Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 Quick Install Manual

Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 Quick Install Manual

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WD Sentinel
DX4000
Small Office Storage Server
Administrator's Quick Install Guide

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  • Page 1 WD Sentinel DX4000 ™ Small Office Storage Server Administrator’s Quick Install Guide...
  • Page 2: About Your Wd Product

    System View (Front) Power/Status LED Power button Scroll buttons Quick Install Guide Drive status LEDs * For Mac OS X Lion, ensure that your WD Sentinel server has the latest software updates from Microsoft and Western Digital. WD Sentinel™ DX4000 | 1...
  • Page 3 PC and then a Mac computer to the server. Note: Before connecting a Mac computer to the WD Sentinel server, you must connect and configure the WD Sentinel server with a Windows PC. How the WD Sentinel Fits into Your Office...
  • Page 4 Accesses media library. Note: For each user account, the WD Sentinel server enables the Administrator to set detailed permissions for various shared folders as well as server resources, such as Remote Web Access. At all times, the users are only able to access the data on the server and other server resources for which they have permissions.
  • Page 5 Step 1: Connect the 4. Wait for the LCD on the front of the WD Sentinel server to display WDSENTINEL and the IP WD Sentinel DX4000 Server to address before configuring the server. Your Network WARNING! This process takes a few minutes.
  • Page 6 6. Click Next to review the date and time, and then select the checkbox to verify the settings: a. The WD Sentinel server has a default name of WDSENTINEL. Enter a unique name for your WD Sentinel server, for example, Company- Name (must contain 1-12 characters;...
  • Page 7 Windows operating system has the latest update. Now connect one Windows PC (most likely the one you have been using) to the WD Sentinel server by installing Connector software on it. Note: Before connecting a Mac computer to the...
  • Page 8 Internet Explorer and in the address field, type http://<IP address>/connect Example http://192.168.123.225/connect. The LCD of the WD Sentinel server displays the WD Sentinel name and IP address. 2. At the warning prompts, click Run and Yes as appropriate.
  • Page 9 (Windows PCs Only) and Launchpad You can only access the Dashboard using a Windows PC that is already connected to your WD Sentinel server. The Dashboard Sign in screen appears if you elected it to do so after the Connector software is loaded, or you can navigate Start or >(All)Program(s) >Windows Storage...
  • Page 10 Once you have one Windows PC connected to the Launchpad Sign in (Users) WD Sentinel server, you can connect up to 24 additional Windows PCs or Mac computers to your After you set up users with a user name, password, WD Sentinel server.
  • Page 11 1. Open Safari and in the address field, type pane. Click Continue to move through these http://<IP address>/connect, using the IP screens: address shown on the LCD of the WD Sentinel server. Example: http://192.168.123.225/connect. 2. Click the Download software for Mac arrow: 3.
  • Page 12 Select the Automatically start Launchpad at startup checkbox and click Close: 8. Enter the Administrator password for the WD Sentinel server and click Continue: The Launchpad Sign in screen displays. Users who have been set up on the Dashboard (using a...
  • Page 13: Rebooting The Wd Sentinel Server

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