WD my cloud torrents

Please note: WD does not support installing 3rd party apps on the WD My Cloud. If you do, you do so at your own risk, and doing so can cause the UI and other things to break on Firmware Version 4.0.   Bill_S

Here's another simple to follow guide. Just copy and paste the lines in the code boxes and you will have Transmission running in no time

This type of modification is done at your own risk and will void the warranty of the drive

UPDATED 11-10-13 Added an optional but recommened option to the bottom of the guide to allow you to move your .torrent files from the OS volume to your DataVolume for easy access and so they don't eat up space on the OS volume

Tools needed: PuTTY (Windows) Terminal (Mac)

SSH Enabled

Username: root

Password: welc0me

Backup your sources.list

cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak

Add the sid repo to sources.list

echo deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Update the sid packages list

apt-get update

Install Transmission - When asked to continue the installation type y and hit enter

apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon

 Stop Transmission so you can edit the settings.json file

/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop

Set Transmission to run as ROOT (Optional)

sed -i 's/USER=debian-transmission/USER=root /g' /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon

Disable the dashboard login

sed -i 's/"rpc-authentication-required": true,/"rpc-authentication-required": false,/g' /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Disable the RPC whitelist so you can access the Transmission GUI

sed -i 's/"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,/"rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,/g' /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Move back your original sources.list

mv -f /etc/apt/sources.list.bak /etc/apt/sources.list

Start Transmission

/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start

Login to the Transmission GUI

your mycloud ip or network name:9091

Click the wrench icon on the bottom left

In the Download To box enter /DataVolume/shares/Public/Transmission or any share on your MyCloud

If you wish to make further modifications to the settings.json make sure you stop Transmission first

/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop

Then to edit settings to your liking using nano (Cursor around to make changes)

nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

To Save the changes

Hit Control and o

Hit enter

Hit control and x

Then to start Transmission again

/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start

OPTIONAL but recommended

For those wishing to have access to the actual .torrent files easily from the DataVolume

Create a folder called torrents in your Public folder

SSH in and move any Torrents you currently have in /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/torrents to your computer

SSH in and issue

rmdir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/torrents

ln -s /DataVolume/shares/Public/torrents /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/torrents

Your torrents will now be stored in /Public/torrents for ease of access and won't take up space on the OS volume

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