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Follow up! The Amazon.ca seller (from China!) replied me this morning that they had set the default password to 1234567a So, if you stumbled onto this thread after buying a HIKVISION camera from "TopWay" - you can give that a shot... PS: These cams do have "CN" in the serial numbers, but their...

Ah-HA! Thanks, Alastair :-) I had neglected to power-down, my previous reset attempt was done while still powered up.(oops!) Unplugged the PoE cable, held down the reset button, plugged the cable back in - [an awkward process with only two hands] and THIS time, it worked, (doh!) and was then...

sigh... have 5 factory-fresh cameras, ordered from Canadian dealer... but they arrived ( surprise! ) direct from China. DS-2CD2035-I firmware is V5.3.3 which leads me to believe they'd be default IP 192.168.1.64 and admin pw 123456789abc (thats what the docs for this model say!) But no cam...