The
raspberry pi is a
surprisingly powerful and cost-efficient computing device. Yesterday I
put together this simple setup script to turn your new raspberry into a
mean green downloading machine. The only requirement is an existing
internet router and a working raspberry with SD-card.
The guys on the official raspberry site have some nice images for
downloading, but since we won’t be using the graphical UI, we can use a
the slim image put together by darkbasic on his site
linuxsystems.it.
Just follow his instructions to download, extract and install the image
to a compatible SD-card. A list of tested and compatible SD-cards is
available from the
official site.
While installing make sure to enable SSH-access by renaming the
boot-enable-ssh.rc boot.rc
Once your raspberry has booted, you need to find out its IP by looking at the router’s DHCP table. Just look for a device name
raspberry-pi.
Next just create a new text file by typing
vi setup.sh in
your terminal window while logged into the RP. Then just copy the script
provided with this blog post to your clipboard. Press “i” to go into
editing mode and paste the script with Ctrl/Cmd+v. Then save it with
ESC, : x. Execute the script by issuing
sh setup.sh.
As opposed to the default Debian image, the darkbasic image gives you
root access by default. When using another image, execute the script
with
sudo sh setup.sh.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Installs all components needed for a nice seedbox on your new raspberry pi.
# Base image: http://www.linuxsystems.it/2012/06/debian-wheezy-raspberry-pi-minimal-image/
# Prepared by manu (at) snapdragon.cc
echo "[+] Updating packages"
apt-get update ; apt-get -y upgrade
echo "[+] Installing Samba and Transmission packages"
apt-get -y install transmission-daemon samba avahi-daemon
echo "[+] Configuring Transmission"
service transmission-daemon stop
sed -i -re 's/(rpc-authentication-required\":\ )([a-z]+)*/\1false/g' /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
sed -i -re 's/(rpc-whitelist-enabled\":\ )([a-z]+)*/\1false/g' /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
sed -i -re 's/(download-dir\":\ )([a-z]+)*(.*)/\1\"\/srv\/media\",/g' /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
service transmission-daemon start
echo "[+] Setting up public Samba share"
mkdir /srv/media
chown debian-transmission /srv/media
echo "[public]
comment = Public Shares
browsable = yes
path = /srv/media
public = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes" >> /etc/samba/smb.conf
service samba restart
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Now just sit back and wait for all components to install. Depending
on the speed of your SD-card, this can take up to an hour. The script
will first update your package manager, then install the required
applications and dependencies and settings. If you’re using a different
image, you might need to adapt some package names.
If all went well, you should be able to access the transmission web interface via your Mac on the following URL:
http://raspberry-pi.local:9091. On Microsoft Windows, you can try
http://raspberry-pi:9091.
In case neither name resolution should work, just use the IP address,
you found out via your router before. The inteface should always be
available on
http://<raspberry pi IP>:9091.
On the transmission web interace, you can add and manage all your
(legal) torrent downloads. Depending on the size of your SD-card you
might need to delete old downloads from time to time.
To access your downloads, you can mount it via CIFS/SMB. On your Mac
go to the Finder and connect to a new network folder by pressing
CMD+k. Then type
smb://raspberry-pi.local, choose to connect as guest and you should see the right folder. On Windows you can enter
\\YOUR RASPBERRY IP\public in Windows Explorer. If you are a heavy Windows user, you can also enable WINS address resolution in smb.conf
If everything went well, you should now have a basic BitTorrent
server. In case something doesn’t work, just start over with a new image
and do the steps found in the setup script one by one. If your
downloads work OK, but you can’t access them there might be a
permissions issue. This is easily correctable by logging in doing a
chmod -R 777 /srv/media.
Please note that you can only use this setup in a trusted network,
because all user authentication and security mechanisms are disabled. If
you want to access your torrent server from the public internet, you
need to proxy it via a proper webserver, enable HTTPS and password
authentication.
Since the whole system is running on a standard Debian image, you could add all kinds of cool features like:
- adding torrents automatically with Flexget
- downloading from cyberlockers, like Rapidshare with PyLoad
- share files via HTTP with Apache and h5ai
Post taken from - http://blog.snapdragon.cc/raspberry-pi-as-bittorrent-server/
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