Addonics Technologies NASU2 User Manual

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NAS Adapter

Model: NASU2

User Manual

FCC Warning Statement

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy. If not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, it may cause har mful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If the equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment on and off, the user is encouraged to try and correct the interference by one or more of the following suggestions.

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

Increase the distance between the equipment and the receiver

Connect the equipment to a different power outlet other than the one where receiver is connected

Consult a certified television or radio technician

1.0Key Features

Convert any USB 2.0 / 1.1 mass storage device into a Network Attached Storage device

Great for adding Addonics Storage Tower, Storage Rack or any Addonics USB storage device onto the network

USB port can be use to power most 2.5" USB hard drive or any low power USB devices

Connect a USB printer to share it over the network

One Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps port

Can be set as a DHCP server or client depending on whether a DHCP server is present

Support Samba server, by which the server hosts 64 clients on line

Support FTP server allowing up to 8 FTP users at the same time

Built-in Bit torrent client to download files directly off the internet onto the attached USB storage device

UPnP AV server can be used to share photo/music files stored on the file server with XBOX 360 video game consoles connected to the LAN

Supports USB 2.0 / 1.1 specification.

User Management capability to allow read only or read/write access to folders

Administrative management access via web browser with password security.

Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac 10.5.4 and above, and Linux 2.6.x and above

The NAS adapter is a flexible, economical and powerful unit for your Network. Follow the instructions to help you connect, setup, and configure it.

Note: Any external USB storage device that you connect to the NAS adapter must be first initialized and formatted. This means that if you are connecting an external USB drive with data on it, you will need to make a backup of this data and transfer them back to the USB drive after the drive finishes the formatting by the NAS adapter.

Network Environment

There are 3 different setup conditions you can choose:

A. Setup NAS Adapter as a DHCP Client:

If your NAS adapter is connected to a LAN network with an active DHCP server, it will obtain an IP address from DHCP server automatically.

B. Setup NAS Adapter as DHCP Server:

If your LAN network does not have an active DHCP server, NAS adapter will immediately act as DHCP server and assign itself an IP address for installation.

C. Setup NAS Adapter in Static IP environment:

You need first configure the IP address for NAS adapter to operate in the static IP environment. For Configuring details, please refer to “IP Config” setup page.

2.0NAS Adapter Hardware Installation

Connections:

1.Connect external USB Storage device into USB port of the NAS Adapter. Power on the USB Storage device.

2.Connect LAN cable via LAN switch and Router.

3.Connect 5V power adapter to power up the NAS adapter

NAS Adapter connected directly to a computer’s NIC card

If you connect the NAS adapter to a computer directly, the adapter will act as a DHCP server, assigning itself an IP address automatically and also will assign an IP address to the computer’s network card.

NAS Adapter connected to a Router or Switch

If your NAS adapter is connected to a LAN network with an active DHCP server, it will obtain an IP address from DHCP server automatically. Or if your LAN network does not have an active DHCP server, NAS adapter will immediately act as DHCP server and assign itself an IP address for installation

3.0Search NAS Adapter by SDisk Utility

1.Browse the CD enclosed in the product package. Copy and paste “SDisk Utility” in to your computer then double click the icon to start search.

Note: “SDisk utility” was written with JAVA script, please make sure your computer has installed JAVA before, if not please install the JAVA script form the CD drive.

2.When NAS Adapter has been found, click “Connect” to enter configurations.

Open NAS Adapter web GUI by using web browser.

1.Open web browser and type default host name “storage” in the search bar.

2.Default login is “admin” for both User name and password. Click “OK” to enter configurations.

Status

Provide the basic information for NAS Adapter.

Identification

You can change and modify your host, group name and password from this page. Click “Apply” to save the setting.

Host name: This is used to identify your device on the network. If you prefer a different name, type in the new name and click “Apply” to save setting.

Group Name: This should be the same as your workgroup. In general, the default “WORKGROUP” will be OK. But if your workstation belongs to different workgroup, type in the correct group name to modify.

For Window OS, right click on “My computer” and choose “Properties”, go to the computer name tab to see your current workgroup.

If using a Mac OS system, to join a Windows workgroup, open the directory access utility (under Applications-> utilities). Select SMB and click configure to modify the settings (administrator access required to access this option.)

Note: We strongly suggest you to change the password as soon as you logged in, to prevent unauthorized access.

Date/ Time Setting

You can change time setting from this page. Clicks “Apply” to save the setting.

By default SNTP is set to Network Time Service otherwise select synchronize to PC. If internet access is available, we recommended setting SNTP to Network Time Service instead.

IP Configuration

By default, “IP Config” is set to “Automatic IP”. This will allow the NAS adapter to obtain its IP address automatically. If you prefer setting it manually, select the static IP option, enter your own value and click “Apply” to confirm the new setting.

Disk Utility

In this page, you can manage hard disk settings of the USB storage device. Format: For first time installation, you need to format hard disk into FAT32 file system. Formatting the drive will erase all data on the hard drive.

Warning: For hard drives with data on it, be fore you have a backup before proceeding to format the hard drive!

Tip: You can transfer back the backup data to the NAS Public folder for sharing via the network or USB connection of the USB Storage device.

Sleep Time: This is to select hard disk sleeping mode.

Scan Disk: After the scan, it will show file content information and health status for the hard disk.

Maintenance

This page allows you to update the NAS adapter firmware, to go back to factory default settings or reboot NAS system.

Firmware update: Follow the steps below to update the loader and firmware for NAS adapter.

1.Download the latest firmware.

2.Store the firmware file on your computer and decompress them if necessary.

3.Browse your system and locate the firmware (BIN file).

4.Click on “Upload”.

5.Confirm the pop-up massage to start the update.

6.Wait and DO NOT click anywhere else or turn off the power. The upgrade might take a few minutes.

7.Once the update is done, it will prompt you to reboot the device.

8.Click on ”reboot” to restart the device.

9.Wait for about one minute and then go to the status page to confirm the update was successful.

Factory defaults: If you experience problems after a firmware update, it is recommended to reset all settings.

Note: Resetting the device will remove all folder from the sharing list, erase the FTP accounts, and reset all other settings! Please do not power off or disconnect NAS adapter connection during the firmware update process.

System reboot: This can be used to restart the network drive after a firmware update.

Addonics Technologies NASU2 User Manual

SMB Server

SMB server allows you to share data or files through the network LAN. When a USB storage device is connected, a default Public folder is available to be shared among Guest users. A default Guest user is also created.

Note: Only use English alphabet for folder names and no special characters when creating new folders.

How to create a user

Click on the “Add” button and type new account name and password. Click “OK”. The NAS adapter will also create a SAMBA folder named “User1”.

Click “Modify” to share a folder.

Select “User1” from Folder List and click the “à” to add user on “Sharing List”.

To Access the folder

From the Windows start button, type “Run”, and type \\ follow by the IP address.

Eg:\\192.168.1.121 and click OK to continue.

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