Transmission

G'day All,

Forgive the newbie question. I'm trying to run Transmission in headless mode via the web interface. I can access the interface on the sever itself via localhost:9091 but I cannot access it from another host on the LAN. The machines can communicate otherwise. I have set "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false but cannot connect via IP:port.

Any suggestions as to where to look next?

Ta,

It was a firewall issue.

Assuming that your computer isn't running a firewall on its own. You're not able to access the interface from another host because the default settings only local access (only the host machine).

In the config file: /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json

rpc-whitelist "127.0.0.1,*.*.*.*"

Add in the following: *.*.*.* to allow ANY ip to access the web interface, or set it for your local network; for example, 192.168.*.*.

Finally, reload your configuration changes. DO NOT restart the service, it will undo your changes.

service transmission-daemon reload