Transmission unable to download torrents

Hi G man
is the nas connected to a router and if it is does the router support upnp,
because if it does not support upnp you will need to forward the port for transmission.

Hi Herbio

Thanks for your help. It is connected to a router and port forwarding is something that I have missed. I will give it a go.

Is it as simple as copy and paste the url of the web page of the torrent you wish to download?
How do user names and passwords of the torrent site you are downloading from work (Eg. demonoid where need to be a member to download)?

Thanks again

All you need to do is copy and paste the url of the torrent not the web page,
have you downloaded torrents before ? because if you are putting the url of the web page in thats why its not working.

I have download torrents before but I have very limited experience. I have only ever used my windows laptop, bit torrent and a handful of torrent sites.

I did a port scan for the port that I used in the setup and the scan said that the port was responding. I'm assuming I don't need to port forward in the router settings.

The main points of confusion are, I don't seem to have an option to download in the transmission interface. If I click on add torrent, the next pop up is to upload torrent either by browsing or via URL. If I paste in URL as per your previous MSG nothing happens. I must be missing something. I also downloaded a transmision remote gui as I thought this may help and I could not get that to connect either. The interface has never asked for a password or login. I thought this was strange as all the setup guides I read recommended to change the password.

Well the way you are adding torrents is ok, but are you pasting url for .torrent file or url for the web page its located on ?
and transmission should prompt you for user and password, default is admin and password.

The url should look something like this > (http://example.com/download/386387353/ubuntu.torrent)

Ok cool, now I'm almost there. I can get torrents to start downloading now. After a short time I'm getting an error : permission denied /c/media/bittorrent/the torrent I'm downloading.

I also can't get the password and login to work. I tried to change the setting "rpc-authentication-required": false, to "rpc-authentication-required": true, This created a login and that worked with my password but I could not get the transmission add on to start again in front view unless I changed settings back to false.

Thanks again for your help.

The permission denied error is because the share you are downloading to (media) does not give Transmission the proper permissions to do that. You can find how to fix this in this post.

Thankyou both very much. I finally got this up and running 100%.

For more information for other people like me I was missing this step only on my share permissions.
Tick the box "Set ownership and permission for existing files and folders in this share to the above settings. This option is useful in cases where you are changing security levels and need to workaround file access problems."

I also changed this setting "rpc-authentication-required": false" to "rpc-authentication-required": true" in settings.json folder. Front view prompted that transmission was unable to start but the light went green and the transmission server was clearly working and could only be accessed with a log in and password.