FreeNAS server has a very light and fast torrent downloader called Transmission, it’s multiplatform and opensource; it came with daemon version and you can find more info on Transmission web site. You can find many addons for manage Trasmission, and I found Trasmission Remote very nice, it’s a .NET app that seems like uTorrent, my [...]
FreeNAS and Transmission with DHT
No way, FreeNAS with Trasmission is one of the best things you can use to build a network data storage …my netdisk… with best torrent software, Transmission. Some things to know, FreeNAS 0.7RC1 (FreeNAS-i386-embedded-0.7RC1.4735.img) contain an old version of Transmission-daemon without DHT and it’s useless, you are cut out with nowdays trackers, so I suggest [...]
How to Configure all FreeNAS BitTorrent parameters
If you want configure FreeNAS torrent daemon you have to access with an ssh session, so enable Secure Shell and Permi root login: Now open your favourite ssh console software, I use Putty: Connect and login as root and password you WebGUI admin password: Locate config file in /home/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/: and edit settings.json, I prefer to [...]
FreeNAS for NAS with BitTorrent for Torrents, all in one, part 2 of 2
In the first post we have to see how setp a FreeNAS server, here we see how to enable correctly BitTorrent in FreeNAS. Open WebGUI of FreeNAS usually, http://freenas user is admin and default password is freenas Go to Services/BitTorrent, write down Peer Port number and set a Download Directory browsing in your FreeNAS server. [...]
FreeNAS for NAS with BitTorrent for Torrents, all in one, part 1 of 2
I was tired of keep always on my personal PC each time I need to download a big torrent file, and I was tired to do backups of my photo and personal and work data so, let’s go to see how setup a FreeNAS server. You need: An old PC with CPU and RAM, an [...]