EDIMAX NS-2502 User Manual

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Introduction .................................................................................................. 4

Features ....................................................................................................... 4

Minimum Requirements .............................................................................. 4

Package Contents ........................................................................................ 4

Back Panel ................................................................................................... 5

Front Panel ................................................................................................... 6

Getting started ........................................................................................... 10

Chapter 1 Status .................................................................................... 16

1.1 Status ................................................................................................ 16

1.2 Log ..................................................................................................... 17

1.3 Notification ........................................................................................ 18

Chapter 2 Quick Setup .......................................................................... 20

2.1 Password .......................................................................................... 20

2.2 Network ............................................................................................. 21

2.3 Storage Server Name ....................................................................... 21

2.4 Turn on Functions ............................................................................ 22

2.5 Time Zone.......................................................................................... 23

2.6 Confirm Settings ............................................................................... 24

2.7 Apply Settings .................................................................................. 25

2.8 Shared folders automatically created by Quick Setup .................. 27

Chapter 3 Basic ...................................................................................... 28

3.1 Time Zone.......................................................................................... 28

3.2 Password .......................................................................................... 29

Chapter 4 Network ................................................................................. 30

Chapter 5 File/FTP Server ..................................................................... 32

5.1 Users ................................................................................................. 32

5.1.1 Add a New User ............................................................................. 33

5.2 Groups ............................................................................................... 34

5.2.1 Add a New Group .......................................................................... 35

5.3 Server Settings ................................................................................. 36

5.4 Shared Folders ................................................................................. 38

5.4.1 Add/Edit Shared Folder ................................................................. 40

5.4.2 Browse Dialog ................................................................................ 42

5.5 Easy Send ......................................................................................... 43

Chapter 6 BT Download ........................................................................ 45

6.1 Add BT Torrent ................................................................................. 47

6.2 Advanced Setting ............................................................................. 48

Chapter 7 Web/FTP Download .............................................................. 50

Chapter 8 Download Manager ............................................................... 52

8.1 Start Download Manager .................................................................. 52

8.2 Search for storage server ................................................................ 52

8.3 Login storage server ........................................................................ 53

8.4 Manage download items .................................................................. 54

8.4.1 Add a download item..................................................................... 55

8.4.2 Main menu ...................................................................................... 57

8.5 Tray Icon ............................................................................................ 59

Chapter 9 iTunes Server ........................................................................ 60

Chapter 10 Media Server ...................................................................... 63

Chapter 11 Backup .................................................................................. 65

11.1 Add/Edit a Local Backup ............................................................... 65

Chapter 12 Surveillance ....................................................................... 67

12.1 Add/Edit IP Camera ....................................................................... 68

12.2 Search Local IP Cameras .............................................................. 68

12.3 Basic Information of IP camera .................................................... 68

12.4 Video Information of IP camera .................................................... 69

12.5 Recording Settings ........................................................................ 70

12.6 Schedule Settings ......................................................................... 71

Chapter 13 Tools ................................................................................... 73

13.1 Storage Tools ................................ ................................................. 73

13.1.1 Check & Fix Disk ........................................................................ 76

13.1.2 S.M.A.R.T. .................................................................................... 77

13.1.2.1 S.M.A.R.T. Advanced Setting .................................................. 78

13.1.2.2 S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test ................................................................. 79

13.1.3 Auto Partition & Format ............................................................. 80

13.1.4 Add a Partition ............................................................................ 81

13.2 Storage Status ............................................................................... 82

13.3 USB Copy ....................................................................................... 82

13.4 Configuration Tools ....................................................................... 83

13.5 Firmware Upgrade ......................................................................... 84

13.6 Reset .............................................................................................. 86

Chapter 14 Storage Server Management Wizard ................................ 87

14.1 Login the storage server ............................................................... 87

14.2 Quick Setup ................................................................................... 89

14.3 Extension Functions ..................................................................... 89

14.3.1 Install Extension Function ......................................................... 89

14.3.2 Remove Extension Function...................................................... 92

14.4 Upgrade Firmware ......................................................................... 95

Chapter 15 NetDisk Explorer ............................................................... 98

15.1 Login the storage server ............................................................... 98

15.2 Map Network Drive ...................................................................... 100

15.3 Use the file server ........................................................................ 101

15.4 Setup NetDisk Explorer ............................................................... 103

15.5 Use tools of NetDisk Explorer .................................................... 104

15.6 Disconnect Network Drive .......................................................... 104

15.7 Logout the storage server .......................................................... 105

15.8 Exit the NetDisk Explorer ............................................................ 105

15.9 Easy Send .................................................................................... 105

15.9.1 Easy Send History .................................................................... 107

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. The storage server provides a total solution for the Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) and the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) markets, giving you an instant way to share and manage your files through network.

Features

- Supports two internal SATA hard disk drives

- Provides two USB ports for connecting USB mass storage devices

- Allows you to share your files via FTP or Network Neighborhood

- Allows you to share your multimedia content to DLNA compliant media adapters, like Xbox 360, Sony PS3…

- Allows you to share your music to iTunes

- Provides Internet download engine which supports download through FTP, Web and BitTorrent.

- High file transfer throughput (> 100Mbps)

- Equipped with one gigabit LAN port (10/100/1000M)

- Supports static IP and dynamic IP

- Easy to use both Windows-based and Web-based GUI for configuration and management

Minimum Requirements

- One SATA hard disk drive

- Network Interface Card (NIC) for each Personal Computer (PC)

- Computer with a Web-Browser (Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, Netscape Navigator 7.2 or higher, Firefox 2.0.0.3 or higher)

Package Contents

- One Network Storage Server

- One Quick Installation Guide

- One User Manual/Utilities CD

- One Power Adapter

- Accessories

Understand your Storage Server Back Panel

The diagram below shows the storage server‟s back panel.

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.

2) USB2 The USB2 port allows you to share your files stored in the USB mass storage device plugged in.

Note: Please plug the external power of your USB mass storage devices before you connect them to the storage server.

Note: If you have USB mass storage device (like USB external HDD), please plug it to this storage server‟s USB 2 port, and plug the USB flash disk you wish to share to the USB 1 port.

3) Power Switch

When the storage server is not working, switch the Power switch to “1” will switch on the power and make the storage server start. When the storage server has been shut down, switch the Power switch to “0” will switch off the power.

Note: Please do not directly switch off the power when the storage server is running. This will make some data not correctly saved in the storage server and may make the storage server not work properly. Before switch off the power, please press Release button for more than 5 seconds to shut down the storage server first.

Note: If you did not switch off the power after your previous shut down (just press Release button for more than 5 seconds) and you want to start the storage server now, you should switch off the power first and then switch on the power, and the storage server will start again.

Note: After you shut down the storage server and before switch off the power, the storage server is still providing power to the hard disk drives and the hard disk drives are still running. You have to switch off the power after you shut down the storage server to make the whole system completely stopped.

Front Panel

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.

 Unplug the external USB mass storage: When you press and hold Release

button for 2 seconds, the storage server will beep for 0.5 second to hint that your command is detected. At this time, you should release the Release button immediately if you want to unplug the external USB mass storage device plugged in USB1 port. The storage server will take several seconds to unplug the USB mass storage. When the LED of the USB1 port goes off, you can safely detach the USB mass storage device from this storage server.

 Shut down the storage server: You should press and hold Release button for

more than 5 seconds to start shutting down the storage server. Please ignore the beep sound. The Power LED will keep flashing during the shutting down process. When the Power LED goes off, the storage server is completely shut down. You can now switch off the power by switch the Power switch to “0”.

 Restore factory default settings: If you want to reset the configuration of the

storage server to factory default settings, you should press and hold BOTH the Release button and the Copy button at the same time for more than 5 seconds, the storage server will beep for 2 seconds to hint that your command is accepted. The Power LED will keep flashing during the restore process. After the restore is complete, the storage server will restart itself automatically.

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. At this time, you should release the Copy button immediately if you want to copy the content of one external USB mass storage device to another attached storage device. During the process of copy, the LED of corresponding USB port will flash slowly. When the LED of corresponding USB port stops flashing and is lit steady, the copy job is finished. If any error occurs during the process of copy, the LED of corresponding USB port will flash very fast. The default source storage is USB1, you can change the source storage by USB Copy settings in Web user interface of storage server.

 Restore factory default settings: Please refer to the description of Release

button.

Note: Before you trigger the USB Copy function by pressing the Copy button, make sure that the destination folder has enough free space to store all data of the source USB mass storage device.

Note: USB Copy function does not support length of file name longer than 255 bytes. If the source USB mass storage device contains any file with file name longer than 255 bytes, the copy job will fail.

3) USB1 The USB1 port allows you to share your files stored in the USB mass storage device plugged in.

Note: Please plug the external power of your USB mass storage devices before you connect them to the storage server.

Note: If you have USB mass storage device (like USB external HDD), please plug it to this storage server‟s USB 2 port, and plug the USB flash disk you wish to share to the USB 1 port.

LED

Light

Status

Description

Power

Storage server is powered on

Off

Storage server is shut down

Slow

Flashing

Storage server is starting; or the storage server is shutting down; or the storage server is restoring its settings to factory default values.

LAN

LAN port is connected

Off

LAN port is unconnected

Flashing

Data is transferring through the network

Status

The storage server is working well

Off

The storage server is not ready to provide service. Please go to the Web GUI to configure the storage server.

Slow

Flashing

The storage server has some problem. Please go to the Web GUI to check the status of the system to find out the problem.

USB1

USB storage device is connected to USB1 port

Off

USB storage device is not connected to USB1 port or is not detected due to hard disk failure or the system is doing partition/format on this hard disk drive.

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.

Slow

Flashing

The used space of the USB mass storage is over 95% or the USB Copy tool is copying from the USB mass storage device plugged to USB1 port.

Fast

Flashing

The USB mass storage is full or the USB Copy tool is copying from the USB mass storage device plugged to USB1 port, but this job faces some error and is stopped (In this situation, the LED will keep flashing about 30 seconds and go off).

USB2

USB storage device is connected to USB2 port

Off

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.

Slow

Flashing

The used space of the USB mass storage is over 95% or the USB Copy tool is copying from the USB mass storage device plugged to USB2 port.

Fast

Flashing

The USB mass storage is full or the USB Copy tool is copying from the USB mass storage device plugged to USB2 port, but this job faces some error and is stopped (In this situation, the LED will keep flashing about 30 seconds and go off).

HDD1

Internal SATA hard disk drive is installed

Off

Internal SATA hard disk drive is not installed or is not detected due to hard disk failure or the system is doing partition/format on this hard disk drive.

Slow

Flashing

The used space of the internal SATA hard disk drive is over 95% or the two internal SATA hard disk drives are synchronizing in RAID 1 mode.

Fast

Flashing

This internal SATA hard disk drive is full or this internal SATA hard disk drive has some problem in RAID mode (For example the hard disk fails or is not installed or the RAID function fails to use this hard disk).

HDD2

Internal SATA hard disk drive is installed

Off

Internal SATA hard disk drive is not installed or is not detected due to hard disk failure or the system is doing partition/format on this hard disk drive.

Slow

Flashing

The used space of the internal SATA hard disk drive is over 95% or the two internal SATA hard disk drives are synchronizing in RAID 1 mode.

Fast

Flashing

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 drive in the drawer by screws as shown in the setup diagram below.

3) Push the disk drawer with hard disk drive installed back into the case of storage server as shown in the setup diagram below.

The disk drawer is not safely installed

Note: Please make sure the disk drawer is safely installed. For example, please DO NOT install hard disk by the way showed in the following pictures.

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.

6) When the Power LED is steady lit, the storage server is ready.

7) There are two methods to setup the storage server: (1) Use the Windows-based Storage Server Management Wizard utility to do the basic setup; (2) Use the Web-based GUI to do the advanced setup, just go to the next step.

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. If you have used Windows-based Storage Server Wizard utility to setup the IP of the Storage Server, you can skip this step, because the IP of the Storage Server and your PC should be in the same subnet now.

Note: If you have to modify the Windows IP address of your PC, please remember the original Windows IP address settings of your PC. After you finished the whole quick setup procedure, you have to modify the Windows IP address settings of your PC back to the original values to make your PC work well.

9) Once the IP address of your PC is in the same subnet of the storage server, enter the URL of default IP address http://192.168.2.5 (default IP address of this storage server) into your PC‟s web browser and press <enter>. If you have

modified the IP of the Storage Server by some way, for example, by using the Windows-based Storage Server Wizard utility, please use the new IP of Storage Server.

10) The login screen below will appear. Enter the “User Name” and “Password” and then click <OK> to login.

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.

Status (Chapter 1)

This page displays the status and basic information of the storage server.

Quick Setup (Chapter 2)

Quick Setup will guide you through the basic settings of the storage server.

Basic (Chapter 3)

This section contains basic configurations such as: Time Zone and Password.

Network (Chapter 4) This section contains network configurations such as: IP and DNS.

File/FTP Server (Chapter 5)

This section contains File Server and FTP Server configurations such as: User Management, Group Management, File Server and FTP Server sharing policies.

BT Download (Chapter 6)

This section contains BT Download configurations such as: Torrent Management and Download Status.

Web/FTP Download (Chapter 7)

This section contains Web Download and FTP Download configurations such as: Download URL Management and Download Status.

Download Manager (Chapter 8)

This section contains usage of Windows Download Manager utility which let you manage your BT/Web/FTP download items.

iTunes Server (Chapter 9)

This section contains iTunes Server configurations such as: Media Folder Management, Server Status and User Status.

Media Server (Chapter 10)

This section contains Media Server configurations such as: Media Folder Management and Rescan Interval.

Backup (Chapter 11) This section contains Backup configurations.

Surveillance (Chapter 12) This section contains Surveillance configurations.

Tools (Chapter 13)

This section contains Configuration Tools such as: Disk Drive Partition and Format Tools, Storage Status, USB Copy Tool, Configuration Backup and Restore Tool, Firmware Upgrade Tool, System Reset Tool.

Parameter

Description

System Time

Current system time.

MAC Address

The MAC address of this storage server.

Firmware Version

The version of storage server firmware.

Server Name

The name of this storage server. This is the file server name that shows in My Network Places on client computer.

Workgroup

The My Network Places group this file server will join.

Description

The description of this storage server.

IP Address

The IP address used by this storage server in your network.

Subnet Mask

The IP Subnet Mask of your LAN segment.

Gateway

The gateway IP address of your network.

Chapter 1 Status

1.1 Status

This page displays the status and basic information of the Storage Server.

Parameter

Description

Type

Logs are categorized into several types. Please select a suitable type of log that you want to check.

Key Words

You can enter key words here and click “Search” to let the system searches all log information that contain the key words.

Save

Click “Save” to download and save the log information into your PC.

Clear

Click “Clear” to clear the log information of the selected type.

|<<

Move to the first page of log.

Move to the previous page of log.

Move to the next page of log.

>>|

Move to the last page of log.

1.2 Log

This page displays the log information of the Storage Server.

Parameter

Description

E-mail Notification

Function

Select to enable/disable E-mail Notification Function.

Primary E-mail

The e-mail address of the e-mail box that will receive notification e-mail messages.

Secondary E-mail

The e-mail address of the e-mail box that will receive notification e-mail messages.

SMTP Server

The address of the SMTP Server that the storage server will use to send notification e-mail messages. You should refer to your e-mail service provider for the correct address.

SMTP Port

The port number of the SMTP Server that the storage server will use to send notification e-mail messages. You should refer to your e-mail service provider for the correct port number.

Secure

Connection (SSL)

is required

Select it if your e-mail service provider requires it.

Authentication

Select it and fill in the login information below if your e-mail

1.3 Notification

This page let you to setup e-mail account that the storage server will use to send notification e-mail to you when the status of the storage server changes. You can assign two e-mail addresses (primary and secondary) for notification. Both e-mail boxes will receive the notification messages.

Required

service provider requires you to provide user name and password when using the e-mail service.

Username

The user name required by SMTP server.

Password

The password required by SMTP server.

Confirm Password

The password required by SMTP server. It should be the same with the password above.

E-mail Subject

The subject of the e-mail notification messages sent by the storage server.

E-mail Language

The language of the content of the e-mail notification messages sent by the storage server.

Send a test

message

Click this button and the storage will send a test e-mail notification message to the provided e-mail boxes. If you receive the test e-mail notification message, it means your e-mail notification settings are correct.

E-mail Notification

Events

Select types of notifications that you want the storage server send to you by e-mail.

Chapter 2 Quick Setup

Quick Setup will guide you 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 up.

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. Please make sure original valuable data in the internal SATA hard disk drive is backed up before doing Quick Setup.

2.1 Password

Enter the new password of storage server. A valid password should consist of 0~30 alphanumeric characters. The New Password and the Confirm Password should be the same.

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.

2.2 Network

Setup the IP address and DNS address of the storage server. You can manually assign IP address or let the storage server to obtain IP address from DHCP server automatically. For more detail information, you can refer to Chapter 4.

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. A valid storage server name consists of 4~15 case sensitive alphanumeric and underline characters.

2.4 Turn on Functions

Select functions that you want to turn on.

2.5 Time Zone

Select the time zone of your location. You can also assign daylight saving period if you need. During this configuration, the storage server will synchronize its time with your computer and remember it. After this configuration, the storage server will also automatically try to synchronize its time with public time server in Internet every time when it restarts.

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.

2.7 Apply Settings

After you click “Apply” in the confirmation page, the following page will display and the Quick Setup will start to apply the settings to the storage server. It will take several minutes to apply the settings.

After the Quick Setup settings values are applied, the storage server will restart and the following page will display. Please wait for a while.

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). The absolute path in the storage server of “Public_hdd1” is “[HDD1]C:\Public\”.

 Media: The “Media” folder is located under the “Public_hdd1” folder, so the

“Media” folder is also accessible by FTP and Network Neighborhood (Samba)

with reading and writing privilege. The music files in “Media” folder can be accessed by iTunes clients. The video, music and image files in “Media” folder can be accessed by DLNA compliant media adapters like Sony PS3, Xbox 360…etc. The absolute path in the storage server of “Media” is “[HDD1]C:\Public\Media\”.

Parameter

Description

Set Time Zone

Select the time zone of the country you are living. The storage server will set its time based on your selection.

Time Server

Address

You can manually assign time server address if the default time server does not work.

Daylight Savings

The storage server can also take Daylight savings into account. If you wish to use this function, you must check/tick the enable box to enable your daylight saving configuration (below)

Times From

Select the period in which you wish to start using daylight saving

Times to

Select the period in which you wish to stop using daylight saving

Set System Date

and Time

If your network is not connected to the Internet, the storage server will have no chance to get correct time from the time server. In this case, you can manually assign current time here.

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.

Click <Apply> at the bottom of the screen to save the configurations.

Description

Current

Password

Enter your current password.

New Password

Enter your new password.

Confirmed

Password

Enter your new password again for verification purposes.

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.

Note: If you forget your password, you have to reset the storage server to the factory default (password is “1234”) with the “Release” and ”Copy” buttons (see front panel of the storage server).

Click <Apply> at the bottom of the screen to save the configurations.

Parameters

Description

Obtain an IP

address

automatically

DHCP server is used to manage the IP address of a network. If you have a live DHCP server in your network and wish this storage server get IP address from your DHCP server, please select “Obtain an IP address automatically”.

Note: According to the settings of you DHCP server, the IP address obtained from your DHCP server may change by time.

Use the following

IP address

If you want to manually assign an IP address to this storage server, please select “Use the following IP address” and assign IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway Address to the storage server here.

IP Address

The IP address used by this storage server in your network.

Subnet Mask

The IP Subnet Mask of your LAN segment.

Gateway Address

The gateway IP address of your network. Normally, it is the LAN IP address of the router you are using to access the

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 reply the matching IP address.

Internet.

DNS address

Fill in the IP address of a live DNS server.

Secondary/Third

DNS Address

(optional)

This is optional. You can enter another DNS server‟s IP

address as a backup. The secondary/third DNS will be used when the above DNS server fails.

Click <Apply> at the bottom of the screen to save the configurations.

Parameters

Description

Add

Click “Add” and fill the information of the Add a New User page to add a new user for File/FTP server.

Edit

You can select any user in Users list and click “Edit” to modify her/his profile.

Delete Selected

You can click “Delete Selected” to delete the selected users in Users list.

Delete All

You can click “Delete All” to delete all the users in Users list.

Reset

You can click “Reset” to reset selection in Users list.

Chapter 5 File/FTP Server

The File/FTP server configurations include the Users, Groups, Server Settings, Shared Folder and Easy Send setup pages.

5.1 Users

Users setup is used to add/edit users of File/FTP server.

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.

Password

The password of this user.

Confirm

password

Re-type the password of this user for confirmation.

E-mail Address

The e-mail address of this user. The storage server will send some messages to this user by e-mail if necessary.

5.1.1 Add a New User

Click <Save> at the bottom of the screen to save the configurations. NOTE: The max number of users supported in File/FTP server is 32.

Parameters

Description

Add

Click “Add” and fill the information of the Add a New Group page to add a new group for File/FTP server.

Edit

You can select any group in Groups list and click “Edit” to modify its profile.

Delete Selected

You can click “Delete Selected” to delete the selected groups in Groups list.

Delete All

You can click “Delete All” to delete all the groups in Groups list.

Reset

You can click “Reset” to reset selection in Groups list.

5.2 Groups

Groups setup is used to add/edit groups of File/FTP server. You can add one or more users to a group.

Parameters

Description

Group Name

The name of this group. The allowed characters are „a-z‟, „AZ‟, „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.

Description

The description of this group.

Select

Authorized Users

Select the users that you want to add to this group by selecting the check on the right.

5.2.1 Add a New Group

Click <Save> at the bottom of the screen to save the configurations. Note: The max number of groups supported in File/FTP server is 12.

My Network Places

Parameters

Description

Name

The file server name that shows in My Network Places on client computers.

Workgroup

The My Network Places group this file server will join.

Description

A brief description of this file server. This string will be shown at the detailed information field of My Network Places.

Recycle Bin

You select to enable/disable Recycle Bins function here. When you delete a file in a shared folder which supports Recycle Bin vi My Network Places, the deleted file will be kept in the Recycle Bin and you still can read it. If you delete the file in the Recycle Bin, the file will vaporize permanently.

FTP Settings

Parameters

Description

5.3 Server Settings

This storage server supports CIFS (Samba) and FTP protocols. Samba lets you share files stored in the storage server via My Network Places. FTP lets you share files stored in the storage server through Internet.

Note: The maximum file size of a single file is 2GB if the partition type is FAT16; the maximum file size is 4GB if the partition type is FAT32 or NTFS; the file size can be larger than 4GB if the partition type is EXT2 or EXT3.

Max Users

Set the maximum concurrent users for the FTP server.

Idle Time

Set the time that FTP server will wait before disconnecting a FTP client when it is inactive.

FTP Client

Language

(Encoding)

Select a language (or encoding) used by the FTP clients. If the encodings of FTP client and server are different, the file transfer will fail when there is any double byte word in the folder name or file name.

Security

(SSL/TLS)

A secured FTP connection can be protected by SSL/TLS encryption. If you select “No”, all FTP connections are not protected. If you select “Only allow FTP clients with SSL/TLS”, then only protected FTP connection is allowed. Any client cannot create FTP connection without SSL/TLS protection. If you select “Allow FTP clients with or without SSL/TLS”, then the FTP server will receive connection from clients in both ways.

Click <Save> to save the configurations.

Parameters

Description

Add

Click “Add” and fill the information of the Add/Edit Shared Folder page to add a new shared folder.

Edit

You can select any shared folder in Shared Folders list and click “Edit” to modify its setting.

Delete All

You can click “Delete All” to delete all the shared folders in Shared Folders list.

Delete Selected

You can click “Delete Selected” to delete the selected shared folders in Shared Folders list.

Reset

You can click “Reset” to reset selection in Shared Folders list.

Empty the

Recycle Bins of

Selected Shared

Folders

After clicking this button, the files in the Recycle Bins of the selected shared folders will vaporize permanently. There will be no way to reclaim the deleted files.

Empty the

Recycle Bins of

All Shared

Folders

After clicking this button, the files in the Recycle Bins of the all shared folders will vaporize permanently. There will be no way to reclaim the deleted files.

New Storage

You can set a default sharing policy (Read & Write, Read Only

5.4 Shared Folders

You can add/edit shared folders settings here. The shared folders can be shared by FTP and My Network Places.

Default Sharing

Policy

or Not to Share) to any USB storage which doesn‟t have any shared folder yet. The whole disk of the new storage will be shared. All users (including anonymous user) have the same privilege to access the new storage.

Click <Save> at the bottom of the screen to save the configurations.

Note: The max number of shared folders supported in the storage server is 100.

Parameters

Description

Folder Name

The name for shared folder that shows in My Network Places on client computer.

Shared Folder‟s

Path

Click on “Browse” to select the folder to be shared. If you select “Share all folders in storage”, the storage server will create a share item for each partition of all currently attached storages. The share name of each share item consists of three parts, assigned folder name, disk name and partition name, and the three parts are separated by “_”. There are 3 possible disk names, HDD1, HDD2, RAID, USB1 and USB2. For example, if you add a shared folder by assigning “All” as the folder name and select “Share all folders in storage”, and now you have an internal SATA hard disk drive with one partition and one USB hard disk drive with 3 partitions attached on USB2. Then after you create the shared folder, there will be 4 share items created with the name of “All_HDD1_C”, “All_USB2_C”, “All_USB2_D”, “All_USB2_E”.

Users/Groups

You can assign access privilege of the shared folder to all users and groups here. There are three users/groups lists. The left list contains all users and groups that have not been assigned privilege on this shared folder. The upper right list

5.4.1 Add/Edit Shared Folder

contains all users and groups that only have read privilege on this shared folder. The lower right list contains all users and groups that have read and write privileges on this shared folder. If you assign “Read Only” or “Read & Write” privilege to “anonymous”, then all users can access this folder without password.

Description

The comments or descriptions for this share folder.

Shared to

You can select to share the folder vi My Network Places and/or FTP.

Click <Save> at the bottom of the screen to save the configurations..

5.4.2 Browse Dialog

When you click the “Browse” button, you can see the following popup screen that shows all the attached storage devices (including the internal SATA hard disk drive and external USB mass storage devices). Please select a storage device from left panel, the right bottom panel will show the folders in this storage device. Choose

the folder you want to share, and click “Submit” to share the selected folder. You can also click “New Folder” to create a new share folder.

Note: Only the folders in the storage devices will be shown as icons in Browse Dialog, because the unit of sharing policy is restricted to folders, not files.

Parameters

Description

Life cycle of

sent file

You can assign the life cycle (in days) of the sent file. Every sent file will be deleted after the end of its life cycle and the storage space used by the deleted file is freed.

Internet

address of this

Storage Server

You have to provide a valid Internet address of this Storage Server for recipients to download files from the Internet. If the storage server is directly connected to Internet, then the LAN IP address is the public IP address that your Internet service provider assigns to you. If the storage server is connected to Internet through an IP sharing router, then the WAN address of the IP sharing router is the Internet address of this storage server and you also have to setup the IP sharing router to forward FTP traffic to this storage

5.5 Easy Send

Easy Send let you easily send files to everyone including person without a user account of the storage server. Every time when you send a file, the storage server will automatically generate a randomly encoded download address (in text, like a URL) of the file for you. You can send the download address to the recipients by email, messengers and other ways. Every recipient who has this download address can download the file without a user account of the storage server. Because every download address is composed of a randomly encoded long text string, so hackers are very difficult to guess it right.

Note: Please refer to the section 15.7 “Easy Send” for the details of how to use the Easy Send.

server. If your Internet service provider assigns fixed public IP to you, then you can use the fixed public IP address as the Internet address of this storage server. If your Internet service provider assigns dynamic public IP to you, your public IP address will change frequently. You should use DDNS service to map a fixed domain name address to the dynamic public IP, and use this fixed domain name address as the Internet address of this storage server. If you leave this field blank, than the storage server will use your current LAN IP address as Internet address of this storage server.

Select a disk

for Easy Send

Select one available disk to let Easy Send to store files for recipients to download.

Enable storage

space limitation

Check this if you want to limit the storage space used by Easy Send. You also have to assign the storage space limitation for the whole Easy Send system and the storage space limitation for each Easy Send user. Easy Send will refuse to send new files for you if the total size of your sent files reaches the limitation.

Easy Send

History

Easy Send History list information of all sent files.

Detail

Click this button to read the details of sent file. It also contains the links to download the sent files from both LAN and Internet.

|<<

Move to the first page of Easy Send History.

Move to the previous page of Easy Send History.

Move to the next page of Easy Send History.

>>|

Move to the last page of Easy Send History.

Move to the page according to the assigned page number.

Delete

Selected

Delete selected sent files and free the storage space used by them.

Delete

Selected

Delete all sent files and free the storage space used by them.

Parameters

Description

BT Download

Function

You can enable or disable BT Download Function here.

Advanced

Setting

Click this button and Advanced Setting page will show.

Add Torrent

Click this button to add a new torrent (files with .torrent extension) file, and the storage server will start to download the files. You‟ll be prompted to provide the location of .torrent file (See the detailed descriptions below)

Refresh

Click this button to get latest status of BT Download.

Pause

Select one or more downloading BT items in the list, and click this button to pause them.

Resume

Select one or more suspended BT items in the list, and click this button to resume downloading.

Remove All

Remove all BT items from the list.

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. Except for this Web GUI, you also can use the Windows-based Download Manager utility to manage the download items. Please refer to Chapter 8.

Note: Due to the download mechanism used by BitTorrent, it‟s not recommended to use USB flash disks to save the files you wish to download.

Remove

Selected

Remove selected BT items from the list.

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.

Parameters

Description

Torrent

Location

Please specify the location of .torrent file. You can provide the Internet URL of a .torrent file (for example:

http://www.torrentfile.com/files/movie.torrent), upload a .torrent

file from your PC, or browse and select a .torrent file stored in the storage server. If you select “Internet Address”, please fill the URL address of torrent file, or you can just copy the URL address of torrent file from web browser; If you select “PC” or “This File Server”, click “Browse” and a file browsing window will popup, and you can select the torrent file in your PC or the storage server.

Assign a folder

on this file

server to save

the files

Please click „Browse‟ button and a file browsing window will popup. Please specify the folder you wish to save downloaded files. (You can create a new folder by clicking “New Folder” button in file browsing window).

Priority

Please assign a priority level to this BT download item. Available options are „VIP‟, „High‟, and „Low‟. The priority will affect the order of BT download. For example, if you set the maximum active BT download item number to be 5 in the Advanced Setting page, only 5 active BT Download items can be downloaded at the same time. If you have more than 5 BT Download items, every BT Download item with lower priority will be downloaded only when no more than 4 higher priority active BT download items are downloading.

Add

Click this button to add the BT Download job to the list.

Reset

Reset all fields in this page to default value.

6.1 Add BT Torrent

After you click „Add Torrent‟ button, you‟ll be prompted to provide the location of a torrent file and the folder to save the downloaded files.

Cancel

Cancel adding a new BT Download job and return to previous page.

Parameters

Description

Listening ports

used for

incoming

TCP/UDP

connection

The port range BT listening to during downloading. If you are using a NAT router to access the Internet, let the router forwarding these ports to the IP of storage server. It will increase the BT download speed.

Maximum

download rate

per torrent

The maximum download rate per torrent in Kbytes per second. Enter “0” if you do not want to limit the download speed of BT.

Maximum

upload rate per

torrent

The maximum upload rate per torrent in Kbytes per second. Enter “0” if you do not want to limit the upload speed of BT.

Maximum

number of

active

The maximum number of active torrents that can be downloaded at the same time. If you add more download items, some items have to wait in turn.

6.2 Advanced Setting

After you click “Advanced Setting” button, the BT Download Advanced Setting page will show. You can set the port number used by BT, bandwidth control, maximum active download number and enable/disable DHT here.

downloads

Maximum

concurrent

connection

number per

torrent

The maximum number of connections can be used to download a BT download item at the same time.

DHT network

Enable DHT network would let the BT have a chance to find more peers to download even when no tracker servers are available.

Parameters

Description

Web/FTP

Download

Function

You can enable or disable Web/FTP Download Function here. Click “Save” to apply changes or “Cancel” to discard the change you made.

Internet

Address

Please specify the URL of file you wish to download from Web or FTP server. For example: ftp://ftp.fileserver.com/files/download.zip or http://www.downloadfile.com/files/download.zip

URL Encoding

The URL encoding method of the download source Web/FTP server. The Web/FTP server will encode double-byte characters of URL. If the URL encoding method assigned is not the same

Chapter 7 Web/FTP 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 manage the download items. Please refer to Chapter 8.

Note: Before a file can be downloaded and saved, please make sure the free space of the storage is enough.

Note: Only 5 active Web/FTP Download items can be downloaded at the same time. If you have more than 5 Web/FTP Download items, some items have to wait in turn.

with the Web/FTP server, download will fail.

Save As

Please specify the location you wish to save downloaded file. Click “Browse” button to select the folder you wish to save the file.

User Name

This field is optional. Please input the server‟s username here if the server requires it.

Password

This field is optional. Please input the server‟s password here if the server requires it.

Add

Click this button to add the download job above to the download list and start downloading.

Reset

Reset all fields in this page to default value.

Refresh

Click this button to get latest status of Web or FTP download.

Pause

Select one or more downloading items in the list, and click this button to pause them.

Resume

Select one or more paused items in the list, and click this button to resume downloading.

Remove All

Remove all items from the list.

Remove

Selected

Remove selected item from the list.

Reset

Deselect all selected items in the list.

Note: The max number of Web/FTP download items is 32.

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. For all details information of settings of Download Manager, please refer to Chapter 6 BT

Download and Chapter 7 Web/FTP Download.

8.1 Start Download Manager

You can select “Start  All Programs  Storage Server  Download Manager” to start Download Manager.

8.2 Search for storage server

When starting, the Download Manager will scan your network for all available storage servers and list them to you. If you do not see the storage server, please check the network connectivity and click “Rescan”. Select the storage server in the list and click “Connect” to login the storage server. You also can click “Enter the address manually” if you know the address of the storage server.

Parameters

Description

Address

If you select a storage server from the list in the previous step, then this is the address of the selected storage server and you cannot modify it. If you click “Enter the address manually” in the previous step, then you have to assign the address of the storage server here.

User Name

Enter your login account for the storage server.

Password

Enter your password for the storage server.

Remember the

address of this

Storage Server

If you check it, Download Manager will remember the address of the storage server. Every time when you start Download Manager, the address of this storage server will be listed in the server list for selection, even when the storage server does not exist in your network during the scanning.

Remember me

on this

computer

If you check it, Download Manager will remember your account for the storage server. Every time when you enter this login window, your account will be in the User Name list for selection.

Remember my

password

If you check it, Download Manager will remember your password for the storage server. Every time when you enter this login window and use the same user name for login, Download Manager will automatically fill your password.

Automatically

If you check it, Download Manager will remember your account and password for this storage server. Every time when you start Download Manager, it will directly login. This login window will not display.

8.3 Login storage server

The Download Manager will prompt you for the login information of the storage server for connecting to the storage server.

Select another

Storage Server

Go to the previous step to scan for available storage server and select a storage server again.

8.4 Manage download items

After you login, the main window of Download Manager will pop up as following picture. There are two major parts in the window. The BT Download part is to manage the download items of BT, the Web/FTP Download part is to manage the download items of Web/FTP. All BT download items are listed in the BT Download list and all Web/FTP download items are listed in the Web/FTP Download list. The Download Manager will automatically refresh both lists every 60 seconds.

Through Download Manager, you can click “Add” to add a download item, or click “Remove” to remove 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” combo box. You can adjust the priority of BT download items by re-selecting the priority for each BT download item.

The status of each download item is displayed by foreground and background color as the following picture. All download items with error or pause state are in gray background color; other download items are displayed with white background color. All trying or downloading items are displayed with blue words; all waiting items are displayed with red words; all finished items are displayed with green words.

8.4.1 Add a download item

When you click “Add” button of BT Download, the following window will pop up. You can assign a torrent of BT download item here. You can upload a torrent file from your PC or just enter the Internet address (URL) of the torrent file. If you provide an Internet address of the torrent file, the storage server will download the torrent file from the Internet address first and then download the files you want according the content of the downloaded torrent file. You also have to assign the path of a folder on the storage server to save the downloaded files and the priority of the download item.

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.

If you are using Microsoft IE to surf the Internet and find a link of an interesting file that you want to download, you can click the right button of your mouse on the link and the following menu will pop up.

Select “Download with Download Manager”, then the download job will be added to Download Manager automatically and the downloaded files will be saved in default path on the storage server.

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 cannot 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.

This window will keep displaying before the download job is successfully added into Download Manager. You can click “Cancel” in this window to abort adding it to the Download Manager. After the download job is added to the Download Manager, this window will disappear automatically.

8.4.2 Main menu

There are “Operation” and “Settings” menu in the main window of Download Manager.

You can select “Operation  Refresh Download List” to let Download Manager refresh both download lists. If you select “Operation  Log Out”, the Download Manager will disconnect current storage server and the following Select Server window will pop up. You can scan and connect to the other storage server here.

If you select “Operation  Exit”, the Download Manager will completely exit and both the main window and the tray icon of Download Manager will disappear.

You can enable/disable BT Download function or enable/disable Web/FTP Download function by selecting the corresponding item in the “Settings” menu.

If you select “Settings  Setting”, the following window will pop up to let you decide if you want Download Manager automatically log in when it starts up.

8.5 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.

When you double click the tray icon of Download Manager or click the right button of your mouse on the tray icon and select “Show Window” in the pop-up menu, the main window of Download Manager will display again.

If you click the right button of your mouse on the tray icon and select “Exit” in the pop-up menu, the Download Manager will completely exit and both the main window and the tray icon of Download Manager will disappear.

You can enable/disable BT Download function or enable/disable Web/FTP Download function by clicking the right button of your mouse on the tray icon and select the corresponding item in the pop-up menu.

Parameters

Description

iTunes Server

You can enable or disable iTunes Server here. Click “Save” to keep changes or “Cancel” to discard the change you made.

Server name

Please assign a name to iTunes server. All iTunes clients will need this name to locate this iTunes server. The length of a valid server name is from 4 to 20 characters. It is case sensitive.

Media folder

Please specify the folder where the media files are stored, and all media files inside the folder you specified here will be shared to all iTunes clients. You can click „Open‟ button to select the folder on the attached storage device.

Advanced

Setting

Click this button to modify advanced settings for this iTunes server. Detailed instructions are listed below.

Refresh

Click this button to get latest status and user list of iTunes Server.

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.

After you click “Advanced Setting”, you‟ll be prompted to configure the advanced settings of this iTunes server:

Parameters

Description

Protect by

password

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 access your media files, and if too many users are accessing the media files at the same time, iTunes server may respond slower or even stop responding. It‟s recommended to select “Enable” to protect your iTunes server by password if you want to prevent non-privileged people from using your media files.

Password

If password protection is enabled, please specify the password of iTunes server here.

Confirm

Password

Please confirm the password of iTunes server here.

Rescan interval

Please specify the time interval in second between two iTunes server scans. The iTunes server periodically scan media folder for newly added files. The valid rescan interval is from 30 to 65535 seconds. You can also click “Rescan” button to start a scan immediately. The required scan time varies depend on the number of media files. It may take several minutes to finish.

It‟s recommended to use default value (300) to prevent iTunes server from rescanning too frequently. A short rescan interval will make iTunes server respond slower.

Process m3u

If the folder where media files are located includes any m3u (playlist) file, iTunes server will read it and generate proper playlist for iTunes clients.

Playlist

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 “Open” to choose playlist file from your PC or attached storage device.

Back

If you want to discard all settings listed in this page, click this button to return to previous page.

Save

Click this button to save all settings in this page. You‟ll be prompted to restart the iTunes server, so all changes you made in this page will take effect after restarting.

Reset

Reset all fields in this page to default value.

Parameters

Description

Media Server

You can enable or disable media server function here. Click “Save” to keep changes or “Cancel” to discard the change you made.

Server Name

Please specify the name of media server here. Media players need this name to locate this media server.

Rescan Interval

Please specify the time interval in second between two media server scans. The media server periodically scan media folder for newly added files. The valid rescan interval is 0 or from 30 to 65535 seconds. 0 rescan interval means NO AUTO RESCAN. You can also click “Rescan” button to start a scan immediately. The required scan time varies depend on the number of media files. It may take several minutes to finish.

It‟s recommended to use the value larger than 300 to prevent media server from rescanning too frequently. A short rescan interval will make media server respond slower.

Save

Click this button to save general settings of media server.

Add

Click this button to add a new folder to store shared media files. You‟ll be prompted to select a folder on the attached storage device.

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.

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.

Parameters

Description

Add

Click “Add” to add a backup task. Please refer to the section “Add/Edit a Local Backup” for details.

Refresh

Click “Refresh” to refresh the status of Local Backup List Table.

Edit

Click “Edit” to add a backup task. Please refer to the section “Add/Edit a Local Backup” for details.

Backup Now

Click “Backup Now” to do the select backup task immediately.

Cancel Backup

Click “Cancel Backup” to cancel the selected running backup task.

Remove Select

Remove selected backup tasks from the list.

Remove All

Remove all backup tasks from the list.

Chapter 11 Backup

The storage server provides Backup function for you to backup files between hard disk drives. You can schedule backup tasks easily.

11.1 Add/Edit a Local Backup

You can assign the source and destination of the backup task, backup types and schedule here.

Parameters

Description

Task Name

The name of the backup task.

Source

Click “Browse” to select the backup source folder.

Destination

Click “Browse” to select the backup destination folder.

Repository

Model

There are two types of backup. One is “Data synchronization” and “Multi-complete backup”. “Data synchronization” only keeps one copy of the backup and keeps the backup content synchronized with the data source. “Multi-complete backup” keeps multiple copies of the backup and every copy is the snapshot of the data source on the time of the backup. You can assign the number of copies you want to keep. If you select “Delete oldest copy and backup new copy”, then the storage server will delete the oldest backup to release storage space for the new backup when disk space is full or the backup number reaches the assigned limitation. If you select “Stop backup – keep old copies”, then the storage server sill stop backup when disk space is full or the backup number reaches the assigned limitation.

Schedule

Select “Not scheduled” if you do not want to schedule any backup task. Select “Scheduled” if you want to assign backup schedule. Check the days you want to do backup and assign the backup time within each day.

Click “Save” to save the backup settings.

Parameters

Description

Enable/Disable

Surveillance

Select Enable or Disable and click “Save”.

Add IP Camera

Click “Add IP Camera” and a wizard will guide through the procedure of setting the IP camera. Please refer to the section “Add/Edit IP Camera” for details.

Refresh

Click “Refresh” to refresh the status of surveillance.

Manual

Recording

Click to manually start recording. Click to manually stop recording.

Detail

Click “Detail” to get the detail settings and status of the IP camera.

Edit

Click “Edit” to modify the settings of IP camera. Please refer to the section “Add/Edit IP Camera” for details.

Delete

Selected

Click “Delete Selected” to delete selected IP camera from the Surveillance List.

Delete All

Click “Delete All” to delete all IP cameras from the Surveillance List.

Reset

Click “Reset” to reset your selection in the Surveillance List.

Chapter 12 Surveillance

Surveillance let you record live video from IP camera. You can schedule the recording or record live video manually.

12.1 Add/Edit IP Camera

A wizard will step by stop guide you through all the settings of IP camera.

You can click “Search Local IP Cameras” to search your local network for all IP cameras and select the IP camera to add in the list. You can click “Add Manually” if you have already known the address of the IP camera.

12.2 Search Local IP Cameras

The Local IP Camera List has all available IP cameras in your network. Click “Add” of the IP camera you want to add.

12.3 Basic Information of IP camera

You can edit basic information of IP camera in the first step and click “Next” to move to the next step of setting.

Parameters

Description

IP Camera

Name

Assign a name for the IP camera.

IP Camera

Model

Select the model of IP camera from the list.

Address

Address of IP camera.

Port

Port number of IP camera.

The login user name of the IP camera.

Password

The login password of the IP camera.

Test Camera

Click “Test Camera”. Surveillance will try to capture a snapshot from the IP camera. When the snapshot of the IP camera is showed in the window above this button, it means your settings are correct.

12.4 Video Information of IP camera

You can edit video information of IP camera and click “Next” to move to the next step of setting.

Parameters

Description

Video Format

Select the video format of IP camera.

Frame Rate

Assign the speed (frames per second) of the recording.

Video

Resolution

Provide the width and height (in pixels) of the IP camera resolution.

Parameters

Description

Storage Path

Click “Browse” to select the folder to store the recorded video of IP camera.

Max Storage

Assign the maximum size (in mega bytes) of storage space used

12.5 Recording Settings

You can edit the settings of recording parameters and click “Next” to move to the next step of setting.

Size

to record the video of the IP camera.

Max File Size

Assign the maximum size (in mega bytes) of recorded video file of the IP camera. Every time when the video file size reaches the limitation, Surveillance will create another video file to continue recording.

File Name

Prefix

The prefix string of file name of each recorded video file.

Max Duration

of Each File

Assign the maximum duration (in minutes) of each recorded video file of the IP camera. Every time when the video file duration reaches the limitation, Surveillance will create another video file to continue recording.

Cyclic

Recording

Check it to enable cyclic recording. In cyclic recording mode, when the used storage space of the recording has reached the limitation, Surveillance will delete the oldest video file and free storage space for new video file. Otherwise, Surveillance will stop recording of the IP camera.

Parameters

Description

Enable

schedule of this

Check this item to enable schedules below.

12.6 Schedule Settings

You can setup the recording schedules in the final step of setting and click “Save” to save and apply the settings.

IP camera

One-off task

You can select start time and end time of each one-off task.

Delete

Click “Delete” to delete the one-off task.

Add

Click “Add” to add more one-off tasks.

Weekly task

Click and then click the hour periods of a week to mark the recording time. You also can click and then click the hour

periods with green blocks to mark the idle time. You can click “All” button to mark the whole week. You can click the button of a day to mark the whole day. You can click the number of an hour to mark the hour time of every day.

Chapter 13 Tools

The storage server provides several management tools, including Storage Tools, Storage Status, USB Copy, Config Tools, Firmware Upgrade and Reset.

13.1 Storage Tools

You can use the Storage Tools to manage the partition and format of the attached storage devices. It also allows you to build RAID 0, JBOD or RAID1 if you have two internal SATA hard disk drives installed.

RAID 0 helps to you merge two hard disk drives together in striped way. It simulates a big hard disk drive and the available space of the virtual big hard disk drive is the sum of the two physical internal SATA hard disk drives. RAID 0 only works when both internal SATA hard disk drives are healthy. If any one of the two internal SATA hard disk drives fails in RAID 0 mode, you will lose whole data and it is unrecoverable.

JBOD helps to you merge two hard disk drives together in linear way. It simulates a big hard disk drive and the available space of the virtual big hard disk drive is the sum of the two physical internal SATA hard disk drives. JBOD only works when both internal SATA hard disk drives are healthy. If any one of the two internal SATA hard disk drives fails in JBOD mode, you will lose whole data and it is unrecoverable.

RAID 1 maintains two copies of your data in the two internal SATA hard disk drives. Each disk drive keeps one copy. So RAID 1 still works correctly if just only one of the two internal SATA hard disk drives fails. Because RAID 1 keeps two copies of whole data, the disk space utilization is only 1/2. RAID 1 simulates a stable hard disk drive and the available space of the virtual stable hard disk drive is the size of the smaller physical internal SATA hard disk drive if the sizes of the two internal SATA hard disk drives are different (The additional space of the larger hard disk drive is useless).

Note: When you use the Storage Tools to partition or format the hard disk drive (no matter internal SATA hard disk drive or external USB hard disk drive), the system will stop all service first. So please make sure that you have finished all file transfer before using Storage Tools.

Note: Storage Tools only can be used to manage internal SATA hard disk drives and USB mass storage devices attached to USB2 port. You cannot use Storage Tools to partition/format USB mass storage devices attached to USB1 port. If you want to partition/format a USB mass storage device, please attached it to USB2 port or move the USB mass storage device to a PC and use the PC to do partition/format.

Parameters

Description

Check & Fix Disk

Click “Check & Fix Disk” to let the storage server check and fix the format of the file system of the storage devices. Please refer to the section “Check & Fix Disk” for details.

S.M.A.R.T.

Click “S.M.A.R.T.” to let the storage server check the healthiness of hard disk drives supporting S.M.A.R.T. function. Please refer to the section “S.M.A.R.T.” for details.

RAID

If you have two internal SATA hard disk drives installed in this storage server, you can select “Enable” to enable the RAID function. You also can select “Disable” to disable the RAID function and let the two internal SATA hard disk drives work independently. If you only have one internal SATA hard disk drives installed in this storage server, you can not enable the RAID function.

RAID Mode

You can select to let the storage server build RAID 0 or RAID 1 on the two internal SATA hard disk drives.

Auto Partition &

Format

By clicking this button, the system will partition and format the attached storage device automatically. Please refer to the detail descriptions below.

Fix RAID

The “Fix RAID” button only appears when the storage server finds that RAID is not working well due to some problem. If any

Note: For the internal SATA hard disk drives, the storage server only allows you to do “Auto Partition & Format”. Only the external USB hard disk drive attached to USB2 port can be manually partitioned and formatted.

Note: If you want to build RAID for the storage server, it is strongly suggested that the two internal SATA hard disk drives are the same brand and model.

one of the internal SATA hard disk drive fails, the LED of the failed hard disk driver will blink. After you clicking the “Fix RAID” button, you should shut down and power off the storage server, and then replace any failed hard disk drive with a good one. When you power on the storage server again, the storage server will try its best to fix the RAID. Note: It is possible to fix the RAID and keep all data correctly if you use RAID 1 and just only one of the two internal SATA hard disk drives fails and you have replaced the failed hard disk drive with a good one and the space of the new hard disk is not smaller than the failed one. Note: If you replace the failed hard disk drive with a smaller hard disk drive when you try to fix a RAID in RAID 1 mode, part of the data previously stored in the RAID may be lost. Note: It is IMPOSSIBLE to fix the RAID and keep all data correctly if you use RAID 0 and the RAID‟s failure is due to one of the two internal SATA hard disk drives fails. The storage server just clears all old data and rebuilds a new RAID when you click “Fix RAID” button in RAID 0 mode. Note: In RAID 1 mode, if you do not follow the normal shut down procedure and just directly power off the storage server, sometimes, it may make the RAID in an inconsistent state and the storage server will ask you to fix RAID. In this situation, you can click “Fix RAID” button, shut down storage server and then start storage server again. The RAID will work well again. If the storage server is still asking you to fix RAID, it may due the some internal SATA hard disk drive failure. You have to follow the fix RAID procedure described above to replace the failed hard disk drive.

Tool

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 of the partition. Note: The data originally stored in the partition will be erased after the format even you stop it before the job is finished.

Add a Partition

By clicking “Add” button, you can launch the “Add a Partition page” to add a new partition in the attached storage device.

Remove

Selected

Partitions

You can click “Remove Selected Partitions” button to remove the selected partitions in the attached storage device. Note: The data originally stored in the partitions will be erased after they are removed.

Remove All

Partitions

You can click “Remove All Partitions” to remove all the partitions in the attached storage device. Note: The data originally stored in the partitions will be erased after they are removed.

Reset

You can click “Reset” to reset selection in partition list.

Turn Off Hard

Disks

If you select “Never” then Hard Disk Power Management function is disabled. If you select an idle time, then Hard Disk Power Management function is enabled and the storage server will turn off hard disk drive to save power after the hard disk idle timeout. When your hard disk drive is sleeping, any operation which requires reading or writing hard disk drive will make the storage server wake up the hard disk drive in a few seconds and the hard disk drive can work normally as usual.

Note: If you disabled the RAID previously and now want to enable it again. The old data can be kept correctly after you re-enable the RAID only when all the following conditions hold. Otherwise, you can only choose to create a new RAID and erase old data stored in the two internal SATA hard disk drives:

 The RAID mode before you disabled the RAID and the RAID mode that

you want to enable now should be the same.

 The two current internal SATA hard disk drives are the same with the two

internal SATA hard disk drives before you disabled the RAID.

 You never change the data of both internal SATA hard disk drives after you

disabled the RAID and before you enable the RAID.

13.1.1 Check & Fix Disk

Check & Fix Disk can check and fix the file system error of the hard disk drive. Before start up, a warning window will pop-up to inform you that this action may damage your data. Click “OK” to continue.

Note: When the storage server is doing Check & Fix Disk for your hard disk drive, the hard disk drive is occupied. All the services of the storage server will be stopped.

Note: Check & Fix Disk only supports internal SATA hard disk drives.

You can select the partition and schedule a check and fix job here.

Parameters

Description

Select Partitions

Select all partitions you want to check.

Run Time

You can select “Now” to let the check start immediately. You also can select “Later” and assign a schedule time below.

Action

If you select “Check errors”, the storage server only checks for file system errors. The storage server will not fix the error and the data will not be modified. So it is a safe operation. If you select “Check errors and fix them”, the storage server will try to fix errors found in the file system. If there are too many errors in the file system and the storage server fails to fix all of them, some of your data may be lost.

Added Task

It shows the added check and fix task.

Delete the task

Click “Delete the task” to delete the check and fix task.

Apply

Click “Apply” to submit the check and fix task.

Report

Click “Report” to read the reports of check and fix tasks.

13.1.2 S.M.A.R.T.

S.M.A.R.T. (self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology) can monitor the healthiness of your hard disk drive. It will try to predict the failure of your hard disk drive. If the healthiness of the hard disk drive is BAD, it does not mean your hard disk is not working well. But there is high possibility that your hard disk drive will fail soon, so you‟d better backup all data on the hard disk drive and change a healthy hard disk drive as soon as possible.

Note: To use S.M.A.R.T., your hard disk drive has to support S.M.A.R.T.

Parameters

Description

Advanced

Setting

Click “Advanced Setting” to do the S.M.A.R.T. advanced setting. Please refer to the section “S.M.A.R.T. Advanced Setting”.

S.M.A.R.T. Self-

Test

Click “S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test” to start a hard disk drive self test. Please refer to the section “S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test”. Note: Doing S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test will take several minutes and will make all services of the storage server stop.

Current Disk

Select the hard disk drive to check the status.

13.1.2.1 S.M.A.R.T. Advanced Setting

S.M.A.R.T. advanced setting let you assign notification methods when the healthiness of hard disk drive is BAD.

Parameters

Description

E-mail

Notification

If you select “Send email once if disk problem is existed”, then the storage server will send a notification e-mail to you in the first time it detects the problem of the hard disk drive. If you select “Send email once per day if disk problem is existed”, then the storage server will send a notification e-mail to you every day when it detects the problem of the hard disk drive until the problem disappears.

Buzzer

Notification

If you enable “Buzzer Notification”, the storage server will beep to notify you when it detects the problem of the hard disk drive.

Click “Apply” to apply the settings.

13.1.2.2 S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test

S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test will let the hard disk drive do self test for errors. It will take several minutes depends on the status of the hard disk drive.

Note: Doing S.M.A.R.T. Self-Test will make all services of the storage server stop.

Parameters

Description

Current Disk

Select the hard disk drive that you want to test.

Run Short Self-

Test

Start a basic self test on the hard disk drive.

Run Extended

Self-Test

Start an extended self test on the hard disk drive. It will take long time.

13.1.3 Auto Partition & Format

This function will build partition and format the attached storage device according to the following rules.

Note: The data originally stored in the attached storage device will completely disappear after you doing “Auto Partition & Format” even you stop it before the job is finished.

Note: The rules of internal SATA hard disk drive and external USB mass storage device are different.

Internal SATA hard disk drive (includes RAID mode): (i) It creates a single partition with the size of the whole SATA disk drive or the

whole RAID virtual hard disk drive.

(ii) It formats the created partition by EXT2 format. External USB mass storage device:

(i) If the size of the USB mass storage device is larger than 160GB, it divides

the USB mass storage device into several 160GB partitions. The size of the last partition may be less than 160GB. Otherwise, it creates a single partition with the size of the whole USB mass storage device.

(ii) If formats all the created partitions by FAT32 format. Note: During the process, user can click the “Stop” button to stop the job before it is

finished and back to Storage tools page to add or remove partition manually.

Parameters

Description

Size of the

Space

The total free space that can be assigned to this new partition.

New Partition

Size

You can assign the size of the new partition.

File System

The Storage Tools will format the new partition. You can select FAT16, FAT32, EXT2 or EXT3 format. The format may take several minutes to finish, depends on the size of the partition.

13.1.4 Add a Partition

You can create a new partition in the attached storage device and format it.

Note: The partition size of FAT16 file system should be less than 2GB; for FAT32 the partition size should be less than 160GB; EXT2 and EXT3 have no such limitation.

Parameters

Description

Unplug

You can click this button to unplug the external USB mass storage device. If the LED of the USB port is off, you can safely detach the USB mass storage from this storage server.

Partition

The partition name of the attached storage device.

Size

Total space of this partition.

Used

Total used space of this partition. Here shows the size in byte and the percentage of the total space.

Free

The remaining free space of the partition.

Status

The type of the partition. It can be FAT16, FAT32, NTFS or Linux.

Refresh

You can click this button to refresh the Storage Status.

13.2 Storage Status

This Page shows the status of all attached storage devices.

13.3 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.

Parameters

Description

Source Path

Select USB port that the source USB mass storage device of the USB Copy job will be plugged in.

Saved Path

Select a shared folder as the destination of the USB Copy. The USB Copy tool will create a folder named “USBCopy” under the shared folder you selected. Each time when you press the Copy button on the front panel of the storage server to trigger the USB Copy job, a new folder named with the trigger time will be created under the “USBCopy” folder and the newly created folder will be the destination folder of the USB Copy job.

Click <Save> button to save the configurations.

13.4 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. You can upload the saved configuration to the storage server through the Restore Settings tool. If extreme problems occur you can use the Restore to Factory Default tool, this will set all configurations to its original default settings (e.g. when you purchased the storage server)

Parameters

Description

Configuration

Tools

Use the "Backup Settings" tool to save the storage server‟s current configuration to a file named "config.bin" on your PC. You can then use the "Restore Settings" tool to restore the saved configuration to the storage server. Alternatively, you can use the "Restore to Factory Defaults" tool to force the storage server to perform a power reset and restore to original factory settings.

13.5 Firmware Upgrade

This page allows you to upgrade the storage server‟s firmware

Click “Next” to go to the upload firmware file page.

Parameters

Description

Firmware Upgrade

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 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.

After you selected the new firmware file, click “Apply” at the bottom of the screen to start the upgrade process. (You may have to wait few minutes for the upgrade to complete). Once the upgrade is complete you can start using the storage server.

Warning: When upgrading firmware, be sure not to switch the computer off, or restart your computer, or break the network connection of your computer.

Parameters

Description

Reset

In the event that the system stops responding or stops functioning, you can perform a reset. Your settings will not be changed. To perform the reset, click on the “APPLY” button. You will be asked 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.

13.6 Reset

You can reset the storage server‟s system when there‟s something wrong with the storage server. The reset function will reboot your storage server.

Chapter 14 Storage Server Management Wizard

Storage Server Management Wizard is a Windows client utility for the storage server. It step-by-step guides you through the setup of the storage server.

14.1 Login the storage server

Select “Start  All Programs  Storage Server  Storage Server Management Wizard” to execute Storage Server Management Wizard.

When the Storage Server Management Wizard starts, all Storage Servers in your local area network will be listed. Select the Storage Server you want to configure,

and click “Next”. If you do not find the Storage Server you want to configure, please

check the network connection, and then click “Rescan” to restart searching.

Type the password and click “Next” to login the Storage Server that you want to

configure. (The default password is “1234” if you never change it.)

The window of Storage Server Management Wizard will show after you successfully login the storage server.

You can click “Quick Setup” to let the wizard step-by-step guide you through the basic setting of the storage server. You can click “Extension Functions” if you want to install or remove extension function packages of the storage server. You can click “Upgrade Firmware” if you want to upgrade the firmware of the storage server.

14.2 Quick Setup

Quick Setup is a wizard which can guide you through the procedure of formatting hard disk drive, network setup, user setup and application setup. After doing Quick Setup, you can start using the storage server. Please refer to “Quick Installation Guide” of the storage server for details.

14.3 Extension Functions

The storage server is providing total solution for the SOHO requirements. The provider of the storage server may provide new packages of extension functions for the storage in the future. You can install the packages of extension functions by the Storage Server Management Wizard.

14.3.1 Install Extension Function

After clicking “Extension Functions” in the Storage Server Management Wizard, the following extension function management window will show. Click “Install Extension Function” to start installing a package of extension function. You can consult your provider of storage server for any available extension function and download the package for installation. The package of extension function is a file with “.ssi” extended file name.

Select the package file (.ssi file) of the extension function in your PC and then click “Open”.

In the pop-up window which shows the extension function name, click “Next” to confirm installation.

You have to wait for several minutes until the installation is completed.

When you see the following pop-up window showing the successful installation message, the installation is completed. Click “Next” to finish it.

The installed extension function will be listed in the installed program list as follows.

14.3.2 Remove Extension Function

You can remove installed extension function by Storage Server Management Wizard. After clicking “Extension Functions” in the Storage Server Management Wizard, the following extension function management window will show. All installed extension functions will be listed in the installed program list. To remove an extension function, select the extension function to remove in the list and click “Uninstall”. To remove all extension functions, click “Uninstall All”.

A pop-up window will ask you if you want to uninstall the selected extension function. Click “Yes” to confirm the uninstallation.

Please wait for several minutes until the uninstallation is completed.

When you see the following pop-up window showing the successful uninstallation message, the uninstallation is completed. Click “Next” to finish it.

14.4 Upgrade Firmware

After clicking “Upgrade Firmware” in the Storage Server Management Wizard, the following select firmware file window will show. You can consult your provider of storage server for any available new firmware. The firmware is a file with “.bin” extended file name. Select the firmware file (.bin file) and click “Open”.

Note: After upgrading firmware, the configuration of the storage server will be set to factory default values.

In the following pop-up message window, click “Next” to confirm the upgrade.

The upgrade will take several minutes. You SHOULD NOT turn off the power of the storage server during the upgrade. If you turn off the power of the storage server during upgrade firmware, the storage server may fail and you may not be able to start it successfully any more.

When the following window shows, the upgrade is completed successfully.

Chapter 15 NetDisk Explorer

NetDisk Explorer is a Windows client utility for the storage server. It provides a friendly user interface for you to upload or download files between your PC and the storage server. You can manage your file and folders on the storage server.

15.1 Login the storage server

Select “Start  All Programs  Storage Server  NetDisk Explorer” to execute NetDisk Explorer.

All available storage servers in your local network will be listed in the pop-up window. Select your storage server and click “Connect”. If your storage server is not in the list, click “Rescan” to search again. If your storage server is not in your local network (for example, in the Internet) and you know the address of your storage server, you can click “Enter the address manually” to login the storage server.

Enter the User Name and Password of your account in the Login window. Click “Connect” to login the storage server.

Parameters

Description

Address

If you select a storage server from the list in previous step, the address is automatically set. If you select “Enter the address manually” in previous step, then you have to enter the address of your storage server here.

User Name

The user name of your account.

Password

The password of your account.

Remember the

address of this

Storage Server

If you check it, NetDisk Explorer will remember the address of the storage server. Every time when you start NetDisk Explorer, the address of this storage server will be listed in the server list for selection, even when the storage server does not exist in your network during the scanning.

Remember me

on this computer

If you check it, NetDisk Explorer will remember your account for the storage server. Every time when you enter this login window, your account will be in the User Name list for selection.

Remember my

password

If you check it, NetDisk Explorer will remember your password for the storage server. Every time when you enter this login window and use the same user name for login, NetDisk Explorer will automatically fill your password.

Automatically

If you check it, NetDisk Explorer will remember your account and password for this storage server. Every time when you start NetDisk Explorer, it will directly login. This login window will not display.

Start when

Windows start up

If you check it, every time when Windows start up, it will execute NetDisk Explorer automatically.

Select another

Storage Server

Go to the previous step to scan for available storage servers and select a storage server again.

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