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Edimax NS-2501 User Manual

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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Introduction ....................3 Features ......................3 Minimum Requirements ................3 Package Contents ..................3 Understand your storage server ..............4 Back Panel ..................... 4 Front Panel ....................5 Getting started ....................7 Chapter 1 ..................... 14 Status ......................14 Chapter 2 ..................... 15 Quick Setup ....................
  • Page 3 Download Manager ..................40 Start Download Manager ................40 Search for storage server ................40 Login storage server .................. 41 Manage download items ................41 Add a download item .................. 42 Main menu ....................44 Tray Icon ...................... 46 Chapter 9 ..................... 47 iTunes Server ....................

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction Congratulations on purchasing this network storage server (NAS, Network Attached Storage). This storage server lets you easily share your files in your network. Simply plug in the hard disk drive, connect the LAN port to your network, and do some basic settings, and you're ready to share files.

  • Page 5: Understand Your Storage Server

    Understand your storage server Back Panel The diagram below shows the storage server’s back panel. NS-2501 NS-2502 1. Local Area Network (LAN) You should connect the LAN port of this storage server to your hub/switch, or one LAN port of your router etc.

  • Page 6: Front Panel

    You have to switch off the power after you shut down the storage server to make the whole system completely stopped. Front Panel NS-2501 NS-2505 1. Release button The Release button has three functions: (1) unplug the external USB mass storage, (2) shut down the storage server, and (3) reset the configuration of the storage server to factory default settings.
  • Page 7 2. Copy button The Copy button has two functions: (1) copy the content of one external USB mass storage device to another attached storage device, and (2) reset the configuration of the storage server to factory default settings. Copy USB mass storage device: When you press and hold the Copy button for 2 seconds, the storage server will beep for 0.5 second to hint that your command is detected.
  • Page 8 4. LED On the storage server’s front panel there are LEDs, which show the status of this storage server. Below is the list of each LED and its description. NS-2501 NS-2502 Light Description Status Storage server is powered on Storage server is shut down Power Storage server is starting;...
  • Page 9 this situation, the LED will keep flashing about 30 seconds and go off). USB storage device is connected to USB2 port USB storage device is not connected to USB2 port or is not detected due to hard disk failure or the system is doing partition/format on this hard disk drive.

  • Page 10: Getting Started

    Getting started This is a step-by-step instruction on how to start using the storage server. 1) Pull out the disk drawer from the case of storage server as shown in the setup diagram below. 2) Fix your SATA hard disk driver in the drawer by screws as shown in the setup diagram below.
  • Page 11 The disk drawer is not safely installed 4) Plug the power adaptor to the storage server and connect the storage server to your network as shown in the setup diagram below. 5) Power on the storage server by pressing the power switch of the storage server on as shown in the setup diagram below.
  • Page 12 8) The default IP address of storage server is 192.168.2.5. The PC to setup the storage server should be in the same subnet as the storage server. If the IP address of your PC is not in the range of 192.168.2.1~254, please modify the Windows IP address of your PC as following diagram.

  • Page 13: Chapter 1

    Note: By default the user name is “admin” and the password is “1234”. When you see the screen below, you are ready to setup the storage server. (Chapter 1) Status This page displays the status and basic information of the storage server. (Chapter 2) Quick Setup Quick Setup will guide your through the basic settings of the storage server.
  • Page 14 (Chapter 3) Basic This section contains basic configurations such as: Time Zone and Password. (Chapter 4) Network This section contains network configurations such as: IP and DNS. (Chapter 5) File/FTP Server This section contains File Server and FTP Server configurations such as: User Management, Group Management, File Server and FTP Server sharing policies.

  • Page 15: Status

    Chapter 1 Status This page displays the status and basic information of the storage server, you should see the screen below. Parameter Description System Time Current system time. MAC Address The MAC address of this storage server. Firmware Version The version of storage server firmware. The name of this storage server.

  • Page 16: Quick Setup

    Chapter 2 Quick Setup Quick Setup will guide your through the basic settings of the storage server step by step. When you click “Quick Setup” in the left menu, a Quick Setup window will pop Note: If this is the first time the internal SATA hard disk drive is used in the storage server, the storage server will automatically erase old partitions and data in the internal SATA hard disk drive and re-create partition and format the internal SATA hard disk drive.

  • Page 17: Storage Server Name

    Click “Prev” to go to the previous step of Quick Setup. Click “Next” to go to the next step of Quick Setup. Click “Cancel” to abort the Quick Setup. Any modified settings during this Quick Setup session will not take effect. 2.3 Storage Server Name Assign a name to the storage server.

  • Page 18: Time Zone

    Click “Prev” to go to the previous step of Quick Setup. Click “Next” to go to the next step of Quick Setup. Click “Cancel” to abort the Quick Setup. Any modified settings during this Quick Setup session will not take effect. 2.5 Time Zone Select the time zone of your location.

  • Page 19: Confirm Settings

    2.6 Confirm Settings List the setting values of Quick Setup for your confirmation. Click “Prev” to go to the previous step of Quick Setup. Click “Apply” to make all the settings of Quick Setup take effect. Click “Cancel” to abort the Quick Setup. Any modified settings during this Quick Setup session will not take effect.

  • Page 20: Shared Folders Automatically Created By Quick Setup

    Click “Finish” after the storage server restarts. 2.8 Shared folders automatically created by Quick Setup Quick Setup will automatically create some shared folders for you. The shared folder names and their usage are listed as follows: Public_hdd1 : You can access “Public_hdd1” anonymously with reading and writing privilege by FTP and Network Neighborhood (Samba).

  • Page 21: Chapter 3

    Chapter 3 Basic The basic configurations include the Time Zone and Password setup pages. 3.1 Time Zone The Time Zone allows this storage server to base its time on the settings configured here. This will affect functions such as update time of files stored in this storage server. Parameter Description Select the time zone of the country you are living.

  • Page 22: Password

    3.2 Password You can change the password required to log into the management GUI of the storage server. By default, the password is “1234”. Please change the password as soon as possible, and store it in a safe place. Password can contain 0 to 30 alphanumeric characters, and are case sensitive.

  • Page 23: Chapter 4

    Chapter 4 Network The Network configurations include the IP address and DNS settings. A Domain Name System (DNS) server is like an index of IP addresses and Web addresses. If you type a Web address into your browser, such as www.router.com, a DNS server will find that name in its index and the matching IP address reply...
  • Page 24 DNS address Fill in the IP address of a live DNS server. Secondary/Third This is optional. You can enter another DNS server’s IP address DNS Address as a backup. The secondary/third DNS will be used when the (optional) above DNS server fails. Click <Apply>...

  • Page 25: Chapter 5

    Chapter 5 File/FTP Server The File/FTP server configurations include the Users, Groups, File Server and FTP Server setup pages. 5.1 Users Users setup is used to add/edit users of File/FTP server. Parameters Description Click “Add” and fill the information of the Add a New User page to add a new user for File/FTP server.

  • Page 26: Add A New User

    Add a New User Parameters Description User Name The name of this user. The allowed characters are ‘a-z’, ‘A-Z’, ‘0-9’ and ‘_’. Note: The user name should be unique and should not be the same with any other user name and group name. Description The description of this user.

  • Page 27: Groups

    5.2 Groups s setup is used to add/edit s of File/FTP server. Group group You can add one or more users to a group Parameters Description Click “Add” and fill the information of the Add a New Group page to add a new group for File/FTP server.

  • Page 28: Add A New Group

    Add a New Group Parameters Description Group Name The name of this group. The allowed characters are ‘a-z’, ‘A-Z’, ‘0-9’ and ‘_’. Note: The first character of group name should be ‘a-z’ or ‘A-Z’. Note: The group name should be unique and should not be the same with any other user name and group name.
  • Page 29 Parameters Description The file server name that shows in My Network Places on client Name computer. Workgroup The My Network Places group this file server will join. A brief description of this file server. This string will be shown at the Description detailed information field of My Network Places.

  • Page 30: Add/Edit Shared Folder

    Add/Edit Shared Folder Parameters Description The name for shared folder that shows in My Network Places on Folder Name client computer. Click “Browse” to select the folder to be shared or click “Share all folders in storage” to share the all disks. If you select “Share all folders in storage”, the storage server will create a share item for each partition of all currently attached storages.

  • Page 31: Open Dialog

    Here you can assign the read/write privilege for this shared folder. Authority You can select “Read Only” for read only sharing or select “Read & Write” to give users full access right. Description The comments or descriptions for this share folder. Click <Save>...

  • Page 32: Ftp Server

    5.4 FTP Server This storage server supports protocol which lets you share files stored in all attached storage devices to not only your network but also Internet (it you have Internet access and your router has correct port forwarding settings) Note: Each user can have only one folder shared by FTP server Parameters Description...

  • Page 33: Add/Edit Ftp Folder

    Add/Edit FTP Folder Parameters Description The name of the user. If you select “anonymous” as user, the users User can access this shared folder with “anonymous” user name and password is not required. Shared Folder’s Click on “Browse” to select the folder to be shared. Path Here you can assign the read/write privilege for this shared folder.

  • Page 35: Chapter 6

    Chapter 6 BT Download This storage server supports BT (stands for BitTorrent) peer-to-peer file download function. You can let this storage server download files via BitTorrent protocol without switching your computer on. You can also see all downloading BT items here. Please make sure that this storage server has enough remaining storage space to save the download files.

  • Page 36: Add Bt Torrent

    Remove All Remove all BT items from the list. Remove Remove selected BT items from the list. Selected Reset Deselect all selected BT items in the list. Click <Save> button to save the configurations. Note : The max number of BT download items is 32. Add BT Torrent After you click ‘Add Torrent’...

  • Page 37: Advanced Setting

    the files window). Please assign a priority level to this BT download item. Available options are ‘High’, ‘Normal’, and ‘Low’. The priority will affect the order of BT download. For example, if you set the maximum active BT download item Priority number to be 5 in the Advanced Setting page, only 5 active BT Download items can be downloaded at the same time.
  • Page 38 Maximum The maximum number of active torrents that can be downloaded at number of active the same time. If you add more download items, some items have to downloads wait in turn. Maximum The maximum number of connections can be used to download a BT concurrent download item at the same time.

  • Page 39: Chapter 7

    Chapter 7 File Download This storage server supports downloading file from Web and FTP server, so you can download large file from Web or FTP server without keeping your computer switched on. Except for this Web GUI, you also can use the Windows-based Download Manager utility to manager the download items.
  • Page 40 Please specify the location you wish to save downloaded file. Click Save As “Browse” button to select the folder you wish to save the file. This field is optional. Please input the server’s username here if the User Name server requires it. This field is optional.

  • Page 41: Chapter 8

    Chapter 8 Download Manager If you have installed the Storage Server Wizard utility, the Download Manager will also be installed. (For the details of Installation, please refer to Quick Installation Guide) The Windows-based Download Manager utility can automatically search for storage servers and let you manage the web/FTP/BT download items.

  • Page 42: Login Storage Server

    Login storage server The Download Manager will prompt you for the login password of the storage server. You can select “Remember my password” to let Download Manager save your password and automatically use it to login next time. Click “OK” to login. Manage download items After you login, the main window of Download Manager will pop up as following picture.

  • Page 43: Add A Download Item

    Every stopped download item has a “Resume” button and you can resume that stopped download item by clicking the “Resume” button; Every non-stopped download item has a “Pause” button and you can stop that download item by clicking the “Pause” button. For every BT download item, there is also a “Priority”...
  • Page 44 When you click “Add” button of Web/FTP Download, the following window will pop up. You have to assign an Internet address of the file. You also have to assign the path of a folder on the storage server to save the downloaded file. If the server requires you user name and password during download, you also have to assign them.

  • Page 45: Main Menu

    If you double click a torrent file in Windows Explorer (try to open a torrent file), then the download job with added to Download Manager automatically and the downloaded files will be saved in default path on the storage server. If the download job can not be added to the Download Manager immediately when you are adding a download job from IE or Windows Explorer, this may due to the storage server or the Download Manager are busy, the following window will pop up.
  • Page 46 If you select “Actions Exit”, the Download Manager will completely exit and both the main window and the tray icon of Download Manager will disappear. BT Download Web/FTP Download You can enable/disable function or enable/disable function by selecting the corresponding item in the “Settings” menu. If you select “Settings Default Path”, the following window will pop up to let you assign a default path for the Download Manager on the storage server.

  • Page 47: Tray Icon

    Tray Icon After you login the storage server, the tray icon of Download Manager will display as follows. When you close the main window of Download Manager as the following picture, the Download Manager is still executing in the background and the tray icon of Download Manager is still displaying.

  • Page 48: Chapter 9

    Chapter 9 iTunes Server iTunes is a popular and powerful multimedia player, and supports streaming media. If you have media files supported by iTunes, you can share these file by iTunes server and let other computers or iTunes-compatible media players play these media files online. Parameters Description You can enable or disable iTunes Server here.
  • Page 49 Parameters Description You can protect this iTunes server by password, so only iTunes clients who know this password will be able to share media files. By selecting “Disable”, everyone in your network will be able to Protect by access your media files, and if too many users are accessing the password media files at the same time, iTunes server may respond slower or even stop responding.
  • Page 50 If you have a playlist file, you can upload it from PC or select it from an attached storage device (by selecting “File Server”). You can click Playlist “Open” to choose playlist file from your PC or attached storage device. If you want to discard all settings listed in this page, click this button to Back return to previous page.

  • Page 51: Chapter 10

    Chapter 10 Media Server The media server of this storage server allows you to share your media files to DLNA compliant media adapters and players through network. Parameters Description You can enable or disable media server function here. Click “Save” to Media Server keep changes or “Cancel”...
  • Page 52 Remove Select Remove selected folder from the list. Remove All Remove all folders from the list. Reset Deselect all selected folders in the list. Note: The max number of shared folders supported in Media Server is 12.

  • Page 53: Chapter 11

    Chapter 11 System Tools The storage server provides several management tools, including Storage Tools, Storage Status, USB Copy, Config Tools, Firmware Upgrade and Reset. 11.1 Storage Tools You can use the Storage Tools to manage the partition and format of the attached storage devices.

  • Page 54: Auto Partition & Format

    Parameters Description By clicking this button, the system will partition and format the Auto Partition & attached storage device automatically. Please refer to the detail Format descriptions below. You can format the attached storage device by this tool. The Storage Tools supports FAT16, FAT32, EXT2 and EXT3 format. The format may take several minutes to finish, depends on the size Tool of the partition.

  • Page 55: Add A Partition

    Add a Partition You can create a new partition in the attached storage device and format it. Parameters Description Size of the The total free space that can be assigned to this new partition. Space New Partition You can assign the size of the new partition. Size The Storage Tools will format the new partition.

  • Page 56: Storage Status

    11.2 Storage Status This Page shows the status of all attached storage devices. Parameters Description You can click this button to unplug the external USB mass storage Unplug device. If the LED of the USB port is off, you can safely detach the USB mass storage from this storage server.

  • Page 57: Usb Copy

    11.3 USB Copy USB Copy tool allows you to copy the content of one external USB mass storage device to another attached storage device. When you press the Copy button on the front panel of this storage server, the copy job will be triggered. Note: Before you trigger the USB Copy function by pressing the Copy button on the front panel of this storage server, make sure that the destination folder has enough free space to store all data of the source USB mass storage device.

  • Page 58: Configuration Tools

    11.4 Configuration Tools The Configuration Tools allow you to save (backup) the storage server’s current settings. Saving the configuration provides an added protection and convenience when there’re some problems with the storage server, and you have to reset to factory default to solve the problem.

  • Page 59: Firmware Upgrade

    11.5 Firmware Upgrade This page allows you to upgrade the storage server’s firmware Click “Next” to go to the upload firmware file page.

  • Page 60: Reset

    Parameters Description This tool allows you to upgrade the storage server’s system firmware. To upgrade the firmware of your storage server, you need to download the firmware file to your local hard disk, and enter that Firmware Upgrade file name and path in the appropriate field on this page. You can also click the browse button to locate the firmware file on your PC.
  • Page 61 to confirm your decision. The reset will be complete when the power LED stops blinking. Once the reset process is complete you may start using the storage server.

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