Seagate Dockstar Discussion and Tutorial Thread

[techie_007]

check this link...

| Seagate

its removed...

Nope, you are looking at the wrong site. Thats the international (your link is the Australian site it seems) 'Network Storage' section.

The US site is at Network Storage | Seagate Its still listed there. It was probably never outside the US. If you saw it earlier, you were probably on the US version of their site.

 

[raj_ch2002]

ohh...now i could see it in network storage..but when i click on the link to dockstar nothing shows up...

Any ways, did anyone of you guys manage to get pppoe to work...

i've BSNL broadband and i usually use pppoe from windows, i mean dialing from windows..

i could install pppoe in it but couldn't manage to dial a connection from debian...

 

[tech.addict]

archat68 - You can configure the dockstar to login automatically at 2 and disconnect at 8, or if you want you can configure it to reboot the modem at the specified times.

Can you help me in this regard?

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I successfully installed Debian, then installed the transmission client.

As I'm complete noob in case of linux - my question is can I boot into the Debian GUI using my browser or should all management be done through shell commands?

Also when running Debian - the Dockstar LED is off - is that O.K? Can we modify it so that we can know whether the Dockstar is running or not?

 

[techie_007]

Install a program called webmin (use command "apt-get install webmin"). It will allow you to control your dockstar from the web browser interface

 

[tech.addict]

Another problem is everytime I login to debian - it asks me to change password.

 

[techie_007]

Another problem is everytime I login to debian - it asks me to change password.

Are you connected to the internet? Check what the date is on the system. If the NTP service is unable to get the latest time synced form an internet timeserver, that may cause an issue.

 

[tech.addict]

Yes i'm connected to net.

The last login date is shown as 1.1.1970.

How to start the NTP service or check whether it is running or not?

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Also how to start the transmission daemon every time automatically after reboot?

 

[techie_007]

Yes i'm connected to net.

The last login date is shown as 1.1.1970.

How to start the NTP service or check whether it is running or not?

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Also how to start the transmission daemon every time automatically after reboot?

Instructions for setting up ntpd service: Debian / Ubuntu Linux Install NTPD To Synchronism Clock With Internet Standard Time Servers

Install and access webmin mentioned above. It has an option to add programs to startup

 

[tech.addict]

Yes installed NTPD and webmin. Also installed Transmission using Webmin and enabled startup at boot. But I can't get to connect with Transmission remote on windows. Also after starting the transmission from Webmin - it does not show as a running process under processes tab.

Please help me to solve the problem.

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but sometimes after rebooting i'm unable to login to webmin.

 

[techie_007]

Yes installed NTPD and webmin. Also installed Transmission using Webmin and enabled startup at boot. But I can't get to connect with Transmission remote on windows. Also after starting the transmission from Webmin - it does not show as a running process under processes tab.

Please help me to solve the problem.

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but sometimes after rebooting i'm unable to login to webmin.

1. Maybe wait for sometime to allow everything to come up?

2. Varkey had listed a config file earlier in this thread for transmission. You need to disable rpc login fields to allow login from network/other systems. Google for transmission config help page.

 

[varkey]

Even I faced the problem of Webmin not starting properly at boot time.

Try this command

update-rc.d webmin defaults

And for transmission make sure the package 'transmission-daemon' is installed and running.

 

[tech.addict]

while running "update-rc.d webmin defaults" I'm getting some error - the putty log is attached - please go through it and help.

However manually starting Webmin by the following command starts webmin correctly:

/etc/webmin/start login

 

[tech.addict]

Transmission, Transmission-cli, transmission-common, transmission-gtk is installed. Transmission process is not running. I'll install transmission-daemon and try.

 

[varkey]

^ I didn't get any errors when I ran the update-rc.d command. I'll try it once more and let you know.

Regarding transmission, you didn't really need the transmission-gtk etc as you won't use the GUI anyway. Just install transmission-daemon and it will work fine.

 

[tech.addict]

transmission daemon is running now.

i have also edited the /transmission-daemon/settings.json and edited the rpc values as:

Look for this line:

“rpc-whitelist”:

and set it to your remote IP or to “*”.

But I'm still unable to connect to transmission daemon through the Transmission remote. I'm getting the following error message:

403: Forbidden

Unauthorized IP address

Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it.

If you are editing settings.json, see the "rpc-whitelist" and rpc-whitelist-enabled" entries.

I've added the IP address of the dockstar to the rpc-whitelist and also set the rpc-whitelist-enabled as "false".

 

[varkey]

You need to edit the configuration with the transmission-daemon service stopped. And once you have edited the values start it.

 

[techie_007]

I've added the IP address of the dockstar to the rpc-whitelist and also set the rpc-whitelist-enabled as "false".

Err... the IP to be added is of the PC you are connecting FROM, NOT of the dockstar Ideally disabling the whitelist is a better option.

 

[tech.addict]

Thanks guys!!

OK! got the transmission remote working.

But when I add some torrent for download after a few minutes it goes to stopped state. Can't understand why?

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OK

Got that solved too - seems that the problem was with default download location.

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Now only thing that remains is to get a script to start the Transmission daemon at 2AM and disconnect at 8 AM.

Help plzzzz guys.

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Another query - which audio player can I install so that I can hear music/ live streaming music through a USB speaker?

 

[thaniks]

Thanks guys!!

OK! got the transmission remote working.

But when I add some torrent for download after a few minutes it goes to stopped state. Can't understand why?

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OK

Got that solved too - seems that the problem was with default download location.

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Now only thing that remains is to get a script to start the Transmission daemon at 2AM and disconnect at 8 AM.

Help plzzzz guys.

Add a cronjob to run at 2.00AM to start the process and at 8.00AM to kill the transmission process.

 

[tech.addict]

I'm facing a problem that after a power failure I'm unable to boot into Debian - the dockstar LED stays off after a lot of activity of the flash disk but can't access it with SSH.

I've tried to reinstall the uboot by following the guide from Jeff but without any effect:

Remove your USB drive, boot into the default Pogoplug environment, and run the following commands:

cd /tmp

wget http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/install_uboot_mtd0.sh

chmod +x install_uboot_mtd0.sh

./install_uboot_mtd0.sh

Re-insert your USB drive and reboot back into your existing Plugbox or Debian installation. That's it.

Any suggestions?

Add a cronjob to run at 2.00AM to start the process and at 8.00AM to kill the transmission process.

I know that - but as I'm not comfortable with Linux as a whole can you give me some example?