Transmission: "Error: permission denied ..."

[thomasps]

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.

[bigfoot65]

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.

[thomasps]

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.

[bigfoot65]

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

[thomasps]

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.

[VaughnHomeServer]

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

[scmaruthi]

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.

[bigfoot65]

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

[scmaruthi]

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 ?