Access Camera from Windows Share

[rspierenburg]

I was wondering if someone could help me. I'm looking to either a) access the sd card from a windows computer without having to take the card out or b) have the camera save video to a windows share. I have enable CIPS in the config, but I cannot access it from the windows machine. Is there something else I need to be doing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob

[bjs-pdx]

Interesting question and not really covered in the readme. My assumption is that you can use cifs to mount a Windows share on the camera using the fstab file (ala linux) and then you can store things on it.

SCP is another option: #135

[rspierenburg]

Is it possible to do it the other way around and have the camera connect to a Shared directory on the Windows Server? I guess I'm not 100% sure on what CIPS in the config does exactly.

[bjs-pdx]

That's what I said, " use cifs to mount a Windows share on the camera " but probably wasn't very clear about it. You'd need to see if the camera has an 'etc/fstab' file and setup appropriate entries there. Here are the contents from /SD_ROOT/wz_mini/etc/fstab:

# <file system>	<mount pt>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
proc		/proc		proc	defaults	0	0
devpts		/dev/pts	devpts	defaults,gid=5,mode=620	0	0
#tmpfs		/dev/shm	tmpfs	mode=0777	0	0
tmpfs		/tmp		tmpfs	mode=1777	0	0
tmpfs		/run		tmpfs	mode=0755,nosuid,nodev	0	0
sysfs		/sys		sysfs	defaults	0	0
media		/media		tmpfs	mode=1777	0	0
tmpfs           /opt/wz_mini/tmp            tmpfs   mode=1777       0       0

[rspierenburg]

Great thanks, I think I just need to learn more about fstab.

[rspierenburg]

So I was able to mount the share, many thanks for that, but now I need to find a way to change the save location from the sd card to the share.

[bjs-pdx]

Have you looked at the readme file?

https://github.com/gtxaspec/wz_mini_hacks#mp4_write

That's a start.

This is a discussion on using NFS for your purposes...perhaps similar for cifs?

#107

[rspierenburg]

Yes, I checked the readme but it doesn't explain how.

However the thread you posted looks promising. Thanks for all your help.