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I have a share created on my new WD My Cloud NAS device which is on my LAN. On the PC I have BI installed on, I have mapped the z: drive to this share successfully. When I go to the Clips and Archiving tab, the z: drive doesn't show as an option for me to select for archiving clips. Is this known issue? Thanks
 

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I have a share created on my new WD My Cloud NAS device which is on my LAN. On the PC I have BI installed on, I have mapped the z: drive to this share successfully. When I go to the Clips and Archiving tab, the z: drive doesn't show as an option for me to select for archiving clips. Is this known issue? Thanks
See the help file for setting up nas...
 

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I searched the help file before posting and didn't see any specific topics regarding setting up a NAS.
 

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Are you running blue iris as a service?
These folders do not need to be located on the same hard drive or PC as the database. Note however, that if you are running Blue Iris as a service, you may not be able to use the "LocalSystem" account if your Stored clips folder is located on a network drive; instead, you must use a named user account, and give that account rights to the network resource.
 

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Are you running blue iris as a service?
These folders do not need to be located on the same hard drive or PC as the database. Note however, that if you are running Blue Iris as a service, you may not be able to use the "LocalSystem" account if your Stored clips folder is located on a network drive; instead, you must use a named user account, and give that account rights to the network resource.
I'm not running BI as a service...
 

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@105437 please post a BI screenshot.
No Z: drive from within BI when I browse to define Archive clip location. The Z: drive is mapped and shows up using Windows Explorer in Windows 10.


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It should show up..have you restarted BI after mapping the drive?
Yes, I did restart BI but not the PC. I have BI successfully send to the NAS via FTP. Maybe I'll just do that.
 

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Yes, I did restart BI but not the PC. I have BI successfully send to the NAS via FTP. Maybe I'll just do that.
try restarting the pc...you dont want to use ftp for doing this kind of stuff..
 

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Anything else I can try here? I'm still not seeing the share from my NAS that I have mapped on my Blue Iris PC. Thanks

EDIT: Just found a fix

  1. Win+X -> Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center->Change Adapter Settings
  2. Right click on the Network Adapter->Properties
  3. Click to select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) -> Properties ->Advanced->WINS
  4. Click to select "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" then click OK.
 
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