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I am trying to share a file with a colleague by creating a torrent via transmission. Testing locally however doesn't seem to work.
I'm testing this on my home network, from which it is known that I can both download and upload torrents.
I have two laptops set up, both running ubuntu.
On machine1, I open transmission...
File...
New...
Source File = blah.jpg
Trackers = The four trackers listed on openbittorrent.com
Click on New, wait for creation, click on Add
Email blah.jpg.torrent to myself
I can now see it in my open transmission client.
On machine2, I open transmission...
Get blah.jpg.torrent from my email
open in transmission.
Inspecting the trackers on each machine,
machine1 shows 1 seeder, 0 leechers
machine2 shows 0 seeders, 1 leecher
Presumably they are seeing themselves via the trackers. No download, no upload, just sadness.
I right-click and "ask tracker for more peers"... Nothing changes.
What am I doing wrong?
Scott
Posted 2016-03-04T16:44:35.340
Reputation: 214
leave the client-torrent running overnight, see if it ever downloads any data. – Moab – 2016-03-04T17:53:20.007
I'll give that a whirl. The hope was to be like "hey can I have this 10gb file?", "yah sure let me put it in a torrent" ... 10 minutes later "k thanks" – Scott – 2016-03-04T19:21:20.223