Came across this interesting post from Simple Help that tells you how to create and send torrents to anybody you like. I had done this some time ago (I think with Vuze) but it seems so much simpler with µtorrent as explained.

Now I didn’t as yet have the opportunity to try this out to another network so I tried it on our own LAN. And it works fine, well it works OK. Actually, it kinda works ……. sometimes.

First, all torrents that I made whether in Windows 7 or OS X 10.6.2 gave rise to HTTP error 400′s when launched in the bittorrent client. Nevertheless, in most cases after a few minutes the download completed although ……. not always for reasons that are not clear to me.

Another thing is that the instructions in the guide are for Windows only. But it works in µtorrent on the Mac too. Note that the Preferences for this app on the Mac are quite different. So, there’s no opportunity to set bt.enable_tracker to True. However, this didn’t seem to matter. Perhaps it’s already set to True.

When creating the new torrent, you must precede the tracker address with http:// as otherwise you’ll be asked to specify a valid tracker.

Maybe it works better between different networks, but on this experience it’s not at all attractive for transferring stuff between computers on you own LAN. For this purpose, nothing comes close to the Python SimpleHTTPServer in my view.

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