Permission denied when downloading with transmission daemon

I installed Xubuntu and transmission daemon, set the download path to my home/user/TV shows, and get a permission denied when trying to download torrents through the transmission.

I tried chmod -r 777 on this folder without success.

Please help!

Following is the output of ps -ef | grep transmission

chen@htpc:~$ ps -ef | grep transmission
109       1023     1  1 21:46 ?        00:00:35 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info

chen@htpc:~$ ps aux | grep transmission
109       1023  3.2  0.4  47684 16620 ?        Ssl  21:46   1:20     /usr/bin/transmission-daemon --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info
chen      1852  0.0  0.0   4200   772 pts/0    S+   22:27   0:00 grep --color=auto transmission

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Solution 1:

Assuming the path to the download folder is /home/chen/TV shows, run the following:

• add chen to the debian-transmission group

  sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission chen
  

• change the folder ownership

  sudo chgrp debian-transmission /home/chen/TV\ shows
  

• grant write access to the group

  sudo chmod 770 /home/chen/TV\ shows
  

• Stop the deamon with

  sudo service transmission-daemon stop
  

• The last thing to do is change the file creation mask, so that the downloaded files would be writeable by chen.

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

  … and change "umask": 18 to "umask": 2. Hit Ctrl+O to save and Ctrl+X to exit.

Start the daemon with

sudo service transmission-daemon start

Solution 2:

Check if you're using an "incomplete" folder. The error can be misleading in this case and it may be the incomplete folder you do not have write access to.

Solution 3:

This is a permission issue based on the user ID that is running Transmission. Transmission sets up a default user that you might not expect on first install. The user name is debian-transmission.

I will explain how to change that:

1. Stop the Transmission daemon sudo service transmission-daemon stop
2. Open the Transmission config file for editing: sudo nano /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
3. Find the line that says USER=debian-transmission and change it to the user that owns the folder in question. If you are not concerned about security issues, you can also use USER=root in this file. (Not advised, but good for troubleshooting).
4. Alternatively (instead of point number 3), modify the /etc/fstab folder to mount the folder with correct permissions for the user that runs the transmission-daemon.
5. Start the Transmission daemon sudo service transmission-daemon start