About This Guide - Infrant Technologies Readynas User Manual

About This Guide

Congratulations and thank you for purchasing a ReadyNAS Instant Storage system from Infrant
Technologies. If you haven't already done so, please read the Getting Started guide provided in the
shipping box and the Quick Installation Guide on the CD-ROM.
The Quick Installation Guide takes you step-by-step through the FrontView Setup Wizard and
quickly prepares the ReadyNAS for your network. The User Guide explains each of the available
options in detail, including a lot of advanced options not available during the Setup Wizard process.
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".
In the event of a disk failure, the proper procedure for replacing the failed disk is in Chapter 3,
"Replacing a Failed Disk".
Sometimes it may be necessary to re-install the firmware or reset the system back to the factory
default configuration. Chapter 4, "System Reset Switch", explains the process for doing both.
Chapter 5, "Changing User Passwords", covers how non-admin users can access FrontView to
change their password.
For an explanation of the RAID levels that the ReadyNAS supports, please refer to Appendix A,
"RAID Levels Simplified".
If you have questions on what constitutes a valid input for host name, workgroup, or password,
Appendix B, "Input Field Format", describes these and more.
Appendix C, "Glossary", provides definitions for some of the technical terminologies used in this
document.
If you need help during setup, refer to Appendix D, "If You Need Help...".
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