Feature Request: Virtual Users

Discussion of the Web Interface for Transmission, formerly known as Clutch. This applies to all version of Transmission
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schelm
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Joined: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:40 am

Feature Request: Virtual Users

Post by schelm »

Hi,
First: very nice webinterface for transmission :)

How about to add virtual users? so that u can have multiple Users which uses same transmission-daemon but just different download directories.

Another Possibility:
Every User has his own transmission-daemon (with TRANSMISSION_HOME its possible to run several transmission-daemons with one real user [the webserver user here]), so evry virt. user sees only his downloads. perhaps an admin user can see both :)

Would be very great :)
nillusius
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Re: Feature Request: Virtual Users

Post by nillusius »

Sorry to bump such an old thread, but I'm also interested in this feature :). Would love to have it included in one of the following versions!
Gimp
Web Interface Developer
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Location: BC, Canada

Re: Feature Request: Virtual Users

Post by Gimp »

Its simple enough to run multiple copies of transmission-daemon. The resource usage is basically nil. Just run each one on a different webui port.
nillusius
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Re: Feature Request: Virtual Users

Post by nillusius »

That's of course an option, however I'd like to users to be able to see what the others download (to avoid double downloads and such). All I actually want is that torrents of a specific user are downloaded to their directory (eg /download-dir/user/download) and a way to sort torrents on user. This might be a bit too specific usage to be added to the client though, if you give me some pointers on how to add it myself I'll try it myself.

Is there an easy way to experiment with the webclient code? Last time I tried changing something the whole thing stopped working, not knowing how to debug the code I simply gave up. I'm an experienced java (desktop apps) and php (web apps) coder, but don't have a lot of experience with ajax and jquery I'm afraid :(.
Onaes
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Re: Feature Request: Virtual Users

Post by Onaes »

The problem with running multiple daemons is bandwidth management - each doesn't know what the other is doing.

The ability to have everyone on a home network use one daemon would be excellent from a bandwidth management perspective.

--s.
bayxsonic
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Re: Feature Request: Virtual Users

Post by bayxsonic »

Onaes wrote:The problem with running multiple daemons is bandwidth management
Exactly.

I was looking for the same thing in the "Requests" section and I posted there my "solution": http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtop ... f=3&t=9977
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