Environment 1: VioStor, IP Camera and monitoring PC are all in the same network.

Network Surveillance Installation for SOHO and SMB

In the example, just add the camera to VioStor by entering the cameras' IP address.

Environment 2: VioStor and IP camera are installed behind the router, while the monitoring PC is located remotely.

In this example, to allow a remote PC to connect to VioStor and the cameras, you need to:
Step 1. Set up port mapping (virtual server) on the router.

Step 2. Add camera to VioStor by entering the IP address of the camera in the "IP Address" settings, and the public IP address of the router and the mapped ports of the camera to the "WAN IP Address" settings.

Note: When configuring the network camera, WAN IP and LAN IP must be entered.

To open FTP (port 21) and SMB (port 445) of VioStor on WAN, you have to set the following port mapping settings:

After finishing the above two steps, you can access VioStor via WAN by entering the IP address http://219.87.144.205:8000 in the IE browser. Then login VioStor via the correct user name and password.

If the port specified to VioStor is 80, you can enter http://219.87.144.205 to access VioStor as the default port of HTTP is 80.

Note: If the router does not use a fixed IP, you will need to configure DDNS on the router. Other configurations are the same as above.

Environment 3: VioStor and IP camera are all located remotely.

In this example, just add the camera to VioStor by adding its IP address to the "IP Address" settings.

Note: If there is a particular port for connecting the camera, please specify the port in VioStor configuration.

Environment 4: VioStor and IP camera are installed behind the router

In the example, to allow a PC which is located remotely to access each VioStor via FTP, you need to:

Step 1. Set up port mapping (virtual server) on the router

You could directly connect VioStor 1 via FTP by ftp://219.87.145.205:2001
You could directly connect VioStor 2 via FTP by ftp://219.87.145.205:2002
You could directly connect VioStor 3 via FTP by ftp://219.87.145.205:2003

Step 2. Enable FTP Port Mapping in VioStor
If you want to connect each VioStor via FTP by clicking button in playback page of each VioStor, you need to enable FTP port mapping in Network Settings > File Services > FTP Service on the system administration page and set the mapped port number.

After finishing the above two steps, you can access VioStor via FTP by entering the IP address in the IE browser or clicking button in playback page. Then login VioStor via the correct user name and password.