Raspbian + Flash Drive + fstab

First off, you need to figure out the path of your flash drive:


fdisk -l

Then… edit /etc/fstab as follows:


/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat rw,user,umask=0002,uid=1001,gid=121 0 0

Note that umask is… the “inverted” regular file mask. This represents 665 (because we’re evil). As per uid + gid, you can figure it out by means of this command:


id username

Update:

The best filesystem to use, if you need to maintain compatibility between the Flash Drive you’ll use with your Raspberry, and macOS, is probably ExFat. Now, problem is: Linux doesn’t really support ExFat by default.

So, we’ll need to install it, as follows:


sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse

In such case, your /etc/fstab file should look like this:


/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash exfat. rw,user,umask=0002,uid=1001,gid=121 0 0

Raspberry + Samba

Installing Samba:


apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

Once there, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf as follows:


workgroup = [your_workgroup_name]

[SHARE-NAME]
comment=Samba Share
path=/PATH/TO/YOUR/SHARE
browseable=Yes
writeable=Yes
only guest=no
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public=no

At last, setup the Samba password:


smbpasswd -a YOUR_USERNAME

Raspberry + Transmission

Let’s begin with the basics. We’ll need to upgrade the system to the latest, and update the apt-get database. Once ready, we’ll proceed with the transmission’s daemon + cli binaries, as follows:


sudo
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon transmission-remote-cli

Authentication:
By default, transmission requires you to setup username / password. Since our goal is *not* to expose Transmission to the open internet (and we’ll only use it via SSH), we’ll simply neutralize any kind of authentication:


nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Once there, edit this snippet:


rpc-authentication-required: false

Logging:
We want Transmission to keep an events log. Anything that goes wrong during setup… must be persisted, otherwise, debugging it will be a nightmare.

The only way i’ve found to set this up, is by means of the Daemon Service Descriptor:


nano /lib/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service

Once there, you want to add the logfile’s path. Make sure that the file exists, and Transmission’s user has enough permissions to edit it:


OPTIONS="--config-dir $CONFIG_DIR --logfile /var/log/transmission.log"

Filesystem Permissions:

Transmission’s user is specified in the transmission-daemon.service descriptor (which is debian-transmission). So… you really wanna make sure whatever shared folder you end up using, belongs to Transmission’s group.


usermod -a -G debian-transmission YOUR_USER
chgrp debian-transmission /DOWNLOADS/PATH
chmod 770 /DOWNLOADS/PATH

Magnets!

In order to begin downloading a magned, try the following:


transmission-remote-cli
(And press 'A')

Restarting Stopped

Last tip: If you need to restart all of your downloads at once, this command becomes quite handy:


transmission-remote -t all -s

Raspbian: Disabling Graphic Mode

Why: because i’m setting up my Raspberry as a private server, and i really don’t need the XWindow overhead!

How: As follows!


systemctl get-default

Verify that the output is: graphical.target.
Now… type the following!


sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target

Ref. Here

Update:

Simpler way? just run raspi-config and change the setting right there!