Transmisson plugin deployment issue.

[Daniel Claesson]

Hi all,

I have tried to get the transmission plugin to work for several hours now. All attempts have failed.
My NAS is running FreeNAS-9.10-STABLE-201605021851

I have tried to follow the guides i have found online, but no luck. I have managed to get both owncloud and plex plugins up and running.

So why is transmission giving me so much trouble.

In my attempts to get transmission up and running it always fails on a permission "error", "permission denied to /Downloads". This happens as soon as the 4MB cache is filled, or at least i think it does.
Last attempt i triple check the jail storage and the dataset storage so they had the same permissions, default on both. User: root and Group: wheel.
Change any permission in the jail seem to break it and making it unable to start.

Is there a good guide to follow? I know i have missed something but i am unable to identify what.
Any know "noob" traps?

I have now undone everything and plan to start over, so any tips is much appreciated.

Best Regards
Daniel Claesson

 

[smiler86]

I'm on my phone and still very much a noob so this is my best guess. The transmission jail user defaults to a user named transmission. I'd think that has something to do with it. I'd actually recommend looking for Joshua Parker Ruelig's how to on setting up a download center. In that he recommend changing the transmission user to one called media and giving that user access to your media dataset. You also have to create that same user in the main gui to match your jail. I followed his setup and have sabnzbd, transmission, sonarr, couch potato and headphones all on the same jail. I just add movies and shows and it's all automated.

There's a lot of good info on the how to sections. I've burnt down and rebuilt my jails a few times so let me know if you need some more help.

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[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

I have a thread on permissions you should read. 'ls -l /Downloads' will show why transmission can't write there. I'm assuming you never set your download directory in transmission (this is the default) and this directory doesn't exist.

 

[Daniel Claesson]

Sorry all for late replay, it has been to nice weather here in Sweden not to take advantage of it and be outside.
But today, it's back to normal ;-)

@smiler86: Ok i will give that a try. i would be glad only to get transmission web interface up and running.

@Joshua Parker Ruehlig: I did "fiddle" a bit with that but it never worked for me, i guess i made something wrong. I will give this i try again today.

Best Regards
Daniel Claesson

 

[Daniel Claesson]

I managed to get it working today. Sort of at least.

- I created a new dataset called "download", a Windows one.
- Gave that one guest access.
- Add this as storage in the jail.
- Created the folder structures in the jail.
- Chmod 777 to the folders in the jail.
- In the plugin setup i matched the 777 access rights.

Voila it worked.

Now i only need to figure out how to reconfigure this so i has the same access in to my "media" dataset and a download folder. I tried to change the source in the jail storage but that didn't work. Same error as before.
Do i need to give my "media" dataset guest access?

Best Regards
Daniel Claesson

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Daniel,
the user transmission runs as needs write permission to its download folder.
'ls -l /path/to/folder' would show the folders permissions.

I have a thread that show possible solutions to this here.
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...plugins-write-permissions-to-your-data.27273/