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Transmission Permission Denied
Hi guys,
Hoping for some help. I recently added Transmission as magnet links are becoming standard so I had to upgrade from the old BitTorrent client.
I'm having the same Permission Denied problems as it seems many have had in the past. I've done all the changes here: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=58521&p=337088#p337088 but still having the problem.
Just to be sure I created a new share called "downloads" put a "BitTorrent" folder in there, updated the Read/Write access as above, and then pointed a new torrent at that... still no luck.
Can someone point in a direction to solve this? I'm not a particularly advanced user, so i'd appreciate any suggestions of editing script etc were put in very simple terms so i can follow easily!
Thanks for your help
EDIT: If it matters at all, I use mac OSX, and AFP
Hoping for some help. I recently added Transmission as magnet links are becoming standard so I had to upgrade from the old BitTorrent client.
I'm having the same Permission Denied problems as it seems many have had in the past. I've done all the changes here: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=58521&p=337088#p337088 but still having the problem.
Just to be sure I created a new share called "downloads" put a "BitTorrent" folder in there, updated the Read/Write access as above, and then pointed a new torrent at that... still no luck.
Can someone point in a direction to solve this? I'm not a particularly advanced user, so i'd appreciate any suggestions of editing script etc were put in very simple terms so i can follow easily!
Thanks for your help
EDIT: If it matters at all, I use mac OSX, and AFP
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- Its the umask option in settings.json
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - Sorry, you've lost me there... have read stuff mentioning settings.json, but have no idea what it is or how to access it... is there a simple step by step anywhere?
- settings.json is a file which contains all the settings for Transmission. To reach it, log in on your nas with cifs using the same admin user/pass you use for Frontview. You will then see a list of shares.Go to:
c\addons-config\Transmission\transmission-daemon
The complete address will look like \\IPOfYourNAS\c\addons-config\Transmission\transmission-daemon.
In the folder you're in now, you will find a file names settings.json. You can open it with a text editor that supports Unix-file-encoding, a free text editor that can do this is Notepad++.
In the file, you will find a parameter with the name "incomplete-dir" which is, by default set to "/c/media/BitTorrent/Incomplete". Since you made a new share for your downloads, you might not have set the permissions right for the media share, so you should either do that, change the incomplete-dir or turn it off. - The problem is that the user that run transmission (nobody:nogroup) does not have permission to write in /c/media/BitTorrent and /c/media/BitTorrent/incomplete
chmod -R a+w /c/media/BitTorrent solved the problem for me.
You can also chown -R nobody:nogroup /c/media/BitTorrent
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