I have Windows MCE 2005, Rollup 2, with a Hauppauge 1600 card. I need to may the TV record directory to a mapped network drive but MCE setup doesn't see any of my mapped drives. I have two Belkin Home Base network Hubs with 4 external USB HDDs attached to them. I can view the "network" location but only see one of the drives on my Home Base. All 4 drives are mapped as network drives in Windows so I can access them in Explorer.... Win MCE just won't see those mapped drives and wants to record to my internal HDD which doesn't have enough space on it. This occurs with SageTV 6.x as well. I need to have these drives on a network location as multiple machines will be accessing them and it is much more efficient to use the HomeBase hub, via an ethernet connection... Any ideas? Brett

Hi Brett,

I don't think it will work to a mapped network drive, it's in the doccumentation.

Record to a local drive and then share that directory, that directory will be visible to other mce machines if you add it as a video directory.

Like BigAl said:  you cannot record to a network drive - local only.  The reason is that the network cannot be relied upon to have 100% uptime and 0% errors; therefore, it can't be used as the RecordPath (and, with that, the location of the LiveTV buffer.)

Since space is your concern, you can use Robocopy (included in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools) to move your completed recordings to a network share.

HTH,