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  • Page 1: User Guide

    R E A D Y N A S I N S T A N T S T O R A G E User Guide...
  • Page 2 Copyright © 2006, Infrant Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.infrant.com ReadyNAS, X-RAID, FrontView, RAIDar, RAIDiator, Network Storage Processor, and NSP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Infrant Technologies Inc. All other product names are the property of their respective owner.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents About This Guide FrontView Advanced Control Network Ethernet ► Speed/Duplex Mode ► ► VLAN Setting ► Performance Setting Wireless Global Network Settings ► Hostname ► Default Gateway ► WINS DHCP Route Security Admin Password Security Mode Selection Share Security Mode ►...
  • Page 4 ► Setting up Accounts Services Standard File Protocols Streaming Services Discovery Services Volumes Volume Management ► Advantages of Flex-RAID ► Advantages of X-RAID Volume Management for Flex-RAID ► Deleting a Volume ► Adding a Volume ► RAID Settings Volume Management for X-RAID ►...
  • Page 5 ► Alerts Settings ► SNMP ► SMTP Performance ► Adding a UPS for performance Language Unicode for User, Group, and Share Names Updating ReadyNAS ► Remote Update ► Local Update ► Settings ► Factory Default Power Management ► Disk Spin-down Option ►...
  • Page 6 RAID Level 0 RAID Level 1 RAID Level 5 RAID Level “X” (X-RAID) B Inp ut Field Format Domain/Workgroup Name Host Host Name ReadyNAS Host Name Host Expression Share Name Share Password SNMP Community User/Group Name User Password C Gl ossary If You Nee d Help…...

  • Page 7: About This Guide

    Chapter 1, “FrontView Advanced Control”, describes all the menus and tabs available in the Advanced Control mode. If you have already configured the ReadyNAS and you need help in accessing the shares on the ReadyNAS, skip to Chapter 2, “Accessing Shares”.

  • Page 8: Frontview Advanced Control

    Chapter FrontView Advanced Control The Advanced Control mode offers the all settings available in the Setup Wizard plus more. When you first switch to this mode, you’ll see the menus on the left that allow you to quickly jump to the desired menu page. Towards the bottom left, you’ll notice buttons that allow you to switch back and forth between the Setup Wizard mode and the Advanced Control mode..
  • Page 9 Life support mode – The volume has encountered multiple disk failures and is in the state of being marked dead. However, the ReadyNAS has blocked it from being marked dead in the event that someone may have accidentally pulled out the wrong disk during runtime. If the wrong disk was pulled out, shutdown the ReadyNAS immediately, reconnect the disk, and power-on the ReadyNAS.

  • Page 10: Network

    “Use values from a DHCP server” option to automatically set the IP address and network mask. If you assign a static IP address, be aware that the browser will lose connection to the ReadyNAS device after the IP address has been changed. You can click Rescan in RAIDar to locate the device and reconnect from there.

  • Page 11: Speed/Duplex Mode

    LAN. If you wish to use the ReadyNAS in a VLAN environment, select the Enable VLAN support checkbox and input a numeric VLAN tag. You will need to reboot the ReadyNAS for the VLAN function to take effect.

  • Page 12: Performance Setting

    ► P E R F O R M A N C E S E T T I N G The Enable jumbo frames option allows you to optimize the ReadyNAS for large data transfers such as multiple streams of video playback. Select this option if your NIC and your gigabit switch support jumbo frames.

  • Page 13: Wireless

    USB wireless adapter directly to the USB port on the NAS device, or use a supported wireless PCI adapter if a PCI slot exists on your ReadyNAS. The wireless network tab shows up in the Network menu when a supported USB or PCI wireless adapter is detected.

  • Page 14: Global Network Settings

    ► H O S T N A M E The Hostname you specify is used to advertise the ReadyNAS on your network. You can use the hostname to address the ReadyNAS in place of the IP address when accessing the ReadyNAS from Windows, or over OS X using SMB.

  • Page 15: Wins

    ReadyNAS or other devices on the network to be (Windows) browsable from other subnets. If you do not have an existing WINS server, you can designate the ReadyNAS to be one. Simply select the Enable WINS checkbox and configure your Windows PC to specify the ReadyNAS IP address as the WINS server.

  • Page 16: Dhcp

    DHCP service simplifies management of a network by dynamically assigning IP addresses to new clients on the network. Click on the Enable DHCP service checkbox if you want the ReadyNAS device to act as a DHCP server. This is convenient in networks where DHCP service is not already available.

  • Page 17: Route

    Route The Route tab is available if you have two or more network interfaces (Ethernet or Wireless combined) on your ReadyNAS. In some environments, you can optimize your network traffic by manually setting up a routing table. Route table management is beyond the scope of this manual, and this option is provided only for advanced users who understand routing and wish to deviate from the default routes.

  • Page 18: Security

    Be sure to set a password different from the default password and make sure this password is kept in a safe place. Anyone who obtains this password can effectively change or erase the data on the ReadyNAS. Note In User or Domain security mode, you can use the admin account to login to a Windows share, and perform maintenance on any file or folder in that share.

  • Page 19: Security Mode Selection

    Security Mode Selection The ReadyNAS device offers three security options for your network environment. Read the quick overview below to help select the most appropriate option based on the required level of security and your current network authentication scheme.

  • Page 20: Share Security Mode

    In this security mode, the administrator will need to set up and maintain user and group accounts on the ReadyNAS device itself. In addition, each user account will be automatically set up with a private home share on the ReadyNAS.

  • Page 21: Share Accounts

    In this security mode, each user will be given a home share on the ReadyNAS device that the user can use to keep private data such as backups of the user’s PC. This home share is accessible only by that user and the administrator who needs the privilege to perform backups of these private shares.

  • Page 22: Managing Groups

    ► M A N A G I N G G R O U P S To add a new group, click on the Add Group tab if it is not already selected. You can add up to five groups at a time. If you expect to have just one big set of users for one group, you can forego adding a new group and accept the default users group.
  • Page 23 After adding your groups, you can view or change your groups by clicking on the alphabetical index tab, or All to list all groups. If you wish to add a large number of groups, select Import group list from the selection box. Here, you can upload a CSV (Comma Separated Value) formatted file containing the group account information.

  • Page 24: Managing Users

    GID will be automatically generated if not specified. Empty fields are replaced with accounts defaults. Group members are optional. Examples of acceptable formats are as follows (note that you can omit follow-on commas and fields if you wish to accept the system defaults for those fields, or you can leave the fields empty): flintstones In this example, group flintstones will be created with an automatically assigned GID, and default quota.
  • Page 25 name1,password1,group1,email1,uid1,quota1 name2,password2,group2,email2,uid2,quota2 name3,password3,group3,email3,uid3,quota3 Please note the following: Spaces around commas are ignored. The name and password fields are required. If a listed group account does not exist, it will be automatically created. Group and quota will be set to the defaults if not specified. Email notification will not be sent to the user if the field is ommitted or left blank.

  • Page 26: Setting Accounts Preferences

    ► S E T T I N G A C C O U N T S P R E F E R E N C E S You can set various account defaults by selecting the Preferences option in the drop-down box. Page 26...

  • Page 27: Domain Security Mode

    DNS name of the ADS realm (if using ADS) You can elect to have the ReadyNAS automatically auto-detect the domain controller, or you can specify the IP address. Sometimes auto-detect will fail, and you will need to supply the IP address of the domain controller to join the domain.

  • Page 28: Setting Up Accounts

    ► S E T T I N G U P A C C O U N T S Accounts are managed on the domain controller. The ReadyNAS simply pulls the account information from the controller and displays them in the Accounts tab if you have the Display users from trusted domains…...

  • Page 29: Services

    Standard File Protocols The standard file protocols are common file sharing services that allow your workstation clients file transfer to and from the ReadyNAS using built-in file manager over network file protocols on the client operating system. The available services are: CIFS, or Common Internet File Service, and often referred to as SMB.

  • Page 30: Streaming Services

    Rsync, an extremely popular and efficient form of incremental backup made popular in the Linux platform but is now available for various other Unix systems as well as Windows and Mac. Enabling Rsync service on the ReadyNAS will allow clients to use Rsync to initiate backups to and from the ReadyNAS.

  • Page 31: Discovery Services

    Note that this path is shared between the UPnP AV and this service. Discovery Services Bonjour Service provides a simple way of discovering various services on the ReadyNAS. Bonjour currently provides an easy way to connect to FrontView, IPP Printing, and AFP services.

  • Page 32: Volumes

    Volumes Volume Management The ReadyNAS family consists of two RAID volume technologies – Flex-RAID, utilizing the industry-standard RAID levels 0, 1, and 5, and X-RAID, Infrant Technologies’ patented expandable RAID technology. Your system defaults to one or the other, however, you can switch between the two modes through a factory default reset process described in Chapter 4 –...

  • Page 33: Deleting A Volume

    ► D E L E T I N G A V O L U M E To delete a volume, click on the volume tab of the volume you wish to delete or Volume C if only one volume is configured. Make sure if you have data in that volume that you back up the files you wish to keep first.

  • Page 34: Adding A Volume

    ► A D D I N G A V O L U M E You will then be presented with the Add Volume tab listing the available configurable space on the hard disks. All the disks will be selected by default. You can elect to specify a hot spare disk if you wish.

  • Page 35: Raid Settings

    Note If you do not reserve any space for snapshots, the snapshot tab will not be displayed within the volume tab. S p e c i f y d e s i r e d v o l u m e s i z e After you’ve specified the above volume parameters, enter the desired volume size if you wish to configure a smaller volume size than the maximum displayed.

  • Page 36: Volume Management For X-Raid

    Depending on the size of the disk, within a few hours, your data volume will be fully redundant. The process occurs in the background, so access to the ReadyNAS is not interrupted. ► A D D I N G A 3...

  • Page 37: Replacing All Your Disks For Even More Capacity

    First, power down the ReadyNAS, replace the first disk with the larger capacity disk, and boot. The ReadyNAS will detect that a new disk was put in place and will resync the disk with data from the removed disk. This process will take several hours, depending on disk capacity. The disk will be initialized and scanned for bad sectors first before the resync is started.

  • Page 38: Taking And Scheduling Snapshot

    If you do not see a Snapshot tab within your volume tab, you did not reserve any space for snapshots when you added the volume. ReadyNAS ships with a snapshot reserved space of 5 GB. In the tab, you can specify how often a snapshot should be taken. Snapshots can be scheduled in intervals from once every 4 hours to once a week.
  • Page 39 Having an active snapshot can affect the write performance to the ReadyNAS, so deactivating it when not needed may be advantageous in write-intensive environments.

  • Page 40: Resizing Snapshot Space

    USB Storage The USB tab displays the USB disk and flash devices connected to the ReadyNAS, and offers various options for these devices. A flash device will appear as USB_FLASH_1 and a disk device will appear as USB_HDD_1.
  • Page 41 Format EXT3: This option formats the device as an EXT3 file system. Select this option if you will be accessing the USB device mainly from Linux systems or ReadyNAS devices. The advantage of EXT3 over FAT32 is that file ownership and mode information can be retained using this format whereas this capability is not there with FAT32.
  • Page 42 When the USB device is unmounted, you have the option of renaming it. The next time the same device is connected, it will use the new name rather than the default USB_FLASH_n or USB_HDD_n naming scheme. The USB storage shares are listed in the Share menu, and access restrictions can be specified there. The share names will reflect the USB device names.

  • Page 43: Shares

    Shares The Shares menu provides all the options pertaining to share services for the ReadyNAS device. This entails share management (including data and print shares), volume management, and share service management. We’ll first look at how we can control the services.

  • Page 44: Managing Shares

    In either case, you can add up to five shares at a time. Once you finish adding the shares, you can refer to Chapter 2 for instructions on how to access them from different client interfaces. Managing Shares Once you have added shares, you may want to manually fine-tune share access in the Share List tab.

  • Page 45: Setting Share Access In Share Mode

    Read Access with exceptions – Either (1) access to this share is read-only and only allowed for specified hosts, (2) access is read-only except for one or more users or groups that are granted read/write permission, or (3) access is disabled except for one or more users or groups that are granted read-only privilege.

  • Page 46: Setting Share Access In User And Domain Modes

    Read-only users, Read-only groups, Write-enabled users, and Write-enabled group fields. The names must be valid accounts, either on the ReadyNAS or on the domain controller. For instance, if you wish to allow read-only access to all and read/write access only user fred and...
  • Page 47 R e c y c l e B i n The ReadyNAS can have a Recycle Bin for each share for Windows users. You will see the Enable Recycle Bin option at the bottom of the Windows [CIFS] access tab.

  • Page 48: Advanced Options

    The Advanced CIFS Permission box offers options for setting the default permission of new files and folders created via CIFS. The default permission of newly created files is read/write for the owner and owner’s group and read-only for others (i.e. everyone). Permission for newly created folders is read/write for everyone.

  • Page 49: Usb Shares

    USB storage devices are shared using the name of the device appended by the partition number. The base device name can be changed in the Volumes/USB tab if desired. The ReadyNAS attempts to remember the name as long as there’s a unique ID associated with the USB device so that the next time the device is connected, the same share name(s) will be available.

  • Page 50: Printers

    USB Printers tab. Print Shares over CIFS/SMB The ReadyNAS can act as a print server for up to two USB printers for your Windows or Mac clients. For example, to setup a printer under Windows, click Browse in RAIDar or simply enter \\hostname in the Windows Explorer address bar to list all data and printer shares on the ReadyNAS.

  • Page 51: Ipp Printing

    From time to time, printers may run out of ink, paper, or simply jam up, forcing you to deal with the print jobs stuck in a queue. The ReadyNAS has a built-in print queue management to handle this. Simply go to the USB Printers tab or click Refresh to display the printers and the jobs queued up for any “stuck”...

  • Page 52: Backup

    With the flexibility to support full and incremental backups across FTP, HTTP, CIFS/SMB, and NFS protocols, the ReadyNAS can act as a simple central repository for both home and office environments. And with multiple ReadyNAS systems, you can set up one ReadyNAS to backup another directly.

  • Page 53: Step 2 - Select Backup Destination

    Once you have selected a backup source, you can enter the path from that source. If you selected a ReadyNAS share, you can either leave the path blank to backup the entire share, or enter a folder path. Note that you should use forward slashes, ‘/’, in place of backslashes.

  • Page 54: Step 3 - Choose Backup Schedule

    The remote backup destination can be a Windows PC/ReadyNAS system, NFS server, or a Rsync server. Note that you can select Rsync for a remote ReadyNAS if it is configured to serve data over Rsync. ► S T E P 3 – C H O O S E B A C K U P S C H E D U L E You can select a backup schedule as frequently as once every four hours every day to just once a week.

  • Page 55: Viewing The Backup Schedule

    Next, select if you want to erase the destination path contents before the backup is performed. Be careful not to reverse your backup source and destination as doing so can delete your source files for good. It is safer to not select this option unless your device is running low on space. Do experiment with a test share to make sure you understand this option.

  • Page 56: Programming The Backup Button

    Click View Log if you wish to check a detailed status of the backup. Programming the Backup Button On ReadyNAS systems with the backup button feature, you can program the button to execute one or more pre-defined backup jobs. Simply select the backup jobs in the order that you want them run and click Apply. Pressing the Backup Button once will start the job(s).

  • Page 57: System

    System Clock ► S Y S T E M T I M E The System Time tab in the Clock page allows you to set the date, time, and time zone. Set appropriately to ensure files maintain proper timestamp. ► N T P O P T I O N You can elect to synchronize the system time on the device with a remote NTP (Network Time Protocol) server.

  • Page 58: Alerts

    The Contacts tab allows you to specify up to three email addresses where system alerts will be sent. The ReadyNAS device has a robust system monitoring feature and sends email alerts if something appears to be wrong or when a device has failed. Make sure to enter a primary email address and a backup one if possible.

  • Page 59: Snmp

    Selecting the Power-off NAS when a disk fails or no longer responds option will gracefully power off the ReadyNAS in the event that a disk failure or a disk remove event is detected. Selecting the Power-off NAS when disk temperature exceeds safe level will gracefully power off the ReadyNAS when the disk temperature exceeds nominal range.

  • Page 60: Smtp

    Installation CD-ROM or downloaded from the Infrant Support site at http://www.infrant.com. ► S M T P The ReadyNAS device has a built-in email message transfer agent (MTA) that is set up to send alert email messages from the device. Some corporate environments, however, may have a firewall that blocks untrusted MTA’s from sending out messages.

  • Page 61: Performance

    For the utmost protection of data, you should utilize a UPS to back up the ReadyNAS because there is a slight chance that data queued up in the cache will be lost should a power failure occur while the system is writing data to the disk.

  • Page 62: Adding A Ups For Performance

    The Optimize for OS X option provides the best performance in Mac OS X environments when connected to the ReadyNAS via the SMB/CIFS protocol. This option however introduces compatibility issues with Windows NT 4.0; do not enable this option if this device will be accessed by Windows NT 4.0 clients.

  • Page 63: Language

    Language The Language tab offers the option of setting the ReadyNAS device to the appropriate character set for file names. For example, selecting Japanese allows sharing of files with Japanese names in Windows Explorer. Page 63...

  • Page 64: Unicode For User, Group, And Share Names

    Support website. ► R E M O T E U P D A T E The preferred and quicker method if the ReadyNAS has Internet access is the Remote update option. Simply click Check for Update to check for updates on the Infrant update server.

  • Page 65: Local Update

    ► L O C A L U P D A T E When the ReadyNAS device is not connected to the Internet, or Internet access is blocked, you can download an update file from the Support site and upload that file to the ReadyNAS in the Local update tab.

  • Page 66: Factory Default

    ► F A C T O R Y D E F A U L T The Factory Default tab allows you to set the ReadyNAS device back to factory default. Choose this option carefully as ALL DATA WILL BE LOST, and remember to back up any data that you wish to keep.

  • Page 67: Power Management

    ► D I S K S P I N - D O W N O P T I O N You can elect to spin-down your ReadyNAS disks after a specified time of inactivity. The disks will spin-up as needed.

  • Page 68: Shutdown

    The Power ON option will not appear if the ReadyNAS hardware does not support this feature. Note When the ReadyNAS is powered off, any file transfers and backup jobs will be interrupted, and backup jobs scheduled during the power off state will not be run.
  • Page 69 When you reboot or shutdown the ReadyNAS, you will need to close the browser window and use RAIDar to re-connect to FrontView. Page 69...

  • Page 70: Status

    Status The Status page consists of the Health and Logs tabs providing system status information. Health The Health page displays the disk, fan, power, temperature, and UPS status in detail. When available, normal expected values are provided. For disks, you can click on the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) link to display the content of the internal disk log.

  • Page 71: Logs

    The Send All Logs button is available in case of problems where technical support personnel may be of assistance in analyzing low-level log information. Alternatively, if you have problems with the ReadyNAS sending out email through your firewall, you can download a zip of all the logs by clicking the Download All Logs link.
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  • Page 73: Accessing Shares

    Chapter Accessing Shares This chapter presents examples of how shares on the ReadyNAS device can be accessed by the various operating systems. If you have problems accessing your shares, make sure to enable the corresponding service in the Shares Services tab. Also make sure the default access of the share is set to Read-only or Read/write.

  • Page 74: Windows

    Windows To see a share listing under Windows, either click Browse in RAIDar or enter \\hostname or \\ip_address in the Explorer address bar. Hostname is the NAS hostname assigned in the Network tab. The default hostname is set to nas- followed by the last three hex bytes of the device MAC address.

  • Page 75: Mac Os X

    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. Open the My Network folder to display the ReadyNAS hostname. Page 75...
  • Page 76 Double-click on the hostname icon to display the share listing. In Share security mode, simply select “Guest” to access the shares. In User or Domain security mode, enter the user name and password you wish to connect to the ReadyNAS as. Page 76...

  • Page 77: Afp Over Appletalk

    If you had chosen to advertise your AFP service over AppleTalk, you will see a listing of available networks. Open the My Network folder to display the ReadyNAS hostname. Select the one that has the hostname only. You’ll be prompted with a connection box.
  • Page 78 Enter the share name in place of the user name. In User or Domain security mode, enter the user name and password you wish to connect to the ReadyNAS as. You should see the same file listing as you would in Windows Explorer.

  • Page 79: Mac Os 9

    NAS device entry from the AppleTalk selection, and click Connect. When you are prompted to login, enter the share name and password if the ReadyNAS is configured for Share security mode, or enter a valid user account and password otherwise.
  • Page 80 You should see the same files in the share that you do under Windows Explorer. Page 80...

  • Page 81: Linux/Unix

    Running the ls command in the mounted path displays the share content. Note Please note that the ReadyNAS does not support NIS as it unable to correlate NIS information with CIFS logins. In mixed environments where CIFS and NFS integration is desired, 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 82: Web Browser

    You will be prompted to login. Enter the share name and share password if the ReadyNAS is in Share security mode. Otherwise, login with a valid user and password if the ReadyNAS is in User or Domain mode.
  • Page 83 If the share is also writable, the file manager will have options for creating, modifying, and deleting files, as follows: One useful application for a web share is for setting 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 84: Ftp / Ftps

    To access the share in User or Domain security mode, use the appropriate user login and password used to access the ReadyNAS. For better security, you can use a FTPS (FTP-SSL) client to connect to the ReadyNAS FTP service. With FTPS, password and data is encrypted.

  • Page 85: Rsync

    The user account you specify does not need to exist on the ReadyNAS or a domain controller. An example way for a Linux client to list the content of a ReadyNAS rsync share with no user name and password defined:...

  • Page 86: Networked Dvd Players And Upnp Av Media Adapters

    Networked DVD Players and UPnP AV Media Adapters Networked DVD players and UPnP AV Media adapters will detect the ReadyNAS if the Home Media Streaming Server or the UPnP AV services are enabled. The content of the media share on the ReadyNAS is available to these players for playback.

  • Page 87: Replacing A Failed Disk

    Replacing a Failed Disk Locate the Failed Disk When a disk fails in your ReadyNAS device, you will be notified of the failure by email. The failed disk location can be seen in the FrontView status bar at the bottom.

  • Page 88: Replace The Failed Disk

    On the Rev B ReadyNAS 600/X6 system, you can replace the failed disk in power off mode by removing the disk from the top and sliding the new disk in place.

  • Page 89: Sy Stem Reset Switch

    ReadyNAS had been working normally but a configuration change makes it inaccessible. If this does not work and/or you wish to set the ReadyNAS back to a factory default state, you can do so following the instructions below: To re-install the ReadyNAS firmware, use a paper clip to depress the switch while the system is off.
  • Page 90 Select the desire mode along with the desired snapshot size and click Create volume now. The ReadyNAS will proceed with a reboot to re-configure your volume to the desired specification. For any of the above activities, please make sure to back up important data before starting.

  • Page 91: Changing User Passwords

    Chapter Changing User Passwords There are two ways in which user passwords can be changed in the User security mode. The first way is for the admin user to change the passwords in the Accounts tab in the Security menu. The other and preferred way is to allow users to change their own passwords.

  • Page 92: Raid Level 0

    Appendix RAID Levels Simplified RAID can be somewhat daunting, so without going into too much detail, this appendix will help simplify RAID for you. RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Basically, if properly configured, it can store data on multiple disks in a way that if one disk fails, the data can still be accessed from the surviving disk(s).

  • Page 93: Raid Level "X" (X-Raid)

    RAID Level “X” (X-RAID) RAID level “X”, or X-RAID, is similar to RAID level 5, is optimized for large sequential access for the best possible media streaming performance. The “X” also refers to its natural volume eXpandability. In X-RAID mode, with one disk, the volume is non-redundant and has the capacity of the single disk.

  • Page 94: Domain/Workgroup Name

    . (period), and cannot end with a – (dash). Example of a valid FQDN: firstpart.secondpart.thirdpart.com. ReadyNAS Host Name A valid host name except the first part or short host name must be 15 characters or less due to NetBIOS name length restriction.

  • Page 95: Host Expression

    Host Expression A valid host expression is either a valid host or the common IP expression form specifying a range of addresses in a network; for example: 192.168.2. 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 192.168.2.0/24 Share Name Name must only consist of characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and the symbols – (dash) and . (period).
  • Page 96 Appendix Glossary AFP: AppleTalk Filing Protocol, is the standard way Mac OS 9 and earlier share files across the network. CIFS: Common Internet File System, a standard protocol that Windows users use to share files across the network. Mac OS X also has the capability to share files using CIFS.
  • Page 97 X-RAID: Infrant Technologies patent-pending Expandable RAID technology. Page 97...
  • Page 98 Appendix If You Need Help… If you have questions or you encounter problems with the setup, you can visit our support site at http://www.infrant.com. There, you’ll find links to FAQs, message board, and live online support. Infrant also has a lively community forum at http://www.infrant.com/forum which is often monitored by advanced users and Infrant support and engineering staff.

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