SMC Networks NAS02 User Manual

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  • Page 1 TigerStore™ 2 Bay Network Attached Storage SMCNAS02...
  • Page 2 SMCNAS02 User’s Guide Revision 1.8 January 2008...
  • Page 3 TRADEMARKS All brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. NOTE The information in this manual is subject to change without notice.
  • Page 4 Please have your proof of purchase receipt to get warranty support. All defective products shall be returned with a copy of proof of purchase. In no event shall SMC Networks, Inc. 's liability exceed the price paid for the product from direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use of the product, its accompanying software, or its documentation.
  • Page 5 SMC Networks, Inc. cannot be made liable for any damages or loss of data as a result of improper use or damage to the disk drives. The disk drives used in this product are covered under the...
  • Page 6: Important Notes

    When ejecting the USB device from your NAS system, make sure to disconnect from the Samba connection first. Your SMCNAS02 does not support any USB hub connected to the USB ports. When installing hard disk drive to your SMCNAS02, SMC suggest using the same vendor and the same size hard disk.
  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Important Notes ..............v  Table of Contents ................vi  Chapter 1  Introduction ..............1      Package Contents ................2     Specifications ..................3   Hardware ..................3   Software ..................3     System View ..................4  ...
  • Page 8     Disk Page................... 94     Advanced Page ................. 95   Alerts .................... 95   Firmware ..................98   iTunes Server ................101   Media Server ................104   Printer Server ................106   UPS .................... 109   USB Backup ................111  ...
  • Page 9: Chapter 1 Introduction

    Chapter 1 Introduction Your SMCNAS02 is a great storage solution for small business and home network environments. With this high-speed networked storage, network users can easily access and share music, pictures, and video files. Also, it has a program for discovering the storage system automatic assigned IP address. Your SMCNAS02 can accommodate up to 2 hard disks with standard single (if you only have one disk), RAID 0 or 1 and JBOD in BIG configurations, providing up to 2 TB (terabytes) of shared network storage.
  • Page 10: Package Contents

    1.1 Package Contents Includes the following: SMCNAS02 Storage System HDD Rail × 2 Power Adapter Power Cord RJ-45 Ethernet Cable Set of Screws Utility Disc Quick Start Guide...
  • Page 11: Specifications

    1.2 Specifications NOTE: Specifications are subject to change without notice. Hardware Processor Network LSI NAS201 Automatic MDIX Ethernt Port System Memory (10/100/1000 Mbps) 128 MB of DDR2 SDRAM Others • USB port for still images, mass storage, Flash Memory 8 MB printer •...
  • Page 12: System View

    1.3 System View Front Components Component Description Hard Disk Drive Contains two hard disk drive slots. Compartment Allows you to pull open the hard disk drive compartment Compartment cover. Cover Opening Slot Device Indicators Glows blue to indicate the power is on. Power Glows green to indicate system is connected to network.
  • Page 13 Component Description Device Indicators (continued) Glows blue to indicate RAID function is implemented. RAID Blinks blue to indicate RAID function is rebuilding the hard disk drive. Glows red to indicate RAID function is inactive/ malfunction. Glows blue to indicate hard disk drive 1 is on standby. HDD1 (right slot) Blinks blue to indicate read/write functions of hard disk...
  • Page 14: Rear Components

    Rear Components Component Description Turns the power on (I) and off (O). Power Switch Power Connector Connects to the power adapter. DC IN Allows you to reset the system to the factory default Reset Switch RESET username, password, DHCP, and IP. RJ-45 Connector Connects the LAN cable.
  • Page 15: Chapter 2 Setting Up

    Chapter 2 Setting Up Step 1. Install the Hard Disks WARNING: This section is only applicable for installing new hard disk(s) that has never installed NAS middleware before. If the hard disk has already installed NAS middleware, then proceed to chapter 3 – DO NOT insert hard disk at this point. 1.
  • Page 16 2. Fasten two screws on "1" position to secure the HDD rail on the hard disk drive. Fasten three screws on the opposite side of the hard disk drive (without HDD rail). NOTE: When installing a particular hard disk drive for the first time on your NAS, make sure to first turn on the storage device before inserting the hard disk drive.
  • Page 17 5. Slide the second hard disk drive all the way into the left slot. 6. Place the hard disk drive compartment cover back on the storage device. CAUTION: Be gentle when replacing the cover to avoid damaging the cover hinges and device.
  • Page 18: Step 2. Connect To The Network

    NOTE: If you have two hard disk drive installed, remove the hard disk drive on the left slot first, then remove the hard disk drive on the right slot. Step 2. Connect to the Network 1. Make sure that the computer is connected to a router. 2.
  • Page 19: Step 3. Connect To Power

    Step 3. Connect to Power 1. Make sure that your storage system is turned off (Power switch on the “O” position). 2. Plug the DC cord of the AC adapter to the power connector (DC IN) on the rear of the storage system ( ). 3.
  • Page 21: Chapter 3 Configuring Your Storage System

    Chapter 3 Configuring Your Storage System SMCNAS02 An SMCNAS02 network consists of a SMCNAS02 server and several clients connected via network links.
  • Page 22: Installing And Starting The Storage System Management

    3.1 Installing and Starting the Storage System Management You need to install Storage System Management before you can perform any system configurations. IMPORTANT: If you are using the hard disk drive that has been installed with NAS middleware before, then follow the steps on the section “System Power-on Without Hard Disk Drive.”...
  • Page 23 2. Click Install Java to install JAVA script on your computer and the following screen appears. (Please make sure your computer has internet connection to be able to access the online installation of JAVA.) NOTE: You can also click Install Non-JAVA based discovery tool to install non-JAVA based discovery tool.
  • Page 24 4. Click Finish when the following screen appears to exit installation.
  • Page 25 5. Click Setup NAS Discovery Utility. 6. The following screen appears. Click Next.
  • Page 26 7. Select the destination to install the NAS Discovery Utility and click Next. 8. The Select Start Menu Folder screen appears, click Next.
  • Page 27 9. Click the Create a desktop icon checkbox to enable it and click Next. 10. When the Ready to Install screen appears, click Install.
  • Page 28 11. The progress of installation will be shown onscreen. 12. When the following screen appears, click Finish to exit the installation process.
  • Page 29 JAVA-based 13. Click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Programs NAS Discovery Utility NAS Discovery Utility. Click Yes when the following screen appears to allow ActiveX controls. NOTE: If the following screen appears, click Run to allow the digital signature verification.
  • Page 30 14. The following screen appears.
  • Page 31 Non-JAVA based 13. Click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Programs NAS Discovery Utility NAS Discovery Utility. 14. The following screen appears.
  • Page 32: For Apple Mac Os X (10.4.11 Or Above)

    For Apple Mac OS X (10.4.11 or above) 1. Insert the included utility disc into your computer and open the MAC AutoRun folder, and then click the AutoRun.app program. 2. The following screen appears. Click Setup NAS Discovery Utility.
  • Page 33 3. The Welcome to the NAS Discovery Utility Installer screen appears. Click Continue. 4. Select the destination to install the NAS Discovery Utility and click Continue.
  • Page 34 5. The Easy Install on “iDisk HD” screen appears, click Install. 6. The installer requires that you type the password of your Mac OS X Administrator account.
  • Page 35 7. The Installing NAS Discovery Utility screen appears and progress of installation will be shown. 8. When the following screen appears, click Close to exit the installation process.
  • Page 36 9. To get the latest font library, click MAC Software Update to update to the latest MAC Operation System version. 10. The system would start to check for software update.
  • Page 37 11. To set the Safari Cookies, click Safari Preferences. Then Security to accept Cookies “Only from sites you navigate to”.
  • Page 38 12. Click the NAS Discovery Utility icon in the hard drive installation directory or launch NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Applications NAS Discovery Utility. 13. Click Trust to allow digital signature verification if the following screen appears.
  • Page 39 14. The following screen appears. NOTE: The NAS Discovery Utility must use the Safari web browser when system is using the Mac OS X (10.4.11 or above). Use Mozilla Firefox to install SMCNAS and type in the SMCNAS IP in the Firefox address field.
  • Page 40: System Power-On Without Hard Disk Drive

    System Power-on Without Hard Disk Drive IMPORTANT: If you are using the hard disk drive that has been installed with NAS middleware before, then follow the steps on this section. You can also Reset your System to default by following this section. But be aware, that all data will be lost, as hard disks will be formatted during this process! 15.
  • Page 41 17. After logging in the following screen appears. Insert the hard disk drive all the way into the right slot (see chapter 2 portion on proper hard disk installation) and after around 30 seconds, click REFRESH (if no hard disk drive appears, click REFRESH again).
  • Page 42 18. When the hard disk drive appears on screen, click CONFIGURE. 19. The following screen appears. Click OK.
  • Page 43 20. The following screen appears. Insert another hard disk drive all the way into the left slot and after around 30 seconds, click REFRESH (if no hard disk drive appears, click REFRESH again).
  • Page 44 21. The following screen appears, then click Configure.
  • Page 45 22. The following screen appears. NOTE: Whenever you insert a hard disk drive, you can use the default RAID mode (if one hard disk drive only default is Single, if two hard disk drives it will be JBOD). Or change the RAID mode by clicking CHANGE to use Raid 0 or Raid 1. If you did not click REFRESH and CONFIGURE each time you insert a hard disk drive, it will have the wrong RAID mode and the inserted disk might be invalid.
  • Page 46 23. If you use the default mode (JBOD or Single) without changing the RAID mode, click Upgrade and the following screen appears. Click OK to jump to step 29. 24. If you change the RAID mode, the following screen appears. Click OK.
  • Page 47 25. The system will reboot and the following screen appears, wait for approximately 3 ~ 5 minutes.
  • Page 48 26. After rebooting, log in by root again and no password is required.
  • Page 49 27. The following screen appears, click Upgrade. 28. When the confirmation message appears, click OK.
  • Page 50 29. System will start to format the hard disk drive. After formatting, the confirmation message will appear. Click OK. 30. The following screen appears.
  • Page 51 Utility\Firmware directory, otherwise it can be found under the firmware folder of the directory where you previously installed the NAS Discovery utility. Important: Please do not use the smaller (around 34MB) Firmware Upgrade file here that is also available on the SMC website.
  • Page 52 32. Then click Upgrade. The following screen appears. The system will start to install into the NAS hard disk drive.
  • Page 53 33. If the NAS Discovery Utility screen is not on your computer anymore, again click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Programs Discovery Utility NAS Discovery Utility. 34.
  • Page 54 35. When the following screen appears, click the Click to Configure NAS under the Configuration URL column to log in to Storage System Management. Proceed to the next section for details on Storage System Management.
  • Page 55: System Power-On With Full New Hard Disk Drives

    System Power-on With Full New Hard Disk Drives IMPORTANT: If you are using full new hard disk drives that have never installed NAS middleware before, then follow the steps on this section. 1. When the discovery tool has discovered the SMCNAS02, it will show “Zero-Disk Mode”...
  • Page 56 3. After logging in the following screen will show two hard disk drives. The default RAID mode is RAID 1. 4. If you use the default RAID mode, click Upgrade and the following screen appears. Click OK to jump to step 10.
  • Page 57 5. If you change the RAID mode, the following screen appears. Click OK. 6. The system will reboot and the following screen appears, wait for approximately 3 ~ 5 minutes.
  • Page 58 7. After rebooting it will display your new RAID mode, log in again.
  • Page 59 8. The following screen appears, click Upgrade. 9. When the confirmation message appears, click OK.
  • Page 60 10. System will start to format the hard disk drive. After formatting, the confirmation message will appear. Click OK. 11. The following screen appears.
  • Page 61 NAS Discovery utility. Important: Please do not use the smaller (around 34MB) Firmware Upgrade file here that is also available on the SMC website.
  • Page 62 13. Then click Upgrade. The following screen appears. The system will start to install into the NAS hard disk drive.
  • Page 63 14. If the NAS Discovery Utility screen is not on your computer anymore, again click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Programs Discovery Utility NAS Discovery Utility. 15.
  • Page 64 16. When the following screen appears, click the Click to Configure NAS under the Configuration URL column to log in to Storage System Management. Proceed to the next section for details on Storage System Management.
  • Page 65: Starting Storage System Management

    3.2 Starting Storage System Management JAVA-based 1. Click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the JAVA-based NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Programs NAS Discovery Utility NAS Discovery Utility. NOTE: If the following screen appears, click Yes to allow ActiveX controls. NOTE: If the following screen appears, click Run to allow the digital signature verification.
  • Page 66 2. When the following screen appears, click the Click to Configure NAS on the Configuration URL column to log in the Storage System Management.
  • Page 67 Non-JAVA based 1. Click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the non-JAVA based NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Programs NAS Discovery Utility NAS Discovery Utility. 2. When the following screen appears, click the Configure NAS Device on the Configuration URL column to log in the Storage System Management.
  • Page 68 3. The system automatically scans the network for storage systems. This might take a few minutes. The following screen appears. 4. Enter the default User name “admin” and the default Password “smcadmin” then select the desired language. 5. Click Log In. The Storage System Management homepage contains six tabs namely, My NAS, Users &...
  • Page 69: My Nas Page

    3.3 My NAS Page Displays a list of your storage system information (NAS name, Middleware and Flash version, MAC and IP address, Subnet mask, Gateway IP address, Disk Mode, System and Data utilization) and Current Connections (Shared folders, Users, and Login Time). System utilization: shows the current system data partition usage.
  • Page 70: System Setting

    System Setting Allow you to specify the storage system name, date, time, time zone, NTP server name or IP address, administrator name, and password. 1. On the My NAS page, click System setting and the following screen appear. NOTE: Be careful when changing the Storage System Name. Inform your clients of any change of this column for providing available function, including shared folders or backups.
  • Page 71 To change this . . . Do this . . . Storage system name Enter the new name to use for the specific storage system. The name can be up to 15 characters long and can include letters, numbers, and hyphens. Date, Time, Time zone In the Date fields, enter or select the month, day, and year.
  • Page 72: Network Setting

    Network Setting Allow you to configure the network settings that include the workgroup name, MAC address, and FTP server settings. NOTE: The time between ADS's and the Samba server must be in sync (use NTP). You only can choose the “workgroup” of NAS or “AD full domain” If AD domain is selected, user cannot use the local user account to connect to NAS via Samba.
  • Page 73 1. Click Network setting and the following screen appear.
  • Page 74 To change this . . . o this . . . Workgroup name Enter the new name for the specific workgroup. NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 15. Can include only letters (uppercase and lowercase A~Z), numbers (0~9), hyphens (–) and underlines (_).
  • Page 75 Enable FTP Server To enable FTP server, take note of the following: Transfer Mode Default is “passive” mode.
  • Page 76 Select “Passive” when you enable Firewall protection on your Windows Port Default is “21” unless specified. You can set one of the port range from 49152 to 65535. Code Page Default is “UTF-8”. For Japanese OS and you wish to upload/download file with Japanese filename, then select “Japanese.”...
  • Page 77 NOTE: If you use Filezilla v2.2.x (you are recommended to use Filezilla (shareware) as your FTP data transfer tool), DO NOT enable the Use multiple connections to transfer files setting. If you use Filezilla v3.0.x, please do not set Filezilla to “passive” mode no matter NAS set to which mode or with/without firewall or not...
  • Page 78 Click File and the following screen appears.
  • Page 79 Click New Site. Select “Use passive mode” on Passive transfer mode settings when using Windows OS with Firewall enabled and, select “Force” on Use UTF8 on server if available. Then click OK.
  • Page 80 NOTE: If you use Filezilla v2.2.x (you are recommended to use Filezilla (shareware) as your FTP data transfer tool), DO NOT enable the Use multiple connections to transfer files setting. If you use Filezilla v3.0.x, please do not set Filezilla to “passive” mode no matter NAS set to which mode or with/without firewall or not The user name of FTP is [Domain name]+[user name], e.g.
  • Page 81 If you choose the option Use this IP address, the following appears. 2. After making the necessary changes, click Apply. 3. When the confirmation message appears, click OK for the changes to take effect. WARNING: If you change the Static IP (Use this IP address) back to Dynamic IP (Get an IP address automatically), you need to shutdown the Storage System Management and restart it again.
  • Page 83: Users & Groups Page

    3.4 Users & Groups Page Displays a list of all currently configured users and lets you add, modify, and remove users. This area also allows you to add, modify, and remove groups as well as perform quota management. Users 1. Click the Users & Groups button on the Storage System Management homepage.
  • Page 84 3. Select Windows/Mac OS X user (CIFS) for Windows/Mac OS X user or, select Linux/Other Mac user (NFS) for Linux/other Mac user. 4. Add the users. After the user is added, you can assign the user to shared folders by clicking Shared Folders to assign/restrict access (see later section for further details).
  • Page 85 For Windows/Mac OS X Users (CIFS) 5. Click Add and the following screen appear. You must provide the requested user information.
  • Page 86 To change this . . . Do this . . . In the User name field, enter the user name. User name Password NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 24 Can include only letters (uppercase and Confirm password lowercase A~Z), numbers (0~9), hyphens (–), underlines (_), dots (.), and @ symbol.
  • Page 87 7. Click Remove and the following screen appears, allowing you to specify the type of user (Windows/Mac OS X) you want to delete.
  • Page 88 8. Click Edit and the following screen appears, allowing you to specify the type of user (Windows/Mac OS X) you want to edit. 9. Enter the pertinent information and click Apply.
  • Page 89 10. The following screen appears. NOTE: When AD domain is selected, “Users” page would display domain users with prefix of “(Domain)”.
  • Page 90 For Linux/Other Mac OS Users (NFS) 4. Click Next and the following screen appear. You must provide the requested user information. 5. Click Apply.
  • Page 91 6. Click Shared Folders and the following screen appears.
  • Page 92 7. Select the shared folder and click Assign Access. The following screen appears.
  • Page 93 8. Select the authorized user(s) and grant access right. Then click Apply. NOTE: If you grant shared folder access right to Linux user, the Linux user can “mount –t nfs –o tcp NASIP:/content/shared foldername PCmountfolder” at Linux PC (Fedora 5/6/7) to mount the file to NAS as well as read/write the file to NAS.
  • Page 94: Groups

    Groups Placing users into groups makes it easier to give several users access to the same shared folder at once. 1. Click Groups under the Users & Groups page. The following screen appears. NOTE: Only Windows users can be included in groups.
  • Page 95 2. Click Add and the following screen appear. Enter a group name and add all or selected users to this group. You can also remove all or selected users from a group. 3. Click Apply.
  • Page 96: Quota Management

    Quota Management Allows the administrator to limit (enlarge/shrink) user disk space. NOTE: Before enabling/disabling Quota Management, make sure that iTunes is not enabled, no USB device is mounted, and there is no existing Samba connection to your storage device (see later section for details). 1.
  • Page 97 To change this . . . Do this . . . Enable quota for all users Click the checkbox to set quota for all Windows users. Quota size on the SATA disk In the Quota size on the SATA disk field, enter Administrator password the quota size (MB).
  • Page 98: Shared Folders Page

    3.5 Shared Folders Page Displays a list of all currently configured and shared folders and allow you to add shared folders, change the right of access for users or remove them. 1. Click the Shared Folders button on the Storage System Management homepage.
  • Page 99: Add Shared Folder

    Add Shared Folder 2. Click Add to create shared folder and the following screen appears. 3. Enter the name of the new shared folder and click Next. NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 64. Can include only letters (uppercase and lowercase A~Z), numbers (0~9), hyphens (–), underlines (_), and dots (.).
  • Page 100: Assign Access

    Assign Access 4. Select the shared folder whose user access you want to change (add or remove user). 5. Click Assign Access and the following screen appear.
  • Page 101: Delete Shared Folder

    6. You can Add (specify as Read-Only or Read/Write) users/groups to, as well as Remove existing users/groups from shared folders. Delete Shared Folder 7. Select the shared folder you want to remove. 8. Click Delete and the following screen appears. 9.
  • Page 102: Disk Page

    3.6 Disk Page Allows you to view information about the installed hard disk(s) slot, model, serial number, size, RAID type, and disk status (shows the RAID rebuilding percentage). 1. Click the Disk button on your Storage System Management homepage. The following screen appears.
  • Page 103: Advanced Page

    3.7 Advanced Page Provides access to advanced storage system configuration options such as setting up email alert; upgrading firmware; UPS (uninterruptible power supply), iTunes/media/printer server, USB backup; viewing information about system events; and shutting down, reboot, back to zero disk the system remotely. Alerts Allows you to set up the storage system to notify up to two people via email if any problem occurs namely, when hard disk space usage is full, or the upper...
  • Page 104 1. Click the Advanced button on the Storage System Management homepage. The following screen appears. 2. Enter the information about your SMTP email server, sender’s email address, and up to two email addresses that should receive the notification.
  • Page 105 NOTE: If your SMTP email server has authentication, enable it and enter the User name and Password. The SMTP email server name’s maximum number of characters is 64. Can include only letters (uppercase and lowercase A~Z), numbers (0~9), hyphens (–), underlines (_) and dots (.).
  • Page 106: Firmware

    (you can Upgrade_SMCNAS02-Vxx.xx-SMC.cpio.bz2” place the firmware file in any folder on the computer that you prefer). => Latest versions can be found on www.smc.com 2. In the Administrator password text box, enter the password. 3. Click Apply.
  • Page 107 4. When the confirmation message appears, click OK to confirm. 5. The upload percentage will be displayed. NOTE (for Mac OS X user): The upload percentage will not be shown but after upgrading the firmware your NAS will reboot automatically and the new version will be shown.
  • Page 108 6. System will reboot automatically after upgrade has finished.
  • Page 109: Itunes Server

    iTunes Server Allows your storage system to function as an iTunes server for accessing digital music files from an iTunes client computer. 1. Click iTunes Server on the Advanced page and the following screen appears.
  • Page 110 2. Click the checkbox iTunes Server enabled. 3. Click Apply and the following screen appears. 4. Click Re-Scan to synchronize iTunes. NOTE: You need to do this every time there are new contents available. The administrator is allowed to change the iTunes server name.
  • Page 111 5. The below image shows how the iTunes Server will appear in your iTunes Client. Just click on the iTunes Server name and select any music file you want to play.
  • Page 112: Media Server

    Media Server Allow your storage system to function as a media server by specifying the scan path, selecting the media file type(s), start scanning and afterwards display the results of the scan, as well as delete and backup media database. 1.
  • Page 113 To change this . . . Do this . . . Click Change Scan Paths if you want your Change Scan Paths computer to search for media files which differ from the one currently specified (see step 2). Media Scan Types Click on the checkbox of the file types on the list to be included, then click Set Types.
  • Page 114: Printer Server

    4. Click Apply. 5. When the confirmation message appears, click OK to confirm. Printer Server Allow your storage system to function as a printer server when a USB printer is connected. 1. Connect a printer to any USB port on your storage system. 2.
  • Page 115 3. Proceed to adding a new printer in Windows and the following screen appears. 4. Click Next and the following screen appears. Select A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer by clicking on the radio button.
  • Page 116 5. Click Next and the following screen appears. Select Connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or office network by clicking on the radio button. 6. When setting up the USB printer on your computer, you need to check the NAS system RAID’s IP address (e.g., 192.168.1.25).
  • Page 117: Ups

    Allow your storage system to use a USB-UPS as temporary backup power. 1. Connect a USB-UPS to any USB port on your storage system. NOTE: When using the USB-UPS and the power level is not adequate (power level remaining reaches <= 3 % of normal charge), an email alert will be sent to inform you to shutdown the storage system immediately.
  • Page 118 3. Click the checkbox UPS enabled. The Power status (amount of backup power available) will be shown. 4. Click Apply. NOTE: A warning message will appear if no USB-UPS is connected to your storage system. 5. When the confirmation message appears, click OK to confirm.
  • Page 119: Usb Backup

    USB Backup Allow you to backup the contents of your USB storage device to your storage system. NOTE: USB backup supports both FAT32 and NTFS. 1. Click USB backup on the Advanced page and the following screen appears. 2. In the Administrator password text box, enter the password. NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 8.
  • Page 120 3. Click Apply. The backup contents of your USB storage device would be copied to your storage system on a newly created timestamp folder under /USBBackup/ and the following screen appears. 4. Click OK. NOTE: To access the copied content in the USBBackup folder you need to map a user to the USBBACKUP folder.
  • Page 121 6. Select the shared folder (e.g. USBBackup or sdb1) and click Assign Access. The following screen appears.
  • Page 122 7. Select the authorized user(s) and grant access right. Then click Apply.
  • Page 123 Eject USB Storage Device 1. To eject your USB storage device in case it is connected to your storage system, select the USB storage device from the Eject your USB dropdown list. NOTE: Before ejecting the USB device, disconnect the Samba connection first. 2.
  • Page 124 4. Click OK. 5. In the Criteria of backup available space textbox, enter the value (MB) to change the allocated disk space for backing up to your storage system. Otherwise do not change it, the default setting of 10 % is suggested. 6.
  • Page 125: Download Station

    Download Station Allows peer-to-peer (P2P) download (BitTorrent file transfer protocol) of computer files (filename.torrent) from remote location to your storage system. The download task, percent and speed of download, and seed is displayed. You can pause/resume or delete the download anytime. 1.
  • Page 126 3. Then click Apply. 4. Create a new user and assign R/W (read/write) permission of shared folder “p2p” to this user. 5. Via Samba connection in “p2p” folder there is a “torrents” folder, place torrents file in it.
  • Page 128 6. Wait for about 20 seconds, then open a new web browser and type: http://your_nas_ip:4080. If you open a new web browser too quickly after clicking Apply you will get the below error message.
  • Page 129 7. Click Download Status and the following screen appears. In here you can “P” Pause, “R” Resume and “C” Clear each single download that is taking place. Also you can Pause all, Resume all, Clear all, and Submit changes for single download changes you want to make. Changing the used Priority for each Download is also possible.
  • Page 130 8. When the Enable Download Station cannot be enabled, proceed to the Reset to Default Setting portion to key in the administrator password, and then click Reset to allow system will clear all downloading task. NOTE: The system can only tolerate 10 torrent files to be downloaded at the same time, the other torrent files will be queued.
  • Page 131: System Log

    System Log Display a list of events that have occurred on the storage system. Reviewing this list can help you identify and resolve any problems that you might encounter. 1. Click System log on the Advanced page and the following screen appears. The date and time of the event, the type of event (I stands for informational, E stands for Error, W stands for Warning, and C stands for Critical Error), and a brief description of the event are displayed.
  • Page 132: Shut Down

    When you click Erase All Logs it will erase all the log files in the system (under the “Event Log” shared folder). Shut Down To shut down the storage system, you can press the power button on the unit itself and hold it until the system status and disk activity LEDs start flashing, or you can shut the storage system down remotely by using Storage System Management.
  • Page 133 3. Click Shut Down and the following screen appears. Click OK to confirm. 4. A message appears indicating that the system is shutting down. CAUTION: Always shutdown the system in accordance with the instructions above. An improper shutdown may affect the functionality of storage system in the next startup.
  • Page 134: Reboot

    Reboot You can reboot the storage system remotely by using Storage System Management. To use Storage System Management: 1. Click Reboot on the Advanced page and the following screen appears, allowing you to reboot the storage system. CAUTION: Make sure no one is backing up a disk or using a shared folder before you reboot the storage system.
  • Page 135 3. Click Reboot and the following screen appear. Click OK to confirm. 4. A message appears indicating that the system is rebooting. CAUTION: Always reboot the system in accordance with the instructions above. An improper reboot may affect the functionality of storage system in the next startup.
  • Page 136: Logging Out Of Storage System Management

    3.8 Logging Out of Storage System Management 1. To log out from the Storage System Management without shutting it down, click the Logout button.
  • Page 137 2. When the confirmation message appears, click OK. 3. The following screen appears. You can allow it to stay in the background and perform other computer task. To use the Storage System Management later, click Log In.
  • Page 138: How To Reinstall Your Smcnas02

    3.9 How to reinstall your SMCNAS02 1. Please make a Backup of all the Data you have stored on the SMCNAS02 as this process will format the hard drives inside your SMCNAS02! 2. After you backed up all important data, please shutdown your SMCNAS02. To do so, please go to the Advanced Menu in the WEB UI and click Shutdown on the left side.
  • Page 139: Chapter 4 Map Shares

    Chapter 4 Map Shares Windows PC Your Storage System Management allows you to map shared folders. To map shared folders: 1. From the NAS Discovery tool, click the Click to Map under the MAP Shares column to map shared folders. For JAVA-based...
  • Page 140 For non-JAVA based...
  • Page 141 2. The following screen appears. Key in the appropriate information and click Map. NAS Samba Share: allows you to select which shared folder to connect User Name/Password: the shared folder of what you selected NOTE: When AD domain is selected, the user name must be [Domain name] \user name.
  • Page 142: For Apple Mac Os X

    4. Click Exit to exit mapping of shared folders. For Apple Mac OS X To map a Samba Share on an Apple Computer with Mac OS X, please follow the below steps to map a Share: 1. Click the Finder icon in the Dock of your Mac OS X desktop. 2.
  • Page 143: Chapter 5 Using One-Touch Backup

    Chapter 5 Using One-Touch Backup Your SMCNAS02 storage system allows you to conveniently backup files from a USB device or memory card to your SMCNAS02 instantly by pressing the One-Touch Backup button ( 5.1 Connecting a USB Device Your SMCNAS02 storage device has three USB ports. To use the One-Touch Backup function with a USB device: 1.
  • Page 144: Using The Card Reader

    to a newly created timestamp folder under /USBBackup/. During this process the OTB ( ) indicator will blink blue to indicate read/write function. 5.2 Using the Card Reader Your storage device has a Card Reader. The Card Reader is a small drive for reading from and writing to removable memory cards (or called memory cards).
  • Page 145 To use the One-Touch Backup function with a memory card: 1. Locate the Card Reader slot (SD/MMC/MS) on your storage device. 2. Align the card with its connector end pointing to the corresponding slot and its indentation facing up. Slide the card into the slot until it reaches the end. 3.
  • Page 147: Chapter 6 Activedirectory Support

    Chapter 6 ActiveDirectory Support NOTE: The time between the ADS's and the Samba server must be in sync (use NTP). If AD domain is selected, user cannot use the local user account to login to NAS. “~”, “!”, “#”, “$”, “%”, “^”, “&”, “(“, “)”, “-“, “{“, “}”, “.”, “'”, and space can be included in AD account.
  • Page 148 At Windows XP Portion You must renew IP after the router’s DNS is changed (the purpose is get the DNS server) Join the domain of Windows 2003 server Login via AD user account At NAS Portion You must renew IP after the router’s DNS is changed (the purpose is get the DNS server).
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