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By: Eric Allard

Eric Allard — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:06:31 +0000

I have the same problem. Did you find a solution?

By: if

if — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:52:23 +0000

I’ve got a permission problem… is there a way to automatically give the all users full access on the completely downloaded files in order to open them with all accounts?
Actually my downloaded files get only full access for administrator group!

By: Pravesh Soni

Pravesh Soni — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:37:19 +0000

I’m running uTorrent on my Vail box. The updated instructions are available at http://pravesh.me/installing-utorrent-on-whs-vail-as-service/

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By: matt

matt — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:31:24 +0000

i am having a similar problem. can’t get the reg file to load. i am not extremely familiar with this part of computing so any very explicit help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:25:52 +0000

I installed uTorrent using Remote Desktop but cannot install the web GUI or download a torrent file using the server due to “security restrictions.”

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

By: craja

craja — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:24:38 +0000

Iam using the same setup in windows xp, but while restarting the system utorrent is behaving like crashed and reopen, its not having the download list which i have added already.

When i ran as normal windows mode after stopping the service its working fine.

have any one faced this and hv solution?

By: David Curr

David Curr — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:03:00 +0000

How do I install these programs without Remote Desktop?

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:12:50 +0000

whenever I try to test configuration in the uTorrent add-in it’s red and i have tried everything. can someone give me a hand?

By: Roger Borgström

Roger Borgström — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:39:58 +0000

Hi!

Have problem with the GUI on my web browser. Have tried Firefox, chrome and explorer. It comes to “loading” then nothing happens on all browsers. I use the utorrent 1.6.1

Is this to old for the gui or what.

I like to reach the preferences in utorrent to set up a scheduler so I only download at night. But Because of not reaching the gui I can’t do the setup. Any Idea? the setup in utorrent is the main thing. Can I do it someother way?

Thank’s in advance

Roger

By: robi_nl

robi_nl — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:55:33 +0000

Guys, have same problem as Jaap within installation of RKTOOLS.exe. Have tried downloading within WHS but still do not get permission to install it. It states that Admininstrator has not set up rights for this account to do so. Help !

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By: SpaceCadet0

SpaceCadet0 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:42:16 +0000

WHS-utorrent or uTorrentplus (uTorrent client for Windows Home Server) v.1.1.1.0 does not work with uTorrent 2.0. I hope there will be an update soon.

By: kwauters

kwauters — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:06:06 +0000

I have problems instaling the utorrent as service. I don’t get the ENUM in the registry and I’m not able to start the service. (error code 1053) I had to change the syntax a bit and added the location of the utorrent.exe “instsrv uTorrent “c:\program files\utorrent\utorrent.exe” srvany” otherwise I got an error indicating I had to specify the path of the exe.

Where have I gone wrong

By: LordAlderaan

LordAlderaan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:52:02 +0000

This should also work with the latest stable release of µTorrent (1.8.5 at time of writing) and the latest WebUI WIP build (WebUI v0.370 WIP at time of writing) available in a sticky on the µtorrent Web API forum.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:57:03 +0000

I followed the guide and uTorrent is installed on my windows home server and is working nicely. However I was wondering what the point of having the uTorrent installed into the console is. I have the application running as if it were in windows 7, and it is down in my taskbar. I can maximize it from there and mouse over it to see my dl/ul speeds etc. When I put torrents into my folder that I have utorrent watching it then sends the command to either my console utorrent or my full app utorrent. For instance if I put 5 differerent torrents into the folder im having uTorrent monitor, the first 2 will be processed by the application and the final 3 will be processed/shown by the uTorrent instance in my home server console. Whats the point of having it in both places?

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:37:12 +0000

The WebUI 0.310 link is not valid. CAn anyone repoint me in the right direction please as l cn not find the files anywhere!

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By: marh

marh — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:16:17 +0000

thanks for clear information… I`ll trying to download uTorrent

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:29:43 +0000

Thanks! This is my first hands on with my WHS and it gave me a good insight in its workings.

Works perfect

By: iain

iain — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:35:40 +0000

Sorry, I had tried to reply a while back and it wouldn’t let me.

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.”

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:04:54 +0000

Ok i fugured out that uTorrent will not auto-load torrents that are created by another user:

-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” ?

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:05:37 +0000

@iain – also having this problem.

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?

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By: SteveO

SteveO — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:32:22 +0000

Thanks for this guide.

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

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:41:40 +0000

@iain – Same problem here. Have you found a solution?

By: iain

iain — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:29:43 +0000

I have something wierd going on, I add all my torrents the same way:

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?

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By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:31:56 +0000

Newest version of webui:

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

The old link needs to be updated.

By: Promotional Codes

Promotional Codes — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:42:46 +0000

Thank you very much for your valued tips.. It does help me…

Philip,

Everything works great now. Excellent guidance! Thanks once again

By: Björn

Björn — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:38:20 +0000

Hi, i can´t get the “auto move” or “auto import torrent” to work. I put the torrent file in a folder who i choose in utorrent. But then nothing hapends. i have to manually “add torrent” to utorrent. Why is that?

mvh Björn

By: Morte Madsen

Morte Madsen — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:26:27 +0000

The user running the “torrent service” don’t have to be a administrator on the WHS as specified in the “create a new user on the server” guide.

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.

By: hlex

hlex — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:14:10 +0000

Dear Phillip

thank for valued tip.

I have problem when stop service.

when I start it again , it checking the torrent like service is abnormally stop.

Do you found same problem?

By: devil303

devil303 — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:53:59 +0000

hi, just incase anyone is wondering ive found a way to get homeserver downloading torrents via rss feeds automatically.its not a perfect method but untill rss is implemented in webgui it will do. Basically what i did was install utorrent onto one of the client pcs on my network and set it up to never download using built in scheduler,then i set it up to store its torrents in the autoload directory for utorrent on the homeserver.now any rss feeds setup on my client pc will start downloading automatically on server,it works quite well .also you only have to click the download torrent link on a torrent site and it loads up on homeserver via local utorrent program.also any torrents in local utorrent program can be removed as soon as they are loaded and the program closed until downloading next torrent.hope this helps someone or maybe somone has a better way of doing it?

By: professional

professional — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:50:35 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:40:45 +0000

Hi Phillp,

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.!!!

By: Tayyib

Tayyib — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:16:31 +0000

Hey Phillip..

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

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:47:43 +0000

Hi Phillp,

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.

By: Symo

Symo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:25:17 +0000

Couple of questions if you don’t mind

-Can you setup RSS feeds that will auto download torrents (obviously uTorrent has this ability, can you make use of it after installing onto a WHS)?

-The other thing, when you setup a filter for a RSS, you can select what folder the torrent gets downloaded to, can you set this to a share? (and is the share corruption issue due to the data corruption issued that has been fixed with PP1-RC1? i.e. will we ever be able to get around not being able to save torrents directly to a share?)