Help me understand something, please

[Dylan]

Three devices, same network. Laptop, router, NAS. NAS connected to router via ethernet, lappy is wireless.

When I DL a Linux ISO from my laptop (via local torrenting software) and direct the file to be written to a directory on the NAS, it almost always fails. I say almost because I think it's worked once or twice but at the time was attempting to solve other issues. Every other time it errors out. I can attempt to recreate to share the error, but is there something fundamental that I am missing that would prevent me from doing this?

[Theo]

@Dylan so the issue is;

Torrent downloader on laptop
Download location / folder on NAS
Downloads fail to download to the NAS?

[Dylan]

Just now, Theo said:

Downloads fail to download to the NAS?

Correct. I'll kick one off here and reply with the error.

[Theo]

Got it, first thing that would come to mind is if it's directly downloading to the NAS but over wireless, if there's connection issues that could be causing failed packets ect.

Firstly, any reason you've chosen not to load the Downloader onto the NAS?

If not the manual option is to download direct to the laptop, then manually move over (Or add a completed download location if your downloader supports it)

Although, a simpler was would be to use the ARR's to simplify the process.

[Jack Kennedy West]

Is the download location using a mapped drive? I. E. It had a drive letter etc. Or is it using \\servername\directory etc?

 

[Dylan]

here is the ISO file name that I've removed followed by

Now, here's the thing...the above error repeats so many times that it finally dies with:

Why the hell would a torrent error out on a .srt file? This happens ALL the time.

[Dylan]

7 minutes ago, Jack Kennedy West said:

Or is it using \\servername\directory etc?

Using Linux so: smb://bigboy.local/shows/

Where bigboy is the NAS.

[Dylan]

20 minutes ago, Theo said:

Although, a simpler was would be to use the ARR's to simplify the process.

The ARR's scare me...it's like witchcraft.

[Theo]

4 minutes ago, Dylan said:

here is the ISO file name that I've removed followed by

Now, here's the thing...the above error repeats so many times that it finally dies with:

Why the hell would a torrent error out on a .srt file? This happens ALL the time.

This looks like a permission error / it can't find & open the folder on the NAS?

[Theo]

3 minutes ago, Dylan said:

The ARR's scare me...it's like witchcraft.

Scared me once, now i can't live without them haha

[Theo]

5 minutes ago, Dylan said:

Using Linux so: smb://bigboy.local/shows/

Where bigboy is the NAS.

Maybe try a direct connect using the server ip instead of the hostname, just curious if it might help.

Also you're definitely logged in with write permission to that space correct?

[Dylan]

Yes, as it worked on a few rando files and I'll def try the direct connect and see what happens.

DM me an ARR's link to de-mystify this sorcery, please and thank you!!

[PsychoWards]

What distro are you using and can you share your fstab entry for the smb mount? (or however you are mounting your samba share)

[Jack Kennedy West]

7 hours ago, Dylan said:

Yes, as it worked on a few rando files and I'll def try the direct connect and see what happens.

DM me an ARR's link to de-mystify this sorcery, please and thank you!!

I can help you with ARRs setup if you like. Feel free to DM me

[Dylan]

22 hours ago, PsychoWards said:

What distro are you using and can you share your fstab entry for the smb mount? (or however you are mounting your samba share)

Mint 22 and no fstab entry, only use Nemo (file browser) to browse up/down load my files once they are pulled down locally via my lappy.

 

[PsychoWards]

Do you have the possibility to set the smb version? Can you force to use V3?

[Dylan]

12 hours ago, PsychoWards said:

Do you have the possibility to set the smb version? Can you force to use V3?

Man, I've fallen down a rabbit hole but have learned a bit here. I think @Theo was right about a permissions issue. I found out that when you mount a Samba share from your file manager it goes into gvfs. But if you mount a Samba share through fstab, it goes into /media. So, rather then chase down changing permission via

/run/user/1000/gvfs

I think I'll instead make an entery in fstab and see what happens.

I can't believe others haven't commented on this before... 

[PsychoWards]

Mounting using fstab would have been my next advice, but I couldn't edit my post anymore so I was waiting for your feedback first. Keep us posted if it helps 😃 

[Dylan]

39 minutes ago, PsychoWards said:

Mounting using fstab would have been my next advice, but I couldn't edit my post anymore so I was waiting for your feedback first. Keep us posted if it helps 😃 

I sure will and appreciate your help - really. This issue just bugs me and HAS to be easily solved

[Mobius]

i do love the arr stack, i don't use them to download anything
but i use them to rename my linux ISOs

[Dylan]

46 minutes ago, Mobius said:

i do love the arr stack, i don't use them to download anything
but i use them to rename my linux ISOs

Yeah but getting a DL to run directly on the NAS, saving the slower wifi step of lappy -> NAS would be HUGE.

[Dylan]

On 2/9/2025 at 6:49 PM, PsychoWards said:

Mounting using fstab would have been my next advice, but I couldn't edit my post anymore so I was waiting for your feedback first. Keep us posted if it helps 😃 

I finally got a chance to do some more digging. Turns out my file manager, Nemo, (Linux Mint) uses GVfs which mounts SMB shares via

/run/user/1000/gvfs

but not statically nor with appropriate permissions to torrent TO that location. So I made entries in fstab to /mnt but was still having issues before realizing that for permanent shares /media is the correct directory. Once fstab reflected those changes, I appear to be humming along nicely.

//bigboy.local/shows /media/shows cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.1.1,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
//bigboy.local/movies /media/movies cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.1.1,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

Permissions and fstab were the right moves - the tthing that threw me off was GVfs and how it handles smb shares upon user login. Weird.

[Mobius]

On 2/9/2025 at 10:04 PM, Dylan said:

Yeah but getting a DL to run directly on the NAS, saving the slower wifi step of lappy -> NAS would be HUGE.

i don't disagree