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    My solution to this might not be applicable to all in this thread as I am using a Qnap NAS. But here it is in case it helps some:

     

    I was able to get my DS-2CD2432F-IW setup and working nicely with my Qnap NAS, using SMB. I initially tried SMB and then NFS, failing at both attempts. I was repeatedly formatting the share/directory, but then immediately having the camera tell me it was "uninitialized," as many have reported.

     

    The trick to get it working (I think) was to

     

    - create a user account just for the camera

    - then set the quota for that user to 300gb

     

    The specific number probably doesn't matter; I picked it because I saw some mention of hikvisions having trouble with NAS drives over 500 gb. It seems that the failures are due to the camera either seeing too big of a "drive" (in this case all 1.5 terabytes of my NAS), or because the camera looked at the drive and couldn't get any value for free space. After setting the quota to 300gb, that value showed up right away as the disk size in the Hikvision setup screen.

     

    this worked nicely with my Synology as well.. thanks !!

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