Transmission

Hi,

I have searched but can't find the answer...probably because it is so basic So sorry for that.

I have set up transmission on my computer running ubuntu. I have a NAS that I use (ReadyNas Ultra 2). I can move files to NAS fine.

I want Tranmission to download files directly to the NAS but I can't browse anywhere except local to computer when I try to do this from Transmission menu. Am I missing something really basic?

I have installed Tranmssion on the NAS too and that works OK at first, but then stops the downloads after a while as the latest version on NAS has a memory leak, so can;t use that either.

Thanks

silvercue wrote:Hi,

I have searched but can't find the answer...probably because it is so basic So sorry for that.

I have set up transmission on my computer running ubuntu. I have a NAS that I use (ReadyNas Ultra 2). I can move files to NAS fine.

I want Tranmission to download files directly to the NAS but I can't browse anywhere except local to computer when I try to do this from Transmission menu. Am I missing something really basic?

I have installed Tranmssion on the NAS too and that works OK at first, but then stops the downloads after a while as the latest version on NAS has a memory leak, so can;t use that either.

Thanks

Silvercue, have you been able to find an answer to this somewhere else?
I too have been searching for a way to directly save to a network hard drive.
Let me know PM or reply if you found a way.

Thank You.

silvercue wrote:I want Tranmission to download files directly to the NAS but I can't browse anywhere except local

You have to mount the NAS directory or directories you want to use.

On Linux/Mac/Unix you usually configure and use NFS to do that; on Windows CIFS (a.k.a. Samba) is the usual way, and all NASes have it already configured, unlike NFS which some NASes have, some don't even have the required kernel module.

Linux/Mac/Unix could also use CIFS, no problem. Again you'll have to configure it to use it (maybe from the start, installing it).

silvercue wrote:I have installed Tranmssion on the NAS too and that works ... as the latest version on NAS has a memory leak

Latest version of Transmission? or something else, or the Transmission port to your NAS? The latest version doesn't have a leak, I been running it on a NAS for the 7 weeks it has been out.

On NASes transmission-daemon is known to stop (as in freeze: process running but not doing anything, completely unresponsive) and the fix is described in the FAQ: Problems running on a NAS.

I think it's a bad idea to download to a remote machine even over a 1Gb line. File access is random and the performance of doing this over a network will be bad. Download locally and then upload when it's done using a script.