Transmission

Well that definitely did it! I was editing the wrong file, the correct path is /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Thanks for all your help!

Well I realize one thing I was definitely doing wrong which was editing the file ~/.config/transmission/settings.json when I should have been editing ~/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json but once I realized this I went through and changed it appropriately and yet im still getting the 403 Forb...

Ok so I went back and stopped the daemon and made sure rpc was enabled and the whitelist was disabled, here is a copy of my settings : { "alt-speed-down": 50, "alt-speed-enabled": false, "alt-speed-time-begin": 540, "alt-speed-time-day": 127, "alt-speed-t...

No but I have tried it enabled and disabled with the same result

Ok you kinda lost me there at the end. So can I change the init.d script to startup like that, or do I have to make a different one? Like I said earlier the command transmission-daemon -p 9091 -f -T -a 192.168.2.4 works so if I could make it run that on startup that would be great, I just dont know ...

I changed it to true, stopping the daemon before doing so, and upon restart it still doesnt work.

I am still getting the msg even though stopped the daemon before changing it : brandon@server:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop [sudo] password for brandon: * Stopping bittorrent daemon transmission-daemon [ OK ] brandon@server:~$ sudo nano ~/.config/transmission/settings.json brandon@ser...

so every time i try to bring up the webui i get the following msg on my browser : 403: Forbidden Unauthorized IP Address. Either disable the IP address whitelist or add your address to it. If you're editing settings.json, see the 'rpc-whitelist' and 'rpc-whitelist-enabled' entries. If you're still u...