Galaxy 3508NAS User Manual

Metal Gear Box NAS User Guide

Index

What is NAS?......................................................................................3

Metal Gear Box NAS Introduction .....................................................4

First time Hardware Installation.......................................................4

Booting up Metal Gear Box NAS........................................................5

Notice: Format Your HDD using Metal Gear Box NAS Disk Utility

format software. .......................................................................11

How to set up Metal Gear Box NAS .................................................12

Identifying and using Metal Gear Box NAS on your network.........14

Entering the system management page.........................................15

1. Manage the Users and Groups ........................................... 16

A. To add a user.............................................................................................. 16

B. To delete a user.......................................................................................... 16

C. To place a user into a group. ..................................................................... 16

2. File Management ................................................................17

A. File Server................................................................................................... 17

B. FTP Server Setting ...................................................................................... 18

C. NFS Server Setting...................................................................................... 18

D. Guest Access Setting.................................................................................. 19

E. Share Management..................................................................................... 20

3. System Settings ..................................................................21

A. Network Setting.......................................................................................... 21

B. Time Setting ............................................................................................... 22

C. Turn Off Server........................................................................................... 22

D. Information................................................................................................. 23

E. Disk Usage.................................................................................................. 23

4. Maintenance ....................................................................... 24

A. Disk Utility .................................................................................................. 24

B. Firmware Upgrade...................................................................................... 24

C. Save Configuration..................................................................................... 25

D. Restore Configuration................................................................................ 25

E. Factory Reset .............................................................................................. 26

Account Management......................................................................26

Log Out............................................................................................26

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What is NAS?

NAS is the abbreviation of Network Attached Storage, which represents a HDD
based storage box can be connected with a RJ-45 network cable. It could be
accessed by all the devices located on the same IP network range, some
advanced version could be also connected by a outside device (i.e. another IP
network range or WWW), and would be identified as an accessible storage disk
through “Network Neighborhood” (Microsoft Windows) /Apple Macintosh OS
or Linux Samba, with user/group privilege setting function equipped, it could
even prevent important data/files from being accessed by unauthorized
people.

Using a NAS, you don’t have to keep your original data-center PC server
operating all day long anymore, a smaller size, more stable, less
power-consumption, less heat, less cost, easier to access device would make
your life more convenient!

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Metal Gear Box NAS Introduction

 What’s the difference?

Metal Gear Box NAS, it’s not only an ease of use network storage, with it’s
integrated USB client chip, it is a dual-function HDD box, users could use it as
a NAS where network connection is available or bring it as a portable HDD
external enclosure, accessing it via its USB 2.0 client jack. This
dual-functionality design gives users a great deal of flexibility to access the
unit anytime, anywhere.

First time Hardware Installation

Content Check List:

Hard disk drive may come pre-installed or leave to user’s integration.

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About the Metal Gear Box NAS Display

System Time

System in NAS Mode

System IP Address

System in USB Mode

System Temperature

System Shutting Down

System Booting Up

System Fan Speed

Available Disk Capacity

System Power On Duration

After system boots up, the IP address assigned to this unit will be displayed for
30 minutes. Then the current system will be displayed. The display will rotate
in the following order:

System Time -> IP Address -> System Temperature -> System Fan Speed ->
Disk Space -> Power On Duration -> Back to System Time

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Booting up Metal Gear Box NAS

 Assembly

1. Put in a hard disk drive, if the Metal Gear Box NAS version you got already

has hard disk drive installed. Please skip this step and jump to step 2.

Open the upper cover of Metal Gear Box NAS through the 2 screws located

in the back end of Metal Gear Box NAS with your hands.

2. Uncover the upper case, take out the HDD rack and fix your HDD onto the

rack with the attached screws.

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3. Put the HDD with the HDD rack back into Metal Gear Box NAS and fix it

with attached screws, cover the upper case up.

4. Using the hand-screwed screws to get the upper case fixed on Metal Gear

Box NAS.

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5. Metal Gear Box NAS equips with SMART User Mode Auto-Detection

function, it could automatically operate under the mode you want to use

(NAS / USB HDD external enclosure) through the cable you are plugging

into：

y If you are plugging the attached RJ-45 cable and power adapter core

into the “LAN” and “DC IN” plugs, Metal Gear Box NAS would boot up
with NAS mode.

y If you are plugging the attached USB cable and power adapter core

into the “USB” and “DC IN” plugs, Metal Gear Box NAS would boot up
with USB HDD external enclosure mode.

y If you are plugging the attached RJ-45 , USB cables and power

adapter core into the “LAN” , “USB” and “DC IN” plugs, Metal Gear Box
NAS would boot up with NAS mode for higher boot-up priority.

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6. Metal Gear Box NAS provides Printer Server function, if you want to use

Metal Gear Box NAS as your printer server in your LAN environment,

please plug the USB cable of the printer into the back end of Metal Gear

Box NAS before you boot up it. After booting up, you can use your

PC/laptop computer to search and add this printer as a Network Printer.

7. Plug the other side of the RJ-45 cable into your PC/laptop or your Ethernet

HUB. (This is very important for Metal Gear Box NAS, when booting up,

Metal Gear Box NAS would automatically detect whether the operation

mode is NAS function or USB hard disk drive external enclosure by

identifying if there’s any activity from RJ-45 network side.)

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8. Plug the other side of the power core into the power plug.

9. Press and hold the power switch at the front panel for at least 3 seconds to

turn on the system power.

(Note: Due to its sophisticated software design, the system may take

up to 3 minutes to boot. During the booting process, the icon

“Booting” on the front panel flashes. When the system finishes

booting, the IP address assigned to this device will be shown on the

display.)

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If you need to restore the default system settings in Metal Gear Box NAS,
please use a sharp-pointed item such as a pen to press the “RESET” button in
the back end of Metal Gear Box NAS when it operates, it would automatically
shut down and boot up again to restore all the default system settings.

Notice: Format Your HDD using the embedded Metal Gear Box NAS
Disk format Utility. After we boot up Metal Gear Box NAS and enter
the administration page, Metal Gear Box NAS would inform us that
our HDD needs to be formatted. (If we’re not using a whole new
HDD here, please go directly to Control Panel -> Maintenance -> Disk
Utility to use Metal Gear Box NAS format tool.) To using Metal Gear
Box NAS as both a NAS and USB 2.0 HDD external enclosure, we need
to format our HDD here into FAT32 file system format, please don’t
use your Windows based PC/laptop to format the HDD, for Windows
embedded format utility could only format a HDD partition no more
than 32GB, it’s quite inconvenient if you’re using a large volume
HDD in Metal Gear Box NAS.

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How to set up Metal Gear Box NAS

1. After Metal Gear Box NAS is booted up, use a web browser (i.e. Microsoft

Internet Explorer) to login Metal Gear Box NAS, there would be some
different steps needed to be taken accordingly.

A. For users have a DHCP server in your network environment, (home

environment with DSL or cable modem router or office

environment…) http://(the IP address shown on the display panel),

for example, http://192.168.1.207

B. For users don’t have a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

based network environment (no internet access or direct

connection to a computer…) please make sure the IP address of your

computer is located in 169.254.X.X range, if not, please change your
original IP address within the 169.254.X.X address range, here, we use

169.254.100.34 for example.

i. For Microsoft Windows users. (we use XP Home/Professional for

your reference here)
♦ Please click “Start”->”Control Panel”->”Network

Connections.”

♦ Right-click the network connection you’re using.
♦ Choose “Properties”->“General” tag, double-left-click Internet

Protocol (TCP/IP) to enter the configuration window

♦ Choose “General”->”Using the following IP address,” set

your PC/NB IP address to 169.254.100.34, Netmask to

255.255.0.0

♦ Click “Ok” twice to complete the setting.
♦ Please jump to step 2 for advanced setting instruction.

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ii. For Apple Macintosh users. (we use OSX for your reference here)

♦ Select the “Open Transport Control Panel” from the “Control

Panels” folder in the “Apple” or open the file directly with this
path. “Local Macintosh Hard Disk”->”System Folder”->”Control
Panels”->”TCP/IP”)The control panel will look like this.

♦ Select “Using Static IP address,” set your PC/NB IP address

to 169.254.100.34, Netmask to 255.255.0.0

♦ Click “Ok” twice to complete the setting.
♦ Please jump to step 2 for advanced setting instruction.

Metal Gear Box NAS also supports Bonjour runs under Mac OSX
Tiger.

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2. Log in Metal Gear Box NAS using its default IP address “169.254.X.X,”

(Non-DHCP based network), if you’re under a DHCP based environment,
use the delivery-attached SearchNAS.exe to find the Metal Gear Box NAS IP
address or directly type the default Network Neighbor name
“\\metalgearboxnas” in your computer’s file manager software to connect
to Metal Gear Box NAS user interface.

Identifying and using Metal Gear Box NAS on your network

After completing the hard disk format procedure, the default enabled
“Anonymous access” function would enable you identify Metal Gear Box NAS
on your windows based “Network Neighborhood.” The default NetBEUI name of
Metal Gear Box NAS is “metalgearboxnas”, you could type
“\\metalgearboxnas” in a file browser and access its anonymous access area
for file exchanging.

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Entering the system management page

Type in the default administrator account and password, the default account
and password are both “admin” to log in, you can see the following screen

If the hard disk drive is not formatted, user will be asked to format the hard
drive.

(Special Note: even the hard drive is preformatted in other system
and contains data, the disk will not be recognized until the system
performs it own format process. All data will be deleted. Please
backup the data to some other places before proceeding, or get a
brand new hard disk drive)

For the first time setup, just complete the six-step wizard to get the system up
and running.

To access the storage space, type \\MetalGearBoxNAS under Network Places.

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1. Manage the Users and Groups

You could manage the user accounts through “Control Panel”->“Users and
Groups”.

A. To add a user.

i. Fill in the desired new user account and password (twice for

confirming), you could decide whether the Private folder would be
created or not, and enable/disable the disk quota.

The “Disk Quota” function are not supported by using FAT32

format HDD.

ii. Click “Save” to create the account.

B. To delete a user.

i. Click on the account you want to delete from the “Existing Users”

list.

ii. Click the “Delete User” on the bottom and click “Yes” to delete.

C. To place a user into a group.

i. If you want to file an account into an existed Group, click the

account in the “Existing Users” list and click “Groups” on the bottom,
the screen would show the current existing Groups, you could use
“Add” or “Remove” to manage the account adopting Groups level
privileges, click “Save” to finish the Group setting.

P.S. You could manage your groups in the same way to add/remove

an account.

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2. File Management

Metal Gear Box NAS is a sharing center for you to share your data, files,
music, movies with authorized users by your own. Here you can set the
related information for your Metal Gear Box NAS to be recognized on the
intranet where it operates.

A. File Server

Through File Server settings, you could decide what and how the users
created on Metal Gear Box NAS to access it.

i. Windows Setting.

ii. You could “enable” this setting to let Metal Gear Box NAS be

recognized by other Microsoft Windows based PC/NB through the
“Networking Neighborhood.” Just set Metal Gear Box NAS into the
same “Workgroup” as your PC/NB, then it could be identified
automatically as a computer/device by your PC/NB when you try to
explore any new computer through “Networking Neighborhood.” If
you have a WINS server operating in your intranet, simply fill its IP
address into the “WINS Server” column.

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B. FTP Server Setting

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method for you to use FTP client logging
into Metal Gear Box NAS and upload/download files. You could
enable/disable the service here by check/uncheck the square and
specify the transfer port (FTP default transfer port is 21, while it’s often
attacked by hackers, we provide you the flexibility to change the port,
100~65535 would be recommended.)

C. NFS Server Setting

NFS (Network File System) is a service supported by Linux based system
to let users access the other devices through network. Metal Gear Box
NAS supports NFS service so you can enable/disable it by
check/uncheck the square here.

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D. Guest Access Setting

What if someone doesn’t have an account on Metal Gear Box NAS but
wants to access it? You could enable/disable the Guest Access funct ion
to allow/forbid anonymous users entering Metal Gear Box NAS,
furthermore, the “Enable Quota” function could let you limit the storage
capacity assigned for anonymous users. The “Disk Quota” function

are not supported by using FAT32 format HDD.

To complete the setting, please click “Save” at the bottom to implement
the changes you’ve made.

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E. Share Management

Share Management including the functions to manage “how” you share
the data/files stored on Metal Gear Box NAS.
i. You could simply create a Share Name and specify the actual path in

your Metal Gear Box NAS, add a description on it.

ii. Click “Windows, FTP Access” to grant the share you’ve created from

being able to be accessed through Microsoft Windows Network
Neighborhood and other FTP clients.

iii. Click “NFS Access” to grant the share you’ve created from being able

to be accessed through NFS service clients.

iv. If you want to delete a share folder, select it from the “Existing

Shares” list and click “Delete Share” at the bottom.

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3. System Settings

Here come some settings for you to acquire the related information of
Metal Gear Box NAS.

A. Network Setting

Metal Gear Box NAS can automatically get its IP address under a DHCP
based network environment, or it would operate with a default IP
address 169.254.X.X. And you could change the IP address related
settings here.
i. Hostname. This is what Metal Gear Box NAS would be identified in

your network.
ii. IP Address Setting.
iii. The IP address related settings (DHCP/Static IP) and the DNS settings

could be set up here.
iv. You could also see the MAC address of Metal Gear Box NAS here,

sometimes you would need this information to set up Metal Gear

Box NAS in your network environment.
v. Click “Save” to store the settings.

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B. Time Setting

You could manually set the time settings used by Metal Gear Box NAS
or specify an existed NTP (Network Time Protocol) server in the
Internet, it would automatically help you correct the time on Metal
Gear Box NAS (NTP function could ONLY work under the network
environment which could connect onto Internet for correcting Metal
Gear Box NAS time)

C. Turn Off Server

This function enables you to Restart or Turn off Metal Gear Box NAS
through remote side, simply click “Restart” or “Turn off” to execute
the functions.

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D. Information

Here you could get the Metal Gear Box NAS related information,
including the product name, model, firmware version for upgrading
reference, hardware version, and the current IP address it uses.

E. Disk Usage

Through this function, you could check the left capacity and the usage
percentage of the HDD storage in Metal Gear Box NAS. You could view
it from the whole HDD view or a single user usage view by selecting it
from the up-right side roll-down menu.

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4. Maintenance

A. Disk Utility

“Disk Utility” enables you to format or execute scandisk function. You
could format the HDD in Metal Gear Box NAS with ext2/ext3/FAT32
format.

Microsoft NTFS format is not supported in Metal Gear Box NAS.

If you want to use Metal Gear Box NAS as a USB 2.0 external

enclosure for Windows systems, please format the HDD with

FAT32 format, for ext2/ext3 could be recognized only for

UNIX/Linux based systems.

B. Firmware Upgrade

You could upgrade the firmware from here. If you’re not using a
certified file for upgrading and results in the damage of Metal Gear
Box NAS, would charge the customer for the RMA service.

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C. Save Configuration

You could backup the settings you’ve done on Metal Gear Box NAS
onto your PC/NB by this function, click “Save” and choose the
destination where you want to store the configuration settings on
your PC/NB and click “OK” to download it.

D. Restore Configuration

If you want to restore the settings, click “Browse” to locate the
previous configuration settings backup you’ve made and click
“Restore” to execute the restore process.

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E. Factory Reset

would reset all the settings on your Metal Gear Box “Factory Reset”
NAS back into the factory default value, please make sure you’ve
made all the necessary information/data backed up.

Account Management

the preferred user interface language,

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You could change the password, choose
get the account related storage usage information by entering “Personal Info”.

Only an “Admin” account can access the Metal Gear Box NAS system

related configuration (Control Panel) for setting up it, a single user

account can only enter “Personal Info” area for password changing a

getting storage usage information.

Log Out

eep unknown users accessing Metal Gear Box Remember to click “Log out” to k

NAS using your account.

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