# VoD from Network Share not working - why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [August 19, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-from-network-share-not-working-why/34571 "2011-08-19T12:44:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Potter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Brandon\_Potter](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brandon_Potter)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-from-network-share-not-working-why/34571/1 "2011-08-19T12:44:46Z")
Follow-up to this post: [Play files from network share / SAN](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/34570) After doing this and restarting service, I have: /conf/myapp/Application.xml with StorageDir set to \server\share\ … However in the error logs I’m still seeing errors of File Not Found, with path being C:\Program Files … etc. How or why would this setting not take effect? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-from-network-share-not-working-why/34571/2 "2011-08-19T18:21:42Z")
You can restart Wowza to be sure the application is reloaded. Richard ---
**Author:** ![Zoran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/zoran/32/385_2.png) [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 9:47am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-from-network-share-not-working-why/34571/3 "2014-07-04T09:47:07Z")
Hi, After mapping (or accessing) your network share, can you copy a file from that location to your local computer, using Windows Explorer? Did you check that your system has access to the network location? Zoran ---
**Author:** ![Zoran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/zoran/32/385_2.png) [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-from-network-share-not-working-why/34571/4 "2014-07-04T23:34:11Z")
Hi, Using Wowza with a trial license should not cause any problems in using your network storage. There are no restrictions on the location of your content folder. Can you please create a ZIP archive containing your Wowza conf/ and logs/ folders and send them to support@wowza.com so we can take a closer look at your setup. Please make sure to reference this forum post in your support ticket. Another thing you can try is to configure the Media Cache functionality using a File source, as described in the “[How to scale video on demand streaming with Media Cache](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-scale-video-on-demand-streaming-with-media-cache)” forum article. Here is the direct link to the description on [how to configure a Media Cache File source](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-scale-video-on-demand-streaming-with-media-cache#mediacacheconf_sourcesaddfile). Regards, Zoran ---
**Author:** ![Jatinder\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@Jatinder\_Kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jatinder_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-from-network-share-not-working-why/34571/5 "2014-07-04T12:27:46Z")
Hello, I am trying the same thing for VoD from network share. I am getting error “Content Directory does not exist.” when starting application on wowza server http interface. I have set StorageDir to \server\share\ but I can see error “The main application configuration has warnings.” “Content Directory does not exist.” I am sure that I have access to network share folder. I have tried by mapping network drive to network share but resulted in same error. I have restarted wowza and my system as well but same error. Can you suggest me if you were able to setup wowza for VoD from network share. Thanks Jatinder ---
**Author:** ![Jatinder\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@Jatinder\_Kumar](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jatinder_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-from-network-share-not-working-why/34571/6 "2014-07-04T13:24:31Z")
Yes , I am able to copy from mapped drive and copy to mapped drive. Currently I am using the evaluation (trial) version of wowza. Is that the problem ? Will appreciate your help on this.