Unable to Record to Mapped Drive on Server

[marktaberham]

Hi,

To those in the know, using gbpvr in Windows xp, I have been trying to set my 'Recordings Directory' to a mapped drive on my Synology Diskstation NAS server; it is effectively a network drive. The plan was to record TV programmes onto the server HDD and then download them by ftp and watch them when I am away from home. I can record TV programmes to the PC HDD with no problem, but whatever I try it will not record onto the server HDD.

Does gbpvr have this functionality, or is what I am trying to do not feasible?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[sub]

Remember, the recording service runs as a different user account, so is wont see your mapped drives.

You can probably change your recording service settings to run as your user account.

[marktaberham]

Thanks for the reply. Could I ask you to please expand on that answer - in as noddy a fashion as possible!

Thanks,

Mark

[sub]

I've never done it before so I'm not in a great position to give advice on this.

You could try going into the Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services, then view the properties of the GB-PVR Recording Service properties to adjust the startup account.

[forzaKGB]

I have done exactly this, I created a user account on the serverwith expicit permissions on the share it records to. But you have to remember that you have to re-do this setting every time you upgrade GBPVR as it resets the user account for recording service.