Guide: Setting up Recording to a PC or NAS

[Devilfish]

Try making the Recordings folder on the C: drive, not sure if you can mount to an external drive.

Does your external drive have an ethernet connection? So is it connected to your dreambox or router? If it's in a NAS enclosure then you need to select SMBFS as the filesystem and not CIFS, this is for a shared folder on a PC.

[westkill]

i have mine mounted to a usb drive encloser drive as it shows up in
start>computer as one of the hard disk drives
so in that drive create a folder as recordings and right click on it and share
then i used the web interface to mount it as a cifs
settings add your own ip address in pic 1

[Sig-gotyouth]

awesome. thanks weskill will try it once I get home... otherwise I might just ask someone to do it for me by connecting with remote assistance or something

<--Sig-gotyouth added 130 Minutes and 11 Seconds later...-->

ok followed that screen and it seems to be reading the drive now.. but it tells me:

Record stopped due to full harddisk. Delete some recordings and try again.


so is there anything else I have to do? I seem to have 253GB free accoring to the drive under my computer

[westkill]

is it showing the drive mounted, when you press the mount button on the web interface then says inaccessable storage

[Sig-gotyouth]

no its still red... but unlike the other mounts that say 0 the one i set up sais 1 under auto

I'll get the info on my box if that helps?

do I need to restart the dreambox?

westkill.. could u tell me the settings you have on your dreambox aswell...

[westkill]

heres a screen shot of mine 3rd up from the bottom

[westkill]

try restarting the usb drive, click the interface off, restart the dreambox
restart the interface and try mounting it again
if mounted you should see the size of the drive above the help button

[Sig-gotyouth]

Im not sure what Im doing wrong... I seem to have the same setup as you but I just have the dredded red x's. tried it sadly it didnt work... is there any chance i could trust you with my ip and you could enter my net interface to sort it for me?

[westkill]

mines stopped working as well now

[Sig-gotyouth]

haha... sorry . yeh I really dont understand what I done wrong... I sent ya a pm.. if you can help me, I'll then post in here what went wrong and what was the solution for fellow noobs

[westkill]

is there a reason why you canot do it on the main drive of your pc or are you using a laptop with not much memory
just trying to see if your box is networked ok
i got you pm

[Sig-gotyouth]

main drive wasnt working thats why I tried the external... thats it really.. and my desktop isnt short of memory... Im running through a router.. maybe theres another port besides 8080 and 80 that I need to open?

[westkill]

so what drive are you running your os off if main drive not working if you dont mind me asking

[Sig-gotyouth]

haha nooo. I mean I tried my main c: drive to get recording working but it didnt work so I tried the external drive option... seriousley it would be so much quicker through msn... but wwhatever haha

[Devilfish]

If you're about tomorrow afternoon I'll hop on MSN and we'll try and sort it.