Unexpected response: <h1>401: Unauthorized</h1>Unauthorized User

[bertybassett]

Anyone know what this means? I aim getting this in the docker terminal output/logs

I can open the transmission web page however no downloads start, its like the VPN is not up.

Synology
DSM 6 DSM 6.2.4-25556
The Private Internet server albaina or finland

was working last week

User name:   abc                                                                                     
User uid:    1026                                                                                    
User gid:    100                                                                                     
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STARTING TRANSMISSION                                                                                
Provider PIA has a script for automatic port forwarding. Will run it now.                            
If you want to disable this, set environment variable DISABLE_PORT_UPDATER=true                      
Transmission startup script complete.                                                                
Mon Oct 18 15:41:12 2021 /sbin/ip route add 31.171.154.121/32 via 172.17.0.1                         
Mon Oct 18 15:41:12 2021 /sbin/ip route add 0.0.0.0/1 via 10.7.112.1                                 
Mon Oct 18 15:41:12 2021 /sbin/ip route add 128.0.0.0/1 via 10.7.112.1                               
Mon Oct 18 15:41:12 2021 WARNING: OpenVPN was configured to add an IPv6 route ov                     
er tun0. However, no IPv6 has been configured for this interface, therefore the                      
route installation may fail or may not work as expected.                                             
Mon Oct 18 15:41:12 2021 Initialization Sequence Completed                                           
Running functions for token based port fowarding                                                     
Reserved Port: 20371  Mon Oct 18 15:41:19 UTC 2021                                                   
transmission auth required                                                                           
waiting for transmission to become responsive                                                        
Unexpected response: <h1>401: Unauthorized</h1>Unauthorized User                                     
Unexpected response: <h1>401: Unauthorized</h1>Unauthorized User                                     
Unexpected response: <h1>401: Unauthorized</h1>Unauthorized User 

[haugene]

The PIA provider has a script that automatically requests an open port and set it in Transmission.
This script communicates with Transmission via RPC so when you set a username/password for the WebUI you also have to provide it to the container for it to be able to set the port.

This is not well enough documented I see. In previous versions of the container all config had to be set with environment variables so then we knew if the user had enabled auth or not.

You can either disable the port-forwarder script as the logs say: If you want to disable this, set environment variable DISABLE_PORT_UPDATER=true or you can set the username/password like this:

TRANSMISSION_RPC_USERNAME=username
TRANSMISSION_RPC_PASSWORD=password

Note that we have had some issues when using special characters in either username or password. So if you still have issues with 401 after setting it, check your credentials and consider changing them.

[bertybassett]

Yes that fixed it.