Mount network storage to Axis camera using Windows 7 file share

Question

I am unable to mount a network share from a win 7 machine to my Axis M1054 ip camera. The network share works fine when accessing the share from another windows 7 computer, but not from the camera.

The error message on the Axis camera is "Test failed! Error while mounting network share".

I tried turning off the firewall on the Win 7 nas machine. The security settings on the share folder allow full read/write security permissions and share permissions.

Axis Camera UI

The camera is at IP address 10.71.25.23, and the computer with the NAS can access the cameras web page UI just fine.

As you can see below, the file share is accessible from another windows 7 machine just fine. And I can even create a test file remotely, showing I have write privileges for the admin user.

The Axis documentation says:

Cameras without an SD card can be configured to record to a network share. A network share can be a share on a NAS (Network Attached Storage) or any server that uses CIFS (Common Internet File System). It is possible to add multiple network shares, but only one per camera.

I assumed a Win 7 share folder is the same as CIFS. Can a windows 7 share folder be a NAS for an Axis camera? If so, what I might I be doing wrong?

Answer 1

It turns out the date and time were not set correctly in the camera, and this prevented the camera from connecting to the network share.

Solution was to set the date time manually, and then configure ntp for updates. Connected immediately.