Verbatim NAS HARD DRIVE User Manual

NAS Hard Drive

User Guide

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INTRODUCTION 3

CONTROLS, CONNECTORS AND INDICATORS

Front Panel Area

Rear Panel Area 4

T THE HARD DISK 5

LOCATING NAS DRIVE ON YOUR DESK 5

BUNDLED

FTWARE 6

Finder.exe 6

Backup Software 6

TorrentFlux 6

NNECTING TO YOUR NETWORK

ABOUT NAS DRIVE USER A

NNECTING THE NAS DRIVE TO YOUR LAN

WEB-BASED ADMINISTRATION TOOL 1

Administration Login 1

Basic Settings for Initial Setup 12

NAS DRIVE OPERATION 18

HARING FILES USING WINDOWS 18

Run Dialogue 1

Browse Network Neighborhood 1

Search Dialogue 1

Browse My Computer 1

SHARING FILES USING MAC OS X 20

ATTACHING USB DEVICES 20

Attaching a Printer 20

Attaching a USB Storage Device 2

NAS ADMINISTRATION REFERENCE 22

AND GROUPS 25

User Management 25

Group Management 26

FILE AND PRINT

File Server 2

Share Management 28

Printer Server 2

TEM 3

LAN Settings 3

Time Settings 3

Turn Off Server 3

Information 3

Disk Usage 3

Error Notiﬁ cation 3

NETWORK SERVICE 32

DHCP Server 32

Bonjour 3

iTunes Server 3

Media Server 3

TorrentFlux 36

MAINTENANCE 38

Disk Utility 38

Firmware Upgrade 4

Save Conﬁ guration 4

Restore Conﬁ guration 4

Factory Reset

Install New Service 4

LOG FILE 42

Samba Log 42

FTP Log 42

DHCP Server Log 42

System Log 42

Administration Log 43

NT INFORMATION 4

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TECHNICAL SUPPORT 43

LIMITED WARRANTY TERM

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MPLIANCE 45

E DECLARATION - EC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY 4

ROHS COMPLIANCE 46

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Introduction

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our Verbatim Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive is a versatile external hard drive featuring

erformance storage with an Ethernet interface. Once your drive is connected properly to

our network, you will be able to use it as you would any hard drive for storing your data and for

erforming data back-up functions.

efore you begin to use the NAS drive there are a few important things to learn about your new

uct.

Controls, Connectors and Indicator

First familiarize yourself with the control keys and the various connectors on the unit.

ront Panel Are

he front panel contains only the status LED, as illustrated below.

1. The green LED will come on to indicate the power-on state. During the power down sequence, the LED will down in an orderl turned o

ash for about 15 seconds while the drive’s internal software shuts

fashion. The LED will then turn off to indicate that the drive is now full

ar Panel Area

described above.

Along the rear panel you will ﬁ nd the interface connectors and a recessed micro-switch that is

or reset functions. Refer to the ﬁ gure below.

used

1. ON/OFF Button. Once the AC Adapter has been properly connected to the NAS drive and n AC outlet, you can press the ON/OFF button to power on the drive. To turn off the drive,

ress the ON/OFF button again. The LED will ﬂ ash for about 15 seconds while the drive shuts

wn as

2. DC Input Connector. Connect the DC cable of your included AC Adapter to the DC Input

onnector

. Ethernet Connector. Use this connector to attach to your network equipment. The connector

ntains status LEDs to indicate communications status.

4. USB-A Connectors (2 each). Use either of these connectors for attaching a USB printer, USB

ash disk, or other USB storage device

. Reset Button. If the NAS drive is having a problem connecting to the local area network (LAN)

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or appears to be hung, press the reset button momentarily using the end o will cause the unit to reset, similar to rebootin

nsure of current settings (such as forgetting your administration password), press and hold

n the Reset button for 5 seconds. This will restore the factory default settings.

6. Fan. The fan is desi ises above the thermal set point. To allow for adequate air ﬂ ow take care not to block the

ir vents. Since the spinning disk will generate heat even when no data is being transferred, you can help to prevent the s

in-down time (see later under NAS Administration Reference / Advanced / Maintenance /

Disk Utility).

ned to turn on for added cooling whenever the internal temperature

an from remaining on needlessly by shortening the disk

our PC. If the problem persists, or if you are

a paper clip. This

About the Hard Dis

he NAS drive internal hard disk comes pre-formatted in EXT2 format for immediate use for

network storage.

Note: Capacity dependent on model. 1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes / 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes / 1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.

ome capacity used for pre-loaded software, formatting and other functions, and thus is not available for data storage. As a result, nd due to differing calculation methods, your operating systems may report as fewer megabytes/gigabytes/ terabytes

Your product’s hard drive is a complex electronic storage system and should be handled with care, as you might treat a sensitive portable computer or other state-o product. Do not subject it to shock, high temperatures, or strong magnetic

To extend the useful life of your NAS drive, turn the unit OFF when not in use.

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Locating NAS Drive on Your Des

Place the NAS drive on a sturdy desk or table that is free from clutter that could block airﬂ ow aroun

e unit.

Bundled Software

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he included CD-ROM contains copies of the User Guide, as well as three software applications:

1) Finder.exe, 2) Nero backu

software and 3) TorrentFlux

inder.exe

his is a Windows application that can locate all Verbatim NAS drives on your LAN and display the corresponding IP address o client Windows computer and double-click on the ﬁ le to launch it

each drive. To run this application, copy the Finder.exe ﬁ le to your

ackup Software

ero backup software is included on CD-ROM. To install this application on one of your client Windows com start insta

tware. To backup ﬁ les to your NAS drive using Nero, you must ﬁ rst assign a drive letter to your

so destination

Browse My Computer

uters, open the Nero folder on the CD and then double click the setupx ﬁ le to

ation. The Nero Installation window will appear. Follow the setup wizard to install the

older, as described later under NAS Drive Operation / Sharing ﬁ les using Windows

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orrentFlux is an implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. Installation of this optional network

service is described later in NAS Administration Reference / Advanced / Maintenance / Install

ew Service.

Connecting to your networ

nstalling the NAS drive requires that you have an available Ethernet port on a router or switch. Use

e supplied CAT-6 Ethernet cable to connect your NAS drive to your LAN. Power up your router (or

thernet switch) ﬁ rst, and then power up the NAS drive. The ﬁ gure below provides one example of

a typical LAN con

guration

efore attempting to establish a connection to the network it would be useful ﬁ rst to review some

background information about how the NAS drive handles data over the network. Basic to this understandin

are the fundamental concepts of user accounts and shared folders

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he NAS drive keeps track of data stored by its network users by managing the data’s destination

older (also referred to herein as a “shared folder” or simply a “share”). Furthermore, the NAS drive must kee user accounts and groups. A group is a collection of speciﬁ c user accounts. When you assign access privileges to a new share you have the option o user accounts, or

he default factory settings provide for two pre-deﬁ ned user accounts, each with their own

unique properties. These user accounts are

• admi

• guest-share

ach of these two user accounts has an associated pre-deﬁ ned folder. The name of the folder is

he same as its associated user account. The name “guest-share” also happens to be pre-deﬁ ned

roup name. Additionally, there is a pre-deﬁ ned folder called “public” that initially is not

as a associate

track of who may read from, and write to, each folder. It does this by setting u

either making assignments for individual

or an entire group of users at once by referring to the group’s name

with any user account. These properties are summarized in the table below.

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ere are other initial properties of these pre-deﬁ ned groups, accounts, and shares:

• The folder “public” can be accessed by anyone on the LAN who has set up a user account.

ccess to this folder requires authentication using your user name and password

• The folder “guest-share” can be accessed by anyone on the LAN, even if they have not set up

user account. Access to this folder does not require entering a user name and password.

This

older can also be accessed by anonymous FTP

• The group @guest-share contains two members, which are user “admin” and user “guest

hare”.

• The folder “admin” is a private folder for user “admin”. This means only user “admin” can

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ccess this folder.

By using the web-based administration tool you can modi

Before you can begin storing data (other than as user “admin” or as an anonymous user to the

uest-share folder), you must use the web-based administration tool to setup a new user account

that deﬁ nes

roperties for your user account. For example, each user can optionally be given their own rivate folder, which is automatically assigned the same name as that user’s User Name. A user an also be given read-only-privileges, or read/write-privileges, to other folders on the drive.

our User Name and Password. Furthermore, you have the option to deﬁ ne other

y these initial properties

Connecting the NAS Drive to Your LA

Now that you have some understanding of user accounts, you are ready to connect your NAS

rive to the LAN. Follow these steps.

1. Ensure that

2. We recommended that you follow the directions of your LAN equipment to enable a Dynamic Host Conﬁ

ocumentation as “Assign IP addresses automatically”

3. Since you will administer the NAS drive settings using a web browser on your PC or Mac, ensure t

4. Connect the included CAT-6 Ethernet cable from the Ethernet Ethernet switch (100 Base-T or 1000 Base-T), or a wired or wireless router. Make sure that the NAS

. Connect the included AC Adapter to the NAS drive, and then to a wall outlet.

6. Press the ON/OFF button on the rear of the NAS drive. The front green LED will come on to

ndicate that the unit is now powered on.

7. Wait for the NAS drive to boot up and to auto-conﬁ gure its connection on the network. Depending on your particular LAN con The followin

etwork settings:

our LAN equipment is powered on and that the LAN is operating properly.

uration Protocol (DHCP) server. This may be referenced in your equipment’s

at this PC or Mac is powered on and connected to the LAN.

ort on the NAS drive to an

rive and the client computer are on the same subnet domain (e.g., 192.168.1.x)

guration and settings, this may take several minutes.

rotocols will be followed during auto-conﬁ guration, depending on current

. DHCP client is enabled by default. Therefore, your router or other LAN equipment that

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s providing the DHCP service will automatically assign an IP address to the NAS drive and

omplete the network connection.

. If no DHCP server is available on your isolated network, then the auto-negotiation

process will proceed in one o

two ways, depending on whether Bonjour protocol is enabled r disabled. Bonjour protocol is built-in to recent Mac OS X systems, and can also be ptionally installed on Windows systems.

i. A

le Bonjour protocol is enabled by default. In this case if you are connecting to an isolated Bonjour-enabled network and no DHCP server is present, your NAS drive will ne

otiate an address within the Bonjour range of 169.254.x.x. If you want to determine

he speciﬁ c address within this range, you can use the network “ping” function to “ping

erbatimnas” or “ping verbatimnas.local”. Alternatively, if you have a PC on the LAN, ou can run the included Finder.exe utility (provided to you on CD) to determine the

ii. If the NAS drive has been previously accessed in order to disable Bonjour and you are now connectin

to a network with no DHCP server present, then a different auto

negotiation takes place. In this case the NAS drive will automatically launch its internal

HCP server. This will result in the NAS drive taking the default IP address of 192.168.1.1

and will also assi

n addresses (in the range of 192.168.1.2-50) to other DHCP clients on

network .

8. After successfull

connecting to your network you will be able to see the NAS drive on your etwork. Its default name is “verbatimnas” and it will be located in the network workgroup amed “Workgroup”. In Windows go to My Network Places / Entire Network / Microsoft

indows Network / Workgroup, or in Mac OS X go to Finder / Network / Workgroup. You

an open the device to see the following default folders

. admin

. guest-shar

. public

ough you are now ready to begin storing data on your drive, at this point you have only the

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ault user accounts set up. To set up other user accounts, and to conﬁ gure other basic

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ystem settings, you should continue setup using the web-based administration tool describe

in the next

Web-Based Administration Tool

he web-based administration tool is used to modify all internal settings of your NAS drive. It is accessed using your computer’s web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Sa access the administration tool, your PC or Mac should be on the same subnet as the NAS drive

ministration Login

In most cases you need only to enter the default hostname (i.e., “//verbatimnas” for Windows, or “//verbatimnas.local” for Bon tool. If for some reason the default hostname was not assi

uring auto-conﬁ guration, then you can alternatively enter the NAS drive’s IP address into the

rowser’s

As described previously, your router or other network equipment will have assigned the IP address automatically, or the drive will have taken one of its default addresses (either a Bonjour address 169.254.x.x or the non-Bonjour address 192.168.1.1). I automaticall Alternativel

escribed above

After your browser retrieves the initial web page from the NAS drive, the browser window will

resent the following login screen:

window.

our router’s manual will describe how to determine your drive’s IP address.

ou can ﬁ nd your drive’s IP address using the included Finder.exe utility as

our) in your browser’s address window to access the administration

ned to the NAS drive’s IP address

your router assigns addresses

ari or Netscape). To

rom this screen you must enter the following default Username and Password:

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Username: a

Password: admi

asic Settings for Initial Setu

ow, from within the administration tool perform the following steps to deﬁ ne the basic settings.

or more advanced features note that a full description of all settings is provided later under

Administration Reference”

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1. Click on Quick Setup to expand the selection group

et Language, Password, Hostname, IP Address, and Time

A special setup wizard will lead you through the con

ministrator password, hostname, IP address, and time.

gurations for user interface language,

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3. Select your language preference from the pull-down menu. The selection “set from browser

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the browser language is not supported in the administrator, the default language

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lish will be enabled. Press Next to continue.

4. The next screen allows you to de

e current password, sim

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set the administrator language to the current browser language

ne a new password for the user “admin”. If you want to keep

ress Next to advance to the next screen. The password must

characters and a maximum of 8 characters.

. The next screen allows you to deﬁ ne a new Hostname for the NAS drive. If you want to kee

the current Hostname, simply press Next to advance to the next screen.

6. The next screen allows you to select between automatic and static addresses for the NAS

drive’s IP Address and Domain Name System (DNS) address. It is recommended that your

etwork equipment be enabled to provide DHCP service, and that both settings on this

screen remain at the factor

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your network requires that you deﬁ ne static addresses, then you may enter

them in the form

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settings.

rovided.

7. The next screen allows you to manually set the date and time, or to use an available Network

Time Protocol (NTP) server. It is use

ul to set the correct date and time because time stamps

re used in the various status logs that are described later in this manual. After ﬁ lling in your

selections, press Next

8. The settings made in the previous steps are summarized on this screen for your review. You

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ay either go back to edit your settings, or press Complete to save the settings as shown.

New User Accoun

. Next setup a user account by selecting the Quick Setup / Add User button

Fill in the initial screen with a User Name and Password. It is recommended that these ﬁ elds match the User Name and Password that this user normall

enters when logging into

indows or to Mac OS X. The User Name must be lower-case and may be a maximum of

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anumeric characters, without spaces. The User Name must begin with an a

etic

haracter.

Note: If your Windows username currently contains a space character, or begins with a number, you may want to modify your Windows username slightly so that it can follow the same format required by the NAS drive. For Mac OS X user accounts, your username is automatically saved without spaces as a ﬁ eld called “Short Name”. In this way the “Short Name” already follows the

ormat required by the NAS drive.

Also ﬁ ll in the password. The password may be a maximum of 16 alphanumeric characters,

without spaces. I

you leave the password ﬁ eld blank, the NAS drive will accept this as a ull password. This means that you will not need to ﬁ ll in any password in the future when ccessing the NAS drive using this username

A description of this user may optionally be entered in the ﬁ eld provided.

If you want to create a private folder that only this network user can access, then check the box

arked “Create Private Folder”. This folder cannot be accessed by any other user account,

exce

t for the “admin” user account. The folder name will automatically be given the same

ame as User Name. The path of your newly created private folder will automatically be set

to /mnt/i

e1.

Here you can set a maximum storage limit or quota (in megabytes) for the user. Note that the

uota function is not supported if the disk has been formatted to FAT32

When done with this form, press Next to continue

10. The next screen allows you to assign this user to an existing group. As described above, the nitial factory setting provides for the default group named “@guest-share”. When done with

this form,

ress Next to continue.

11. The ﬁ nal screen for adding a user allows you to assign access privileges to currently deﬁ ned

shares. Of course, if has automatically been provided to this user’s private

Thou

h the initial factory setting provides for three default shares (admin, guest-share, and

ou checked “Create Private Folder” in step (9), then read/write access

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ublic), only “public” is available for selection for access to new user accounts

When done with this form, press Complete

Add New Group

12. Next you may optionally setup a new group. If you do not want to set up a group at this time,

you may jump ahead to Step 15.

in group setup by selecting the Quick Setup / Add Group button.

Fill in the initial screen with your group’s name. The group name must be lower-case and may

e a maximum of 20 alphanumeric characters, without spaces. The group name must begin

with an alphabetic character. Press Next to continue.

13. The next screen allows with this

orm, press Next to continue.

14. The next screen allows

ou to assign any of the current users to your new group. When done

ou to assign share access privileges for the new group. Each of the xisting shares may be setup for no access, read-only access, or full read/write access. When one with this form, press Complete.

Add New Shared Folder

15. The ﬁ nal procedure for Quick Setup allows you to optionally setup a new share. If you do not want to set up a share at this time, you may exit the administration tool as described in Step

Begin share setup by selecting the Quick Setup / Add Share button

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