Jacob H. Weeks
Cadet
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2016
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I installed the Transmission plugin for downloading my favorite torrents. I set up Transmission with a mount point to the area that I store my downloads. I create a group in the jail that corresponds to the one I created that has write access to the downloads folder. I add this group to the user that the Transmission process runs as, this way Transmission can write. For privacy, I configured it to connect to the WAN through a VPN using OpenVPN. I also set up a firewall rule to only allow traffic over WAN if OpenVPN is running.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...g-up-transmission-with-openvpn-and-pia.24566/
Now that Everything is working, I find out that setting the default download location does not take. I get help online that describes how to shut down Transmission and change the download location in the settings.conf file in two places. This still wouldn't work, but then I found a comment on the forums that explains how he passed a command through iocage that forced the settings to take
and it worked or at least I thought it did. I was alerted to the fact that Transmission had been using my home IP address when connecting to the WAN.
I realized that the jail is not connecting to the VPN so I checked that OpenVPN was running, which was not
Can someone please help me find out what went wrong and how I can accomplish my task? I realize that I could just rebuild the plugin, but that won't tell me what broke or how to prevent it from happening again.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...g-up-transmission-with-openvpn-and-pia.24566/
Now that Everything is working, I find out that setting the default download location does not take. I get help online that describes how to shut down Transmission and change the download location in the settings.conf file in two places. This still wouldn't work, but then I found a comment on the forums that explains how he passed a command through iocage that forced the settings to take
iocage exec transmission sysrc "transmission_download_dir=/mnt/Storage/Media/Movies"and it worked or at least I thought it did. I was alerted to the fact that Transmission had been using my home IP address when connecting to the WAN.
I realized that the jail is not connecting to the VPN so I checked that OpenVPN was running, which was not
#ps. Then I tried starting it, but I got the error that the files needed to start it were not in the rc.d directory. So I try service openvpn onestart with the same result. Then I take notice that I may need to make sure that the files are there, so I run pkg install openvpn. But no package was found. I checked the spelling, then ran pkg update which return no new updates. Then I checked if the package was installed on the machine by running pkg info, Transmission is there but no OpenVPN.Can someone please help me find out what went wrong and how I can accomplish my task? I realize that I could just rebuild the plugin, but that won't tell me what broke or how to prevent it from happening again.
