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  • Page 1 Metal Gear Box NAS User Guide...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Index What is NAS?... 3 Metal Gear Box NAS Introduction ... 4 First time Hardware Installation... 4 Booting up Metal Gear Box NAS ... 5 Notice: Format Your HDD using Metal Gear Box NAS Disk Utility format software..11 How to set up Metal Gear Box NAS ...

  • Page 3: What Is Nas

    What is NAS? NAS is the abbreviation of Network Attached Storage, which represents a HDD based storage box can be connected with a RJ-45 network cable. It could be accessed by all the devices located on the same IP network range, some advanced version could be also connected by a outside device (i.e.

  • Page 4: Metal Gear Box Nas Introduction

    Metal Gear Box NAS Introduction What’s the difference? Metal Gear Box NAS, it’s not only an ease of use network storage, with it’s integrated USB client chip, it is a dual-function HDD box, users could use it as a NAS where network connection is available or bring it as a portable HDD external enclosure, accessing it via its USB 2.0 client jack.

  • Page 5: Booting Up Metal Gear Box Nas

    About the Metal Gear Box NAS Display System in NAS Mode System in USB Mode System Shutting Down System Booting Up After system boots up, the IP address assigned to this unit will be displayed for 30 minutes. Then the current system will be displayed. The display will rotate in the following order: System Time ->...
  • Page 6 Booting up Metal Gear Box NAS Assembly Put in a hard disk drive, if the Metal Gear Box NAS version you got already has hard disk drive installed. Please skip this step and jump to step 2. Open the upper cover of Metal Gear Box NAS through the 2 screws located in the back end of Metal Gear Box NAS with your hands.
  • Page 7 Put the HDD with the HDD rack back into Metal Gear Box NAS and fix it with attached screws, cover the upper case up. Using the hand-screwed screws to get the upper case fixed on Metal Gear Box NAS.
  • Page 8 Metal Gear Box NAS equips with SMART User Mode Auto-Detection function, it could automatically operate under the mode you want to use (NAS / USB HDD external enclosure) through the cable you are plugging into： If you are plugging the attached RJ-45 cable and power adapter core into the “LAN”...
  • Page 9 Metal Gear Box NAS provides Printer Server function, if you want to use Metal Gear Box NAS as your printer server in your LAN environment, please plug the USB cable of the printer into the back end of Metal Gear Box NAS before you boot up it.
  • Page 10 Plug the other side of the power core into the power plug. Press and hold the power switch at the front panel for at least 3 seconds to turn on the system power. (Note: Due to its sophisticated software design, the system may take up to 3 minutes to boot.

  • Page 11: Notice: Format Your Hdd Using Metal Gear Box Nas Disk Utility Format Software

    If you need to restore the default system settings in Metal Gear Box NAS, please use a sharp-pointed item such as a pen to press the “RESET” button in the back end of Metal Gear Box NAS when it operates, it would automatically shut down and boot up again to restore all the default system settings.

  • Page 12: How To Set Up Metal Gear Box Nas

    How to set up Metal Gear Box NAS 1. After Metal Gear Box NAS is booted up, use a web browser (i.e. Microsoft Internet Explorer) to login Metal Gear Box NAS, there would be some different steps needed to be taken accordingly. A.
  • Page 13 For Apple Macintosh users. (we use OSX for your reference here) ♦ Select the “Open Transport Control Panel” from the “Control Panels” folder in the “Apple” or open the file directly with this path. “Local Macintosh Hard Disk”->”System Folder”->”Control Panels”->”TCP/IP”)The control panel will look like this. ♦...

  • Page 14: Identifying And Using Metal Gear Box Nas On Your Network

    2. Log in Metal Gear Box NAS using its default IP address “169.254.X.X,” (Non-DHCP based network), if you’re under a DHCP based environment, use the delivery-attached SearchNAS.exe to find the Metal Gear Box NAS IP address or directly type the default Network Neighbor name “\\metalgearboxnas”...

  • Page 15: Entering The System Management Page

    For the first time setup, just complete the six-step wizard to get the system up and running. To access the storage space, type \\MetalGearBoxNAS under Network Places.

  • Page 16: Manage The Users And Groups

    1. Manage the Users and Groups You could manage the user accounts through “Control Panel”->“Users and Groups”. A. To add a user. Fill in the desired new user account and password (twice for confirming), you could decide whether the Private folder would be created or not, and enable/disable the disk quota.

  • Page 17: File Management

    2. File Management Metal Gear Box NAS is a sharing center for you to share your data, files, music, movies with authorized users by your own. Here you can set the related information for your Metal Gear Box NAS to be recognized on the intranet where it operates.

  • Page 18: Ftp Server Setting

    B. FTP Server Setting FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method for you to use FTP client logging into Metal Gear Box NAS and upload/download files. You could enable/disable the service here by check/uncheck the square and specify the transfer port (FTP default transfer port is 21, while it’s often attacked by hackers, we provide you the flexibility to change the port, 100~65535 would be recommended.) C.

  • Page 19: Guest Access Setting

    You could enable/disable the Guest Access function to allow/forbid anonymous users entering Metal Gear Box NAS, furthermore, the “Enable Quota” function could let you limit the storage capacity assigned for anonymous users. The “Disk Quota” function are not supported by using FAT32 format HDD.

  • Page 20: Share Management

    E. Share Management Share Management including the functions to manage “how” you share the data/files stored on Metal Gear Box NAS. i. You could simply create a Share Name and specify the actual path in your Metal Gear Box NAS, add a description on it. ii.

  • Page 21: System Settings

    3. System Settings Here come some settings for you to acquire the related information of Metal Gear Box NAS. A. Network Setting Metal Gear Box NAS can automatically get its IP address under a DHCP based network environment, or it would operate with a default IP address 169.254.X.X.

  • Page 22: Time Setting

    B. Time Setting You could manually set the time settings used by Metal Gear Box NAS or specify an existed NTP (Network Time Protocol) server in the Internet, it would automatically help you correct the time on Metal Gear Box NAS (NTP function could ONLY work under the network environment which could connect onto Internet for correcting Metal Gear Box NAS time) C.

  • Page 23: Information

    Through this function, you could check the left capacity and the usage percentage of the HDD storage in Metal Gear Box NAS. You could view it from the whole HDD view or a single user usage view by selecting it...

  • Page 24: Maintenance

    4. Maintenance A. Disk Utility “Disk Utility” enables you to format or execute scandisk function. You could format the HDD in Metal Gear Box NAS with ext2/ext3/FAT32 format. Microsoft NTFS format is not supported in Metal Gear Box NAS. If you want to use Metal Gear Box NAS as a USB 2.0 external enclosure for Windows systems, please format the HDD with FAT32 format, for ext2/ext3 could be recognized only for UNIX/Linux based systems.

  • Page 25: Save Configuration

    C. Save Configuration You could backup the settings you’ve done on Metal Gear Box NAS onto your PC/NB by this function, click “Save” and choose the destination where you want to store the configuration settings on your PC/NB and click “OK” to download it. D.

  • Page 26: Factory Reset

    Account Management You could change the password, choose get the account related storage usage information by entering “Personal Info”. Only an “Admin” account can access the Metal Gear Box NAS system related configuration (Control Panel) for setting up it, a single user account can only enter “Personal Info”...

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