Setting up IP camera

[LM3]

I am new to FreeNAS. I would like to have my IP camera save video to my NAS automatically. Need to know where to start.
FreeNAS-9.10.2-U3 (e1497f269)

 

[SweetAndLow]

Pick a protocol that is supported by your camera software and set it up. I have no clue what Nas is in your photo so I suggest using ftp.

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[LM3]

NAS is what FreeNAS is supposed to be.
Definition
network-attached storage (NAS)

 

[SweetAndLow]

NAS is what FreeNAS is supposed to be.
Definition
network-attached storage (NAS)

I know what the word means, your video software is crap and uses the word incorrectly. You can't connect your freenas server using Nas. You have to connect using some protocol.

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[anodos]

Dahua. Excellent choice. Russian mafia approves. By "NAS" they probably mean "SMB", but are not competent enough to actually know the name of the protocol they're using. You will most likely have to enable NTMLv1 to allow it access. FTP is probably your best bet (it's harder to mess up).

I strongly recommend against configuring any sort of remote access to the IP camera (especially port-forwarding on your home gateway). In fact, I would probably go out of my way to explicitly block traffic to / from the camera in my perimeter firewall (unless you like the possibility of someone else watching your camera feed or your camera participating in a DDOS attack).

 

[HeavyWeaponsGuy]

Dahua is camera for itty bitty coward spies. Have friendly engineer isolate it from internet.

 

[LM3]

does this help? I am lost

 

[anodos]

Look into configuring FTP. Documentation is here: http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/services.html#ftp

 

[LM3]

Do I have NFS service set up correctly in FreeNAS? Is there anything else I need to set in FreeNAS to use NFS?

Also, is there a way to have my FreeNAS drive show up as a local drive in Windows?

 

[SweetAndLow]

Do I have NFS service set up correctly in FreeNAS? Is there anything else I need to set in FreeNAS to use NFS?

Also, is there a way to have my FreeNAS drive show up as a local drive in Windows?

We don't know if you setup NFS correctly. You only know that. If you tell us what you did, how you did it and what errors you are seeing we can help. You need to create a real question for it's too answer.

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[anodos]

Also, is there a way to have my FreeNAS drive show up as a local drive in Windows?

Local drive? No. Network drive? Yes.

http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/sharing.html#windows-smb-shares should get you started. Create a SMB share, then use the "map network drive" to have it appear as a "drive letter" on your computer.

 

[LM3]

This all I did.

 

[SweetAndLow]

This all I did.

if you followed the directions and should just work. https://doc.freenas.org/9.10/sharing.html#unix-nfs-shares

if not post an error message or explain what isn't working.

 

[LM3]

I will try that next. I set up Microsoft iSCSI Initiator but it shows 0kb in Windows. I did something wrong but don't know what. I followed https://sassec.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/expanding-your-vms-storage-using-freenas/

 

[SweetAndLow]

I will try that next. I set up Microsoft iSCSI Initiator but it shows 0kb in Windows. I did something wrong but don't know what. I followed https://sassec.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/expanding-your-vms-storage-using-freenas/

This is going to sound mean but dude you are way out of your league here. You have talked about smb, nfs and iscsi all in one thread and you don't really know what they do. You also don't know what you want to do. You are just throwing random things at the wall to see what happens. You don't even know enough to know if something is right. Go back the the drawing board and learn some stuff and figure out what you need to do to get it to work.

 

[LM3]

As I said in my first post I have no idea what I am doing. I have Dahua IPC-HFW1320S HFW4300S camera and a PC that I loaded FreeNAS on. I have installed Dahua's SmartPSS software, Genius Vision NVR software, and Dahua Toolbox. All I want to do is find a way for my camera to save it's video to the FreeNAS machine. I can have it record to a local hard drive with the Genius Vision software.

 

[SweetAndLow]

As I said in my first post I have no idea what I am doing. I have Dahua IPC-HFW1320S HFW4300S camera and a PC that I loaded FreeNAS on. I have installed Dahua's SmartPSS software, Genius Vision NVR software, and Dahua Toolbox. All I want to do is find a way for my camera to save it's video to the FreeNAS machine. I can have it record to a local hard drive with the Genius Vision software.

That is perfectly fine but you can't get help if you don't tell people what your problem is. Asking is this right is not a problem.

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[gpsguy]

We understand what you have and what you are trying to accomplish. FreeNAS can probably handle it.

Unfortunately, since you "have no idea what you are doing", you are a long way from achieving that goal with FreeNAS on your own. Since you didn't list detailed hardware information (per the forum rules at the top of the page), we don't know if your server is capable of running FreeNAS, nor whether you've setup the disk(s) correctly.

At this point, my recommendation would be to add a dedicated hard disk in your Windows machine and save the video (locally) on it.

If you'd like to setup a FreeNAS server, take your time and do some learning. You can download a PDF or ePub version (11.0 coming RSN) of the docs using a link in my signature. Read it, take notes, read it again, etc.

Or you could post an offer of $$$'s asking if someone could help you setup a FreeNAS server to accomplish your needs. Even if you go this route, I'd still recommend that you read the documentation.

As I said in my first post I have no idea what I am doing.
... I can have it record to a local hard drive with the Genius Vision software.

 

[LM3]

Came up with a simple solution. Installed iSpy that will work with my camera and FreeNAS.