Transmission file permission

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I have a USB drive attached to my OpenWRT router which I have mapped under Windows (Samba installed on the router)...

I have Transmission installed on my router and the download folder is on the same NAS drive.

I can read/write any file on the NAS drive from Windows except everything file/folder inside the Transmission download folder. I havent tried any workarounds so far as I'm not an experienced user and don't wanna screw something up.

How can I delete files downloaded by Transmission (deleting them from the Transmission web interface is out of the question as whenever the router restarts the download list disappears)

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check the permissions on the transmission dir(s), and the umask for transmission files and folders ?

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Not sure how to do that. Are there any terminal commands? I'm a basic user but wont mind some fiddling...

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from ssh ls -ld <the transmission folder>

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I did this but still no luck. Is a reboot needed or something?

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The transmission folder will only allow reading in the folder for non-root users.

A chmod 777 /mmt/sdc/transmission will get you write permission in the folder, but we don't know anything about the subfolders.
Do they have the same drwxr-xr-xr ?

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fixed it already with the following

root@OpenWrt:/mnt/sdc/transmission/done# chmod 777 */
root@OpenWrt:/mnt/sdc/transmission/done# find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} +
root@OpenWrt:/mnt/sdc/transmission/done#

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This might only work for already existing folders, not new ones.

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I don't know what to do in this case?

This is how permissions look like

root@OpenWrt:/mnt/sdc/transmission# drwxrwxrwx 22 transmis transmis

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do the chmod again, or change the umask parameter in the transmission config, it's probably 022, but you want it to be 000.

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umask parameter is 18

I will change it to 000

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