Saving to a network drive

Channels DVR Server
#21

yes that works

#22

Now if you tell the DVR to use that directory does it still fail?

Please copy/paste any errors shown

#23

yes still fail

Z:\dvr
Error: unable to create dvr directory: mkdir Z:: The system cannot find the path specified.

#24

I just tried it here and it seems to work for me. I’m guessing there is some sort of permission issue going on. When you ran powershell, was it as admin?

Can you run this command and paste the output:

Get-CimInstance Win32_LogicalDisk

#25

And also paste what it says on http://127.0.0.1:8089/system/disk

#26 
PS C:\Users\APP> Get-CimInstance Win32_LogicalDisk

DeviceID DriveType ProviderName       VolumeName Size           FreeSpace
-------- --------- ------------       ---------- ----           ---------
C:       3                            OS         246640799744   164633391104
D:       5
V:       4         \\Drobo5N2\DVR     DVR        70289084272640 63684005679104
W:       4         \\DROBO5N2\Public  Public     70289084272640 63684005679104
X:       4         \\Nas1d3e3a\nvr    NVR        17443439046656 11371137998848
Y:       4         \\NAS1D3E3A\Public Public     17443439046656 11371137998848
Z:       4         \\Nas1d3e3a\dvr    DVR        17443439046656 11371137998848
#27

[{“device”:“C:”,“mountpoint”:“C:”,“fstype”:“NTFS”,“opts”:“rw.compress”}]

#28

You can try running the DVR setup again and move the DVR to a system service. That will run as Administrator and might fix the issue if its related to permissions.

#29

It’s been a few years since I’ve done windows development, so maybe my info is dated.
But mounted drives are not accessible to windows services since these mounts are specific to the user’s session. I am surprised this would ever work.

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