[TUTORIAL] Native Transmission on asuswrt routers through optware

[TeHashX]

I don't have this issue using disks with or without label, are you using fat32 or ntfs file system?

 

[mmmmmm]

I don't have this issue using disks with or without label, are you using fat32 or ntfs file system?

Yes, it is NTFS. Is this it?

 

[TeHashX]

Yes, try with a ext3 disk or format this one.

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[mmmmmm]

Yes, try with a ext3 disk or format this one.

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Thank you very much for your answer.
The thing is that, from time to time, I still need to use the USB HDD on my windows machine (Win7).

Is there a way to delay the start of the transmission daemon untill the USB drive is accessible?

There is another issue related to this:
- the drive has 2 partitions (100GB, 900GB)
- I've noticed that some times the partitions are mounted in different order than the previous time they were mounted. Is there a way to manually specify the order(name) of the mount points for each partitions in order to preserve the paths?

Thank you.

 

[AusTempest]

Problem with download location

Hi Guys,

I'm having trouble with the download location of files. I've gone through and installed it properly (i hope) and i can access the Transmission GUI and via nano in putty. My "mount" command shows:

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
devfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /jffs type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /tmp/mnt/OPTWARE type ext3 (rw,nodev,noatime,data=ordered)

Yes, i named the HDD via "Ext2 volume manager" on my windows machine as "OPTWARE"

I plugged the HDD into the top USB port on the N66U so i have no idea why its sdb1 and not sda1 (its a 3TB seagate formatteed with a single ext3 partition, if that helps)

After trying a torrent, it stopped at 9Mb completed and said there was no space on the disk, when i had the download dir as "/tmp/mnt/sda1/transmission". Why did it download anything if there was no HDD plugged into sda1? but anyway...

I changed the download dir and the incomplete dir to "/tmp/mnt/sdb1/Transmission", and downloaded a 1MB test torrent, it seemed to work but did not show up on the HDD (i checked via windows network mounted drive of "//rt-n66u/optware", and via my android phone file manager. But could not find it anywhere.

I've also tried "/tmp/mnt/sdb1/optware/Transmission", but still nothing.

Where should i set my download location to?

 

[wanttotree]

had this before and fixed it

Hi Guys,

I'm having trouble with the download location of files. I've gone through and installed it properly (i hope) and i can access the Transmission GUI and via nano in putty. My "mount" command shows:

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
devfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /jffs type jffs2 (rw,noatime)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /tmp/mnt/OPTWARE type ext3 (rw,nodev,noatime,data=ordered)

Yes, i named the HDD via "Ext2 volume manager" on my windows machine as "OPTWARE"

I plugged the HDD into the top USB port on the N66U so i have no idea why its sdb1 and not sda1 (its a 3TB seagate formatteed with a single ext3 partition, if that helps)

After trying a torrent, it stopped at 9Mb completed and said there was no space on the disk, when i had the download dir as "/tmp/mnt/sda1/transmission". Why did it download anything if there was no HDD plugged into sda1? but anyway...

I changed the download dir and the incomplete dir to "/tmp/mnt/sdb1/Transmission", and downloaded a 1MB test torrent, it seemed to work but did not show up on the HDD (i checked via windows network mounted drive of "//rt-n66u/optware", and via my android phone file manager. But could not find it anywhere.

I've also tried "/tmp/mnt/sdb1/optware/Transmission", but still nothing.

Where should i set my download location to?

i went through this before. your directory should be tmp/mnt/optware/transmission instead. =) re-add the torrent once change is made. resuming it wont fix.

 

[AusTempest]

i went through this before. your directory should be tmp/mnt/optware/transmission instead. =) re-add the torrent once change is made. resuming it wont fix.

I tried that as well, still nothing.

It doesn't even create a directory in the optware folder.

Should i be able to see it in a windows network mount of "//rt-n66U/optware/" ?

Edit: It must be saving it somewhere right? how can i browse the HDD? windows won't let me mount "//rt-n66U/", and i tried a bunch of ls and cd commands in putty but i couldn't find anything (not that i'm proficient in unix)

 

[wanttotree]

i understand that the 'optware' was your drive name right?
what i did before was, stop transmission daemon.
edit nano, change directory to tmp/mnt/(drive name)/transmission/downloads
add transmission folder and downloads manually through my computer
restart tranmission daemon
add new torrent.
viola!

 

[TeHashX]

Try again mount command and If is /dev/sdb1, remove label with:
# tune2fs /dev/sdb1 -L
# reboot
................
# mount
See how is mounted and change path in settings.json

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[AusTempest]

*facepalm*

I was looking through the log of the router and i saw this "Jan 15 22:47:32 transmission-daemon[12031]: Saved "/tmp/mnt/OPTWARE/asusware/etc/transmission-daemon/stats.json" (bencode.c:1731)"

Then it dawned on me "... could it be case sensitive?"

So i tried "/tmp/mnt/OPTWARE/transmission" and it worked straight away....

There goes 6 hours of my life.

Thanks for the help though guys.

 

[AusTempest]

Try again mount command and If is /dev/sdb1, remove label with:
# tune2fs /dev/sdb1 -L
# reboot
................
# mount
See how is mounted and change path in settings.json

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Quick question though, I cannot map "//rt-n66u/" in windows, but i can mount "//rt-n66u/OPTWARE/". If i removed the label, how would i access the HDD via windows?

 

[TeHashX]

Quick question though, I cannot map "//rt-n66u/" in windows, but i can mount "//rt-n66u/OPTWARE/". If i removed the label, how would i access the HDD via windows?

Linux is case sensitive.
Access with //rt-n66u/sda1

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[TeHashX]

Try again mount command and If is /dev/sdb1, remove label with:
# tune2fs /dev/sdb1 -L
# reboot
................
# mount
See how is mounted and change path in settings.json

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To remove label should add "" at the end:
# tune2fs /dev/sda1 -L ""
To change label:
# tune2fs /dev/sda1 -L "desired_label"

 

[AusTempest]

Yeah, I'll try that when I get home from work.

One thing I noticed last night though its that I can see my "videos" and "transmission" folder through windows but on my WD live box I can only see four folders called sda1, sda2, optware and OPTWARE each with the folders and data of the small test torrents I tried to download last night, but not the "videos" and "transmission" folders. So the on the hdd somewhere. How can I delete them?

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[AusTempest]

Try again mount command and If is /dev/sdb1, remove label with:
# tune2fs /dev/sdb1 -L
# reboot
................
# mount
See how is mounted and change path in settings.json

Sent from my HTC One S using Tapatalk 2

removed label and rebooted. the mount command showed "/dev/sda1 on /tmp/mnt/sda1 type ext3 (rw,nodev,noatime,data=ordered)"

changed download path to /tmp/mnt/sda1/transmission... works perfectly.

Thanks TeHashX

 

[ungureanub]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the tutorial. I followed it step by step and basically its working.
The only thing left is the access from WAN. I did exactly as presented, but with the firewall ON, I cannot access it.

If I run in telnet the:

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 9091 -j ACCEPT

then its working until the next reboot.
It looks like the script from the jffs is not executed.

I have installed merlin's firmware "RT-AC66U_3.0.0.4_266.23b" since I have the AC version of the router.

Any idea?

 

[TeHashX]

Your wan-start script is executable?
# chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/firewall-start

 

[ungureanub]

Already tried that but here is the response:

admin@RT-AC66U:/jffs/scripts# ls -l
-rwxrwxrwx    1 admin    root           195 Jan 19 14:12 firewall-start

 

[TeHashX]

It's ok, should work.
Do you have this lines in wan-start script? check with: nano /jffs/scripts/firewall-start

#!/bin/sh
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 9091 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 51413 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -p udp --destination-port 51413 -j ACCEPT

Try to open the 9091 port in virtual server

 

[ungureanub]

As in the tutorial, I have that in the "/jffs/scripts/firewall-start" not in the wan-start.

Should I have them in both?

I've tried doing the port forwarding, but I do not think you can forward a port to the router itself.

LE: Should I create a separate thread on the forum?