Remote UI: I don't get it!

[deckard3001]

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[rb07]

Can anyone provide a link to a web UI guide? I've looked at the wiki and googled around with no joy.

Specifically, I would like to have transmission running on my headless desktop and control it from my laptop.

Didn't http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/HeadlessUsage help?

There's nothing special about the Web client, so http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/WebInterface is pretty thin, you just connect to it and see.

BTW, "headless desktop" is a contradiction

[deckard3001]

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[Jordan]

deckard3001: what questions should the wiki have been answering, but didn't?

[deckard3001]

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[Jordan]

Oh nice! I didn't know that article existed... I'll link to it from our wiki.

[edit] ...hm, maybe I won't. That article is out-of-date; you don't need to install Clutch separately anymore... it's built into Transmission now.

[djbon2112]

I'm looking for a little help in this area too.

I downloaded and compiled the 1.72 source on my Debian Lenny machine, but it won't work! The /home/transmission folder for the user is empty, and trying to start the daemon does nothing:

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localadmin@S01V04-Ophion:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start
localadmin@S01V04-Ophion:~$ 

I followed the HeadlessUsage page to the letter. Accessing the page (in my case, http://172.22.0.204:9091/transmission/web/) gives me a "Page Load Error". Any suggestions would be helpful.

[rb07]

I downloaded and compiled the 1.72 source on my Debian Lenny machine, but it won't work! The /home/transmission folder for the user is empty, and trying to start the daemon does nothing:

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localadmin@S01V04-Ophion:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start
localadmin@S01V04-Ophion:~$ 

I followed the HeadlessUsage page to the letter. Accessing the page (in my case, http://172.22.0.204:9091/transmission/web/) gives me a "Page Load Error". Any suggestions would be helpful.

Try one issue at a time:

• Starting the daemon... what do you mean exactly by "does nothing"? It doesn't show an [OK] or [FAILED]? The daemon runs in the background, try looking for the process, i.e. 'pgrep -l trans';
• /home/transmission... I assume your init.d script starts the daemon as user 'transmission', then look for all folders under its home, i.e. using 'ls -al' not just 'ls', I think recent versions use $HOME/.config/transmission;
• What browser did you use? Not all are supported, and that "Page Load Error" looks suspicious. If the daemon doesn't respond you get a time out, if you don't have access you get an error, but I've never seen a "Page Load Error".

[djbon2112]

Sorry about the multiple issues.

When I start it I get no output, like I showed. I compiled from source using default options (disabled gtk though), and used the default script on the headless page, including creating the user "transmission". The command you suggested returns nothing.

There's nothing at all in the home folder for "transmission" except the default stuff:

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localadmin@S01V04-Ophion:/home/transmission$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 transmission transmission 4096 Jun 22 19:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root         root         4096 Jun 22 19:53 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 transmission transmission  220 Jun 22 19:53 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 transmission transmission 3116 Jun 22 19:53 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 transmission transmission  675 Jun 22 19:53 .profile

And, since the daemon isn't running, there's no webui, so my second issue is kinda moot :p

[rb07]

Next step is to run the daemon by hand:

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sudo -u transmission "transmission-daemon -f"

(or something similar, I don't remember the sudo syntax).

[djbon2112]

Nothing. Running the command as stated gives:

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localadmin@S01V04-Ophion:/etc/init.d$ sudo -u transmission '/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon -f'
sudo: /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon -f: command not found

So I tried it just as normal sudo:

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localadmin@S01V04-Ophion:/etc/init.d$ sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon -f
localadmin@S01V04-Ophion:/etc/init.d$ 

Nothing again.

If I su as transmission, still nothing:

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localadmin@S01V04-Ophion:/etc/init.d$ su transmission
Password: 
transmission@S01V04-Ophion:/etc/init.d$ ./transmission-daemon -f
transmission@S01V04-Ophion:/etc/init.d$ 

[rb07]

I never said run the init.d script, I said run transmission-daemon (if in your system they are named the same, that's unusual).

[djbon2112]

Well, for whatever reason it seems my install was corrupted, since "transmission-daemon" as an actual program did not exist! I reextracted the source and recompiled from scratch, and I can start the daemon. Thanks!