Dedicated NAS drive in normal rig?

[Eviriany]

Hey guys,

Spent a good $2500 on my rig earlier this year (so it's probably only work about $500 now LOL) BUT I was hoping that I could dedicate one of my smaller (128gb) SSD's to be a NAS for my camera... I can't seem to work out how to do it, can anyone assist?

Thanks in advance!

Evi

 

[alastairstevenson]

If this is a Windows PC (and I'm guessing ...) then activate network sharing on the drive.
Create a Windows user that has r/w access to the drive.
If this is a Hikvision camera (and I'm guessing again) use the Storage menus in the web GUI to connect to the NetHDD with the PC IP address and the SMB/CIFS file sharing protocol, and the Windows userID/password that you created.

 

[Eviriany]

Your guesses were perfect Alastair! Thankyou very much, I'll give that a go tonight when I get home, and let you know how much of a god you are

 

[alastairstevenson]

let you know how much of a god you are

Steady on there, you still have a lot to figure out, there will likely be more.

 

[Eviriany]

Haha you are indeed right - I actually ran into a stumbling block at creating a user - sadly this is Win 10 i'm on and it wont let me make a user without a new e-mail password.

I attempted to add the drive in the config and got a parameter error regardless of what other settings I put.

I'd be happy with recording locally on the camera (MicroSD) but I can't seem to get that working either!

 

[Eviriany]

https://puu.sh/tqMDJ/cbe49c8fa0.png

 

[alastairstevenson]

For the connection type, use SMB/CIFS, and have a valid Windows user/password set up.
For your file path, use /Camera SSD
And if that does not work - you may need to change the share to remove the space in the name.

 

[Eviriany]

Finally got around to giving it another good shot and got to this error now -

Mounting to NAS Server failed. No Permissions

 

[alastairstevenson]

What's the share name? Is it /Camera ?
At a Windows command prompt, confirm available shares with
net view \\192.168.1.113

 

[Eviriany]

Guess it's shared as both so yes, it is... except i've not put the / around the right way \\

Even having fixed that to now be \Camera as it's path - Same error, No Permissions.

 

[alastairstevenson]

except i've not put the / around the right way \\

No, you did have it the correct way, should be /Camera
Your configuration should work.
I'm wondering if there is a problem with the Windows user password - too long, or characters not allowed.
Perhaps change the password to something simple and re-try.

 

[Eviriany]

Perhaps change the password to something simple and re-try.

I tried "footage" and that failed XD still with the same error

Scratch that - I found a different spot of permissions, dunno where this one was hiding, and it was only set for READ... now testing succeeded... now to see if it records

 

[alastairstevenson]

That's good - well done for getting there.

 

[DavidDavid]

Cool. For one camera not bad. Basically just like having a 128GB SD card in it.

But just out of curiosity, $2,500 on a computer? What for?

 

[Eviriany]

A gamer David... excessive is our "normal"

However this doesn't seem to be recording sadly... no clue what's going on