User manual AXIS CAMERA STATION

[. . . ] AXIS Camera Station User's Manual About This Document This manual is intended for administrators and users of the AXIS Camera Station, and is applicable for software release 2. 00. It includes instructions for using and managing the AXIS Camera Station on your network. Previous experience of networking will be of use when using this product. Later versions of this document will be posted to the Axis Website, as required. [. . . ] You can disable simple file sharing like this: · Click Start > My computer · Choose Tools > Folder options > View tab > Advanced settings · Clear the Use simple file sharing check box 2. Make sure that all users have access and can execute the program. 29 AXIS Camera Station - Network Configuration 3. Right-click on the folder C:/TempACS and go to Settings > Security. Make sure that all users have access to read and write to the TempACS folder. All users defined in the AXIS Camera Station, should now be able to access the it. Only users with Windows Administrator rights, can start/stop the background service. 30 AXIS Camera Station - Removing AXIS Camera Station Removing AXIS Camera Station In the Windows Add/Remove programs menu, AXIS Camera Station has two entries: AXIS Camera Station and AXIS Camera Station Web. To remove the entire program 1. This will remove AXIS Camera Station, AXIS Camera Station Web and the background service. Notes: Some files may need to be removed manually from these locations: · · C:\Program Files\Axis Communications\AXIS Camera Station C:\TempACS The location for recordings is defined in AXIS Camera Station on the server: Options > General Settings > Recording Database, the default is C:\Recording. Deleting recordings may take a while if the files are large. To remove AXIS Camera Station Web 1. Click Yes when asked if you want to remove AXIS Camera Station Web. 31 AXIS Camera Station - Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Symptoms, Possible Causes and Remedial Actions Known limitation in Windows If the server is used as a domain controller and the local users are 2000 Server and Windows registered in Active Directory they cannot be reached from AXIS Cam2003 Server era Station. No motion detection/record- If AXIS Camera Station doesn't detect motion or doesn't record, ing after AXIS Camera Station please check the following: is started · The background service is started: File > Start Server. · You have enough disk space available (minimum 2 Gb per camera Hard disks fill up or no To prevent this from happening, set the Maximum drive space used recording is saved by AXIS Camera Station under Options > General Settings > Recording Database. You can also set the Save event in days to minimize the use of the hard disk. There is a Bandwidth/Storage calculator available at www. axis. com/techsup under Network Servers > Tools to get an estimation of the required hard disk space. Also consider changing the settings for frame rate, compression and image size to reduce the storage space needed. The application will cleanup recordings automatically if these settings are set correctly. If not, and the PC gets locked, you will have to delete the recordings manually or reformat the hard disk. No images are shown in the · Verify that the IP address of the AXIS Camera Station server Web interface under Options > General Settings > General > Camera Station Web Access. · Enable the Web interface under Administration > General > Enable Web Access. · A virtual directory <ip address>\TempACS pointing to C:\TempACS must be available in your www root. I can not access the Web site, In some cases you can not login to Web site, although the Anonyeven though I have created a mous login is unchecked and Windows integrated security is User selected. This usually happens on Windows XP because the IIS will only grant you access as a guest even if you have logged in as a user. [. . . ] The advantage of UDP is that it is not required to deliver all data and may drop network packets when there is e. g. This is suitable for live video, as there is no point in re-transmitting old information that will not be displayed anyway. Unicast - Communication between a single sender and a single receiver over a network. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) - An "address" on the network. [. . . ]