Time Capsule Permissions Error with Torrent Client

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Time Capsule Permissions Error with Torrent Client

Hi all.. i'm having a problem with using my torrent client with Time capsule and i'm wondering if anyone can help me at all?

I am using time caspsule as a wireless external hard drive with my macbook pro. And i'm using it to store my torrent files and as a download foler for my torrents. Lately my torrent client(i've used both transmission and Utorrent) has been giving me permission/data missing errors.

What hapens when i start downloading a torrent is that it will start downloading for about 30 seconds and then gives an error saying either permission denied or data missing.

I'm assuming this is happening because somewhere there are permissions on the time capsule that prevents the torrent client from reading and writing to it.

However when i bring up the info on any folders in the time capsule it clearly startes that i have read/write permissions for all user types.

That being said, i notice that when i bring up the information window of the time capsule as a whole(similair to viewing an external hard drive info) and view the permissions, i notice that permissions for 'unkown' users are 'read/write', however permissions for 'everyone' are 'no access'. i'm not sure if this is contributing to the torrent client error. When i try to change the permission for 'everyone' a messafe comes up saying that i don't have priveledges to change the setting! and i can't figure out how to change this setting. i'm not even sure if this is what i need to change tho.

I am the only user for this time capsule and my macbook pro is the only computer connected to it. i am using airport to connecr to it and i ccess internet through it. I can still transfer files and open up files on the time capsule through my macbook pro. i can access everything on it, it's just that both transmission and utorrent seem to be having trouble accessing the files on it due to some permissions settings which i must need to chang to allow access. however tranmission / utorrent have no issues with dealing with torrent files on my hard drive on my macbook pro, so i;m sure its not an issue with te torrrent client itself.

Any help would be much appreciated!

thanks!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), utorrent / transmission

Posted on Dec 14, 2011 6:36 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 14, 2011 7:51 PM in response to rehanfromst peters

Just go to the disk file sharing page, turn on guest access and give it full permissions for read and write.

But let me say this is probably a poor way to do things.. All the files you collect are actually being loaded into temporary files on the MBP and then copied across to the TC.. in the end you may as well just use the MBP to do your torrenting.. and once you have the files, move them across the TC.

We have also had issues with the TC dropping off the network on the latest firmware. So what you might be seeing is issues with afp connection to the TC.. open the log and see if you get loads of connection and disconnections from the IP of the MBP.. if so you are seeing the issue we are having.

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Answer 2

Dec 15, 2011 4:51 PM in response to LaPastenague

Many thanks for help LP....

I had tried granting acces to guest through aiport utilities before and i still had the same issue ...

i went in and did another reset (perhaps the changes weren't saved before). I then tried changing my torrent settings to trash torrent files upon launch. somehow it seems to be working ok now .... not sure exaclty why it's working now ..i dunno.. maybe becasue i was saving the torrent files themselves to the TC... that being said it was working for a while before i made these changes and then suddenly stopped.. so perhaps it could happen again?

but for now it seems ok ...

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