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Why would you try avoiding it if you understand how it works? It has so many upsides and so few downsides. About the only practical one is using more disk space.

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GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Because it seems overkill for a home server. Up until recently all I ran was Samba and a torrent daemon. Why would I install another layer of overhead to manage two applications on one server?

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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Because the overhead is almost none. Maybe it’s not worth using it for Samba and Transmission. But involve OpenVPN for Transmission in the mix and things get a lot more complicated if Samba has to keep serving LAN and Transmission has to stop if OpenVPN stops. If instead you grab this, the problem is solved by writing one 20-line docker-compose.yml and doing docker-compose up -d:

version: '3.3'
services:
    transmission-openvpn:
        cap_add:
            - NET_ADMIN
        volumes:
            - '/your/storage/path/:/data'
            - '/your/config/path/:/config'
        environment:
            - OPENVPN_PROVIDER=PIA
            - OPENVPN_CONFIG=france
            - OPENVPN_USERNAME=user
            - OPENVPN_PASSWORD=pass
            - LOCAL_NETWORK=192.168.0.0/16
        logging:
            driver: json-file
            options:
                max-size: 10m
        ports:
            - '9091:9091'
        restart: on-failure
        image: haugene/transmission-openvpn

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