DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

KyleK wrote:

Check the download folder in the Transmission preferences, if it really is set to /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads.
Also check if that folder and its subfolders belongs to user nobody and group 501.
Check the user rights of the folders (should be 0755).

Also, try changing the "umask" option in your settings.json to 0. (Remember to properly quit Transmission first, otherwise your changes will be overwritten).

I have been struggling with the issue of being able to move / delete files from my download directory for quite a while now...and learnt some minor linuxish on the go from being totally lost to start with
But now after trying a bit I am really lost and have been googling&trying  solutions for half a day without success.

- DNS-323 with transmission v ?? (December 2010 something i installed it but since i can not start it can not see the version)
- Access with Windows 7 home premium (or whatever it was called) with thumbnail caching turned of via registry

- I have tried chmod 1777, chmod a=rwx, chmod 777, chmod 0777 without success - win 7 says the file is in use if i try to move it and if i try to delete it windows says it belongs to user nobody and i need permission for the action
- json unmask = 0 so that is not the issue

Users as below (user defined ones replaced with jada jada)

root@DNS-323:/# cat /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:Linux User,,,:/home/root://ffp/bin/sh
admin:x:500:500:Linux User,,,:/home/admin:/bin/sh
nobody:x:501:501:Linux User,,,:/home/nobody:/bin/sh
jadajada1:x:504:702:Administrators:/mnt/HD_a2/Hardware:/bin/sh
jadajada2:x:505:505:Linux User,,,:/mnt/HD_a2/Hardware:/bin/sh
sshd:x:33:33:sshd:/home/ftp:/bin/sh
jadajada3:x:506:702:Administrators:/mnt/HD_a2/Hardware:/bin/sh

Privilieges of download directory (files renamed  "jada jada")

root@DNS-323:/# ls -lah /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads
drwxr-xr-x   14 nobody   501          4.0k Feb 19 17:46 .
drwxrwxrwx    7 root     root         4.0k Dec 11 20:27 ..
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb 18 19:02 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb 18 19:10 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb  3 19:19 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb  3 19:20 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb  3 19:21 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb  3 19:25 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb  3 19:21 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb 19 16:44 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb  3 19:22 Jada jada
-rwxrwxrwx    1 nobody   703          4.4G Feb 10 05:09 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb 17 04:46 Jada jada
drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb 10 02:14 Jada jada
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   703          4.0k Feb 10 02:58 Jada jada

Also I can not start the daemon any more :-(
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Trying to start daemon after setting user nobody (to be sure) i get as below

root@DNS-323:/# /ffp/start/transmission.sh stop
Stopping transmission-daemon
killall: transmission-daemon: no process killed
root@DNS-323:/# chown -R nobody /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon
root@DNS-323:/# chown -R nobody /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads
root@DNS-323:/# /ffp/start/transmission.sh start
Starting transmission-daemon
root@DNS-323:/# /ffp/start/transmission.sh status
transmission-daemon not running

And the permissions for the damon and ffp

root@DNS-323:~# ls -l /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   501          4096 Nov 16 00:24 blocklists
-rw-------    1 nobody   703          1030 Feb 19 16:38 dht.dat
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   501          4096 Feb 19 16:38 resume
-rw-------    1 nobody   703          1983 Feb 19 16:38 settings.json
-rw-------    1 nobody   703           163 Feb 19 16:38 stats.json
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   501          4096 Feb 18 22:03 torrents
-rwxrwxrwx    1 nobody   501           184 Feb 19 23:05 transmission-daemon.log

root@DNS-323:~# ls -l /ffp/start/
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           52 Oct 25  2008 LOGIN.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           35 Oct 25  2008 SERVERS.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          203 Sep 29  2008 inetd.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          229 Apr 13  2009 kickwebs.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          223 Apr 13  2009 lighttpd.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          267 Apr 15  2008 mediatomb.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1468 Apr 15  2008 nfsd.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          526 Mar  2  2009 ntpd.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          160 Apr 15  2008 portmap.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          224 Mar  3  2009 rsyncd.sh
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          971 May 19  2009 sshd.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          383 Sep 29  2008 syslogd.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          169 Sep 29  2008 telnetd.sh
-rwxr-x---    1 root     root          763 Nov 26 02:53 transmission.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          998 Feb 26  2009 unfsd.sh

I hope some wizard can help me getting this running again :-)


Regards
Boogieman

Last edited by Boogieman (2011-02-20 00:10:41)

scaramanga wrote:

Why are all these files owned by nobody with group 703? It should be 501.
use chown nobody:501 to change file ownership and group of those files.

What does the transmission-daemon.log file say?

WOW, that was a quick answer - thanks :-)

1.
    I dont know how, maybe I have mixed up chown with chmod command sometime when I was trying to get it to work?
    To be honest I initially thought 501 was permission settings (chmod) until i saw kyleks post and checked security in Win7 and
    found "unix group/501", "unix user/nobody" and "everyone".
    But I didn't know how to set the group until your explanation, so thanks again for learning me something new

    Shall all below directories have user:group = nobody:501
# /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon
# /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads

How about /ffp/start/  ?
Can/should I set that to nobody:501 as well?

When I installed transmission i did it without user:pass (as below) - does that matter?
# su nobody -c "transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon -w /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads -T -a 127.0.0.1,192.168.1.*"


2. The transmission-daemon.log says

root@DNS-323:/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon# vi transmission-daemon.log
[23:27:40.368] Couldn't read "/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon/settings.json": Permission denied
[23:27:40.369] transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. (daemon.c:458)

Sounds like permission issues right?

I will try changing to nobody:501 on below to start with
# /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon
# /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads

3.
Have changed # /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads now:
The strange thing is that the FILES does have FULL access rights in Win7 but the folder have no rights at all (nothing ticked) for any of the listed users ("unix group/501", "unix user/nobody" and "everyone"), as if noone has right to access them
Even after changing to nobody:501 by

#chown -R nobody:501 /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads

I can change the file names, but not the folder names so it seems to be right that it is wrong, but why
It is only the folders that Win7 complains about being used by another user. I am really confused why this happens?

EDIT:
Now I got permission for all downloaded files by doing below

chown -R nobody:501 /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads
chmod -R 777 /mnt/HD_b2/Downloads

Maybe a bit to unrestrictive permission settings but at least i know it works now - seems like i had to set the right user before i used chmod for RWX access.... though everything looks exactly the same with ls -l before and after the chmod -R above
....Strange but good that it worked



Huge regards
Boogieman

Last edited by Boogieman (2011-02-20 03:39:36)

Have you changed the user from nobody to jadajada in the /ffp/start/transmission.sh script?
This means that now the transmission-daemon is running with user jadajada permissions instead of the nobody user. That means that the owner of the files/directories should be jadajada, not nobody.
type "id jadajada" to see to which group (gid) the user belongs, and set permissions accordingly.

Read about permissions and ownership here: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/htm … 03_04.html

...and stop messing with the box if you're not having fun .

Last edited by scaramanga (2011-02-20 10:36:48)

Hello,
I have installed transmission V2.21, all is working fine, I can download and also upload.

But in the web UI, the DL and UL speed are always at 0 Kb/s which is false because it is downloading and uploading

Is this a known bug or did I miss something?
thank you

Hm, very weird. I had the same problem a couple of days ago, and tried older versions (mainly 2.20 betas) to see when it occurred first. But when I installed 2.21 again, all was back to normal.

I can't really explain what's going on. Have you tried restarting Transmission?

I've never seen that issue, but I run transmission-remote. I haven't checked the actual Transmission GUI.

Restarting Transmission fixed the bandwidth display problem only for few hours on my DNS-320. I was not aware that this is only the display stats problem. I didn't check my router, so I was thinking that Transmission has stoped all download and upload after 2-3 hours. So I downgraded to 2.13-1, the version that was running before the upgrade. It's still running 2.13-1 and I will wait for the next update.
Without transmission I don't think I will use these D-Link products.
Cheers! Great work!

Excuse my English, please!

Same issue, a restart fixes the speed problems but only temporarily

for now i guess a work around would be a cron to restart tranmission every 3 hours

Hi all,

For French community, you'll find in attachment the french translated version of Transmission 2.21's web interface.
Translated by me.

How to install :
Simply replace the content of directory /ffp/share/transmission/web/

Have fun!

Last edited by sil51 (2011-02-27 18:44:24)

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Attachments:
transmission-2.21-1_web_fr.zip, Size: 171,120 bytes, Downloads: 440

Hello all

I am new to the community and new to the DNS-323 (firmware 1.09) and Transmission 2.21.

My installation has been running flawlessly for weeks now, but just the other night I rebooted the DNS-323 and now the Transmission daemon would start and after a few minutes have passed it would automatically stop. I start the daemon again and again it stops after a few minutes.

Anybody else ever run into this issue or have a solution?

Thanks

Last edited by mortiferous (2011-03-02 21:31:10)

KyleK wrote:

It's probably a permisson issue.

Type this on the console:

Code:

$ transmission-remote --session-info

and check if the download directory is the correct one.

It is essential that your Transmission settings are stored on either one of the harddrives, otherwise all data is lost on reboot.

Thanks for the quick response. I will give that a try tonight and post my results.

I changed the rpc port in settings.json to the default 9091 and it now works. I am able to access the WEBUI of Transmission.

Anybody have any ideas how come it suddenly stopped working on another port when I never had issues before?

Thanks