Niveo Professional NNAS-R8 User Manual

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NNAS-R8 Quick Installation Guide

2. Disk Trays 1 ~ 8

3. LCD Display

A. Identifying Parts of the NAS System

Front View

1. HDD Status Indicator

Part

HDD Activity LED

HDD Status LED

Function

This LED will blink blue when the hard drive is being accessed.

Green LED indicates power is on and hard drive status is good
for this slot. If hard drive is defective or failed, the LED is Red.
LED is off when there is no hard drive.

- shows NAS Model Name and LAN0 IP

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4. Smart Function Front Panel – for NAS System Configuration and Information

The smart LCD front panel is an op t ion to configure or show information of NAS system.
If you are configuring the system using the LCD front panel, press the S elect button to login
(LCD login password is 0 0 000000).

Parts Function

Exit button EXIT Press this button to return to the previous menu.

Select button This is used to enter the option you have selected.

Up and Down
Arrow buttons

information on the LCD screen. This is also used to move
between each menu when you configure the subsystem.

Use the Up or Down arrow keys to go through the

Rear View

1. Power Input Socket - Use this to connect the power cord connected from power source.

2. Power Supply – The NAS system has one supply.

3. USB Ports – The NAS system has two USB 2.0 ports.

4. LAN0 and LAN1 Gigabit ports – The NAS system has two Gigabit data ports. LAN0 is also
used for connecting to the NAS management GUI.

5. VGA Port – The NAS system has VGA port for connecting a VGA monitor.

6. Keyboard - The NAS system has PS/2 keyboard port for connecting PS/2 keyboard.

7. COM1 – The NAS system has one serial port.

8. Mute – Use this button to mute the alarm when a PSU fails in Redundant Mode.

9. PSU Power Fail Led – The LED will turn red when a PSU fails in Redundant Mode.

10. Toggle Switch - This is used to change the power supply mode, from Single Mode to
Redundant Mode, and vice versa.

B. Preparing and Using the NAS System

1. Connect power cord to Power Input Socket, and connect LAN cable (LAN cable for LAN0 is
required, while LAN1 is optional).

2. Prepare all disk drives and install in the disk trays. Insert the disk trays in the NAS system.

3. Power on the NAS by pressing the Power On/Off Switch on the front side.

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I. How to Connect to NAS Management GUI

NOTE: Java Runtime Environment must have been installed in the client computer. The

default IP address of LAN0 (eth0) is 172.16.0.1, subnet mask 255.255.0.0. The LAN0
IP address is shown in the LCD display panel.
Java can be downloaded from http://www.java.com/en/download/

1. Enable network connection from your client computer to NAS system IP address 172.16.0.1, if
not yet done, such as add an IP address 172.16.0.5 subnet 255.255.0.0 in your client computer.

2. To open NAS management GUI in client computer, open web browser and enter

http://172.16.0.1 in the address bar.

3. Click “Admin Login”. When Java prompts for a Security Warning, select Start.

4. In the Logon dialog box, enter “admin” in the Account box and “00000000” in the Password
box. Press Logon.

5. The proNAS main screen will be displayed.

II. How to Create Raid Set

Using Raid Manager

1. Select Raid Manager in NAS

GUI.

2. Select “Raid Set List” tab.

Then click “Create”.

3. Select the disk drives to be included in the Raid Set.

Select/change the RAID Level, if necessary. Click “OK”
button when done.

NOTE: The default Raid Set Name for first Raid Set is

“RAID00”.
The Quick Initialize option is selected by default,
which means the Raid Set (RAID disk) will be
quickly initialized and the Status will show
“Normal”. If this option is disabled, the Raid Set
will go through the initialization process and
Status will show the percentage of initialization
until finished.

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4. Click “Yes” to confirm.

5. The Raid Set will be created

and shown in Raid Set List.
The Status will show Normal.

6. The NAS system will be able to detect the newly created Raid Set (RAID disk device), such as

/dev/sdb, in Volume Manager. If the disk device is not shown, click “Refresh” button in Volume
Manager.

III. How to Join New Disk to proNASVG in Volume Manager

1. Double-click the NAS node name and navigate down to Volume Manager until proNASVG.

2. In proNASVG, click “Join New Disk”.

3. From the “Available Disk(s)” list, select a Non_Initialized disk (for example: /dev/sdb). Click
“OK”.

NOTE: The disk /dev/sdb is the Raid Set you created in proNAS Raid Manager.

4. Click “Yes” to confirm. Click “Yes” again to join disk.

5. ProNASVG will be initialized. The NAS will reboot to free some system memory and a message
will be displayed. Click “OK” to close the message.

6. Re-login to NAS management GUI after about 3 minutes. When the disk is successfully joined,
the default Logical Volumes “home” and “public” will be shown in the Volume List.

IV. How to Change LAN0 (eth0) IP Address

1. Navigate down to Network Manager. The main screen is the Network tab.

2. Click “Edit” then select “eth0” in the Adapter List.

3. Change the IP Address, Gateway, and Subnet Mask applicable to your network environment.
Click “Save” when done.

4. Click “OK” to confirm. The new network settings will be updated for a while.

5. Close the NAS management GUI and use the new IP address in the web browser, then login
again.

V. How to Create Logical Volume and Share

1. Under Volume Manager, select proNASVG.

2. Click “Create New Volume”.

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3. In the LV Configuration screen, enter the LV name (e.g. vol1) and the LV capacity in the
“Used/Total Size” box (check the Free Volume Group Size for the available capacity), and click
“Save”.

4. Select Share Manager. Click “Add New Share”.

5. Enter the Share Name (e.g. data1), select “proNASVG” in Volume Group, select LV name (“vol1”)
in Volume. Click “Save”. The share “data1” is created.

NOTE: The share name, such as “data1”, is the share folder accessible in the network.

By default, share folders are accessible from Windows clients (CIFS protocol is enabled and
Samba service is running) using local NAS accounts. And local NAS accounts have access
permission to share folders.

VII. How to Join the NAS to Windows AD Domain or NIS Domain

A. Authentication via Windows

Active Directory

Sample Steps to Join the NAS to
Windows AD Domain:

1. Select Network Manager. In
Network Manager –> Network tab,
click “Edit” to configure network
settings.

2. Change the default proNAS Host
Name if there are other proNAS
systems in the network. Enter the
Windows Domain name in
“Domain/Workgroup”. For example:
MYDOMAIN

3. Enter the DNS Suffix. The DNS
suffix is the name appended to the
server name to complete the
server’s FQDN. This includes the
domain name. For example:
MYDOMAIN.LOCAL

4. Enter the DNS Server and WINS Server (IP address) as necessary.

5. Click “Save” to update changes.

6. Select Account Manager. In
Account Manager –> Windows
Authentication, click “Edit”.

7. Tick “Enable Domain
Authentication” option.

8. If the Domain Server IP is not
detected (not shown), you can
manually specify the Domain
Server IP by removing the check
mark in “Automatic Detect Domain
IP” and entering the Domain
Server IP address.

9. Enter the Domain Administrator
Account and Password. NOTE: No

need to include “domain-name\” in
Domain Administrator Account.

10. Select the Domain Server mode
(PDC or ADS).

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11. If needed, change the encryption
type to the same type used by your
domain server.

12. Click “Save”. The NAS will be joined
to Windows Domain in a while.

13. To verify, select Account under
Account Manager; the domain
accounts should be shown. You can
also verify group accounts in Group
List.

B. Authentication via NIS

Sample Steps to Join the NAS to NIS
Domain:

1. Under Account Manager, select NIS
Authentication tab. Click Edit.

2. Check the Enable NIS Authentication
option. Enter the NIS Domain name
(e.g.: TESTDOM.LOCAL) and NIS
Server IP address or FQDN. Click
Save when done.

3. Click Account under Account
Manager to verify that the NIS
Accounts are listed in the Account
List, or select Group to display the
NIS Groups in the Group List.

VIII. How to Assign Share

Permission to Domain Users,
or Groups, or Limit Access to
Selected IP Range

Sample Steps to Assign User
Account Permission to Share:

1. Select Share Manager. Select the
share name where account will be

giver permission, and click Privilege
tab.

2. Click “Edit”. Select Account tab.

3. Select the account name that will be
given permission and click “ADD”.

NOTE: When account name is
selected, it will be highlighted. If you
want to select more than one
account at the same time, press
“Shift” key then click the accounts
you want to add to Permission list.

4. In the Permission list, modify the
permission, either Read-Only (no
check mark in “Write” box) or
Read/Write (both “Read” and “Write”
boxes have check marks).

5. Click “Save”.

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Sample Steps to Assign Group Account Permission to Share:

1. Select Share Manager. Select the share name where account will be giver permission, and click
Privilege tab.

2. Click “Edit”. Select Group tab.

3. Select the group account that will be given permission and click “ADD”. NOTE: When group

account name is selected, it will be highlighted. If you want to select more than one group
account at the same time, press “Shift” key, click the groups you want to add to Permission list.

4. In the Permission list, modify the permission, either Read-Only (no check mark in “Write” box)
or Read/Write (both “Read” and “Write” boxes have check marks).

5. Click Save.

Sample Steps to Limit Share Access
to Selected IP Range:

1. Select Share Manager. Select the
share name where account will be
giver permission, and click Privilege
tab.

2. Click “Edit”. Select IP Address tab.

NOTE: BY default, all IP addresses
(*.*.*.*) have Read/Write access to
the NAS. If you restrict NAS access
from specific IP range, only the
selected IP range can access the NAS.
Group Permission or User Account
Permission is still needed to be
assigned in order for users to gain
access to the share folder.

3. To remove *.*.*.*, select “*.*.*.*”
from Permission list and click
“REMOVE”.

4. To add an IP range, enter the IP range (e.g.: 192.168.1.*) in the “IP Address” box, check the
“Write” box to assign Read-Write access if necessary, and click “ADD”.

5. Click “Save” when done.

Steps to Make a Share Folder a
Public Folder Accessible to All Users:

NOTE: It is not recommended to set

a Share as a Public Share folder. Any
local NAS account or Windows/NIS
domain account (if NAS is joined to
the domain) can login to the share
with Read/Write privilege.

1. Select Share Manager. Select the
share name that will be made
accessible to all users.

2. In the Properties tab, click “Edit”.
Select (tick) the “Public (777)” option.

3. Click “Save”.

NOTE: If you need to reassign ACL,
click “Edit” button, enable (check) the “ACL Support” option, and “Save”. The “Public (777)”
option will be automatically deselected or disabled.