Before you begin messing around with a new home server it is important to understand a few things about how your home router operates.
Your router is typically your only device with a direct connection to the internet. All your other devices connect to the internet through the router. Webpages on the internet cant really tell [...]
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Transmission Web Interface
Transmission comes with a fantastic web interface built in. The web interface is sometimes referred to as Clutch, which was the name of the web interface project before it was included officially with Transmission.
While transmission-daemon is running on the DNS-323, you can access the web interface by:
http://<DNS-323 IP>:9091 or in my specific case [...]
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Installation of Transmission BitTorrent Client
From your desktop computer, visit http://www.transmissionbt.com/download.php. You are not looking for an official package; you are looking for the source code. Right click on the bz2 version and click ‘Copy Link Location’. SSH to your DNS-323 and using an unprivileged account, use wget to save the source code on the device (anywhere).
Example: wget http://mirrors.m0k.org/transmission/files/transmission-1.82.tar.bz2
Extract the source [...]
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By the end of this guide you will have
-A fully stable and remotely operable BitTorrent client on your DNS-323. I will show you how to setup 1) A remote web interface and 2) A Windows desktop application that is very similar to uTorrent that can remotely control and monitor your torrents.
-Have your DNS323 download torrent [...]
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EDIT #2: I have written an expanded and up to date (Jan 2010) guide on the setup of a DNS-323 with Transmission. This has been written as a series of posts and can be found http://blog.markstahler.ca/series/dns-323-ultimate-setup/
EDIT: I no longer use the rTorrent + wTorrent combination, there were fatal bugs in rTorrent which caused it to [...]
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