gvfs and permissions on a remote external usb drive

I have transmission and deluge (trying to see if it's a problem with the app) and I'm having the same problem with both of them. When torrenting. I get an error " Operation not supported (/run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=192.168.1.7,user=pi/media/ " when downloading a file. 1) My desktop machine has the torrent program on it (deluge / transmission) and it's connected to my raspberry pi (via ssh) which has an external usb drive connected to it. 2) I'm trying to run transmission on my desktop but have all the files go to the external usb drive located / connected to my raspberry pi. This worked on 14.04LTS but I can't seem to get it to work on 16.04 LTS. I created the group **torgrp** and placed the users in it but still I get the " Operation not supported (/run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=192.168.1.7,user=pi/media/ " when I do a ls -l drwxrwxrwx 14 pi torgrp 4096 Apr 22 10:46 media but when I download and check the rights of the file (see below) -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1485881344 Apr 22 10:46 ubuntu-16.04-desktop and the download stops after about 6meg and comes back with an error. **Please note the file size below says it's correct but it's just holding that amount of space for the full download** I also check to see if the users were in the group id pi uid=1000(pi) gid=1000(pi) groups=1000(pi),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),60(games),100(users),105(netdev),999(input),1002(spi),1003(gpio),1004(torgrp) Any ideas how to fix this?