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Maxtor Fusion User Manual

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  • Page 1 AXTOR USION ™ User’s Guide...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Appendix II – Maxtor Fusion Checklist ........

  • Page 3: Introduction

    – Supports Windows XP SP2 and Macintosh OS X (10.4 Handling Precautions or higher) Please handle your new Maxtor Fusion with care! Follow the – Fast gigabit Ethernet connection to network router precautions listed here or you could damage the internal components and void the product warranty.

  • Page 4: Maxtor Product Support

    MAXTOR FUSION USER’S GUIDE Follow these precautions to prevent data loss Navigation – Do not bump, move or drop the Maxtor Fusion while in Although the Maxtor Fusion interface runs from within a operation. browser window, it uses its own navigational buttons rather than the forward, back, refresh buttons of your browser.

  • Page 5: Getting To Know Maxtor Fusion

    This section shows how – in just a few steps – to put your Anyone with a user account and a web browser can import Maxtor Fusion to work quickly by importing files and sharing files. To use a web browser to import files: them with others.

  • Page 6: Sharing Files By Invitation

    Sharing Files by Invitation < YES > next to the message Once your files are imported onto your Maxtor Fusion, “Need to Import folders/files at once in bulk?” sharing them is easy. You can invite individuals and groups to Depending on your browser settings you may need to look at and download your content, and you can make files agree to the launching of the File Dropbox.
  • Page 7 MAXTOR FUSION USER’S GUIDE When your recipient clicks on the emailed link, a browser Sharing Files with the Whole World will open and thumbnails of the files that you shared with This is really easy – within each category, select the files you them will be displayed in their browser –...

  • Page 8: Linking Files To Online Groups

    MAXTOR FUSION USER’S GUIDE Linking Files to Online Groups You can link up to five pictures at a time to popular online communities such as MySpace and eBay. The microlink button automatically generates a link (URL) that users can click on to view the pictures in a dedicated browser window and HTML code (IMG) that can be used to embed the selected pictures into a web page.

  • Page 9: Using The Maxtor Fusion

    One of the first things you’ll want to do is import files onto content. Maxtor Fusion offers a simple yet powerful way to your Maxtor Fusion. There are two ways to add files to your help transform scattered video, pictures, music, and...
  • Page 10 “Need to Import folders/files at once in bulk?” Maxtor Fusion – “Home” when you first log in. Note that you cannot modify this top level – you can only copy files into the A File Dropbox will appear.

  • Page 11: Sorting Your Files With The View Controls

    Sorting Your Files with the View Controls – Move, Copy, Cut, and Paste files using the EDIT pull The Maxtor Fusion web interface allows you to sort your files down menu or right click on your mouse. in many different ways. The system has a default view, but...

  • Page 12: Viewing And Setting Detailed File Information

    (the date the file was imported other view icons. To get to this view, click on the ORGANIZE into Maxtor Fusion) or authored date (the date the file was icon at the top right-hand side of the browser, and then click created).

  • Page 13: Organizing Files Using Categories And Folders

    In general, if you’re working on the PC on the same LAN as your Maxtor Fusion, you can perform many of the file NOTE: If you are using the EXPLORE desktop file organization tasks using the file management application...
  • Page 14 If you are sitting at the PC on the same LAN as your Maxtor RENAME button. Fusion, you can delete files from the Maxtor Fusion’s file system using the EXPLORE icon that launches your desktop file manager. This takes you to the hard drive inside Maxtor Fusion.

  • Page 15: Sharing Files

    Sharing Files If you need to set up a group: Once files are loaded onto your Maxtor Fusion, sharing them Click on the SHARE icon near the top of the interface, is easy. You can invite individuals and groups to view and then Edit Groups.

  • Page 16: Searching And Tagging

    Public Site area but does not delete the actual file from the Category folder or sub-folder. NOTE: If you delete files from Maxtor Fusion that were In the Search text box that appears, type one or more being shared through the Public Site feature, they will words that you think are somewhat unique to the file(s) you seek, and press Enter.
  • Page 17 MAXTOR FUSION USER’S GUIDE Adding Tags and Descriptions for Better Searches The tags you enter from the browser interface of Maxtor Fusion are different from other metadata tags that might be A tag is some text that is attached to a file and helps embedded in some of your files.

  • Page 18: Exporting Files

    MAXTOR FUSION USER’S GUIDE Exporting Files System Administration Tasks To make a copy of a file on Maxtor Fusion and save it to your This section contains management and maintenance topics local file system, you use the Export command. to help the Maxtor Fusion administrator .
  • Page 19 Drives formatted for the NTFS file system can public site URL for a user with user name “ace” and a DNS be read by the admin user of Maxtor Fusion but cannot hostname of “bobsfusion.no-ip.org” will be: be used as a destination for backing up or writing files.
  • Page 20 The Setup Wizard window replaces the Services such as DynDNS and No-IP help users find User Preferences window. your Maxtor Fusion over the web, even when the IP Follow the instructions to proceed with the Setup. address has been changed by your Internet service You can quit at any time.

  • Page 21: Frequently Asked Questions

    The folder hierarchy you create in EXPLORE view will also appear in the web browser view. No. While a USB drive can be connected to Maxtor Fusion, it cannot function as a USB drive to another PC. The USB ports are for adding additional storage to the Maxtor Fusion.
  • Page 22 MAXTOR FUSION USER’S GUIDE My USB drive is not recognized. I am the Maxtor Fusion administrator and also have a user account. After I use the EXPLORE icon as a non-administra- External USB drives must be formatted for the FAT32 tive user, I cannot see the admin’s files –...

  • Page 23: Appendices

    Use the information here to help you complete storage space with their own login and password – every Maxtor Fusion installation, or to assist you when making sub-user account is private from all others. system-level changes (applying a new DNS Hostname, A user account is not required to view files loaded onto your for example).

  • Page 24: Dynamic Dns

    MAXTOR FUSION USER’S GUIDE Dynamic DNS Dynamic DNS Maxtor Fusion can use a dynamic DNS service to choose a What is DNS? DNS Hostname (domain name) that will be accessible over DNS stands for Domain Name Service. An integral part of the the web.

  • Page 25: Email Invitation

    MAXTOR FUSION USER’S GUIDE For example, if you want your Maxtor Fusion to be called For example, if you want your Maxtor Fusion to be called MyFusion, type that into the text box. If you go with the MyFusion, type that into the text box. If you go with the default, your domain name will be MyFusion.no-ip.info.

  • Page 26: Port Forwarding

    (such as view a Web page or download a file) to the Maxtor Fusion. To enable applications to keep track of things, specific ports are designated. This technique can allow an external user to reach a port on a specific IP address (inside a LAN) from the outside via a NAT-enabled router.

  • Page 27: Appendix Ii - Maxtor Fusion Checklist

    IP Address: Subnet Mask: Default Gateway DNS Server 1: DNS Server 2: It is recommended that you record this information and keep it in a safe, accessible place. Information with an asterisk should be recorded before installing Maxtor Fusion. PAGE 25...
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