Unable to connect through GUI

[danielle123]

Hello,
I'm new to creating torrents and need some help.

I have a server where I have transmission running on linux. So far I haven't been able to connect to the web interface.

I was able to get transmission installed, and I have it running and I did try to set a username and password. I used both transmission-daemon -u username -v password and transmission-remote -n username: password but when I go to http://server-ip:9091 I am asked for a username and password and the username and password that I set doesn't work.

If you have any suggestions as to what additional steps I need to take, that would be greatly appreciated!

Danielle

[gunzip]

it seems you installed the Debian or Ubuntu package which already has automatic startup (init) scripts.

try this:

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# /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop
# killall transmission-daemon

then edit the file /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json to specify desired changes:

"rpc-password":
"rpc-username":

then start the daemon:

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# /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start

remember to always STOP the daemon when editing settings.json or the changes won't persist.