Transmission

Hi Folks,
I'm using Ubuntu (Precise Pangolin) and just installed transmission daemon. This thing has been driving me crazy!

I edited my settings.json in /etc/transmission-daemon/

and set the following:

"rpc-whitelist": "192.168.*.*",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,

The settings.json only appears in /etc/transmission-daemon. I checked ~/.config/transmission-daemon/, /root/.config/transmission-daemon and /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info. There are no other instances of the settings.json.
and voila in my browser when I tried to access it remotely:

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 using ACLs, use a whitelist instead. See the transmission-daemon manpage for details.

Everything works when I use localhost, but I can't seem to be able to access it remotely. I've been Googling all the threads on the topic and applied all the solutions but they don't seem to work.

Any help would be most appreciated.

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cheers,
Peter

Make sure you're editing the correct settings file. Check how transmission-daemon is started. There's a command-line switch that may be used to override this.
Make sure transmission-daemon is down BEFORE editing settings.json.

Hi Maki.ato,

Could you please be more specific?

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Cheers,
Peter

No takers?

How come one codes a software that looks for configuration files in multiple locations? Beats me!

There are so many folks out there who get this stupid message. This should be straightforward to fix...

In the meantime, I reached a dead end!

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Cheers,
Peter.