Awesome JimmyN, that was what I was after, it's working perfectly now

Is there any way on this forum to give you some kudos ?

I don't know if this helps, but while I was trying some other things I ran mount (when logged in as pi) and this was the result: //192.168.20.1/usb0_1 on /mnt/NAS type cifs (rw,relatime,vers=1.0,cache=strict,username=pi,domain=BRCM-SAMBA_TEST,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168.20.1,unix,...

Here's the contents of /etc/fstab : proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 2 /dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 //192.168.20.1/usb0_1 /mnt/NAS cifs username=pi,password=raspberry 0 0 # a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here # use dphys-swapfile swap[on|of...

I'm trying to get my "NAS" working properly - really it's a USB HDD plugged into my router that I have mounted for the Pi to access. My ultimate objective is to get Transmission to write to the HDD directly, but I've got a more fundamental problem to fix first (maybe it's just my lack of understandi...

Some more information that might help : When a new torrent starts, there is a folder created (with permissions set to 777), but the files in the folder are 755. So now I know why it won't write. BUT .... when I set the umask in /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json so that it is 0 and restart the s...

I've got a Pi Model 2 running Raspian Wheezy. I've mapped a NAS and trying to get Transmission to write to the NAS. The NAS line in my /etc/fstab is: //192.168.20.1/usb0_1 /mnt/NAS cifs username=NF4V,password=NF4V 0 0 I want Transmission to write to /mnt/NAS/complete, at the moment that folder is ow...