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I have problem making transmission work. I followed the wiki to update to 2.04
http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Transmission
I can save my torrents in /var/hda/files/Torrents and Transmission starts them after a few minutes. However, as soon as it starts downloading I get this error for example:

Error: permission denied (/var/hda/files/Torrents/Megamind.2010.720p.BluRay.x264.720.mkv)

It seems a permission problem, but have no clue how to solve this.

You need to verify the permissions on the folder that the file is being downloaded into and post them.

Also, did you check the wiki or search here for a potential solution? I have heard this one before, but do not recall the solution.

You need to verify the permissions on the folder that the file is being downloaded into and post them.

Also, did you check the wiki or search here for a potential solution? I have heard this one before, but do not recall the solution.

Yes there are a few posts but I could not find one that actually gave a solutions. I don't know what commands to issue in the terminal to make the permission work.

If you wanna change the owner of files, do the following in terminal as root user:

chown -R apache:users /path/to/dir

TO change the read/write permissions, do the following in terminal as root user:

chmod -R 775 /path/to/dir

Hope that helps. There may also be some info in the Amahi Wiki.

http://wiki.amahi.org

If you wanna change the owner of files, do the following in terminal as root user:

chown -R apache:users /path/to/dir

TO change the read/write permissions, do the following in terminal as root user:

chmod -R 775 /path/to/dir

Hope that helps. There may also be some info in the Amahi Wiki.

http://wiki.amahi.org

Thanks. But it still gives me the same error. I did check the wiki and tried with the suggestions there too.

I am having the same problem and also cant find a solution, I don't want to just change the permission of the file created by transmission, I would like transmission to create files that I can delete without changing the permission of each created file. I followed the wiki and changed the unmak to 2. I verified it is changed, but still cant delete files created by transmission

Hi. I just bought transmission today and I immediately got the same error.
I kept trying things and eventually found a solution that worked for me.

I first checked which disk was loaded at the mount point /var/hda/files/torrent through
It was a 1.5 TB HDD.
I went to the /etc/fstab and checked the GID value for the corresponding device.
It was 100
Then I went into System->Administration->User and Groups and Added transmission into the Group with ID 100
(it was hidden: to unhide click on edit menu->preferences and untick Hide System Users and groups).
The problem was solved.

I did this through the Gui as I'm pretty new to this.
I guess the same work done through terminal would be simpler.

This would be a good addition to the wiki. Would you mind adding it? We would greatly appreciate it.

The page is http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Transmission

This would be a good addition to the wiki. Would you mind adding it? We would greatly appreciate it.

The page is http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Transmission

Sorry for the late reply, were you telling me ?