Seeting up transmission web interface

Transmission is a popular bittorrent client that has a very useful web interface. Its ideal when run on an always-on machine such as a home server or an HTPC.

1. Install transmission: sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon

2. Make a start_transmision.sh file and add the following:

sudo service transmission-daemon stop
transmission-daemon -a 192.168.*.* -c ~/torrents-to-download/ --incomplete-dir /tmp/

-a is the list of IPs that are allowed to connect to the web interface
-c is a folder for placing torrents. Torrents placed here are automatically downloaded

3. chmod u+x start_transmision.sh and run

4. Check your IP by running ifconfig

5. Now any machine on the allowed list can connect to the web interface from a browser using the address: yourIP:9091