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Installing Samba:
[cc lang=”bash”]
apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
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Once there, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf as follows:

[cc lang=”bash”]
workgroup = [your_workgroup_name]

[SHARE-NAME]
comment=Samba Share
path=/PATH/TO/YOUR/SHARE
browseable=Yes
writeable=Yes
only guest=no
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public=no
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At last, setup the Samba password:

[cc lang=”bash”]
smbpasswd -a YOUR_USERNAME
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sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get install toilet figlet lolcat
toilet -F metal Lantean Box -w 200 -f shadow | lolcat

Let’s begin with the basics. We’ll need to upgrade the system to the latest, and update the apt-get database. Once ready, we’ll proceed with the transmission’s daemon + cli binaries, as follows:

[cc lang=”bash”]
sudo
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon transmission-remote-cli
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Authentication:
By default, transmission requires you to setup username / password. Since our goal is *not* to expose Transmission to the open internet (and we’ll only use it via SSH), we’ll simply neutralize any kind of authentication:

[cc lang=”bash”]
nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
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Once there, edit this snippet:

[cc lang=”bash”]
rpc-authentication-required: false
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Logging:
We want Transmission to keep an events log. Anything that goes wrong during setup… must be persisted, otherwise, debugging it will be a nightmare.

The only way i’ve found to set this up, is by means of the Daemon Service Descriptor:

[cc lang=”bash”]
nano /lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service
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Once there, you want to add the logfile’s path. Make sure that the file exists, and Transmission’s user has enough permissions to edit it:

[cc lang=”bash”]
OPTIONS=”–config-dir $CONFIG_DIR –logfile /var/log/transmission.log”
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Filesystem Permissions:

Transmission’s user is specified in the transmission-daemon.service descriptor (which is debian-transmission). So… you really wanna make sure whatever shared folder you end up using, belongs to Transmission’s group.

[cc lang=”bash”]
usermod -a -G debian-transmission YOUR_USER
chgrp debian-transmission /DOWNLOADS/PATH
chmod 770 /DOWNLOADS/PATH
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Magnets!

In order to begin downloading a magned, try the following:

[cc lang=”bash”]
transmission-remote-cli
(And press ‘A’)
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Restarting Stopped

Last tip: If you need to restart all of your downloads at once, this command becomes quite handy:

[cc lang=”bash”]
transmission-remote -t all -s
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Why: because i’m setting up my Raspberry as a private server, and i really don’t need the XWindow overhead!

How: As follows!

[cc lang=”bash”]
systemctl get-default
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Verify that the output is: graphical.target.
Now… type the following!

[cc lang=”bash”]
sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
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Ref. Here

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Update:

Simpler way? just run raspi-config and change the setting right there!