Setup Perforce Depot on NAS/Network Drive

Nimrod661
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:12:36 +0000
Getting Started & Setup

Hello folks,

after reading every manual on helix core (perforce) and synology I could find for about 2 weeks, I still can’t figure out how to submit files to a network drive in P4V (perforce visual client).

I have a Win10 workstation with the perforce server and the visual client installed. Furthermore I can access a shared folder on my network drive (local Synology NAS - DS224+ connected via LAN) via SMB. Everything works so far.

The problem is: I can’t submit any file to a depot, when I set the path to be the shared folder (ue5_depot).
I always get the error:
mkdir: //vault/ue5_depot/: The user name or password is incorrect.
Submit aborted – fix problems then use ‘p4 submit -c 3’.

So as far as I understand, perforce has no access to the server, although I can access it from my windows account just fine.

In the manual for perforce its said: " the Helix Core Server installer […] requests a valid combination of userid and password at the time of installation", when you try to install the perforce server on a network drive.
Does anyone know how to set this username and password after installation?

As expected, creating a user with the same name and password doesn’t seem to cut it.
And I don’t really want to install the whole perforce server on the NAS. Mostly because I’m too stubborn to give up putting just the depot on a network drive.

Anyway, I’d really appreciate any help.

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