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NETGEAR ReadyNAS
Duo User Guide
NETGEAR, Inc.
4500 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA
202-10366-01
v1.1
April 2008

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  • Page 1 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide NETGEAR, Inc. 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA 202-10366-01 v1.1 April 2008...

  • Page 2: Technical Support

    In the interest of improving internal design, operational function, and/or reliability, NETGEAR reserves the right to make changes to the products described in this document without notice. NETGEAR does not assume any liability that may occur due to the use or application of the product(s) or circuit layout(s) described herein.
  • Page 3 Product and Publication Details Model Number: Publication Date: Product Family: Product Name: Home or Business Product: Language: Publication Part Number: Publication Version Number: April 2008 Network Storage ReadyNAS Duo Home English 202-10366-01 v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 4 v1.1, April 2008...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide About This Manual Conventions, Formats, and Scope ... x How to Use This Manual ... xi How to Print This Manual ... xi Revision History ...xii Chapter 1 Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo Setting Up Your Network Connection ...1-2 Ethernet Interface Settings ...1-2...
  • Page 6 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Programming the Backup Button ...1-39 Viewing the Backup Log ...1-39 Editing a Backup Job ...1-40 Setting Up Printers ...1-40 Print Shares over CIFS/SMB ...1-40 IPP Printing ...1-41 Managing Print Queues ...1-41 Managing Your ReadyNAS Duo System ...1-42 Clock ...1-42...

  • Page 7: Netgear Readynas Duo User Guide

    Resynchronizing the Volume ...3-5 Resetting Your System (System Switch) ...3-5 Changing User Passwords ...3-6 Appendix A ReadyNAS Duo Glossary Appendix B General Glossary Index Contents NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 8 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide viii Contents v1.1, April 2008...

  • Page 9: About This Manual

    Congratulations on your purchase of a ReadyNAS™ Duo from NETGEAR, Inc. If you have not already done so, please read the printed Installation Guide provided with your product and the ReadyNAS Setup Manual on the Installation CD. The ReadyNAS Setup Manual takes you step-by-step through the Setup Wizard and quickly prepares the ReadyNAS Duo for your network.

  • Page 10: Conventions, Formats, And Scope

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Conventions, Formats, and Scope The conventions, formats, and scope of this manual are described in the following paragraphs: • Typographical Conventions. This manual uses the following typographical conventions: Italic Emphasis, books, CDs, file and server names, extensions...

  • Page 11: How To Use This Manual

    Double-click on a link in the table of contents or index to navigate directly to where the topic is described in the manual. • button to access the full NETGEAR, Inc. online knowledge base for the product model. • Links to PDF versions of the full manual and individual chapters.

  • Page 12: Revision History

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide • Click the print icon in the upper left corner of your browser window. Tip: If your printer supports printing two pages on a single sheet of paper, you can save paper and printer ink by selecting this feature.

  • Page 13: Configuring Your Readynas Duo

    Chapter 1 Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo The Advanced Control mode shows all of the settings available in the Setup Wizard plus some more advanced features. The basic network settings and other, optional, more advanced features are included in this chapter. Figure 1-1 When you first switch to this mode, you see the menus on the left that allow you to quickly jump to the screen you want.

  • Page 14: Setting Up Your Network Connection

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Toward the bottom left, there are two buttons that allow you to switch back and forth between the Setup Wizard mode and the Advanced Control mode. At the bottom of the screen is the status bar including the date button on the left which, which clicked, links you to the Clock screen.
  • Page 15 IP Assignment. Select either Use values from a DHCP server or Use values below. – If you elect to assign the IP address using Use values from a DHCP server, NETGEAR advises that you set the lease time on the DHCP server/router to a value of at least a day.

  • Page 16: Global Network Settings

    • MTU. In some network environments, changing the default MTU value can fix throughput problems. NETGEAR advises that you leave the default setting otherwise. Figure 1-6 In the Performance Setting area, the Enable jumbo frames option allows you to optimize the ReadyNAS Duo for large data transfers such as multiple streams of video playback.
  • Page 17 The Workgroup is the file location name where your ReadyNAS Duo share folders reside. The default name is NETGEAR. This name is broadcast on your Network. This name can be changed to a name that is more familiar and recognizable. Just enter a new name and click Apply.

  • Page 18: Setting Up Security

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Setting Up Security The Security tab allows you to set the administrator password, administer security, and set up the password recovery feature on the ReadyNAS Duo. You will also be able to set up your User and Group Accounts.

  • Page 19: Setting Up User And Group Accounts

    E-mail address • User ID • Select a group from the Group pull-down menu. • Password • Disk quota. 3. Click Apply to save your settings. Figure 1-10 Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 20 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Only the user name field is required; however, you should specify a user e-mail address if you intend to set up disk quotas. Without an e-mail address, the user will not be warned when disk usage approaches the specified disk quota limit.
  • Page 21 GID to your NFS clients. Figure 1-12 After adding your groups, you can view or change your groups by clicking the alphabetical index tab, or click All to list all groups. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 22 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide If you wish to add a large number of groups, select Import group list from the pull-down menu. Figure 1-13 You can upload a CSV (Comma Separated Value) formatted file containing the group account information. The format of the file is:...

  • Page 23: Selecting Services For Share Access

    However, in mixed PC and Mac environments, it is advisable to use CIFS/SMB, unless enhanced character set support is necessary on the Mac.The ReadyNAS Duo supports AFP 3.1. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-11...
  • Page 24 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide • FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Widely used in public file upload and download sites. ReadyNAS Duo supports anonymous or user access for FTP clients, regardless of the security mode selected. If you wish, you can elect to set up port forwarding to nonstandard ports for better security when accessing files over the Internet.

  • Page 25: Streaming Services

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-15 Streaming Services The built-in streaming services on the ReadyNAS Duo allow you to stream multi-media content directly from the ReadyNAS Duo, without the need to have your PC or Mac powered on. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo 1-13 v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 26 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-16 • SlimServer provides music streaming to the popular Squeezebox music players from Slim Devices. You can click the http setup link for more detailed configuration options. • iTunes Streaming Server enables iTunes clients to stream media files straight from the ReadyNAS Duo.

  • Page 27: Discovery Services

    Internet. You must install ReadyNAS Photos software which is available on the ReadyNAS site. Simply click Install ReadyNAS Photos and follow the on-screen prompts. Once you have Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-15...
  • Page 28 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide enabled this feature and downloaded the software, you will be able to share photos located in your Pictures folder. To download ReadyNAS Photos software: 1. Click Install ReadyNAS Photos. The ReadyNAS Photos Installers screen displays.
  • Page 29 4. When the ReadyNAS Photos login screen displays, enter your User ID and Password and click the arrow. Figure 1-20 5. A screen similar to the one below will display. Connect ReadyNAS Photos to your ReadyNAS Duo by clicking Connect. Figure 1-21 Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-17...
  • Page 30 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide 6. The Add New Album screen displays. Click on the Click here to add album link to add your first album. To add subsequent albums, select Import Albums from the menu bar. Hi Smithy Figure 1-22 7.
  • Page 31 From the pull-down menu, select the photo album name (if you are sharing an album) or, if you are sending select photos from the selection tray, then you can create a specific name. d. Enter a message to accompany to the photos. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-19...

  • Page 32: Understanding Volume Management

    10. Click Share. An email will be sent to your share buddy; you will also be notified by email that the shared photos have been sent. Understanding Volume Management The ReadyNAS Duo uses X-RAID, an NETGEAR-patented expandable RAID technology. Some benefits of X-RAID technology are: •...
  • Page 33 Keep in mind that you must power down several times to replace out your old disks. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide “Replacing Your Disk for More v1.1, April 2008...

  • Page 34: Usb Storage

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide First, power down the ReadyNAS Duo, replace the first disk with the large-capacity disk, and then reboot. If your ReadyNAS Duo supports hot-swapping, you can hot-swap the disk without powering down. The ReadyNAS Duo will detect that a new disk was put in place and resynchronizes the disk with data from the removed disk.
  • Page 35 MP3 players without needing to power on a PC. In User security mode, an additional option to set the ownership of the copied files is available. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-23...

  • Page 36: Managing Your Shares

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Managing Your Shares The Shares menu provides all the options pertaining to share services for the ReadyNAS Duo device. This entails share management (including data and print shares), volume management, and share service management. Figure 1-28...

  • Page 37: Managing Shares

    The columns to the left of the Delete check box represent the services that are currently available. The access icons in those columns summarize the status of the service and the access rights to the Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-25...
  • Page 38 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide share for each of the services. Move the mouse pointer over the access icons to view the access settings. Figure 1-31 The settings are as follows: • Disabled. Access to this share is disabled. •...
  • Page 39 Toward the bottom of the CIFS screen are the Share Display Option, Recycle Bin, and Advanced CIFS Permissions. Refer to the descriptions for these options in the sections that follow. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide adjacent to the Share whose share access you Appendix B, “General v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 40 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Share Access Restriction. If you wish to limit share access to particular users and/or groups, you can enter their names in the Read-only users, Read-only groups, Write-enabled users, and Write-enabled group fields. The names must be valid accounts, either on the ReadyNAS Duo or on the domain controller.
  • Page 41 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-33 Recycle Bin. The ReadyNAS Duo can have a Recycle Bin for each share for Windows users. The Enable Recycle Bin option is shown at the bottom of the CIFS screen. When this check box is selected, whenever you delete a file, the file gets inserted into the Recycle Bin folder in the share rather than being permanently deleted.
  • Page 42 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide others (that is, everyone). Permission for newly created folders is read/write for everyone. If the default does not satisfy your security requirement, you can change it here. Opportunistic locking (often referred to as oplocks) enhances CIFS performance by allowing files residing on the NAS to be cached locally on the Windows client, thus eliminating network latency when the files are constantly accessed.

  • Page 43: Usb Shares

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-36 Advanced Share Permission. The Advanced Share Permission section offers the options to override the default ownership and permission of the share folder on the embedded file system and to permeate these settings to all files and folders residing on the selected share. The Set ownership and permission for existing files and folders option performs a one-time change.

  • Page 44: Configuring Backup Jobs

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-37 Note: Although access authorization is based on user login in non-Share mode, files saved on the USB device, regardless of the user account, are with UID 0. This is to allow easy sharing of the USB device with other ReadyNAS Duo and PC systems.

  • Page 45: Adding A New Backup Job

    NFS server. Select this option if you wish to back up from a Linux or UNIX server across NFS. Mac OS X users can also use this option by setting up a NFS share from the console terminal. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-33...
  • Page 46 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide • Rsync server. Select this if you wish to perform backups from a rsync server. Rsync was originally available for Linux and other flavors of UNIX, but has lately become popular under Windows and Mac for its efficient use of incremental file transfers. This is the preferred backup method between two ReadyNAS Duo devices.
  • Page 47 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide My Documents/My Pictures With a remote source, you might need to enter a login and password to access the share. If you are accessing a password-protected share on a remote ReadyNAS Duo server configured for Share security mode, enter the name of the share name for login.
  • Page 48 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide If you wish, you can elect not to schedule the backup job so that you can invoke it manually instead by clearing (deselecting) the Perform backup every... check box. (You might want to do this if your ReadyNAS Duo has a backup button.) Figure 1-40 Step 4 –...
  • Page 49 This can be done after you save the backup job. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-37...

  • Page 50: Viewing The Backup Schedule

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Viewing the Backup Schedule After saving the backup job, a new job appears in the Backup Schedule section of the Backup Jobs screen. Figure 1-41 A summary of the backup jobs that have been scheduled are shown; jobs are numbered beginning at 001.

  • Page 51: Programming The Backup Button

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Programming the Backup Button On ReadyNAS Duo systems that have the Backup Button feature, you can program the button to execute one or more pre-defined backup jobs. Figure 1-42 Simply select the backup jobs in the order that you want them run and click Apply. Pressing the Backup Button once starts the job(s).

  • Page 52: Editing A Backup Job

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Editing a Backup Job To edit a backup job, you can either click the 3-digit job number button in the Backup Jobs screen, or you can click the Edit Backup Job link while viewing that job log. You can then make appropriate changes or adjustments to the job.

  • Page 53: Ipp Printing

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-45 IPP Printing The ReadyNAS Duo also supports the IETF standard Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) over HTTP. Any client supporting IPP printing (IPP is available natively on the latest Windows XP OS and OS X) can now use this protocol to utilize printers connected to the ReadyNAS Duo.

  • Page 54: Managing Your Readynas Duo System

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Managing Your ReadyNAS Duo System To set up and manage your ReadyNAS Duo effectively, make sure that you review the settings in the following sections, and implement any necessary modifications or updates. Clock An accurate time setting on the Clock screen is required to ensure proper file timestamps. You can access the Clock screen by selecting System >...

  • Page 55: Alerts

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide NTP Option You can elect to synchronize the system time on the device with a remote NTP (Network Time Protocol) server. You can elect to keep the default servers or enter up to two NTP servers closer to your locale.
  • Page 56 Figure 1-49 NETGEAR strongly recommends that you keep all alerts enabled; however, you might choose to disable an alert if you are aware of a problem and wish to temporarily disable it. At the bottom of the screen in the Other Alert Settings section, there are a couple of additional options of note.

  • Page 57: Performance

    • NETGEAR recommends that you select the Disable full data journaling only if the NAS has UPS protection. Without battery backup, there is a small chance that parity written to a disk in a RAID set might become out of sync with the data disks if a power failure suddenly occurs, possibly causing incorrect data to be recovered if one disk fails.
  • Page 58 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-51 • Select Disable journaling if you understand the consequences of this action, and you do not mind a long file system check (only after unexpected power failures). File system journaling allows disk checks of only a few seconds verses possibly an hour or longer without journaling.
  • Page 59 NAS device automatically shuts down safely. Make sure to adjust the optimization settings in the Performance screen if you wish to take advantage of the available options. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-47...

  • Page 60: Language

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Language The Language Setting screen offers the option of setting the ReadyNAS Duo device to the appropriate character set for file names. Figure 1-52 For example, selecting Japanese allows you to share files with Japanese names in Windows Explorer.

  • Page 61: Updating Readynas Duo

    The preferred and quicker method if the ReadyNAS Duo has Internet access is the Remote update option. Select Update from the main menu and then select the Remote tab. Click Check for Updates to check for updates on the NETGEAR update server. Figure 1-54...
  • Page 62 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide If you wish to continue, click Perform System Update. After the update image has been downloaded, you will be asked to reboot the system. The update process updates only the firmware image and does not modify your data volume. However, it is always a good idea to back up your important data whenever you perform an update.

  • Page 63: Power Management

    The ReadyNAS Duo offers a couple of power management options to reduce system power consumption, both while the system is in use and when it is not in use. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008 1-51...
  • Page 64 Note: Enabling disk spin-down disables journal mode. Once enabled, if you decide to disable disk spin-down, you need to manually re-enable journal mode if desired. NETGEAR recommends UPS if you utilize this option. Power Timer The ReadyNAS Duo can be scheduled to power off and power back on (on certain models)

  • Page 65: Shutdown

    You do not need to select these options unless you suspect there might be data or quota integrity problems. 1. Please refer to the Release Notes for RAIDiator 3 on the NETGEAR Support site for more information. Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo 1-53 v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 66 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-60 When you reboot or shut down the ReadyNAS Duo, you must close the browser window and use RAIDar to reconnect to FrontView. 1-54 Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo v1.1, April 2008...

  • Page 67: Accessing Shares From Your Operating System

    Chapter 2 Accessing Shares from Your Operating System This chapter presents examples of how shares on the ReadyNAS Duo device can be accessed by the various operating systems. If you have problems accessing your shares, make sure to enable the corresponding service by selecting Shares > Share Listing screen. Also make sure that the default access of the share is set to Read-only or Read/write.

  • Page 68: Mac Os X

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 2-2 MAC OS X To access the same share over AFP with OS X, select Network from the Finder Go > Network menu. Figure 2-3 From here, there are two ways to access your AFP share, depending on how you have chosen to advertise your AFP share.

  • Page 69: Afp Over Bonjour

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide AFP over Bonjour To access the AFP share advertised over Bonjour on Mac OS X, select Network from the Finder Go menu to see a listing of available networks. Figure 2-4 Open the My Network folder to display the ReadyNAS Duo hostname.

  • Page 70: Afp Over Appletalk

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 2-6 From the Volumes field, select the share you want to access and click OK. AFP over AppleTalk If you chose to advertise your AFP service over AppleTalk, a listing of available networks is displayed.
  • Page 71 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 2-8 Select Guest and click Connect. Then, select the share you want to connect to and click OK. Figure 2-9 In Share security mode, you need to specify only the user name and password—if you have set up a password for your share.

  • Page 72: Mac Os 9

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide MAC OS 9 To access the same share under Mac OS 9, select Connect to Server from the Finder menu, choose the NAS device entry from the AppleTalk section, and click Connect. Figure 2-10 When you are prompted to log in, enter the share name and password if the ReadyNAS Duo is configured for Share security mode, otherwise enter a valid user account and password otherwise, and click Connect.

  • Page 73: Linux/Unix

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 2-12 You should see the same files in the share that you do in Windows Explorer. Figure 2-13 Linux/Unix To access this share from a Linux or Unix client, you will need to mount the share over NFS by entering: mount <ipaddr>:/<backup /backup>...

  • Page 74: Web Browser

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 2-14 Note: The ReadyNAS Duo does not support NIS as it is unable to correlate NIS information with CIFS logins. In mixed environments where you want CIFS and NFS integration, you can set the security to User mode and manually specify the UID and GID of the user and group accounts to match your NIS or other Linux/ Unix server settings.
  • Page 75 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide If the ReadyNAS Duo is in Share security mode, enter the share name and share password. Otherwise, log in with a valid user name and password if the ReadyNAS Duo is in User or Domain mode.
  • Page 76 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 2-18 One useful application for a Web share is to set up an internal company website. You can copy HTML files to the Web share using Windows, Mac, NFS, or HTTP. When you set HTTP access to read-only, html files, including index.htm and index.html, can be viewed using any web browser.

  • Page 77: Ftp/Ftps

    Figure 2-19 Note: Enabling FTP access in Share mode opens up the share to anyone on your network who has an FTP client. NETGEAR recommends that you enable FTP access only to shares you are comfortable making public on your network.

  • Page 78: Rsync

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Rsync Access to the share through rsync is identical regardless of the security mode. If you specified a user or password in the rsync share access tab, you will need to specify this when accessing the rsync share.

  • Page 79: Networked Dvd Players And Upnp Av Media Adapters

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Networked DVD Players and UPnP AV Media Adapters Networked DVD players and UPnP AV Media adapters detect the ReadyNAS Duo if either the Home Media Streaming Server or the UPnP AV services are enabled. The content of the Streaming Services media share on the ReadyNAS Duo is available to these players for playback.
  • Page 80 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide 2-14 Accessing Shares from Your Operating System v1.1, April 2008...

  • Page 81: Maintenance And Administration

    Chapter 3 Maintenance and Administration Viewing System Status The Status menu contains links to the Health screen and Logs screen that provide system status information. Health The Health screen displays the status of each disk, and the fan, temperature, and UPS status in detail.

  • Page 82: Logs

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 3-2 To recalibrate the fan, click Recalibrate. Logs Select Status > Logs to access the Clear Logs screen. The Clear Logs screen provides information about the status of management tasks, including a timestamp. Figure 3-3 The Download All Logs link is available in case you need to analyze low-level log information.

  • Page 83: Replacing A Failed Disk

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Replacing a Failed Disk When a disk fails in your ReadyNAS Duo device, you are notified of the failure by e-mail. The failed disk location can be seen in the FrontView status bar at the bottom by selecting Status >...
  • Page 84 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide To replace the disk: 1. Open the disk tray door. 2. Press the button under the failed disk. The latch pops out. Figure 3-5 3. Pull out the disk tray and remove the screws. 4. Replace the failed disk, reassemble, and slide the disk tray back in. Make sure that the hard disk connectors are facing away from you when you reassemble the disk.

  • Page 85: Resynchronizing The Volume

    Installation CD) for the location of the System Reset switch on the back of the ReadyNAS Duo. The System Reset switch allows you to perform two functions: Maintenance and Administration NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide v1.1, April 2008...

  • Page 86: Changing User Passwords

    NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide 1. Reinstall the ReadyNAS Duo firmware. 2. Reset the ReadyNAS Duo back to the factory default settings. Typically, you should not need to resort to options (1) and (2) unless you exhausted all other means of recovering your system.
  • Page 87 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 3-7 Maintenance and Administration v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 88 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Maintenance and Administration v1.1, April 2008...

  • Page 89: Appendix A Readynas Duo Glossary

    Domain or Workgroup Name A valid domain or workgroup name must conform to the following restrictions: • Name must consist only of characters a–z, A–Z, 0–9, and the symbols _ (underscore), - (hyphen), and . (period). • Name must start with a letter. •...
  • Page 90 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide • 192.168.2. • 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 • 192.168.2.0/24 Share Name • Name must consist only of characters a–z, A–Z, 0–9, and the symbols - (hyphen) and . (period). • Name cannot be an existing user name. •...

  • Page 91: Appendix B General Glossary

    Volume A file system built on top of a RAID set. This file system consists of shares that are made available through various network file services. X-RAID NETGEAR patent-pending Expandable RAID technology. General Glossary General Glossary Appendix A, “ReadyNAS Duo v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 92 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide General Glossary v1.1, April 2008...
  • Page 93 accessing shares FTP/FTPS 2-11 Linux/Unix MAC OS X over MAC OS 9 Rsync 2-12 Web browser Windows account preferences settings 1-11 admin user password, setting of Advanced Control Advanced Options 1-30 1-11 over AppleTalk over Bonjour share alerts general settings 1-44 setting contacts 1-43...
  • Page 94 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide EXT3 1-23 Factory Default Settings 1-51 Factory Default settings how to failed disk ordering replacement disks replacing on NV+ replacing, how to FAT32 1-23 File Transfer Protocol. See FTP. firmware reinstall frame size FrontView accessing...
  • Page 95 1-49 viewing Logs replacement disks ordering replacing disks increasing capacity 1-21 resetting system system switch resynchronizing volume NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Rsync 1-12 accessing shares 2-12 server, backup jobs 1-34 Setup Wizard shares access restriction, domain mode adding...
  • Page 96 NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide updating ReadyNAS 1-49 UPnP 1-15 UPnP AV 1-14 UPnP AV Media Adapters networked 2-13 configuration of 1-53 performance, adding 1-47 1-23 flash device 1-23 formats, EXT3 1-23 formats, FAT32 1-23 shares 1-31 storage 1-22 USB storage...
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