Weekend Project: How to organize downloads torrents on your home network
Tips Do It Yourself / / December 19, 2019
At home I have several computers, one of which is so old that other than to use it does not occur to me as a home server. The rest of the notebook and have the same problem - each family member swings from the network that it will come to mind, and often comes to mind is the same. The data is not synchronized between us, and it's beginning to tire. Using an old computer, a large disk storage, home wi-fi, utorrent and service Dropbox, I built a system of which I want to tell you.
Driving my decision looks (clickable) because, and this is how it works:
In a single wi-fi network standard N, in which all clients support it, so that there are no bottlenecks, lives with an old Mac mini connected to it via USB storage. In the installed mini programima utorrent, which is mounted in the scanning mode to predetermined folders appearance therein file with the extension .torrent, which she then "eats" and begins to download to a predetermined folder on store. Here's how to set it up:
The first tick is just responsible for the scan. The second starts ticking immediate download without question. The third is responsible for removing .torrent-file. I did not include it, since it is the presence of the saved file will ensure that no one in your family startanet downloading such a file, since the presence of this file will automatically mean that all have loaded.
The folder from which files utorrent takes a share drives across the Dropbox folder on all clients. Those. each computer simply stores .torrent-files locally, and they fly to the home server load by starting a new portion of the media data. with Dropbox decision was not chosen by chance (after all, it seems that the network folder will come) - so you can start downloading torrents home from work with the mobile Internet, with a cafe on the other side of the earth - all very flexibly.
Bulky media files You can only take in a local home network. Folder on the disk storage is the network, and you can start watching a movie with her, and just copy itself in a matter of minutes if necessary.
Remote computer mini living without a monitor and control them all going through the standard operating system You - Screen Sharing:
Analogue Sharing screen in Mac OSX is in each OS known to me, then Google to help you. On Windows, I used to be used by Microsoft Mesh. Managed computer appears you in a separate window, and Lion users can bring it in full screen on one of the virtual screens.
And here is my home server, disk storage and a router.
The proposed system is not perfect, and we are interested in your opinion, what can be done better in my case. And if you share your decisions, you will be grateful you hundreds, if not thousands. Thanks in advance!