DNS-321 Torrent Permission Errors

First, I hope this is the right area. The DNS-321 is a NAS, but since the problem I'm encountering seems to be Linux-based, not the NAS itself, I'm posting it here.

Anyway. The DNS-321 is hackable to do some lightweight Linux stuff, using Fonz Fun Plug ( Directions here). I then install Transmission 2.03 ( directions here) and start torrenting. I give folder permission to user "nobody" in group "501", and for the most part is works. I can fully manipulate torrent files whether they are a single file or if they were a group of files in the torrent.

However, when I restart my laptop I run into my problem. If the torrent was a single file, I still have full control over it. However, if it's a new folder created I get "You need permission to perform this action; you require permission from Unix User/Nobody to make changes to this file. In short, if it's "Torrents/Blargh.mkv" I have full read/write/rename control over Blargh.mkv. However, if it's something like "Torrents/FolderOfBlahhhh/Blahhhh01.mkv", I cannot cut, remove, or rename Blahhhh01.mkv. I can, however, rename "FolderOfBlahhhh", but not delete it.



Here's a complete list of the steps I took to do FFP and Transmission. Brackets are little sidenotes and not part of the actual input

I log into Telnet via Putty.

Code:

pwconv 

passwd

[I insert my password]

usermod -s /ffp/bin/sh root

login     [I login using user root and my personal password]

store-passwd.sh

chmod a+x /ffp/start/sshd.sh

sh /ffp/start/sshd.sh start

chmod -x /ffp/start/telnetd.sh

I then close the Telnet Putty and start up a SSH Putty. I install Tranmission 2.03 and the required files as per instructions. My configuration is as follows

Code:

su nobody -c "transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon -t -u [I insert username here] -v [I insert password here] -a 127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*"     [I use a username/password that's part of the usergroups in the NAS]

I restart SSH after this step]

Code:

chown -R nobody:501 /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon

chown -R nobody:501 /mnt/HD_a2/Torrents

I check permissions

Code:

ls /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon -l
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   501          4096 Jul 30 08:53 blocklists
-rw-------    1 nobody   501           544 Aug  7 19:20 dht.dat
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   501          4096 Aug 10 19:51 resume
-rw-------    1 nobody   501          1895 Aug 10 10:15 settings.json
-rw-------    1 nobody   501           158 Aug 10 19:51 stats.json
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   501          4096 Aug 10 13:06 torrents
-rw-r--r--    1 nobody   501          1614 Aug 10 10:14 transmission-daemon.log
root@GregBox1:~# ls /mnt/HD_a2/Torrents -l
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   501          4096 Aug 10 16:02 Heroic Age [Blu-Ray 720p]
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   501          4096 Aug 10 10:19 The.Forbidden.Kingdom

At this point everything is well and good. I can manipulate anything in Windows Explorer. I can even go into the transmission-daemon config folder and view/edit settings.js0n. However, once I restart my computer and login into Win7 using my Windows username/password, I get denied.


So... I know it's almost TL;DR, but anyone have a clue? The workaround I'm using is to reset to default and reinstall FFP, but I'm getting annoyed with that.

 

Sounds like the share is being mounted with the wrong directory mask (permissions mask) and the user mounting it is not the same as the (nobody) owner. You can set the dirmask to 0777 and it will give everyone read/write access to it.

For example in my fstab I have a samba share that has the option (this is to mount a remote share):

Code:

dir_mode=0777

On another machine, I share a public folder and here's the excerpt from smb.conf (this is to share to other computers):

Code:

[public]
   comment = public
   read only = no
   locking = no
   path = /home/groceries/public
   guest ok = yes
   browseable = yes
   writeable = yes
   create mask = 777
   directory mask = 777
   public = yes

 

Hope I'm not asking too much, but what commands do I use to do that? This is the first time I've ever used Linux. Is it chmod?

Or maybe I'll reload FFP--to get access to settings.js0n back again--and modify the text file itself.

 

I'm not sure if it is your problem, it just sounds like you have the wrong dirmask and/or the account you're using to log in has no permissions for that folder. You can edit /etc/samba/smb.conf (if one exists), or tweak that json config file but I'm not sure where it would go in that. You might try posting on the forum that you linked to, since there are probably more people who know your setup there...

 

I already posted there, but the expert guy isn't there at the moment, and the help I've been getting from the other people hasn't turned out so well. Well, I'll keep plunking around.

 

Try a chmod -R 777 /mnt/HD_a2/Torrents and that should work for stuff you've already downloaded. But if you download new stuff and it doesn't let you in it's probably the directory mask.

 

Seems to be working again, after reinstalling everything. I set umask to 0. I'll what comes of it. Thanks for the help.