NETGEAR ReadyNAS Setup Manual

ReadyNAS Setup Manual

NETGEAR, Inc.

4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA

October 2007 208-10163-01 v1.0

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ReadyNAS Setup Manual

Installing the RAIDar Utility

Installing RAIDar on Windows ........................................................................................1-1

Installing RAIDar on MAC OS X .....................................................................................1-1

Installing RAIDar on Linux ..............................................................................................1-2

Detecting Your ReadyNAS Device ........... .... ... ...............................................................1-2

Using the FrontView Setup Wizard

Setting the Clock ...................................... .... ... .......................................... .....................1-8

Configuring Alert Contacts ..............................................................................................1-8

Configuring Networking ..................................................................................................1-9

Ethernet Settings .................................... ... ... ... ... .... ... ... ... .... ... ..................................1-9

Global Settings ... .......................................... ... ... .... .......................................... ... ...1-10

Setting Up Security ....................................... ................................................................1-11

Administration Password ........................................................................................1-11

Security Mode ........................................................................................................1-12

Setting Up File Sharing Services ..................................................................................1-13

Standard File Protocols ... ... ... .... ... ... ... .......................................... .... ... ... ... ... .... ... ...1-13

Streaming Services ................................................................................................1-15

Setting up Shares ........ .......................................... ... .... ... ... ... .... ... ................................1-16

Share List ..................................................... ... .......................................... .............1-16

Add Shares ............................................................................................................1-17

Setting Up Printers .......................................................................................................1-18

Registering Your Product ................. ... ... ... .... ... ... ... ... .......................................... .... ... ...1-18

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Installing the RAIDar Utility

This Setup Manual provides instructions for connecting the ReadyNAS to your network (

“Installing the RAIDar Utility” on page 1) and for configuring the device for your network (see “Using the FrontV iew Setup Wizard” on page 5). Before installing the RAIDar Utility , please note

that:

• RAIDar, a utility used for discovering the ReadyNAS device on your network, is located on the ReadyNAS Installation CD. RAIDar is useful in environments where the ReadyNAS obtains a random DHCP IP address.

• RAIDar runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and takes up approximately 40MB of disk space after installation.

• Your client system must reside on the same IP address subnet.

Installing RAIDar on Windows

Load the Installation CD. Follow the installation wizard to install RAIDar. (If the Autorun installation utility does not start automatically, double-click Autorun.exe to start the installation.)

Installing RAIDar on MAC OS X

1. Load the Installation CD, open the Mac RAIDar Setup folder and double-click

Setup_Mac.dmg to start the installation. The RAIDar Installer icon will display on your desktop.

2. Double-click the icon and follow the installer instructions to install RAIDar.

Alternatively, you can install a thin RAIDar widget for your Dashboard. You can download this widget from the NETGEAR support at: http://www.netgear.com/support.

Installing RAIDar on Linux

Log in as root. Load the Installation CD, open the Linux RAIDar setup folder , and double-click on Setup_Linux.sh to start the installation.

If you have problems running RAIDar under Linux:

• To discover the IP address of ReadyNAS, open a terminal session and type nmblookup -R VOLUME. If you have a ReadyNAS with an LCD (such as the ReadyNAS NV+), press the power button once to display the IP address.

• T o connect to the FrontView Setup Wizard, open a browser, and use the returned IP address to enter http://<ipaddr>/admin. Then, go to Step 2 in“Detecting Your ReadyNAS Device” on

page 2.

• If you already have an existing workgroup or domain in your environment, ReadyNAS will try to locate that name. If VOLUME does not work, try using the workgroup/domain name used on your network in the nmblookup command.

Detecting Your ReadyNAS Device

Before using the RAIDar utility to detect your device, power on ReadyNAS and wait for it to boot up (approximately 2 minutes).

If you are connecting a PC directly to ReadyNAS (and not through a network), first set a static IP address on your PC in the 192.168.168.xxx subnet, subnet mask

255.255.255.0. You can then use RAIDar to detect ReadyNAS, or open a browser and enter the ReadyNAS default IP Address of https://192.168.168.168/admin.

To detect your ReadyNAS device:

1. Invoke RAIDar by clicking on the RAIDar icon on your desktop. Your ReadyNAS device will

be detected when the device has successfully booted and has started a network connection. If you have multiple ReadyNAS devices on your network, match the MAC Address of the system to the address listed on the back of your ReadyNAS device.

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Figure 1

2. Select the device and click Browse to access the default share called backup. The backup

share can be used as a big repository for your data and to backup your data.

Figure 2

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The ReadyNAS is configured for anonymous guest access unless otherwise specified. Access to the backup share is granted to anyone by default, but this can be changed on the security setup page through the Setup Wizard.

If your client has a static IP address, make sure it is on the same IP address subnet as the ReadyNAS device. You can do this by configuring your client to obtain its IP address via DHCP. Even if your network does not have existing DHCP service, the ReadyNAS device will assure that you will get an IP address.

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