I feel like getting a VPN running for torrents should be the easiest fucking thing in the world but apparently not. With the amount of people using TrueNAS boxes for “linux iso’s” I’m astonished there isn’t a better solution for this. The only tutorials I’ve found for establishing a killswitch VPN f…

Attempted to get this working with mullvad but see the config file has the same variables so don’t expect anything different. Not sure how to adjust the compose for that though. Anyone have any luck with getting a VPN going for torrenting? This can’t be an uncommon issue…

Did you try this guide? It should be pretty easy to follow along [image] Guide: How to install qbittorrent (or any app) with vpn on Truenas Electric Eel TrueNAS General I wanted to posted my guide on how to use any app including qbittorrent with a VPN in the new Electric E…

Yes, I used this guide but the problem really is just I don’t know what I’m doing. :upside_down_face: I added the paths to Dockge as “additional storage” for configs and the torrent downloads folder, and while the VPN appears to be working (checked with the sample torrent from ipleak.net ), my test t…

Did you check if user 568 has the correct permissions set on the mountpaths, and if user 568 has permissions on the toplvl datases as well? If you’ve only set permissions on the child dataset but not on the datase one level above, user 568 can’t traverse the datasets and it will error out.

I don’t have a user with the UID 568 in credentials? [image] [image] [image] Don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Originally I had granted it to the full path /mnt/Data/Media/Downloads but changing it to /mnt/Data did not help.

build in users are hidden by default, there should be a slide button on the top right corner “show build-in users”

ah thats just the apps thing yea that should be set right… [image] This works fine with the native qbittorrent app. Just wont work inside Dockge

[image] johndanoob: This works fine with the native qbittorrent app. Just wont work inside Dockge For context, the owner on my side is root, then apps is given modify access with user flag. You also need to make sure your “run as” for the app is set the correct account, it might be running i…

PIA + qBittorrent in Dockge help (25.04.2.4)

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LarsR September 27, 2025, 7:54am 3

Did you try this guide? It should be pretty easy to follow along

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PIA + qBittorrent in Dockge help (25.04.2.4)

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