Comments on: OpenWrt with Transmission, Samba and vsftpd

By: Kea

Kea — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:54:54 +0000

Hi, nice tutorial. Is it possible to use samba to transfer files over WiFi using two router boards that run Openwrt?

By: Cosmin

Cosmin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:58:57 +0000

Hello, great tutorial,
I compiled everything and got the folowing in /var/tmp/backfire/bin/ar71xx

-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 695 Dec 19 04:32 md5sums
-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 9.0M Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-rootfs.tar.gz
-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 13M Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-root.jffs2-128k
-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 12M Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-root.jffs2-64k
-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 7.2M Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-root.squashfs
-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 7.1M Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-root.squashfs-4k
-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 1.2M Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-uImage-gzip.bin
-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 849K Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-uImage-lzma.bin
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 cosmin cosmin 2.6M Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-vmlinux.bin
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 cosmin cosmin 2.7M Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-vmlinux.elf
-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 1.2M Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-vmlinux.gz
-rw-r–r–. 1 cosmin cosmin 896K Dec 19 04:32 openwrt-ar71xx-vmlinux.lzma
drwxr-xr-x. 2 cosmin cosmin 12K Dec 19 04:32 packages

which is the bin to write to the router?
I don`t have /var/tmp/backfire/bin/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-tl-wr1043nd-v1-squashfs-factory.bin

regards,
Cosmin

By: Csarlee

Csarlee — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:42:03 +0000

Very good stuff! Thanks!

By: massayoshi

massayoshi — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:49:21 +0000

Oh and I forgot. Instead of sending me an email when the torrent is done, I will tweet me. That should be fun.

By: massayoshi

massayoshi — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:46:24 +0000

@Petr Ruzicka Yeah I see what you mean. I was reading that watch_dir needs inotify enabled in kernel. Maybe that's what's wrong. But since I have no idea how to compile a new kernel, I'll leave it that way. Two things that aren't exactly what I wanted is I can get samba to work. It always gives an user error when I try to connect and the web interface for transmission takes a lot of time to load even though I know the daemon is running. Anyway, I'll keep trying.

By: Petr Ruzicka

Petr Ruzicka — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:34:45 +0000

Hello.
Honestly I was also thinking about uploading torrents to the “watch” directory which will cause transmission to download it automatically.
There are two options in OpenWRT (watch_dir_enabled and watch_dir), which enable this feature, but when I tried it had no luck with it…
If you have working router – then it’s better not to touch it if it’s working…

By: massayoshi

massayoshi — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:29:48 +0000

what about a way to upload or send a torrent file when not at home?
great article, I just bought the same router and I was already running everything but I think I’m gonna replace everything with your file.

thanks!