Transmission

I added debian-transmission user to my user (admin) group and now it works.
But the owner of the file is still root.

Thanks for your reply,

The command ps -ef | grep trans returns that transmission-daemon is running under user 104 which is debian-transmission

I am now testing with the download folder on a the local folder (no samba mount) and I still have the same problem...

Thanks for your reply. I am on ubuntu server, so I stop the daemon with sudo (sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop). Start/stop transmission daemon is only allowed with sudo (root). The folder is mounted with debian-transmission user, the files are owned by debian-transmission user and group (c...

If I do a top-u debian-transmission, I have transmission-daemon running with debian-transmission user.

In /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon, I have USER=debian-transmission.
So transmission-daemon should start with debian-transmission right?

But how do I change the user who's running the daemon? It starts by default at ubuntu boot.

Hi everyone, I have read a lot of posts on the permission denied problem but none solved my problem. I have transmission-daemon running on ubuntu server 10.04. I acces it via the WebUI. The download folder is a Samba shared folder that I mounted with debian-transmission user. When I had a torrent, t...