Transmission, unable to delete file within CIFS share

[Rob Cook]

I've been searching the forums for hours now and I keep running into dead threads or roadblocks.

I have Transmission setup and working, I can download a torrent but I can't gain permissions without using the shell to set them so that I can delete the file from my CIFS share. All other files in the share work correctly.

I think that if I could set my umask to '0' I would be set however vi won't go into insert mode from the shell even though I've managed to set the perms on settings.json to 777 (the file does have a * at the end of it however). Specifically I can get into insert mode but I cant delete the '18' entry and replace it with '0'.

Suggestions?

 

[HolyK]

Set umask of the transmission user to "0" :]

"vi" following file:

/<transmission_path>/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home/settings.json

and set "umask" to "0"

"umask": 0,

Save and restart Transmission service.

All new downloads will have 777 :]

 

[Rob Cook]

I understand how to edit the file my issue is that I can't as in the system won't let me

Code:

                         
[root@freenas ~]# jexec 3 /bin/tcsh                                           
root@bit_1:/ # cd /usr/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home/           
root@bit_1:/usr/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home # ls             
Downloads      resume          stats.json                                     
blocklists      settings.json  torrents                                       
root@bit_1:/usr/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home # ll             
total 119                                                                     
drwxrwxrwx  2 1002          1002    2 Sep 28 11:30 Downloads/                 
drwxrwxrwx  2 1002          1002    2 Sep 28 11:31 blocklists/               
drwxrwxrwx  2 1002          1002    2 Sep 28 12:49 resume/                   
-rw-------  1 transmission  1002  2328 Sep 28 13:46 settings.json             
-rw-------  1 transmission  1002  143 Sep 28 12:54 stats.json                 
drwxrwxrwx  2 1002          1002    2 Sep 28 12:49 torrents/                 
root@bit_1:/usr/pbi/transmission-amd64/etc/transmission/home #     

So the settings.json file has 600 perms. I can change that to 777 perms but I still can't edit the file as in when I 'vi settings.json' I am UNABLE to make changes even after entering into insert mode. I can't delete/edit/change the file. Do I need to also chgrp on settings.json?

Suggestions?

 

[SmallGuy]

Just a little bit of strategy:

http://forums.freenas.org/threads/transmission-cifs-share-and-permissions-my-solution.15390/

 

[Whattteva]

I think you need to stop the service before you do any editing.

 

[HolyK]

Don't go inside jail via jexec. Just edit it directly from the host system under root. And yes, the service might need to be stopped before editing. I am not sure if i had it stopped when i was doing this, i don't remember :]