Working like a dream now! Thanks! I can also see all the files in windows as well, next project is to make them available in my wife's ipad so we can see whats happened as well as live as she can now. I'll also have to kep an eye on disk space as it fills, maybe I will be able to delete files older ...

Sorry, but it still seems to be writing to the first CCTV folder, not the new one that has been created inside it. All I have in there is my original folder called 'Recordings' where I used to move old recordings too? I will start again and delete everything in the pi/CCTV folder then re-run that co...

Thanks, I have done what you said, and now have a folder called CCTV which has just one folder in it called CCTV, when I enter this second CCTV folder it shows the files I have in my HDD.
I have re-started the CCTV transfer from my cameras and am waiting to see what happens.

I am l recieving files from my CCTV cameras but they are all saving to the directory called 'CCTV' on my PI 3. (see below). How can I get them to automatically transfer to my External HDD (shown below 'on sda1 as /CCTV') as they are filling up the space on the card plugged into my PI 3? Could someon...

I started a thread on this subject a while ago but since then everything I did to that point was lost and I had to reload my PI's system (raspbian). My ultimate aim is to get my CCTV cameras recording to tha HDD I have connected to my PI, so this is how far I have now got:- I have loaded Samba as th...

Thanks, I ran the code from home and it didn't fault out, now unfortunately I'm having intermittent problems with my broadband and my ISP (BT) have said it will take until the 11th Dec to clear it so if I can't get back before then I will do so after the fault is cleared as when I try to post here (...

Forgive my ignorance, but where exactly would I put that line of code? is it in the fstab file?
Also I am using the user ;pi; to log into the PI from the camera, and I also point to the CCTV1 directory?

Hi First post and newbie to pi, I have followed some guides on here regarding seting up a home NAS where my HDD is plugged into a USB port on the PI. Now I'm not sure where I've gone wrong or what I've missed out that I should have done, but I can get the files transmitted from my security cameras t...