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<tt>Thanks Tony. I can, and have, changed both the name and
password. However, what one never knows is whether the manufacturers
have a 'back door' they can use to give 'help and on-line service'
when you have screwed up the software. But then this applies to
anything you buy.</tt><br>
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<div>Hi Roger<br>
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Did you notice that recent DDoS attacks used IP cameras in a
botnet! Mainly those with internals from wholesale supplier
XiongMai Technologies. End products from ZTE, Panasonic, Axis,
Toshiba, Samsung and more (UCam not mentioned). The cameras were
hacked using telnet or SSH using default (and unchangeable)
passwords.<br>
Apparently UPnP in a router can also be a security risk.<br>
I only mention this because your statement <tt>"</tt><tt><tt>unique
IP address, which </tt>I can access via password from
anywhere on the web"</tt> sort of leaves a lot of unanswered
security questions!<br>
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Tony<br>
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Reference:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Roger
Gibson via Chester <span dir="ltr"><<a
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Robin. Just to be clear, the camera (Ucam 247) comes with
fairly comprehensive software and does everything I want,
except that, continuous and snapshot images can only be
stored either on an SD card in the camera, or by Wifi to an
NAS device connected to my router. Hence my queries about
setting up an NAS device using an old laptop. The short
comings of the SD card are are that it could be
damaged/stolen with the camera, and it has limited capacity,
about three weeks of continuous recording before it starts
overwriting the oldest files.<br>
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There is a third option I could explore, in that a
continuous feed can be independently and continuously viewed
in a browser, so this feed could be intercepted. I'm not
sure about the quality of this feed.<br>
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And also to be clear, nothing goes out over the internet,
unless I log in to the camera from holiday etc to look see.<br>
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Anyway, many thanks to all who have sent helpful replies. I
am at present exploring using Samba to set up an NAS device,
but also looking at dedicated NAS programs as well.<br>
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Thanks again - Roger.
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On 08/02/17 23:01, Robin via Chester wrote:<br>
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Well I know pretty much sod-all about NAS, so I doubt
this will be much help, but all the same...<br>
<br>
Are you trying to configure your laptop to act as a
router, so you can then turn the plusnet thing off,
and have your security cameras connect to your laptop
instead? I take it your laptop could then (sneakily?)
record the camera feed before it gets sent wherever it
gets sent to on the Internet.<br>
<br>
Failing that, what about a script that reacts to the
motion-trigger email, logs into the camera using it's
IP address, and downloads the last hour of footage? I
think there are some command line tools that can do
that kind of thing. I can't honestly say I know
offhand how to use them though.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Robin<br>
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As I've seen no other comments here I thought I
might wade in with one or<br>
two basics about a NAS for your security cameras.<br>
<br>
A NAS Attaches some Storage to a Network or more
descriptively shares<br>
regions of a storage device on the network. On Linux
this is usually done<br>
by the Samba software which provides the Microsoft
SMB interface to share<br>
disk partitions or directories. Have a look at
Samba. If you install it on<br>
your laptop and share your USB drive you should have
a usable NAS.<br>
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I personally am wary of sharing things over the
Internet (like your camera<br>
stream) It probably has to go via some proprietory
server associated with<br>
the camera manufacturer. Your configurations to keep
this secure are a<br>
whole order of magnitude more complicated than a
basic LAN.<br>
<br>
There are others in the lug far more competent than
me. They might feel<br>
that your level of expertise means you have a lot to
learn to get where you<br>
want to be, or maybe they're just too busy. Have a
look at Samba but bear<br>
in mind that you have to keep everything secure. You
might be better off<br>
installing a ready made NAS distro<br>
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rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linuxvoice.com/gr<wbr>oup-test-nas-distros/</a>>.<br>
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Have fun<br>
Tony<br>
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