[Solved] I can't get Tranmission to work

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I have been reading some posts like this here, but any of them have a valid answer to my problem. I have followed this tutorial in order to install the daemon, changing where appears user pi with osmc.

Also, I have modified “/lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service” to change the user to osmc. And I still get the permission problem.

If I change the ownership of bookkeeping folders the daemon isn’t able to get started.

I can’t write neither read, because the daemon through the web interface isn’t able to check the data that I have already downloaded.

I’ve read that Deluge is available on the app store , but as long as I’m runing Alpha 4 on rasp2, I don’t have acces to that option. However, I would prefer to get transmission working than Deluge.

Has someone managed to get this solved? Could him post the way he did that?

Cheers

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Hi,

Have you searched the forum for this problem?
It sounds very similar to https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/solved-cant-get-around-permission-denied-in-transmission

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I’m really against the what seems common practice of adjusting the user within the startup script, it’s much simpler and safer to add the debian-transmission user to the osmc group using the below code:

sudo usermod -a -G osmc debian-transmission

That should allow everything to work, you can skip steps 4 & 5 of that tutorial unless you wanted to change the nice level of the service in which case the code would be:

sudo nano /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon

Then as per the instructions:

line 29: "start-stop-daemon --start " to "start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel 5 "

Hope that helps.

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I also have tried that, but it’s still not working. Even more, when I try to access to the web interface it returns a 403 error (Forbidden).

I think that there’s something that I’m doing wrong, but I can’t figure what because as I have said, the same method on Raspberry Pi B+ with raspbmc it worked great.

I’m going to do a clean install and use the usermod method only, and post here everything I do in order to detect the problem.

Thanks for answering dude

5

Yes, that’s one of the first posts that I saw, but it didn’t solve anything

6

Okay, I’m still getting the same error.

What I’ve done is:

  • Install Alpha 4 with the Windows Installer for OSMC on an SD for a RaspberryPi2

  • Plug it in into the raspberry

  • Power on raspberry and wait until the OSMC menu screen appears

  • Introduce the following comands

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install transmission-daemon
    sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop
    sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
    sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start
    On the .json file I only editted download-dir, rpc username and password and set whitelist to false
    I added a magnet link from a torrent with tons of seeds, and I get this

    I have tried using the comand

    chmod -R 777 /media/TOSHIBAEXT/Downloads/Transmission
    but it solves nothing

7

Ok, as long as you’ve run the command

sudo usermod -a -G osmc debian-transmission

I can’t see any reason it wouldn’t work as I do the same thing near enough every time I install.

One thing I do differently is I mount my HDD in my user folder (/home/imac/HDD).

Can you confirm the line you’ve used in the fstab to mount the drive?

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I introduced the command usermod comand between

sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

and

sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start

I don’t use any comand to mount it becase OSMC do it automatically when the system turns on, as raspbmc did.

I also have thought about the problem could be on the way the HDD is mounted, but I can erase and rename files from SSH, so probably the problem isn’t here. My HDD is a NTFS formated drive, 2TB size, and connected through a powered hub usb to the rasp.

9

See here, media directory gets wiped every boot, I’d recommend manually mounting your drive so it’s permissions remain

10

Could you tell me what line should I use to mount the HDD?
I only use

mount

to mount a usb device that I plug in after turning on the rasp, but it gets devices mounted on /media/.

12

Finally, mounting the HDD on /mnt/ has solved the problem

Thanks!

13

Happy days.
Now you can use Transmission to legally download Linux distros :smiley:

o7

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I’m dealing with the same problem as you are. Do you a good tutorial for mounting to /mnt/?

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Okay I had the same issue as ever one else but think I have sorted it. My HDD was auto mounted to /media/Seagate so every thing I tied failed. Changing usernames to osmc did nothing, neither did usermod.
Started with a fresh install of osmc, then installed transmission.
All I had to do was change the mount point. I did sudo umount /media/Seagate. Then sudo mkdir /mnt/HDD, then manually mounted the HDD with sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd. Changed the Json file to point to the new mount point and it worked!
Finally i chanhed the fstab so it would auto mount correctly. /dev/sda1 /mnt/hdd ntfs-3g defaults,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000, 0 0
Downloads don’t seem to be as fast as using a standalone pi for torrenting but does the job!
Hope the above makes sense.

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Same problem here but not with an external drive. I installed then configured Transmission as explained in this thread. I choose /home/osmc/Movies as download path and I get the exact same error though. I chmod’ed to 777 but it was useless. Any idea. Thanks :slight_smile:

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This seems to have fixed it for now :smile: Great community