Networked Media Tank

(03-31-2009 12:02 PM)ricardo.seromenho Wrote: [ -> ]I will format my hard drive and update top the latest firmware. And install latest transmission from CSI.
It should work like your right ?

Donno, for some it works for some doesn't.
That seems to be the case for many other projects here as well, especially the projects which cause high strain on the NMT like download applications.
Could be a thermal issue, combination of hardware, I don't know.
Hope it works for you, if it doesn't: too bad.

I dont know how come high-speed could be the issue; my DSL speed is 512kbps; so that translates to 64 KB/sec! In my case, I suspect a particular torrent - after which I started downloading and the 'crashing scenario' happened both in cTorrent and Transmission.

I will test today in cTorrent - one by one so that the load is less.

There is a very relevant bug here.

(03-31-2009 05:03 AM)gtdaqua Wrote: [ -> ]Depends upon the number of torrents you are downloading. More downloads/uploads, more CPU usage.

Thanks for the response, but I am only downloading one torrent and I'll be lucky to maintain anything up to 25 Kb/s, usually it will be under 10 kb/s.

Did you try starting from a clean .transmission folder?
Perhaps you can delete every file and folder except settings.json after stopping transmission (and waiting a long time, couple of minutes).
Modify settings.json file in the .transmission folder with an unix line ending compatible editor and paste the replace all lines with only the following.

And start transmission again.
Regarding that bug report on transmissionbt site: I am tracking that as well. Having hopes that more people will have a stable transmission when that bug is fixed.

Hi again. Definitely i'm not happy with Transmission 1.51-1 behaviuor and my kaiboer200..i want to uninstall this and return to BTPD. Which is the better procedure? Reinstalling NMT apps i return to Transmission 1.22....and then? should i install BTPD 0.15?... I'd want get a clean kaiboer....

In other way...what happen if i install 0.15-13 BTPD now.....(on the actual last firm and Transimission 1.51-1)? Two clients will operative...? better reinstall apps and then install 0.15-3 btpd?

Hi all.

I'm running Transmission with nmt account instead of root account, in the same way as pheek describes for amule: http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...#pid168451

I edited the file /mnt/syb8634/server/clutch, changing the line

Quote:/mnt/syb8634/bin/transmission-daemon -g /share/.transmission -T -w /share/Download

to

Quote:su -pm -c "/mnt/syb8634/bin/transmission-daemon -g /share/.transmission -T -w /share/Download" nmt

It works fine and i can connect via Transmission remote GUI and Clutch web interface

Running p2p clients without root account is really important to me because i use my NMT as backup resource. Could you consider to add this feature to next release of Transmission?

Regards.

I have used cTorrent only with two torrents (I removed the problematic torrent) and the nmt is stable for 12 hours now. I am running the latest firmware and nmt apps on hdx 1000 (with the built-in transmission version and not 1.4/5x)

I will leave it for another 8 hours or so to run, and then try transmission again.

(03-31-2009 10:48 PM)alzuaak12 Wrote: [ -> ]Hi again. Definitely i'm not happy with Transmission 1.51-1 behaviuor and my kaiboer200..i want to uninstall this and return to BTPD. Which is the better procedure? Reinstalling NMT apps i return to Transmission 1.22....and then? should i install BTPD 0.15?... I'd want get a clean kaiboer....

In other way...what happen if i install 0.15-13 BTPD now.....(on the actual last firm and Transimission 1.51-1)? Two clients will operative...? better reinstall apps and then install 0.15-3 btpd?

0.15-13 BTPD has some stability issues - if you restart after installing, the torrent service will hang and show a 'starting' status. That will disable all other torrent services too including Transmission and cTorrent. So wait for a fix on the dedicated BTPD thread.

Reinstall the firmware. Then reinstall the NMT apps. On my HDX 1000, BTPD is no longer installed as default. Only Transmission 1.2x(not sure of version) is supported. You can use cTorrent - its really light weight - but with the problem of hash checking every time a torrent is started fresh.

(04-01-2009 08:43 AM)gtdaqua Wrote: [ -> ]0.15-13 BTPD has some stability issues - if you restart after installing, the torrent service will hang and show a 'starting' status. That will disable all other torrent services too including Transmission and cTorrent. So wait for a fix on the dedicated BTPD thread.

That one was already fixed, and mentioned in the BTPD thread.
It was a installation problem of BTPD. To fix it: install tranmission (or revert back to originial nmt apps) and after that intstall btpd again.

(04-01-2009 12:10 AM)empatico Wrote: [ -> ]Hi all.
Running p2p clients without root account is really important to me because i use my NMT as backup resource. Could you consider to add this feature to next release of Transmission?

Sadly lots of other (default) apps also run in root mode. The philosophy of NMT is that this not a server just a media box and thus not setup to be secure in all situations.
But I'll add this to the next release, if it doesn't have any side effects though.

(04-01-2009 10:09 AM)Ger Teunis Wrote: [ -> ]Sadly lots of other (default) apps also run in root mode.

I know, but only the p2p clients are accessible from wan, at least for me, therefore only the p2p clients are vulnerable to an attack of zero day or stuff.

(04-01-2009 10:09 AM)Ger Teunis Wrote: [ -> ]The philosophy of NMT is that this not a server just a media box and thus not setup to be secure in all situations.

I don't know why a media box shouldn't be secure in barely all situations. The only system that uses root account for all the stuff it's microsoft windows, and we know the consequences of doing that, not only in security also in stability and reliability.

(04-01-2009 10:09 AM)Ger Teunis Wrote: [ -> ]But I'll add this to the next release, if it doesn't have any side effects though.

I agree with that. I'm testing right now, i'm downloading a lot of torrents running Transmission with nmt account instead of root account.

Regards.

(04-01-2009 11:11 AM)empatico Wrote: [ -> ]I don't know why a media box shouldn't be secure in barely all situations. The only system that uses root account for all the stuff it's microsoft windows, and we know the consequences of doing that, not only in security also in stability and reliability.

You can't compare a windows desktop computer with an media box in my opinion. It is not meant for critical or secure file storage, just for media files.
Even your solution isn't secure as well, running in NMT user will not prevent them from stealing your information. All files stored on your media partition (/dev/hda3) are by default owned by nmt user as well as some parts on the /dev/hda1 (nmt apps) partition.

While we configure the complete system to be very secure while the end-user doesn't change the default username (nmt) and passwords (1234) for almost all services on the box. Most 'hacks' are not by using technical exploits but due to bad configured systems.

It's all a matter of perspective More security is always nice to have of course, it's at least the right direction. I'll add the changed: it will definitely not hurt security.

can someone show their "settings.json" file that they have tweaked and has proven stable for the 1.51-1 version?

(04-01-2009 02:49 AM)gtdaqua Wrote: [ -> ]I have used cTorrent only with two torrents (I removed the problematic torrent) and the nmt is stable for 12 hours now. I am running the latest firmware and nmt apps on hdx 1000 (with the built-in transmission version and not 1.4/5x)

I will leave it for another 8 hours or so to run, and then try transmission again.

cTorrent now stable for more than 24 hours now and Transmission 1.51-1 is seeding 5 torrents (3x1gb and 2x8gb) for more than 9 hours now. I am now quite positive the crash could be because of that particular bad torrent.

Hi,

I tried installing Transmission and it worked fine... not sure how long of continous download. I have not tried it yet.
Anyway, when I restart the PH, the transmission will not run. how can I make it auto start when PH starts?

Thanks