The problem is with the logged in users at the server itself. You can’t be logged into the server through terminal services as a new user when you add the torrents.

It won’t let me put the link in my post…

“Log off (Don’t simply disconnect) all users on the server.

Then go Start -=> Run -=> mstsc /console

And then log in.

When you remote desktop into a windows server version without /console it creates a NEW user session. You can see this when you open the Users tab on the Task Manager in the remote session. You’ll see your username twice. This also means a second session of µtorrent was started which will fail to listen on the utorrent port (check the logger tab of µtorrent) because the original µtorrent session is listening there. Which means the webui still connects to the first µtorrent session while your remote desktop session is looking at the the second µtorrent session.”

-If i log into \\Server\Torrents from my PC with my PC account and save a torrent file, the file will not be auto-loaded and will not appear in webUI
-If I log into \\Server\Torrents from the PC with the user account that I am using to run uTorrent (ex: “WHS”) the torrent file WILL auto load then appear in webUI

is there anyway to make uTorrent open torrent files that were not created by “WHS” ?

Torrents downloading fine but unless I manually add them in webUI or WHS console they dont appear in either of those.

How to fix this?

I’m new to WHS and was wondering what all the fuss was about. But I can certainly see the benefits of it now.

1) Download .torrent
2) Copy .torrent to /Public/Torrents

From there it’s automatically loaded into uTorrent for downloading/uploading.

But for some reason not all the active torrents are showing up in the WebUI or in the uTorrent add-in. But when I remote desktop into the server and open up uTorrent all the torrents are there.

Any ideas?

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=45325

The old link needs to be updated.

Philip,
Everything works great now. Excellent guidance! Thanks once again

mvh Björn

Instead just make the torrent user member of “users” and give it NTFS modify security permissions to:

c:\program files\utorrent
d:\downloads (or whatever your download folder is called)
folder where .torrent files are located.
folder where incomplete files are located.

Do you found same problem?

Everything works great now. The only thing that it took me a while to figure out was that if I have uTorrent installed as the WHS service account and also under a user only the torrents downloaded via the WHS account showup in the GUI or the Add-In. Excellent guide once again.!!!

I have tried to download the utorrent msi file via the links that you refer to… but unfortunately none of the links works… Do you have a sulution for this??

Many thanks

Your quide was the clearest I have found, thanks a bunch. I only have a few questions which I am not sure how to handle. I completed your setup to the letter and used the exact suggestions you had in the examples except for the passwords and my server IP and port number. The only problem is that the consule interface does not work, and neither does the webGUI. When I use either of them the show absolutely no downloads even though one is running in an RDC session.

I used the following format in the uTorrent Add-In under settings.

http://192.168.1.103:11098/gui/

Which maps to my server internally and to the port. When I test I get a green bar so that should be fine, and when I RDC to the server as either the WHS or my user account the port comes back as open during the uTorrent installation. That leads to my next question. Should I intall uTorrent under the WHS, Admin or my user account and which is actually running when I close the console or RDC? To be safe I installed the program under them all, but only tested it under my user account. In the WebUI in the Add-In do I use this IP or my phantom IP for the server from TZO?

Is it because I need to do the RDC with the WHS user, or should I use the Administrator or my user account? I am a little lost here.

If you create your own share folder independent of the console via Server 2003 network it should work or you have to burn an account in the WHS console so that every time the system reboots the permissions are set properly. Kind of a pain in the butt…I dont understand why WHS needs to reset permission every time it reboots, seems a little excessive to me.

That being said, the issue of using administrator was brought up earlier on this thread. I got a home server a couple of days ago and was tinkering with getting it to run on a non “Administrator” account and I figured it out.

See link below for a brief overview on how to do it

Its probably already common knowledge but I’ll post anyways.

http://www.wegotserved.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=337&st=0

Sorry about that. Yes it workt. Thank you

Do you know if by turning on the server to start utorrent with out doing anything.

Thank you

But no one works. Do you have it? Do you have any ide from were i can find it. Need help, please

/ Philip

uTorrent is started as a service on the WHS box with the “WHS” account login details

TIQA

Tim.

Thx
Louis

To get this on the WHS you could do this on the client:

Type this in BAT script ( ex WHSTorrent.bat ):
@copy %1 \\your server name\torrent folder\

Associate the filetype .torrent with the script, in the example it is WHSTorrent.bat.

If your browser is configured to open .torrent files automatically it should now be copied to your server and as utorrent is monitoring the folder it starts to download.

I bet you could do this in a better way or maybe in a another scriptinglanguage. I’m just a novice at scripting.

WebUI works fine in IE 7.0. :-)