Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd

Slide 1: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Q: What is SABnzbd and why should I use it? A: SABnzbd is a free news client with many abilities, such as: 1. Download files from your news host 2. Access the news client from any internet connection – Connect from work, school, wherever and tell SABnzbd to download. Your downloads are ready when you get home. 3. No more repairing or unpacking – SABnzbd handles the dirty work for you. You tell it what to download and when it is done, it will repair it, unpack it, and clean up the mess. Leaving you with nothing but the files you wanted. 4. In my Advanced tutorial I will show you how to be even lazier – With the use of Firefox and some GreaseMonkey scripts, downloading your files can be as easy as left-clicking no more than twice. Khronic304

Slide 2: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Table of contents: 1. Download SABnzbd 2. Configuring the INI file 3. Put SABnzbd in Startup (if you so choose) 4. Configure port-forwarding (if you want external access) 5. SABnzbd walkthrough Khronic304

Slide 3: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Download SABnzbd Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/sabnzbd/ Click on ‘Download SABnzbd‘ Click on the ‘Download’ button Download the EXE version of SABnzbd Run and extract to C:Program Files This will place a new folder in your Program Files directory called ‘SABnzbd-0.x.x-w32’ Khronic304

Slide 4: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Configuring the INI file If you see something in the INI file that I do not cover, it is because I do not use it or did not feel that it needed to be changed. If you need help with something I did not cover, you may contact me for additional assistance or search Google. Go to C:Program FilesSABnzbd-0.x.x-w32 Locate the file named ‘SABnzbd.ini’ 1 Double-click to open this file in Notepad 2 1 If you do not see ‘.ini’ you can go to Tools> Folder Options> View> and uncheck the box that reads ‘’Hide extensions for known file types” 2 If this does not open it in Notepad or WordPad you can open Notepad and then open the file from the File> Open prompt Khronic304

Slide 5: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Configuring the INI file (Continued) ## host we should listen on, leave "" for localhost host = 127.0.0.1 This should be the IP address of the computer you are on now. If behind a router it should be something like 192.168.1.101. 1 ## port we should listen on port = 8080 This can be left alone. If you change it, remember for later when we do port- forwarding. ## username for the web-interface username = "“ Choose your web-interface login name. ## password for the web-interface password = "“ Choose your web-interface password. 1 If you do not know what this is, try going to Start> Run> type CMD and press OK. In this blank Command Prompt type ipconfig and press enter. Look for your IP address and put this in the host section of your INI file. Khronic304

Slide 6: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Configuring the INI file (Continued) ## dir to put completed downloads to, won't be created automatically complete_dir = ./downloads/Complete This can be left alone and all downloads will go in C:Program FilesSABnzbd-0.x.x-w32downloadsComplete or you can change this to any location on your hard disk. Use quotes when specifying a custom directory. EXAMPLE: “C:Documents and SettingsUserDesktopDownloads” dirscan_dir = ./NZB_blackhole If you want to save NZB files to a specific folder, SABnzbd will monitor this folder and parse any NZB file that is saved here. Right now the folder is locate in the C:Program FilesSABnzbd-0.x.x-w32 folder, but like the complete_dir you can change this to something custom. Just remember to use quotes. schedlines = , I do not use this, but if you want SABnzbd to only run at certain times of the day you can set schedules like the example below. EXAMPLE: schedlines = 0 7 * pause, 0 21 * resume to pause SABnzbd at 7:00 and resume operation at 21:00 Khronic304

Slide 7: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Configuring the INI file (Continued) enable_filejoin = 1 /enable_unrar = 1 /enable_unzip = 1 /enable_par_cleanup = 1 Do you want SABnzbd to handle these tasks for you? The answer is yes, so leave them be. dirscan_opts = 1 I always choose ‘3 = +Delete’ because this will download all files (pars, rars, svc, and everything else and then repair with the pars, unpack the rars, and then deletes the pars and rars so that you are left with the goodies. Choosing “2 = +Unpack” will repair and unpack and 1 = +Repair will just repair. Obviously 0 = None will just download everything and leave it) create_group_folders = 0 I leave this as-is but some people like to change this so it goes to the alt.bin.example folder. cleanup_list = , This is cool. I put things like .sfv and .m3u in it, as I never use them. SABnzbd deletes anything with this extension. Khronic304

Slide 8: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Configuring the INI file (Continued) [servers] # [[server 0]] # host = news.mymainserver.com Put your news server in here. # port = 119 Leave this unless you use SSL. # username = myusername Put in your new server username. # password = mypassword Put in your new server password. # connections = 8 How many connections allowed? # fillserver = 0 Leave this. [newzbin] username = "“ Put in your Newzbin username. password = "“ Put in your Newzbin password. ## Place downloads into newzbin.com category folders ## 0 = No ## 1 = Root category only ## 2 = Root category + subcategory create_category_folders = 0 I choose 1 = Root category only here so that my download folder is nice and neat. When I download from the TV section of Newzbin the downloads go in to a TV sub-directory of the download folder, as do apps in the apps folder, music in the music folder. Makes things easy to manage. Khronic304

Slide 9: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Put SABnzbd in Startup If you want SABnzbd to start up every time your computer starts you can do so by following these instructions: Open C:Program FilesSABnzbd-0.x.x-w32 Drag SABnzbd.exe to the START button at the bottom left of your screen Keep dragging into All Programs> Startup> and then let go You should now see SABnzbd.exe in this folder and it will launch at startup You do not have to put this in the Startup. If you choose not to, just launch it like any other program when you need it. I have personally had mine running for over a month with NO memory issues. Khronic304

Slide 10: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd Configure port-forwarding I could spend days on this topic with the many types of routers out there, but I will go over one of the more popular models and if you need help you can search Google with this query: Port-forwarding+Manufacturer+Model Number - Replace ‘Manufacturer’ and ‘Model’ with what you have. For a Linksys WRT54G you should have something like this: Port-forwarding+linksys+WRT54G For this example I will use a Linksys WRT54G, which is pretty basic and you should be able to figure out any router with these instructions. Open your browser and navigate to your router settings. By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.1.1. Login and click the Applications & Gaming link near the top of the page. You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click Port Range Forward. Enter SABnzbd as the Application, 8080 as the Start and End port, and change the IP address to the computer’s IP that will handle SABnzbd. Enable this change and click Save Settings. Khronic304

Slide 11: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd SABnzbd walkthrough So now we have installed SABnzbd and configured the program to fit our needs. We have put the program in the Startup folder so it launches and runs with Windows. We have configured our routers for port-forwarding so that we can access SABnzbd from any internet connection. What next? Now we are ready to download, but lets first take a look around this newly installed power-horse. Open your browser and go to http://YOUR-LOCAL-OR-EXTERNAL-IP-ADDRESS:8080/sabnzbd/ You should now be prompted to login to SABnzbd. Once logged in you will notice a number of tabs. We will be on the Home tab for the most part, but we will also use the Queue tab a bit. You will notice that we can Pause and Resume downloads from all tabs. If you have configured SABnzbd correctly in the INI file, you probably will not have to touch the Config tab, but you can make changes here that will reflect on the same INI file. The History tab shows you what has been completed and to be quite honest, I do not use the other tabs. In a future tutorial, I will show you how to merge the Home and Queue tab so you don’t have to switch back and forth. Khronic304

Slide 12: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd SABnzbd walkthrough (Continued) Home Tab - On this tab we can do one of three things: Enter a Post-ID from Newzbin – Find a Post-ID from Newzbin, type it in here, choose how SABnzbd will handle the download and press Add. The post is now in the Queue tab and SABnzbd has logged in as you to Newzbin to collect the NZB information to process the download. Enter a URL from Newzbin – Keep in mind that this has to be a full URL, which should end in .nzb. I do not use this option. Browse for a file – If you save an NZB to your computer, you can point SABnzbd to it from here. Browse and Open and your download is now in the Queue. If you are going to save NZBs, you might as well save them to the NZB_blackhole that was discusses earlier. You will notice that you have a drop-down with the options of None, Repair, Unpack, and Delete. As covered earlier, Delete will Repair, Unpack, and Delete all the unnecessary files. These are the three basic ways to get SABnzbd to download your files. As said before, in another tutorial I will show you easier ways to get your downloads into the queue. This is pretty damn easy already, but it does get easier. Khronic304

Slide 13: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd SABnzbd walkthrough (Continued) Queue Tab - On this tab we monitor and change up our downloads: The Delete Button – Will obviously delete this item from queue The numbered drop-down – Will allow you to change the order of your downloads Mode – Again this is how SABnzbd will handle the download when finished Name – Name of the post Remain/Total – Remaining amount left/Total amount to download ETA – Estimated time of completion AGE – How long the item has been on the server Khronic304

Slide 14: Usenet Tutorials Newsgroup Clients: Basic Setup & Configuration of SABnzbd That’s It For Now Really hope that I covered everything that I needed to to get you guys started. If you have any questions, you can leave them in the comments here or you can PM me on Newzbin. I will be happy to answer any questions you have. Next time we will go over some more advanced usage of this program so you guys can get to being as lazy as I am. I can’t believe I just typed this fucking tutorial. WTF? Khronic304