Edimax Technology NS-2502 User Manual

Introduction ................................................................................................... 3

Features ......................................................................................................... 3

Minimum Requirements ............................................................................... 3

Package Contents ......................................................................................... 3

Understand your storage server .................................................................. 4

Back Panel ..................................................................................................... 4

Front Panel .................................................................................................... 5

Getting started ............................................................................................... 7

Chapter 1 ..................................................................................................... 14

Status ........................................................................................................... 14

Chapter 2 ..................................................................................................... 15

Quick Setup ................................................................................................. 15

2.1 Password ............................................................................................... 15

2.2 Network .................................................................................................. 15

2.3 Storage Server Name ............................................................................ 16

2.4 Turn on Functions ................................................................................. 16

2.5 Time Zone .............................................................................................. 17

2.6 Confirm Settings ................................................................................... 18

2.7 Apply Settings ....................................................................................... 18

2.8 Shared folders automatically created by Quick Setup ...................... 19

Chapter 3 ..................................................................................................... 20

Basic ............................................................................................................ 20

3.1 Time Zone .............................................................................................. 20

3.2 Password ............................................................................................... 21

Chapter 4 ..................................................................................................... 22

Network ........................................................................................................ 22

Chapter 5 ..................................................................................................... 24

File/FTP Server ............................................................................................ 24

5.1 Users ...................................................................................................... 24

Add a New User ........................................................................................... 25

5.2 Groups ................................................................................................... 26

Add a New Group ........................................................................................ 27

5.3 File Server .............................................................................................. 27

Add/Edit Shared Folder .............................................................................. 29

Open Dialog ................................................................................................. 30

5.4 FTP Server ............................................................................................. 31

Add/Edit FTP Folder .................................................................................... 32

Open Dialog ................................................................................................. 32

Chapter 6 ..................................................................................................... 34

BT Download ............................................................................................... 34

Add BT Torrent ............................................................................................ 35

Advanced Setting ........................................................................................ 36

Chapter 7 ..................................................................................................... 38

Web/FTP Download ..................................................................................... 38

Chapter 8 ..................................................................................................... 40

Download Manager ..................................................................................... 40

Start Download Manager ............................................................................ 40

Search for storage server .......................................................................... 40

Manage download items ............................................................................ 41

Add a download item .................................................................................. 42

Main menu ................................................................................................... 44

Tray Icon ...................................................................................................... 46

Chapter 9 ..................................................................................................... 47

iTunes Server .............................................................................................. 47

Chapter 10 ................................................................................................... 50

Media Server ................................................................................................ 50

Chapter 11 .................................................................................................... 52

Tools ............................................................................................................. 52

11.1 Storage Tools ....................................................................................... 52

Auto Partition & Format ............................................................................. 53

Add a Partition ............................................................................................ 54

11.2 Storage Status ..................................................................................... 55

11.3 USB Copy ............................................................................................. 56

11.4 Configuration Tools ............................................................................ 57

11.5 Firmware Upgrade ............................................................................... 58

11.6 Reset .................................................................................................... 59

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 one internal SATA hard disk drive

- 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 CD

- One Power Adapter

- Accessories

Understand your storage server Back Panel

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

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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

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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.

z 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.

z 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”.

z 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.

z 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.

z 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.

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.

LED

Power

LAN

Status

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Light

Status

ON Storage server is powered on

Off Storage server is shut down

Slow

Flashing

ON LAN port is connected

Off LAN port is unconnected

Flashing Data is transferring through the network

ON The storage server is working well

Off

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.

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

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

Description

USB1

ON USB storage device is connected to USB1 port

USB storage device is not connected to USB1 port or is not

Off

Slow

Flashing

Fast

Flashing

detected due to hard disk failure or the system is doing partition/format on this hard disk drive.

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.

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).

ON USB storage device is connected to USB2 port

USB storage device is not connected to USB2 port or is not

Off

detected due to hard disk failure or the system is doing partition/format on this hard disk drive.

USB2

HDD

Slow

Flashing

Fast

Flashing

ON Internal SATA hard disk drive is installed

Off

Slow

Flashing

Fast

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.

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).

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.

The used space of the internal SATA hard disk drive is over 95%.

The internal SATA hard disk drive is full.

Getting started

This is a step-by-step instruction on how to start using the storage server.

1) Pull out the disk drawer from the case of storage server as shown in the setup diagram below.

2) Fix your SATA hard disk driver in the drawer by screws as shown in the setup diagram below.

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

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 Wizard utility to do the basic setup. Please refer to Quick Installation Guide; (2) Use the Web-based GUI to do the advanced setup, just go to the next step.

The disk drawer is not safely installed

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 your 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 the description for using download manager.

based Download Manager utility can automatically search for storage servers and let you manage the web/FTP/BT download items.

The Windows-

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.

Tools (Chapter 11)

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.

Chapter 1

Status

This page displays the status and basic information of the storage server, you should see the screen below.

Parameter Description

System Time Current system time.

MAC Address The MAC address of this storage server.

Firmware Version The version of storage server firmware.

Server Name

Workgroup The My Network Places group this file server will join.

Description

IP Address

Subnet Mask

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

The description of this storage server. The IP address used by this storage server in your network. The IP Subnet Mask of your LAN segment.

Gateway The gateway IP address of your network.

Chapter 2

Quick Setup

Quick Setup will guide your through the basic settings of the storage server step by step. When you click “Quick Setup” in the left menu, a Quick Setup window will pop 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.

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