Transmission

Same thing was happening to me. Different OS's but same behavior: If I copied a torrent to the watch directory using the machine where Transmission was running, it worked. If I copied a file to that directory from another machine, it didn't work. My solution was to implement the shell script via ...

I gave up on plan A. Samba's not installed on that machine (and I hate setting that up), every share on my network is on my NAS box, I'm lazy, whatever. I moved on to plan B.

Lakrigg,
Thanks a ton for the script. That got me going.

I made a few changes:
- I don't run transmission-daemon on the ...

Rolcol, I think you may be onto something. The folder being watched is on a NAS. Also, I happened to be logged into the machine that's running Transmission the other day and I dropped a torrent file into that folder while I was on that machine. Transmission picked those up within a couple seconds ...

Sorry if this has already been addressed. I searched this and several other forums and found "similar" posts but nothing quite like this.

My installation is on Ubuntu 9.10
I am running transmission-daemon 2.12 installed from "http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ppa/ubuntu karmic main" (also ...