Howto: Transmission Bittorrent with Clutch Webinterface

[Steffer]

Ok. First of all great guide!

I think I have it all installed as it should be but when I try to enter clutch via http://10.0.0.3:8081/clutch I just get a Page can't be listet.

What could I have done wrong along the way?

Any ideas?

//Steffer

[cico]

...but when I try to enter clutch via http://10.0.0.3:8081/clutch I just get a Page can't be listet.

try http://your-syno-ip:8081/lighttpd/clutch/

[Steffer]

I have tried that too but it's also a no-go!

Any other ideas?

[cico]

have you started transmission-daemon?
when you do "ps" you should see 3 processes like this

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syno> ps | grep transmission
 5892 root       4324 S   transmission-daemon -f
 5893 root       4324 S   transmission-daemon -f
 5894 root       4324 S   transmission-daemon -f
23961 root        208 S   grep transmission
syno>


[Steffer]

Jep. I have these 3 transmission-daemons

4618 root 1688 S transmission-daemon -f
4619 root 1688 S transmission-daemon -f
4620 root 1688 S transmission-daemon -f

Any idea what else I could have done wrong along the way?

[cico]

hm, have you set the socket path?

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echo "/root/.config/transmission/daemon/socket" > /opt/share/www/lighttpd/clutch/remote/data/socket.txt

what does your error message say? is it a browser message or a message within clutch?

[Steffer]

Jep. I have also set the socket

Well. My OS is in danish so I'll try to translate ..

It isn't a "page can't by listet" error as I first expected. It has something to do with the connection to the server. It says that its bing cuts off or something while its trying to load. Not easy explaining

Should I try to make a fresh install of the NAS and then try it all over again?

[cico]

It isn't a "page can't by listet" error as I first expected. It has something to do with the connection to the server. It says that its bing cuts off or something while its trying to load. Not easy explaining

that doesn't sound like a problem with transmission/clutch for me...

are you sure that http://10.0.0.3 is the local ip of your syno? do you get your ssh/telnet access with root@10.0.0.3?

[Steffer]

Jep, I do..

[cico]

ok, can you access the lighttpd default page http://10.0.0.3:8081/lighttpd/index.html saying "lighttpd server is running" or the transmission cgi-interface http://10.0.0.3:8081/index.html ?

[Steffer]

Hey!

My Clutch is working now so i'm really happy

But how do I get my downloaded content down on my laptop after it has downloaded on the NAS?

At the moment it is putting the downloads in /opt/share/www/lighttpd/.

Any help on this?

-- Edit --

I'll try to put my questions down here so I have a chance to get an answer on all of them

1: How do I get to my content in "/opt/share/www/lighttpd/."?
2: I would really like to download my content from the NAS via FTP, how to set that up?
3: After I'm done seeding/leeching a torrent how do I delete the content completely? If I do the "remove" thing in Clutch I guess it only removes the .torrent in Clutch and not the data on the NAS?

After I have these questions answered then my NAS is running the way I want it to

So please help my with the last stuff here and I'll not bother you anymore


UPDATE

Well. I fixed my own problem. I just moved the download folder to /volume1/downloads and the I could add that in my FTP program.

One last question

Do I really have to SSH in to delete the torrents I dont need to seed/leech anymore?

[cico]

First, I'm glad it's working for you now!

What went wrong? I suppose something with the lighttpd installation/setup?

Anyway...

One last question

Do I really have to SSH in to delete the torrents I dont need to seed/leech anymore?

No, you don't

But you already found the solution by yourself:
With changing transmission's default download location to one of your shared folders you now have access via ftp (or smb/afp), so you simply have to delete your unneeded stuff in your ftp programm to remove the physical data from your syno.

[Steffer]

Yeah, I found out about that too so that makes it a bit easier

Well, I really don't know what went wrong but after I startet it all over again and followed the guide it just worked ..

My 2 last questions

1. Is it possible to install a FTP client on the NAS so it also has the possibility to download from other FTP's and put the downloaded content in my download-folder?
2. Any way of setting something up that could unrar the files over my network and put the unrared file on my laptop?

Update

Okay. I may just have done something very stupid!

Suddenly the dirs opt and tmp was in my shared folders on the NAS. I didn't want them there because nobody needed to FTP to them or anything. So I just went ahead and deleted them but that also deleted the data on the NAS?!

What can I do now? Looks like some of the things are still working but not the clutch-thing and transmission. My FTP to/from the NAS is still up and running.

Do I have to make a complete reinstall now?

Edit

I went ahead and bootstraped again and installed all the programs over again. It works again now so back to my 2 old questions

[cico]

Okay. I may just have done something very stupid!

Suddenly the dirs opt and tmp was in my shared folders on the NAS. I didn't want them there because nobody needed to FTP to them or anything. So I just went ahead and deleted them but that also deleted the data on the NAS?!

It seems to be normal that these two folders appear as shared folders automatically, I've no idea why, maybe it's a bug. There're some "default" shares, for example when you first activate the iTunes service a shared folder "music" will appear, where you can copy your music you want to serve with your syno in your network. That make sense for me, but I really don't know why "opt" and "tmp" are there

However, if you don't want to see them, you can simply hide them (without deleting them )
Go to "Privileges/Shared Folders", select the share you want to hide, click "Edit" and checkmark the hide-option...

Is it possible to install a FTP client on the NAS so it also has the possibility to download from other FTP's and put the downloaded content in my download-folder?

I've never used it, but you can download via ftp with the built-in download station, so maybe you want to give that a try? Otherwise take a look at the ipkg-feed for your syno, I'm not sure, but I guess there will be at least one ftp-client, maybe even with an additional web interface available...

[Steffer]

I'll take a look at it cico

Thank you very much!

1 last thing.

My internet is really unstable. It goes down sometimes and then automaticly comes back online after maybe ½-1 hour. When the internet is back online the trackers I'm download/seeding to isn't seeing my torrents. As if transmission/clutch isn't updating when it comes back online?
I then have to either reboot the NAS or kill transmission-daemon and start it bakc up again. This isn't really the optimal thing so is there some kind of solution for that?

//Steffer