Guide: Setting up Recording to a PC or NAS

[dinarshad]

will this work with a router?

[Iano]

FYI, the settings above worked fine for my Buffalo Linkstation Live, but I had to change the filesystem to 1 = CIFS when I upgraded the NAS to a Buffalo TeraStation Live.

[dreadz123]

i have a 3.5" lan hdd enclosure -it has support for usb and ethernet on the case. can i use this to connect direct to dm500c and record or do i have to connect this to my router and go that way round?

i would rather try and set this directly to dm500c as my wireless router is quite some distance away and would mean having to route more cable around living room and stairs.

is that possible?

[Devilfish]

You can connect it straight to your dreambox.

Just need to configure it on the PC first with an ip address that will match the dreambox when it's connected.

Make sure you've created a folder on the NAS while it's connected to the PC.

Use the admin account and password when setting up the mount.

[dreadz123]

trying my best to get this on my nas drive. i have changed my ip address on drive so that matches similar to dreambox.created a shared drive, whilst it was on my pc.
tried connecting and setting up via above method and cannot mount- tried samba, nfs,cifs???

cant seem to find web interface as above whne connecting to box? can ftp and everything to box and drive so that is not the problem. tried allsorts of setting but to know avail? using the dk1 image?

anyhelp would be appreciated thanks

[Devilfish]

Always use SMBFS if mounting to a NAS drive.

Remember to use the ip address of the NAS.

Remember to use the account 'admin' and the admin password when mounting; no need to create a new account.

I assume your NAS is connected to your router?

[forrestlee]

I have a linkstation pro. So I followed "Recording to a NAS", but failed. The icon is still red(should become green).

I install samba in my linkstation(freelink_arm9-1.0rev2 from linkstation wiki forum).

I also tried use telnet to mount, also failed:

root@dreambox:~> mount -t smbfs -o user=root,passwd=liyun //192.168.1.103/share/movie /var/mnt/hdd
mount: Mounting //192.168.1.103/share/movie on /var/mnt/hdd failed: Invalid argument

root@dreambox:~> mount -t nfs -o nolock 192.168.1.103:/share/movie /var/mnt/hdd mount: 192.168.1.103:/share/movie failed, reason given by server: Permission denied
mount: nfsmount failed: Bad file descriptor
mount: Mounting 192.168.1.103:/share/movie on /var/mnt/hdd failed: Invalid argument

root@dreambox:~> smbmount //192.168.1.103/share/movie -I 192.168.1.103
Added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.255.255.255 nmask=255.0.0.0
Server time is Mon Aug  4 20:42:30 2008
Timezone is UTC+8.0
Password:
Session setup failed for username=ROOT myname=DREAMBOX destname=192.168.1.103   ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)

Any ideas?

[Sig-gotyouth]

Having problems... have followed to the book... but doesnt seem to mount succesfully. I am setting the recordings folder in an external drive... at the root of the drive... any ideas what Im doing wrong?

IP : 192.168.1.xxx CIFS
Dir: Recordings
Dir: Recordings
LocalDir: /hdd/movie
options: rw.soft.udp.nolock
extra: nolock.rsize=8192.wrsize=8192
user: Aministrator
pass:

automount ticked

my recordings folder is in a freeagent external drive D:\Recordings

[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

[marhoon]

Dears

I have Dreambox SM500-S and I have recorded fine, but I cannot find What I recorded from my dreambox; I can play it on my computer
do I need to do any changes in my setup, I have done exactly what mentioned here

[casper66m]

thanks man

[Celtic67]

Hi, I've just installed the DK image & things seem to be going well so far, but I'm having a problem with setting up recording.

When trying to create the mount, I get to local dir, press OK to set it & get a file explorer. I can browse to /hdd, which shows 1 directory called movie and I have the green button listed as save. If I go into movie, the option to save with green disappears. So, I can only set the local dir to /hdd, it won't change to /hdd/movie as it refuses to save when I'm in there.

I thought if there was something in movie, I'd be OK but I can't create a dir in telnet as it tells me it's a read-only filesystem.

I guess this gets created in a text config somewhere? If I could edit that, I could just change /hdd to /hdd/movie.

Just to add to this, I managed to get it mounted using Curious123's suggestion of the web interface here:

recording help

When I go into the mount menu on the Dreambox though, I can't see this mount. To mount the PC shared drive, I have to go to the PC, fire up the web interface & mount it that way, so this is only a temporary solution. The web interface doesn't see my failed settings either, even though I saved them.

[scz_caos]

Thanks a lot