Transmission writing to external drive through router

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Hello i’m pretty new (and excited :smiley:) to OSMC and raspberry so i’m already excusing myself for noob questions;)

I’m using kodi to get to my files on an external drive wich is mounted in my asus router. I can play movies through SMB and an ethernet cable flawlessly.
I have installed transmission lately from the app store. I got it working, i can stop and start the service and also change settings.json file.
Now i would like to write the complete download to my external drive but i dont know what directory i have to put in.
Kodi is using WORKGROUP///.
Will it have acces the same way as Kodi if i change the settings.json like this:

“download-dir”: “/WORKGROUP///”,

Also, is it a problem that the external drive is formatted HFS+?

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I would suggest not using SMB and rather use NFS. Then use a combination of auto.fs and NFS to accomplish what you want.
http://kodi.wiki/view/NFS
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs

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I also want to acces the router with my macbook and using SMB for that is much easier. Unfortunately i don’t think my router doesn’t support NFS.

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You can use NFS on your mac. What router are you using? If you really don’t want to go that route (which has quicker file transfers) then the link I provided also has the directions for SMB and auto.fs.

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I’m using an asus RT-N18U

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Is NFS still faster than SMB when using an ethernet cable?

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I only found one place that made the claim that your router can do NFS. Anyway, just go to the link I shared earler and you can setup a mount for SMB shares in OSMC using auto.fs. Once that is setup you can easily use transmission to save data to your SMB.