Transmission user?

[nomad101]

Hi

I’ve seen similar posts, so sorry if this is obvious but I couldn’t figure it out.

On my homeserver box, I’ve set up transmission and can login fine on the gui with root:globalpassword.

I also wanted to download files on a different folder than the default, so used:

chmod -r debian-transmission:dietpi myfolder

I also want to mount this folder locally on my mx linux pc on same network, with permissions to edit, using this command:

sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions debian-transmission@192.xxx.x.xxx:/myfolder /mnt/myfolderpc

I’m assuming this is the correct command? And it asks me for password, and I assume I would use global password, but that doesn’t work.

Can you advise please?

Thanks

[Joulinar]

@nomad101

debian-transmission@192.xxx.x.xxx

you are trying to use user debian-transmission. But this will not work, because this user is a service user only, and can’t be used to login. You could try using user dietpi instead

[nomad101]

Hi, do you mean dietpi as the user:
chmod -r dietpi:dietpi myfolder

dietpi was the original user for myfolder and I had an error on Transmission when downloading to this folder. And when I changed user to debian-transmission it works.

Otherwise, when leaving it as user debian-transmission, and using the command on my pc:
sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions dietpi@192.xxx.x.xxx:/myfolder /mnt/myfolderpc
I receive a message:
remote host has disconnected

[trendy]

The user that you provide in ssh command to get the directory over sshfs is not connected to the user who owns the directory. You can still have the debian-transmission as owner of the directory and the dietpi user can be able to read and write as member of the dietpi group.
Then use dietpi user for the sshfs.