I recently purchased a ReadyNas Ultra 4. I'm a windows man and very rarely bash linux.
I was expecting everything to be straight forward setting things up, however there are lots of hoops to jump through with very little user instruction. I hope someone finds this useful. 🙂
BitTorrent
The ReadyNas appeared not to have a bittorrent client installed, so I installed Transmission. Download http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=24271 Install via ReadyNas Frontview>System>Update>Local Browse to downloaded file and install. Go to ReadyNas Frontview>Services>Installed Addon's>Tranmission>Transmission interface. New window pop's up. Add to favourites for ease of use later. Open your favourite torrent site, find a torrent. Right click the torrent download button, Copy link. Go back to your Transmission interface, click the 'open' button, top left and paste the torrent link into the URL and click the 'upload' button. (The name of the 'upload' button is slight misleading). I found some links for certain sites do not work (kickass for example). The torrent will begin downloading, but I then got a permissions error....
SSH Root access
Download an addon from http://www.readynas.com/?p=4203 which open up root access via an SSH client. install as above. Download an SSH client to your machine. Putty is the one I use, available from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Open putty, add the ip address of your readyNas and open an SSH session (black screen with login prompt) login as user root, pass = your frontend admin password. type: cd /c/media type: chmod 777 -R BitTorrent You have now opened up read and write permissions to everyone to your BitTorrent folder and all folders underneath. There may be better methods, but this seemed the easiest one. I have read threads where users create new folders and then update a text file called settings.json which points Transmission to the new folders. I did this and then the lightbulb went on about just updating the permissions on the original folders.
Transmission Remote GUI
Transmission Remote GUI allows you add and view the existing torrents that are on your ReadyNAS, from your networked windows machine.
Download http://code.google.com/p/transmission-remote-dotnet/downloads/list install on your windows machine click local settings (spanner picture) >Server Settings Host=use the name of your server (not the ip) Port=8181 User=admin Password=not 100% which one, either you admin pass or password1 Save settings
Play music and video on Android (local network)
Download "arcMedia" from android market place and install on your android device Download "ES File Explorer" from android market place and install on your android device Open ES Click 'local' top left select LAN Menu button>New>Server (add details of server> server name, ip, admin, pass) navigate to your files and open with 'arcMedia'
Thanks man! This is very informative....regarding for permission error with torrent client, I had the same trouble before so I tried to change my torrent client.
I used this one https://download-free.com/bittorrent-client Its more like Bit torrent and works fine with me. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I had no problems with the permission to download. But it seems like transmission by default don't give all files write access to other than owner (admin). I can stream and copy the files using android/ps3/pc.
But of couse, moving them with cut/paste doesn't work unless I change the access to W for all. Kinda annoying to have to change everything all the time.
Does anyone know how to have transmissionBT give all users W-permissions by default?
Using Duo V2 w/radiator 5.3.2 and TransmissionBT_2.42-arm-0.1.5.bin.
I've noticed the same thing. I'm using Transmission Remote dotnet to move the downloaded files to their final destination. This way, it is Transmission that moves the files and thus has the right permissions. Transmission Remote GUI (mentioned in the first post here) also has this option. I'm not sure if you can do it from Transmissions own webGUI.
