Idiots guide to Bittorrent and Transmission required please

Happy to respond - fire away

1. Confirm you can access the transmission web front end on your NAS
2. Instead of downloading the file on your pc - you simply paste the link into the NAS transmission webpage
3. This means you can switch off you laptop (go to work???) in the happy knowledge your still downloading the file.

Brilliant, thanks for assisting me, very much appreciated.

As to your first question, I know that when I tried the transmission app from home (on my home network), it did show the transmission web app front end (and that's as far as I got). Now I'm at work at the moment (and ahem, cough......taking a quick break), I can access my NV+ V2 admin page and all the shares just fine, but when I run the transmission app, I get an error message as follows:

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 mainpage for details.

No idea what to do now. I've seen mention of people editing the "settings.json" file, but I wouldn't know where to begin ? Don't know if this is something to do with my work's router blocking something ?

2. When you say you paste the link in the Nas Transmission web page, exactly where do you paste it (sorry, as I said I'm a complete newbie). Any chance you have a screen shot or something please ?

Hopefully I haven't scared you off so far :lol:

Oh yes, for info, I found the settings.json file (yes all on my own :D :D ), and am happy to post it's contents, but I'm not sure if there's anything within it that I shouldn't broadcast publicly ?

I posted up ages ago a working settings file - see here

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=61555

As transmission is running on the NAS, you will need to ensure that the "peer-port": 55893, is open to the internet, otherwise you wont get any connections.

I'f ensure that on my router the nas always has the same ip address, then ensure that the port is forwarded to the nas.

This will then mean the nas can communicate on the web.

Thanks for the info devilsrear, but I didn't understand a word you said :oops: :oops:

Right, am back home now, and using the default set-up (i.e. only installed the transmission add on), it successfully opens the web app, and I am now downloading my first torrent on the NAS (at least it shows it at 26% downloaded so far).

Couple of questions more if I may. What you told me to do above, will that cure my not being able to open the web app whilst I'm at work. If so, I'd better try and understand what it was you said. Sorry, I'm really pants at this stuff.

Also, I'm using the default user name and password, but on the Transmission download page, it says to change it away from these defaults. How do I do that as well please ?

Again, thanks for your patience, it's very much appreciated.

Hi

so it looks like you have it working.

You just need to change the admin and password in your settings

"rpc-password": "PASSWORDHERE",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-username": "admin",

I'd change the above three

Normally I just access the transmission web front end whilst at home, however you can also access it using the remote gui

http://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/downloads/list

If you download this and install this gives you a front end for your transmission daemon

on the connection option

name - "home nas?"
remote host - ip addess of your nas
port: from your settings.json (9091)
username: admin (or what you changed it to
password - from your settings.json