Re: using multiple locations (network drives) for recorded TV

From: Knox (thornNOSPAM99_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:38:21 -0500

Responding to my own post below... It works!

"Knox" <thornNOSPAM99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uzq2tKmAFHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>I have installed my MCE2005 and it works great. I have a linksys MCX, also
>working great and it gets high grades from my wife. I've had it about a
>month and already we've saved up over 200 gigabytes of TV which max's out
>the hard drive on my MCE.
>
> Here's what I want to do to address the problem. I have a print/file
> server running Windows 2003. I plan on manually moving some of the files
> from Recorded TV to the sharedTV directory on the server. I will manually
> manage that. MCE only needs to continue to record to the standard
> location. Doing a bit of research I found out about the ...WatchedFolders
> key in the registry. They call this a REG_MULTI_SZ type, which I
> understand holds more than one string. Initially there was a string to
> the regular location. The help is sort of useless for explaining how to
> put two strings into one key. I've tried a carriage return and a
> semicolon. I don't know if either is right.
>
> My next problem is that I wasn't able to make a drive mapping persistent.
> Perhaps this is because MCE is more like home than Pro; I don't know.
> Anyway I got around that for my user account by adding a net use
> \\server\share /user:a@b.c pass to schedule tasks at log-in. Now some
> research I found implied you need to do this for the SYSTEM account not
> just my login account (and ultimately the MCX account) However, the
> research was for changing the Record TV location, not the watchedFolders
> location.
>
> So I'm either 1) not editing the registry correctly or 2) not making the
> drive mapping persistent in such a way that MCE can make use of it, or 3)
> I've gone off the rails in some third way.
>
> Hope I've been clear about what I'm trying to do and what I've already
> tried. Thanks in advance,
>
> Knox

More research shows that the registry setting is ok. It's a unicode string
terminated by a null followed by another unicode string terminated by a
double null.

MCE started working with the network drive after I used a AT {1 minute in
the future} /interactive cmd.exe to setup the share to the networked drive.
Now all I need to do is figure out how to persistently have the network
drive available to the SYSTEM account.

>
>

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