nickname Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 At home, I have a PC running XP professional, and a Mac running OSX. I use µtorrent on the PC and Transmission on the Mac. I have successfully downloaded files from various sites on both the clients.Never having uploaded any thing so far, I wished to create and upload a torrent file (purely as a test), from the PC, send the file to myself and download the same from my Mac using Transmission. The computers are networked. The router used is a SMC 7004ABRUsing the excellent guide from http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/bittorrentI created a torrent file from a 750MB .avi file that I had downloaded a while ago and saved it to the desktop on my PC. Immediately the file started seeding from µTorrent.I then emailed the torrent file to myself, downloaded the file to the Mac desktop and opened it using the Transmission client.Then nothing happens! I tried using my IP address (tracker), I tried using one of the trackers provided by mininova.org with no success. What am I doing wrong?Any help would be deeply appreciated.Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Perhaps your router isn't allowing loopback connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 6, 2007 Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Any chance the pcs are firewalled from each other in some way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickname Posted August 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2007 Ultima, Switeck,Thanks for your quick replies!How do I check if the router is allowing loop back connections or if the PC's are firewalled against each other.Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 I've never done remote loopback, so I'm not sure.You could connect the router between the computers (put one computer on the WAN port) and test that way, but it'd be difficult with all the network config changes you'd need to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickname Posted August 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2007 Problem solved!From another forum, I was adviced to put in my local IP address in the tracker field and that did the trick! :-)Thanks and regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted August 15, 2007 Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 Oh. I thought you were explicitly trying to test the tracker on the WAN (after all, you were emailing yourself and such ). Good to hear that you got it sorted though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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