WD My Cloud & NPVR Live TV storage

[bisonfan]

Hi all!

Acquired a WD My CLoud over the weekend that I would like to use to store live tv recordings on and broadcast to two wd tv "extenders" via the media server. I thought I had this all figured out until i tried to record a live tv show and nothing records on the cloud. Here are my specs:

HDHR Homerun dual (non-h.264) is cat5e wired to gigabit router. Windows 8.1 PC (NPVR software) is cat 6 to router. My Cloud is cat 6 wired to router. I can recognize the mycloud and have setup mapped network shares under my PC in windows 8.1 folder heiarchy. The drive is mounted and has a letter assigned to the folder I want to record to. The NPVR settings have the letter assigned as the defualt recording folder. When I press record or set a recording, NPVR acts normal and does not give any warnings. When I go to the cloud to see if it recroded it has nothing in the folder

A couple of thoughts:

-Firewall security isn't allowing writing ability
-incorrect settings in either the mycloud or NPVR system
-unable to complete this due to security issues with piracy laws

Any ideas would be helpful as this is my first (sort of NAS setup)

Thanks!!

[sub]

The recording service runs as a different user account, so wont see the drive mappings you've got under your account.

You'd either need to use a UNC path like \\server\share, or change the recording service to run as your user account.

[Elmo Putney]

Not much help - - but I record to a WD mybook live thingy using a UNC path - so it definatley can work.

[bisonfan]

Thanks Guys I got it to work!!

[Lao Pan]

What should the system account user name be - I tried setting up an archive location on my unraid server using UNC path which failed - just realized I needed to add the system account as a user in unraid - or is that a bad security risk?