “foo”,
“proxy-auth-username”: “bah”,
“proxy-enabled”: true,
“proxy-port”: 1025,
“proxy-type”: 2,

With the older version of transmission, it was open to connections from the internet by default. I don’t see any discussion of doing that – is it unsafe to allow connections from anywhere, to a given port (e.g. 9091 in this case)?

If it is ok to do this, should I just ‘disable’ the rpc-whitelist? Would that allow connections from anywhere? I would of then password protect access to the application as described above.

I ask because I’m going to a friends just now, and wanted to connect to transmission from there without getting his ip addy beforehand.

Rgds,

e.

i have problem downloading using the dns 313. the download will start for a initially and then it will stop at certain percentage, eg it download until 48% and then it does not seem to download anymore.

what could be the problem?

it happens to every torrent. my friend had the same problem too. when i use the torrent on my PC it manage to download without any problem.

the torrents will also flutuate within a certain percentage. eg you see that it is 48.7% now and then a few hours later when you check again you see that it is 46% as a result the download almost never complete.

andy,

i observe that the problematic torrents their downloading arrow are red in color. also they have problem connecting to tracker.

i am downloading three file each abt 1 gb. could it be that i am downloading too many at the same time and the nas couldn’t take it?

i tried downloading open office and it works fine. so i think the problem lies with the torrent…

“Just use a wildcard to whitelist all IP”

Thanks, Andy.

e.

Hi fishball and Andy,
I’m having the same problem with my DNS313 running on transmission 1.72. I can download to about 2GB done and then it just fluctuates. I stop or remove other torrents and it seems that helps and now it can reach about 2.5GB complete out of 3.8GB. But the problem returns, i.e. hovers around 2.5GB downloads completed. Any ideas? I can send you the torrent to see if you encounter the same problem.

epiphanius

how to do a whitelist to all ip?

andy

if its the torrent problem, why is it that i don’t encounter the problem with the same torrent when i download it on my pc using utorrent?

andy,

thanks for your help.

Dear shadowandy,

can You please give me an information how loud DND-343 can be?

I was reading on the Synology summary page(http://www.synology.com/enu/products/compare_spec.php), that the concurrenting product to my DNS-343 (the DS-409) should be around 23 dBa. How loud goes the D-Link product, if You know about?

Many many thank in advance!

Tamas, from Germany, Munich

Dear shadowandy,

that’s the point why I’m asking you, because I didn’t found any information/test/review about the loudness of this product.

Thanks,
Tamas

Absolutely fantastic !! Thanks
the lines -

Setting the download directory
1. Type the command “su nobody -c “mkdir -p /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads”“
came back with a error message but I just created the folder myself and it’s up and running.

Was using the BT prog that comes with the DNS-323 but most torrents it wouldn’t add due to — invalid torrent ?
So used your prog & setup and now all happy.

Also added the port 51413 (found in the transmission settings file) to my Router and now downloads coming in & sharing at great speeds ..

Once again Thanks !!

vasgyuszi,
Regarding the “loudness” of your DNS-343 -
If your talking about the fan being on all the time making the noise, d-link has new firm-ware for some models that will stop or slow the fan down depending on temperature.
My DNS-323 fan was always going full bore when i set it up, til i added the latest firm-ware, now it turns it’s self off most the time – much quieter.

Hi ShadowAndy,

Is there any links where I can uninstall everything, e.g funplugz, transmission, etc. Think I have made a mess but I do not want to format my HDD with data on it. Wanna a cleanboot and start all over again…

Thanks.

Hi ShadowAndy,

I have problem in downloading torrent using transmission. I know I followed each steps of the instructions in installing transmission. I have not encountered problem except not being able to download. I tried using Vuze and successfully downloaded that same torrent to ensure the torrent is working.

Please help me also in resolving this. Thanks…

ShadowAndy,

I don’t see any error message on the screen. Do you know where I can check it?

Hi Andy,

I have a query here, right now, I’m using Transmission 1.72 on my Dlink 343.
Would it affect my files and settings on the downloadings if I upgrade to Transmisssion 1.74? I have two 1TB set to JBOD.

Zed

Hi Andy,

Thx. I have already upgrade it. Everything seems working. So with this funplug, any upgrading would not affect the rest right? for example, if I’m going to add another 1TB to the current two 1TB hdds? Thx again.

Zed

Transmission 1.76 is available. Is it possible to update this guide?
Thanks.

Zed

Hello Guys and Girls,

Could somebody be so kind and send me the Transmission-1.76-1.tgz binary?
Unfortunately Kylek’s site is not working lately and the dns-323 version is nowhere else to be found on the web.

Thanks in advance
T

toxxiq at gmail dot com

Hi Andy,

I’m stuck with this “wget: bad address ‘www.inreto.de’”
the site is down?

andy,

I suspect is my dns 323 not connecting to the internet cause the built in BT is no working as well. Was using Starhub before changing to Mio. Any idea about 2wire firewall?

Andy,

i managed to figure the problem but now come this:

403: Forbidden

Unauthorized IP Address.

Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it.

If you’re editing settings.json, see the ‘rpc-whitelist’ and ‘rpc-whitelist-enabled’ entries.

If you’re still using ACLs, use a whitelist instead. See the transmission-daemon manpage for details.

Andy,

I already followed the guide.

“rpc-whitelist”: “127.0.0.1,192.168.1.*”,
“rpc-whitelist-enabled”: true,

and this is the only error i remember:

/mnt/HD_a2 # sh /ffp/start/transmission.sh start
Starting transmission-daemon
/mnt/HD_a2 # su nobody -c b mkdir -p /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads
bmkdir: No such file or directory

Problem with permissions, here is what transmission-daemon.log reads

“/ffp/bin/transmission-daemon: Permission denied”

permissions for transmission-daemon are 0777
my download folder is 777
settings.json 644
transmission-daemon.sh 777

can’t figure out what part of the system is complaining about permissions.

the ownership for all files is nobody:501 (not sure what 501 group is, or it matters being that all my files have user permissions)

Any ideas?

Hey shadowandy, I used the above guide. I’m all fixed now…

still couldn’t track down the permissions issue, so I funpkg -r Curl + Transmission then installed again, this time no permissions issue. Very strange.

Hi Andy,

Firstly a big thank you for the wonderful guide.

i am having the same problems as Ginch.
i dont see any download folder created in my drive even thru i follow your guide.

read your answer as “Make sure the folder is writable by transmission (nobody)”
how to i created the folder to be read by tranmission?
i have try creating the folder but it still give me the same error

appreciated the help

acid

Thanks for the guide!
Got Transmission up, but not running exactly… Being a Linux illiterate, I’m not sure what’s meant by /mnt/HD_a2/ ?
The 323 is mapped as drive X in WindowsXP so I guess I’m not seeing the same names as in Linux. I’ve used this to set the download folder – transmission-remote 127.0.0.1 -w /mnt/HD_a2/Downloads – and it reported success, but the web gui still says “no such file or directory”. I set the same location in the web gui preferences.
Where should I have that folder? At the moment it’s in the root of X. Is that right?

Ginch August 5th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

hi andy,

i have it figure out after i change the web gui preference
from mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads
to mnt/HD_a2/downloads

once again thanks for the guide

Hi,
I’ve installed transmission 1.76 and have downloaded a few files with it already. I’ve restarted it not too long ago and now, i can’t access it by remote gui or by internet browser (connection timed out).

When I look at the settings.json, the configuration is fine. But when I use “transmission-daemon -d”, it doesn’t show the same configuartion as settings.json, it looks like a default configuration.

I’ve found out that the config file used when launched by :
/ffp/start/transmission.sh start

is in fact in the root user home directory :
/home/root/.config/transmission-daemon

Yeah, I’ve figured it out.
But when I start transmission manually, I was able to access the webGUI and the remote gui.

I solved my problem by deleting the content of “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/resume”
Once started, I was able to access the GUI and transmission verified every torrents I had.

Hope this will help someone else ^^

[...] for this D-Link NAS. * Disclaimer: This guide is essentially following Shadowandy’s guide: here, with update for newer version of Transmission version, and written in my own space for my [...]

Hey, can anyone hit kylek.is-a-geek.org? I’ve been trying to download curl-7.18.1.tgz and Transmission 1.83 all day and can’t get through:

/mnt/HD_a2 # wget http://kylek.is-a-geek.org:31337/files/curl-7.18.1.tgz
Connecting to kylek.is-a-geek.org:31337 (91.14.141.127:31337)
wget: cannot connect to remote host (91.14.141.127): Connection timed out

The DNS-323 seized up on me so I did a reboot, and somehow lost all of my settings. Weeks of downloads may be lost! After editing the settings.json file I got hit with the dreaded “No such file or directory”.

I’m unable to download these two files for a reinstall. I can’t even hit the website with a browser.

Anybody else able to hit it?

Had a bit of a crash yesterday, but it’s now resolved. I post what happened here in case anyone else runs into it.

It started with Transmission acting up. Under each file in the list was the error “Too many files open”. I rebooted the DNS-323, but that seemed to make the situation worse. Once I finally got the device back up, all of my torrents were showing “No such file or directory”. Going to my download folder via Explorer showed that the files were still there, but Transmission didn’t like them. All torrents, including completed ones, were showing 0% completion.

To make things worse, I can not download from kylek.is-a-geek.org, so upgrading Transmission is out of the question for now.

settings.json was ok, as well as ports, bandwidth, yada, yada, yada. Everything should be working, but I had a dozen frozen torrents. I could not “verify local data”. Any attempts at Resuming the transfers would give the appearance of working for about ten seconds, then go back to “No such file or directory”.

Playing with ownerships, groups, permissions, etc. via Telnet got me nowhere.

Apparently I’m not the only guy who has had this problem, but unfortunately the fixes I found online didn’t help anything.

I did find, however, that I could add a new torrent and it would transfer fine. So Transmission is still working, just existing torrents are frozen.

Long story short, using ls -la via Telnet showed that the frozen torrents had the same permissions as the working new torrents. However I could not delete the frozen torrents from the download folder. I could copy them out without any problems, and work with the copies on my XP client.

After tearing through various forums (where would we be without Andy and Kyle?), I was able to get my torrents running again by:

1) finding the .torrent files in \.transmission-daemon\torrents then copying them to my client’s desktop
2) going through the torrent list in Transmission and doing a “Remove from List” for each frozen torrent ( -not- “Trash Data and Remove from List”)
3) Opening up each of the .torrent files from the desktop in Transmission and re-adding the torrents to the list. When you do this, you should see “Verifying local data” as Transmission sees the existing partial downloads.

Right now I’m waiting for the “verifying local data” to run its course, but so far it looks good. If anything new pops up, I’ll report back here.

Thanks for your advice on the hanging issue, Andy. I have a knack for finding the long way to do simple tasks…

As to downloading from Kyle, strangely enough it just started working for me this afternoon, just as I was about to check my ports on my router. Weirdness!

I managed to download and upgrade, so all is working great now. Thanks for your help.

Is there any way to get access to transmission without being on the local network? I want to be able to add torrents even when I’m not at home. I can’t get my desktop to WOL, otherwise I’d just turn it on remotely and remote connect. Also, is there a way to get it to automatically load torrents from a certain folder? Currently on my desktop utorrent automatically loads from a folder in my dropbox
Thanks!

Thanks for the info. I’ve gotten the loading from a folder done pretty easily now. I was already forwarding port 9091 to the nas. I added “*.*.*.*” to the whitelist and added user/password requirement. Is that the proper way to do it? Also, does turning on loading torrents from folder keep the harddrive from hibernating? Because I have 2 identical drives and one is running at 44 degrees (the one that does the torrents) and the other is running at 39 degrees. Last night, I wasn’t downloading anything and I checked the temperatures this morning.

Excellent guide Shadowandy. I’m a noob with Linux and this guide is the best thanks!. This is actually my first time to use a linux based client.

Anyway, is this transmission always on? How do I turn the program off if I don’t want i to download or upload anything and how to turn it on back again?

Bro, the firmware 1.0.8 is available for DNS323. Any step by step guide to upgrade it?
Thanks.

Is there any advantage of turning off the transmission as opposed to just pausing everything?

Is the default BT program from the new firmware better than transmission?

All of a sudden Transmission is not picking up any peers. Trackers aren’t responind but when tried on PC, it worked. Do I reinstall Transmission?

Oh, and how do I uninstall it shadowandy. Thanks!

Hi Shadowandy,

How do I upgrade?

Do I just stop transmission, remove, then install new version?

Will these work?

sh /ffp/start/transmission.sh stop
funpkg -r Transmission-1.91-1
wget http://kylek.is-a-geek.org:31337/files/Transmission-1.92-1.tgz
funpkg -i Transmission-1.92-1.tgz
chmod a+x /ffp/start/transmission.sh;sh /ffp/start/transmission.sh start
sh /ffp/start/transmission.sh stop

Should I still update the whitelist?

Thanks!!

Thanks for all the help! I’m starting to enjoy linux!

Is it possible to access this remotely like from a different place? Do I just have to update the whitelist and add the IP address that I will be using ? Hope you can point me to the right direction!

Thanks again!

Also, what are the commands to disable the IP address and commands to put a password if I don’t know the IP address of net I will be going to use?

Like for example on a business trip and you just use free internet or wifi spots, how could you then access your transmission?

i notice some people are using an external usb as a scan directory, i have this all set up and mounted but how do i point transmission to check my usb folder instead of the default one of /mnt/HD_a2/.transmssion-daemon/torrents

Hey andy. I havent upgraded transmission for a while. so i upgraded… 1.73 to 1.92.
installed fine, runs fine, can see all my old torrents and they download state. THEN i try to resume and transmission crashes… no idea why, any thoughts?

Found the same problem elsewhere and have rectified it.

I had to remove the /torrent and /resume folder…

Started transmission and then added the torrents back through the web interface,
transmission checked the file and resumed from where the torrent was.

horray

Hi,

I don’t know if this is still monitored, but have spent hours stuck on setting the download directory & get the following error.

root@DLINK-NAS:/mnt/HD_a2# su nobody -c .mkdir -p /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downlo
ads
/mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads: line 1: .mkdir: not found

would DESPERATELY love some help with this

Thanks

hey everything is working fine major thanks except one thing

i changed the dl folder to where i keep all my other dls

now when the torrent is done, i don’t have the write permissions on it, i can only read it

after i dl a file i like to move it to a new directory to keep things organised (music, movies, ISO, etc) but when i do i get an error saying i need permission from:

Unix User/nobody to make changes to this file

also, it appears the only way to delete something that was downloaded through transmission is to delete it through transmission(to avoid getting same error above)

this makes things a little complicated for me. how might i make it so transmission doesn’t take ownership of the files it downloads?

figured it out, in case anyone else has it

in Telnet:
killall transmission-daemon

Then edit the settings.json file and change the umask value to 0

Hi !

Great guide… I’ve tryed some other ones, but couln’t make it work, until i found your little guide…. Thanks….

I was wondering….. Is it possible to put password protection on the Web Interface ? – If yes, how do i do that ????

Kind regards,
Morten

Hey guys,
I was on Transmission 1.92.1 for monthes and yesterday, I started to have some random crashes (nothing in log). I tried to see if that was because of a specific torrent, but still have crashes.

Then I tried to restart my DNS 323, crashes still there. I’ve also stopped all the torrents.

So I upgraded to 1.93.2, but the crashes remain and still nothing in the log file.

Then I tried to start transmission in telnet to see what happens. It is starting just fine, but after a while, 2 to 5 mins, it stopped. Here’s my last try :

root@chiny2:/mnt/HD_a2# su nobody -c “transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon -a 127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*”
[16:19:53.108] Transmission 1.93 (10625) started (session.c:609)
[16:19:53.108] RPC Server Adding address to whitelist: 127.0.0.1 (rpc-server.c:772)
[16:19:53.109] RPC Server Adding address to whitelist: 192.168.*.* (rpc-server.c:772)
[16:19:53.109] RPC Server Serving RPC and Web requests on port 9091 (rpc-server.c:945)
[16:19:53.109] RPC Server Whitelist enabled (rpc-server.c:949)
[16:19:53.110] Couldn’t bind port 21444 on 0.0.0.0: Address already in use (Is another copy of Transmission already running?) (net.c:369)
[16:19:53.110] DHT Reusing old id (tr-dht.c:365)
[16:19:53.111] DHT Bootstrapping from 109 nodes (tr-dht.c:146)
[16:19:53.111] Using settings from “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon” (daemon.c:425)
[16:19:53.111] Saved “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json” (bencode.c:1651)
[16:19:53.112] Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) initnatpmp succeeded (0) (natpmp.c:67)
[16:19:53.112] Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) sendpublicaddressrequest succeeded (2) (natpmp.c:67)
[16:19:53.113] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Found Internet Gateway Device “http://192.168.2.254:4444/wipconn” (upnp.c:105)
[16:19:53.113] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Local Address is “192.168.2.199″ (upnp.c:107)
[16:19:53.114] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Port forwarding through “http://192.168.2.254:4444/wipconn”, service “urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1″. (local address: 192.168.2.199:21444) (upnp.c:194)
[16:19:53.114] Port Forwarding State changed from “Not forwarded” to “Starting” (port-forwarding.c:87)
[16:19:53.114] Loaded 155 torrents (session.c:1683)
[16:19:56.125] Port Forwarding State changed from “Starting” to “???” (port-forwarding.c:87)
Killed

If anyone has a clue about what’s happening, please help me =)

Ok, I’ve now moved all the files in the torrent and resume directory. No crash in the past hour. I’m putting back my torrents one by one after each verification process.

Yep, seems like there were som torrents with non unicode chars were causing trouble, corupting other torrents.

I saw that while looking into the torrents and resume folder via telnet. Some files were not displayed correctly, like :

“file_name.resume qksjfq.resume”

2 files on the same line = problem x)

I’m now trying to repair this BIG mess ^_^

Is there a compiled version of Transmission Remote GUI for the DNS-323?

Even better would be similar instuctions to add it to this installed transmission install.

Hi shadowandy,
First I must thank you for the great guide. You have made my dns323 worth the money I have 1 problem though, every time I restart my dns323 or power was cutoff, I will bump into error: permission denied problem. Every time I have to reinstall & set a new folder for download. This way also is without a problem as when I tried to transfer the unfinished torrent files, I seems not able to. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

tignos

Hi Andy,
thanks for the great manual provided. been using transmission 1.92. Everything seems good. My vol_1 (Two 1TB) is filling up soon. I have a few queries. hope you can help me out:

1) I need to install two 1TB as disk 3 and4 and as another volume eg vol_2
any advise how to implement this safely w/o losing my data in vol_1?
2) After installing, can you advise me the command to copy certain contents in vol_1 to vol_2?
3) Do I need to stop transmission during the installing process?

Cos I read up that installing new hdds in 343 would causes failure to recognize the previous volumes and prompt to format.
Thanks. hope to hear from you soon

thankz Andy!!

Thank you, Andy! I followed your guide to the letter and it works perfectly – I’m so happy to have such a nice torrent client for my 323 now, all thanks to your post!

Hi,
Cant find any rpc whitelist, therefore unable to continue. Please help.

DNS-323 freshly install following
uclibc-0.9.29-7.tgz
curl-7.19.4-1.tgz
Transmission-2.11-1.tgz

Hallo Shadow!

Everything went fine until the “transmission-remote 127.0.0.1 -w /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads” command for the download directory.

Here is the command and response:

/mnt/HD_a2 # transmission-remote 127.0.0.1 -w /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads
[19:28:25.537] transmission-remote: (http://127.0.0.1:9091/transmission/rpc) Couldn’t connect to server

I did mess up in the “rpc-whitelist”: “127.0.0.1,192.168.1.*”, part because my IP is 192.168.0.* and I left 192.168.1.*. But I changed it and now is correct. But the “transmission-remote” command is still not working.

Any clues?

Cheers!!

And I got this:

/mnt/HD_a2 # ps | grep transmission
20526 root vi /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings/json
27422 root grep transmission

Tried again. Same “couldn’t connect to server” message. Strange…

No problem, How do I do that?

Thanks for the guide!

I followed it for the DNS-320 and it looks like everything is up and running.

However i have a couple of questions:

I want to be able to access the web interface from anywhere to add torrents (including my phone with torrent-fu)

How do i go about doing this? i has assumed it would be by disabling the whitelist by changing the true to false or adding *.*.*.* to the exceptions.

but when i go to myip:9091/transmission i get the 403 error

What am i doing wrong?

Also can transmission be set up to auto download torrents from a file, or doe each one need to be added manually?

thanks again!

Ignore that i think i have it working!

However still some general questions:

Can transmission be set up to monitor downloaded torrents from a file, or does each one need to be added manually? i.e if a torrent is downloaded to a set folder it will automatically pick it up in transmission

can the ffp folder, ffp and fun_plug be “hidden” in the root directory, and if so how?

thanks for the reply SA, How does one plya with transmission-remote?

I am pretty damn new to this whole nas and linux stuff!

Hey Shadow,
I tried to search around how to see the transmission log file but I couldn’t find it, can you point me in the right direction? I’m a total noob with this, sorry…

Cheers!

Hi Shadow. I noticed you have a Elmo in big bird costume posted 2 years ago. Was wondering where you got that toy. Please get back to me via email at kaisheng1991@hotmail.com.

Hi Shadowandy,

Can You help me fix my transmission? I changed volume 2 to a bigger drive 2TB retaining the folder structures. Now, I keep on getting permission denied when downloading torrents. I tried the following commands to no avail.

chown -R nobody /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon
chown -R nobody /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads

Thanks

Hi Andy

Total noob, but really keen to get everything working on my NAS.

When I start downloading a torrent, I get the following error: “error: permission denied (/home/nobody/Downloads/name of torrent…).

Why is this? i followed instructions verbatim. Also edited download folder in settings.json manually to try to make it work. Please help, this is killing me!
Thanks

@Dino,

I suspect your download directory is still set to volume_1, stop Transmission and check the configuration file – settings.json

@willyb,

When you edit settings.json, is Transmission still running? The daemon must not be running when doing any changes. And is the owner of the download directory set to “nobody”?

Hi there guys

Thanks to you, I now have downloads working, but a little too well! Any setting I change in ‘Prefernces’ for transmission are not saved when the NAS is rebooted. Also, how do I stop the torrent from seeding away all my bandwidth? (i.e. stop seeding after a certain time?)

Dear all! I’m new here.
I’m instaling transmission 2.22-1.tgz (because the one in the description is not working).
I’m doing everything as the description says.
However there is NO whitelist after “vi /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json”

What should I do? I only have blocklist listed, but without rpc

HELP PLEASE

Finally it’s OK.

However the transmission stops downloading after 2Mb… I believe that something is wrong with the download directory….but I don’t know.
Could you help?

Thanks for a great guide to transmission.

I followed every step, and got it to work in no time. I also had some trouble with the whitelist – my terminal wouldn’t edit the settings.json – but i just did it by editing it in text editor and saving it manually.

Btw i can report, that this works fine on a DNS-313 Rev. B1 with firmware 2.0.

Thanks again!

Thank you! I just upgraded transmission on my dns-323 (to ver 2.22) following your instructions and it was effortless!

Its all fine now. LOVE IT!

Hoever I need to disable the whitelist, because I need to access it from a remote computer.

Could you help me doing that, seems that I just can’t overwrite the “rpc-whitelist-enabled: true” line to
“rpc-whitelist-enabled: false”

Its not this easy i think. So what should I do?

MANY THANKS!

after changing some things in my json file
specifically
“rpc-authentication-required”: true, (to false)

it now says
# transmission-remote 127.0.0.1 -w /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads
http://127.0.0.1:9091/transmission/rpc/ responded: “success”
But when I try to go to 192.168.1.140:9091 it still gives me a 403
?????

Hi Shadow!

I got this at the log file:

[23:28:04.858] JSON parser failed in /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json at line 48, column 5: “”rpc-whitelist-e”
[23:28:04.859] transmission-daemon Error loading config file — exiting. (daemon.c:421)

So I discovered that I forgot a comma at the end of the line. Thanks for alll the help!

Having a few issues with 2.22 on my DNS 323 with the remote GUI.
I can connect fine from the web interface, but when trying to access it via the remote GUI, I get a “connection refused” error.
Followed these instructions to the tee aside from installing 2.22-1.
Thanks in avance.

i setup Transmission but when a file is save, it prompt

permission denied(/home/nobody/Downloads/

but the folder( transmission-downloads) is there
anyone can help ?

Transmission is 2.03

@topper aka Eric,

I have posted my reply to your problem in HWZ, you probably missed a step or two when setting up transmision.

thx Albert thx for the help i use Transmission 2.03
http://kylek.is-a-geek.org:31337/files/Transmission-2.31-1.tgz
is down , hope this dont cause the problem ):

Anybody know a working link to Transmission 2.31??

Hi Andy,

Recently, I have just updated to Transmission 2.31, and it keep crashing for no reason.
Amd after reboot, the deamon will not auto activated, even though I have enable it.

Any reason for this sympton? is there any way that I can troubleshoot?

Thanks in advance.

Zed

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the tip. Cos sometimes it will download for ten mins or even half hr and then crashes.

1) Under the transmission-daemon.log:
[22:45:35.665] Learn2Shoot Scrape error: Tracker did not respond (announcer.c:1181)
[22:45:35.665] Learn2Shoot Retrying scrape in 3641 seconds. (announcer.c:1190)

Has alot of such messages but should not be the cause right?

2) “/mnt/HD_a2 still points to /mnt/HD/HD_a2?” Meaning? How to check?

If this is the default settings, then should be still pointing as sometimes it will download for
ten mins or even 1 hr and then crashes.

3) under ffp log:

**** fun_plug script for DNS-323 (2008-08-11 tp@fonz.de) ****
Wed Jun 15 22:07:24 SGT 2011
ln -snf /mnt/HD_a2/ffp /ffp
* Running /ffp/etc/fun_plug.init …
* Running /ffp/etc/rc …
* /ffp/start/syslogd.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/SERVERS.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/portmap.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/unfsd.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/transmission.sh …
Starting transmission-daemon
* /ffp/start/nfsd.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/ntpd.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/LOGIN.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/telnetd.sh …
Starting /ffp/sbin/telnetd -l /ffp/bin/sh
* /ffp/start/sshd.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/rsyncd.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/mediatomb.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/kickwebs.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/lighttpd.sh inactive
* /ffp/start/inetd.sh inactive
* OK

Thanks in advance again

Hi Shadowandy,

I am stucked at this line (nearing the end of the procedure)

You wrote:
Setting the download directory

Type the command “su nobody -c “mkdir -p /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads”“

After keying in, terminal shows:

/mnt/HD/HD_a2 #
telnet>
su nobody -c b mkdir -p /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloadsb
/mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloadsb: line 1: bmkdir: not found
/mnt/HD/HD_a2 #

Any work around coz i am so close to complete the procedure. And also cd /mnt/HD_a2 does point me to /mnt/HD/HD_a2, that’s supposed to be odd?

thanks for the work anyway

somehow what i received in the chain is this
Following from your command

su nobody -c “mkdir -p /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads”

(when ENTER led me to)

telnet>
(then i ENTER again)

it showed
su nobody -c b mkdir -p /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloadsb
/mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloadsb: line 1: bmkdir: not found
/mnt/HD/HD_a2 #

(what i can see the diff is that your ” ” has been replaced by b)

Nevertheless, i proceeded to your next command

transmission-remote 127.0.0.1 -w /mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads

it says success
but i see no folder created in Volume 1.

@pharme

Same problem was here.
You should watch where you are standing with the cursor.

if your prompt looks like this:

root@dlinknas:/mnt/HD_a2#

you only have to write:

su nobody -c “mkdir -p transmission-downloads”

because you are already in that folder. And then the next line will be :

transmission-remote 127.0.0.1 -w transmission-downloads

according to the folder position you are in.

Hope that helps.

Hi Andy

Was wondering if you could help me. For some reason, recently, when I decided to enable SSH on my DNS323, Transmission killed itself and I couldn’t get the daemon running again. I would manually start it, then do a ps command and see it, but immediately after, I did another ps command and the process wasn’t there anymore

I followed the instructions for SSH from:
http://nas-tweaks.net/40/installation-of-the-fonz-funplug-0-5-for-ch3snas-ch3mnas-dns-323-and-many-more/#Option:_view_ffp.log

Ever since, I did a removal of funplug completely, and tried to reinstall. But apparently Transmission was not completely removed (my previous settings.json was intact).

I was wondering if you would know what happened, or at least, advise how i can do a clean reinstall and get everything working again

Hello

Thank you for the great walk through.. I am almost there

I am gettign teh same error that you focos on in the beginning of the article and have seen that most people are able to fix it by updating the white list.

I have gone through your steps and ensured that my json file look like :

“rpc-whitelist”: “127.0.0.1,192.168.0.*”, (where my nas ip is 192.168.0.17)

and I still get the error

Unexpected response: 403: ForbiddenUnauthorized IP Address.Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it.If you’re editing settings.json, see the ‘rpc-whitelist’ and ‘rpc-whitelist-enabled’ entries.If you’re still using ACLs, use a whitelist instead. See the transmission-daemon manpage for details.encoded

{“arguments”:{“download-dir”:”/mnt/HD_a2/transmission-downloads”},”method”:”session-set”}

@Travis, did you stop the transmission-daemon process before doing the changes? To stop just type: sh /ffp/start/transmission.sh stop

prejudice,
transmission falls often with very large files.
you could put in the file start a cycle in which a check is done on the status and if it is not active, it automatically raises?

thanks

Hello (Shadow)Andy,

A Starbucks for you from me has been sent.
Thanks my friend. You helped me solved my problem on reinstalling this tools into my 323.

Soon – the 320 will go through your guide as well for the Twonky and the same tool ) Cheers!

Rgds.

Hi Shadow Andy / Guys,
Had some problem with my DNS323 lately. After the AC stopped working or perhaps a power failure. I can no longer access both transmission & the web interface it says “connection refused” & unable to connect respectively. What do I need to do if I want to “start from scratch” which files to delete, etc. from my DNS or what to troubleshoot. Thanks.

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Hey Shadow,
I have tried upgrading my Transmission to version 2.50 and now I’m getting this error message:

/mnt/HD_a2 # /ffp/start/transmission.sh start
Starting transmission-daemon
[00:49:09.939] JSON parser failed in /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json at line 1, column 1: “d13:activity-dat”

Any idea of what I could do to fix it?

Well. I just went ahead and uninstalled and reinstalled the whole thing. Apparently the settings.json got corrupted at some point. Now it is working normally.

Fantastic instructions! It went flawlessly. The only improvement I might suggest would be to backup the json file before editing

cp /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json.bkup

If you ever need to restore it because of a typo using vi, then do this

cp /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json.bkup /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json

Thank you for these great instructions

Hey Andy,

Transmission has been running great for me for two years now, but in the last week some strange issue has come up that I haven’t been able to find a fix for.
I’m running Transmission 2.50 now.
About a week ago I suddenly was unable to connect to Transmission. This was with both the GUI and a web browser. The response in the GUI is “Connection refused”.
I tried a number of solutions found on the web but nothing worked. I’ve uninstalled then reinstalled Transmission several times. I even tried going back to 2.42 but it also gives “Connection refused”.
When I do the reinstall, it actually works for a few minutes. I start adding in torrents and it takes 2 or 3, then I get the connection issue and I can’t do anything with it.
Finally I gave up and decided it was time to upgrade my DNS-323 to a pair of larger drives, which I did, then installed Transmission on a clean pair of drives (RAID 1). Same issue as above; it works for a while then locks me out.
Here’s the relevant portion of the log:
[22:47:01.288] Transmission 2.50 (13236) started (session.c:718)
[22:47:01.289] RPC Server Adding address to whitelist: 127.0.0.1 (rpc-server.c:803)
[22:47:01.289] RPC Server Serving RPC and Web requests on port 127.0.0.1:9091/transmission/ (rpc-server.c:997)
[22:47:01.289] RPC Server Whitelist enabled (rpc-server.c:1001)
[22:47:01.290] Couldn’t bind port 51413 on 0.0.0.0: Address already in use (Is another copy of Transmission already running?) (net.c:363)
[22:47:01.290] UDP Couldn’t bind IPv4 socket (tr-udp.c:260)
[22:47:01.290] DHT Generating new id (tr-dht.c:309)
[22:47:01.290] Using settings from “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon” (daemon.c:488)
[22:47:01.291] Saved “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json” (bencode.c:1731)
[22:47:01.291] Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) initnatpmp succeeded (0) (natpmp.c:72)
[22:47:01.291] Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) sendpublicaddressrequest succeeded (2) (natpmp.c:72)
[22:47:02.294] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Found Internet Gateway Device “http://192.168.1.1:5555/ctl/IPConn” (upnp.c:202)
[22:47:02.294] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Local Address is “192.168.1.110″ (upnp.c:204)
[22:47:02.295] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Port forwarding through “http://192.168.1.1:5555/ctl/IPConn”, service “urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1″. (local address: 192.168.1.110:51413) (upnp.c:279)
[22:47:02.295] Port Forwarding Starting (port-forwarding.c:93)
[22:47:08.330] Port Forwarding Starting (port-forwarding.c:93)
[22:47:11.527] Saved “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json” (bencode.c:1731)
[22:47:11.528] DHT Not saving nodes, DHT not ready (tr-dht.c:356)
[22:47:11.528] Port Forwarding Stopped (port-forwarding.c:181)
[22:47:11.537] Saved “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json” (bencode.c:1731)
[22:47:11.538] DHT Not saving nodes, DHT not ready (tr-dht.c:356)
[22:47:11.538] Port Forwarding Stopped (port-forwarding.c:181)
[22:48:40.719] Transmission 2.50 (13236) started (session.c:718)
[22:48:40.719] RPC Server Adding address to whitelist: 127.0.0.1 (rpc-server.c:803)
[22:48:40.720] RPC Server Adding address to whitelist: 192.168.1.* (rpc-server.c:803)
[22:48:40.720] RPC Server Serving RPC and Web requests on port 127.0.0.1:9091/transmission/ (rpc-server.c:997)
[22:48:40.720] RPC Server Whitelist enabled (rpc-server.c:1001)
[22:48:40.720] UDP Failed to set receive buffer: requested 4194304, got 208896 (tr-udp.c:75)
[22:48:40.721] UDP Please add the line “net.core.rmem_max = 4194304″ to /etc/sysctl.conf (tr-udp.c:80)
[22:48:40.721] UDP Failed to set send buffer: requested 1048576, got 208896 (tr-udp.c:86)
[22:48:40.721] UDP Please add the line “net.core.wmem_max = 1048576″ to /etc/sysctl.conf (tr-udp.c:91)
[22:48:40.722] DHT Generating new id (tr-dht.c:309)
[22:48:40.722] Using settings from “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon” (daemon.c:488)
[22:48:40.722] Saved “/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json” (bencode.c:1731)
[22:48:40.722] Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) initnatpmp succeeded (0) (natpmp.c:72)
[22:48:40.723] Port Forwarding (NAT-PMP) sendpublicaddressrequest succeeded (2) (natpmp.c:72)
[22:48:40.723] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Found Internet Gateway Device “http://192.168.1.1:5555/ctl/IPConn” (upnp.c:202)
[22:48:40.723] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Local Address is “192.168.1.110″ (upnp.c:204)
[22:48:40.723] Port Forwarding (UPnP) Port forwarding through “http://192.168.1.1:5555/ctl/IPConn”, service “urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1″. (local address: 192.168.1.110:51413) (upnp.c:279)
[22:48:40.724] Port Forwarding Starting (port-forwarding.c:93)
[22:48:47.761] Port Forwarding Starting (port-forwarding.c:93)
[22:48:59.832] DHT Attempting bootstrap from dht.transmissionbt.com (tr-dht.c:247)
[22:50:24.333] Searching for web interface file “/home/nobody/.local/share/transmission/web/index.html” (platform.c:542)
[22:50:24.333] Searching for web interface file “/ffp/share/transmission/web/index.html” (platform.c:542)

Any ideas?

Thanks again, by the way, for all of your help in the past. I’m learning Linux via my DNS-323 and loving every minute of it, even when it falls apart!

I forgot to add.. I think the daemon stops running. If I try to stop it, it says no process killed:

/mnt/HD_a2 # /ffp/start/transmission.sh stop
Stopping transmission-daemon
killall: transmission-daemon: no process killed

Is anyone else having issues with Private trackers? It seems I can only download from either a private or public tracker at the same time. If I’m downloading from both, the private tracker announcement is set to queue.

Hey, I think I found it..

As strange as it sounds, I think I had a bad .torrent file that was bringing it down.

I went in and cleaned out the actual torrent folder and restarted the daemon. It actually started and held. So knowing that everytime it crashed on me before was after I loaded torrents A, B and C, I thought for fun I’d load different torrents instead, and sure enough it took them and held.

So one by one I’ve been loading in more torrents. It’s as slow as orange but still running (one tense moment when the GUI disconnected, but a couple of minutes later it fired back up).

I have deleted torrents A, B and C just to be safe. Could this be a sign of malware in our world?

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