[SOLVED] "Permission Denied"; seeding Symbolic Link torrent

[elBradford]

I have a bunch of albums I've uploaded to a tracker in the past. Instead of having two copies I decided to try to just create a symlink to the copy that's in my music library folders. I created the symlink using

ln -s <file directory>

while in my download directory.

The file ownership is root:users, with transmission-daemon a member of the users group. File permissions are 775 all around. The symlink ownership was root:root but I changed it to root:users with "chgrp -h" and its permissions are 777 of course.

When I download the torrent file to start seeding, my client (transmission-remote) shows the error as "Permission Denied". Am I missing something here?

BTW, I'm running transmission-cli on Ubuntu. Thanks for any advice,

Bradford

[elBradford]

It looks like it was simply a problem with the files - maybe it was just the date that changed, but I guess the hash was different. When I recreated the torrent of the symlink it worked like a charm.