Empty webif and maybe no syncing...

[frater]

For someone else I setup 2 QNAP's with bittorrent sync.

Because it took ages to get 1.3 TB in sync I "helped" it with rsync which excluded files starting with a dot.

This was all in a gigabit LAN.

 

Now these 2 QNAPs are separated and have to sync over the Internet.

The remote QNAP now suddenly has an almost empty WebIF and the 3 folders it is supposed to sync are not shown. If I click on preferences nothing happens....

 

I have SSH-access to this device and it showed me that in its log it is unable to do a uPnP port mapping with the router

 

This is the log (both IP's and tokens are patched):

[20131029 10:36:41.196] NAT-PMP: Unable to map port with NAT-PMP.[20131029 10:36:41.779] HTTP: IP 195.141.6.232: GET /gui/?token=utEKw6FfESM60MP3rq6q2fjkHrXzXlQ9Vx8USeVBHS0k9iWJjSNkmjx8b1IAAAAA&action=getsyncfolders&t=1383039011661[20131029 10:36:42.085] UPnP: Device error "http://192.168.178.40:32469/DeviceDescription.xml": (-2) [20131029 10:36:42.086] HTTP: IP 85.291.115.244: GET /gui/?token=utEKw6FfESM60MP3rq6q2fjkHrXzXlQ9Vx8USeVBHS0k9iWJjSNkmjx8b1IAAAAA&action=getsyncfolders&t=1383039012662 [20131029 10:36:42.405] HTTP: IP 195.141.6.232: GET /gui/?token=utEKw6FfESM60MP3rq6q2fjkHrXzXlQ9Vx8USeVBHS0k9iWJjSNkmjx8b1IAAAAA&action=getsyncfolders&t=1383039013661 [20131029 10:36:42.694] HTTP: IP 195.141.6.232: GET /gui/?token=utEKw6FfESM60MP3rq6q2fjkHrXzXlQ9Vx8USeVBHS0k9iWJjSNkmjx8b1IAAAAA&action=getsyncfolders&t=1383039014661 [20131029 10:36:42.986] HTTP: IP 195.141.6.232: GET /gui/?token=utEKw6FfESM60MP3rq6q2fjkHrXzXlQ9Vx8USeVBHS0k9iWJjSNkmjx8b1IAAAAA&action=getsyncfolders&t=1383039015662 [20131029 10:36:43.017] HTTP: IP 89.150.179.117: GET /gui/?token=utEKw6FfESM60MP3rq6q2fjkHrXzXlQ9Vx8USeVBHS0k9iWJjSNkmjx8b1IAAAAA&action=getsyncfolders&t=1383039016662

 

It is however going to the other QNAP which is behind a bundle of 5 ADSL-connections.

 

I would now like to change the setup of the bittorrent client so that it is not using uPnP port mapping anymore, but if I press on the "Preferences" button in the webif nothing happens.

 

I'm quite familiar with "vi" so editing the config would be no problem, but it turns out this file is not plain text file....

 

I am considering to remove the whole bittorrent setup and reinstalling it again on that machine.

I would rather not do that because it is 1.4 TB and a lot of files > 300.000

[frater]

Update:

 

All of a sudden the WebIF showed the 3 folders it needed to sync and I was able to change the preferences...

I waited more than 3 days for this to happen......

 

What can be the cause of this?

[nils]

Indexing is known to take quite a while for a large number of files.

 

You can start the btsync client from the command line with a --config parameter and then point it to a config file, if you would like to configure it that way. This way you can either take part of the control away from the webui, or disable it completely by including shares and secrets in this file. The btsync binary can produce a standardised config file with --dump-sample-config. btsync --help shows you the currently implemented command line options as usual in Linux/Unix.