Transmission help on Buffalo linkstation

[ludd]

I've spent 4-5 hours searching for answers to this problem, and since one of my initial questions were answered here, I hope someone might help me with this issue aswell.

I have successfully installed transmission on my linkstation NAS, LS-VL 2TB. I used the recipie on this site: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Transmission to do it via ipkg.

However, points 5-7 I do not understand.

5) (recommend to create and login as a non-root user, root user might work too)
6) $ mkdir -p $HOME/Downloads
7) $ /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -w $HOME/Downloads
$ pidof transmission-daemon # should return 3 process ID's

Point 5, recommend to create and login as a non-root user. It says so a lot of places, but not how to, and as a total noob I do not get how to do it.

Point 6 and 7, I understand that I'm creating and using the folder root/downloads. I have a shared folder on my nas witch I want to make as the download folder, but I do not know the address to it. Having root/downloads as the download folder is a problem, as I cannot access it from finder or windows explorer. My base folders on the nas is "Private", "Shared", and the standard "info". I would like to set the download folder under "Shared"

Thank you.

[maki.ato]

The receipt assumes some basic linux skills.
You should read about adduser. Try "adduser --help" from the command line, and also here: http://linux.die.net/man/8/adduser
In addition, you'll probably run into all sorts of permission problems. Lean about it here: http://linux.die.net/Intro-Linux/sect_03_04.html