Transmission is a set of lightweight BitTorrent clients (in GUI, CLI and daemon form). It is Ubuntu's default BitTorrent client since Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

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Accessing Plex and Transmission remotely

I have setup plex and transmission to be accessed through the webui. My question is how can I let friends access these features from an entirely separate location?
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transmission-daemon: error loading working config-file. User priveliges?

Transmission-daemon has worked perfectly on a small headless server for a long time. However, it currently gives me the following error: transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. ...
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How do I open port 51413 for Transmission?

Just moved to ubuntu on my macbook and spend whole day trying to open transmission port 51413. Already done: I have ufw but i opened ports there and tried without it - probably not the problem ...
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Can't SSH into server over internet while server is connected to VPN

So I have Transmission running on my Ubuntu 13.04 server that is connected to a VPN via OpenVPN. The problem is I want to be able to access the server over the internet, but it won't work while the ...
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A php script that I want it be run by Transmission client!

In transmission-gtk there is an option can run script: Edit > Preferences > Downloading > Call script when torrent is completed. Recently, I found this script that I do not know how to make it work ...
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Mr Transmission, please turn off the PC after all downloads are completed!

#!/bin/bash echo "password" | sudo -S halt I pointed this script to "Call script when torrent is completed" option under: Edit > Preferences > Downloading Problem: this script shut-downs the ...
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Why does Transmission report port as “closed”? [closed]

I've been doing some Torrenting, and I wanted the best performance, so I set my Torrent port to 65432, and port-forwarded that port on my router to my computer. Additionally, I checked the UPnP ...
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Transmission causes mount.ntfs use up to 100% of CPU

Today I tried to download a large file (12 Gib) and save it to a folder on an NTFS drive using Transmission bit-torrent client. When the download reached approximately 60-70% Transmission started ...
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Write Permission Error

I have transmission-deamon running and it's giving me the error Permission Denied: /mnt/RyNet/Downloads/the-torrent/some-file.ext So it cannot write files to the download directory: ryguy@MPU ...
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Launcher doesn't respond and acts oddly [closed]

I have recently downloaded the 12.04 Ubuntu version and decided to try using Ubuntu after hearing many good things about it. So far, I've been frustrated with the results. The Unity Launcher doesn't ...
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Can I get transmission to quit instead of minimize?

Transmission has this incredibly aggravating tendency to not stop when I click the exit button. Instead, it minimizes. When I click to exit, I want the program to cease immediately, but I can't ...
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installing Transmission Daemon (newer version) over existing Transmission Daemon (older version) on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

In relation to this thread How do I compile & install the newest version of Transmission? Managed to follow the mentioned thread (as well as other resources in the Internet) and make a successful ...
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How do I compile & install the newest version of Transmission?

I'm trying to install Transmission 2.51 on Ubuntu 10.04. Compiling the source goes fine, but I can't seem to get it to compile the GUI as well. This is the configure output: Configuration: ...
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Transmission - settings.json

I'm a totally noob (sorry) - i bought a Raspberry pi...and i have managed to install xbian, samba and bittorrent (transmission). All the fun showed up when i tried to upgrade the older version from ...
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Transmission causes internet to stop working

I’m getting the same problem has anyone fixed this. Running ubuntu 12.10 and same thing as above. Start computer internet works fine. start bittorent client then connection goes south after 5 to 10 ...
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Transmission causes internet to stop working - log off required to make it work again

After some time of downloading torrents via Transmission the internet connection stops working, causing both torrents and sites to not load. This only happens on my machine (meaning other ...
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What DC Clients are available?

I want to make a seedbox that will share on an DC server the files that have been completed. I created a php form to upload the torrent and using Transmission-daemon ubuntu server does all the work. ...
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Upstart script for a transmission-daemon executed as a normal user

I have done a script to start transmission-daemon as a normal user: start on filesystem stop on runlevel [!2345] respawn respawn limit 10 5 pre-start script test -x /usr/bin/transmission-daemon ...
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Transmission 1.93 is seeding without a tracker

Ubuntu 10.0,Transmission 1.93 is seeding without a tracker. How is this possible?
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Are there any known issues with Transmission 2.77 on Ubuntu 12.04?

The Transmission version in the official Ubuntu repositoSies for 12.04 is 2.51, which is buggy in my experience, especially with web interface. so I added the repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa and ...
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Transmission daemon: permission denied even if debian-transmission has root group

I've got something really strange. Transmission-daemon keeps telling me "Permission denied /home/transmission/downloads/.." (.. = name of torrent folder and files) I created this folder ...
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Wifi painfully slow in Quantal

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on the Gnome3 desktop environment. I have a Lenovo S10-2 netbook with the following specs: Intel® Atom™ CPU N280 @ 1.66GHz × 2 Ram: 993.4 MiB Graphics: unknown ...
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How to make Firefox open magnet-links in Transmission

I can't find out how to make Firefox open magnet-links in Transmission. There is no option to make it the standard program for magnet-links in its properties, and as I am not experienced with the ...
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How do I change the user Transmission runs under?

I installed Transmission through a PPA and the daemon starts on boot. I want to change the user that runs the daemon because I want the downloaded files to be under the same user as my XBMC ...
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Transmission web client: strange charasters in file names

I have nas: Operating system: Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1 Kernel and CPU: Linux 3.2.0-34-generic on x86_64 Transmission 2.51 (13280) On all operating system (browser Chrome) web client Transmission in ...
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“Error: no data found! Ensure your drives are connected” when trying to make a torrent in Transmission

I just finished Debianizing a game (with the author's permission, or course,) and was just about to make it into a .torrent (I don't want to waste 31 MB of my precious Drobpox space on a bunch of ...
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ln permission denied

So I've set up transmission (the torrent app) to run a script on my torrent to automagically move my torrents and create symlinks to them. This is the script: #!/bin/bash curl -d ...
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Unable to save resume file. Too many open files

Every time i am getting Unable to save resume file. Too many open files error in transmission application. I got solution in this post. sudo sh -c "echo fs.file-max=$(dc -e '2 20 ^ p') > ...
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Shutdown when download more than 2MB

Very strange problem with my Dell XPS M 1330. I am using Ubuntu 12.10, network hardware is: 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev ...
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Transmission-daemon keeps resetting

i have been trying to configure transmission-daemon so i can connect using the webui avaliable at http://server.ip-address:9091 , but i just get a message telling me that i should either disable the ...
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Transmission kills my connection (torrent) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Transmission slows down internet connection I have a simple one today, I've been using transmission for a couple months now and since the beginning I noticed that if I ...
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Transmission BitTorrent client does not start [closed]

I am usind Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome-fallback. I love this little gem and used to use it extensively. Today, while I have several download in process, Transmission has stopped responding when I click ...
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Low upload speed of transmission but high on deluge

I created a torrent from Transmission in ubuntu 12.10 x64 from my laptop connected to a router via wifi. Same router is connected to a Desktop with windows xp and utorrent client. When i seeded from ...
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How can I disable transmission-daemon autostart

I tried rcconf and update-rc.d but transmission-daemon starting each time i boot the system.
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Is there a way to schedule the downloads in Transmission BitTorrent Client?

I have added a couple of torrent files to Transmission BitTorrent Client to be downloaded. I have a limited internet speed so I can't start all of them in a single go; so I have to peep in after ...
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Deluge torrent client says “no incoming connection”

Deluge is not connecting in my Ubuntu 12.04, whereas Transmission is. I have no firewall restriction/forward configured as far as I know, the port deluge uses (60233) is successfully tested by ...
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Transmission won't connect to any peers

After my upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 12.10, Transmission won't download from an anti-leech tracker (ALT). If I download a torrent via Magnet Link, everything works fine, but if I download from ...
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How do I get https web interface in Transmission?

I use Transmission's Web Interface, but I don't feel comfortable using it remotely (outside of LAN, e.g., from a friend's house) due to the lack of any sort of encryption. The idea of broadcasting my ...
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Transmission won't work on port 80

I was trying to use Transmission's Web Interface, and it worked perfectly. I could access it via http://localhost:8080/transmission/web/, I could use my local IP, I could use 127.0.0.1, I could, after ...
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Transmission Remote GUI setup hangs on DHT attempting to bootstrap

I'm trying to install transmission on Ubuntu Server 12.04. But I'm running into few issues, The main one now is that the setup seems to hang on: DHT Attempting bootstrap from dht.transmissionbt.com ...
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How do I download torrents?

What is a Torrent, and how do I use them on Ubuntu?
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Permission denied when downloading with transmission deamon

I installed xubuntu and transmission daemon, set the download path to my home/user/TV shows, and get a permission denied when trying to download torrents through transmission. I tried chmod -r 777 on ...
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Downgrading Transmission

I am registered in one of the private torrent sites and according to the site rules, some torrent clients are allowed, others are banned. They happen to recommend the torrent client Transmission ...
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transmission core dump very often on ubuntu 12.04 [closed]

I just ran transmission for the first time on 12.04. It is core dumping about every 10 minutes with a segmentation fault. The only message I am getting is: Segmentation fault (core dumped) exit ...
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WebSeeding Transmssion Client

I want to make a torrent file with web seed enable. Where is can find this setting in Transmission bitorrent client.
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How can I insure transmission traffic uses a VPN?

I'd like to insure that transmission only sends/receives traffic when the server it runs on is connected to a VPN. I found this question which is similar but I don't want to force all traffic ...
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How to have transmission in ubuntu 12.04 proxy the tracker requests? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Transmission tracker and/or torrent traffic through proxy I cant find any settings in transmission preferences to proxy the tracker requests.I am behind a firewall and ...
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Can I share the two lists of downloads with Transmission and Transmission-daemon?

I just discovered transmission-daemon so I installed it to use RPC calls. I successfully added a torrent, but when I launched Transmission in Unity, there was no trace of the download. I discovered ...
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Transmission shutdown script for multiple torrents?

I have written a shutdown script for transmission. Transmission calls the script after a torrent download finishes. The script runs perfectly on my machine (Ubuntu 11.04 & 12.04). #!/bin/bash ...

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