General Description Contacts Table of Contents I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XIV. XV. Setting up of COOLMAX CN-330 Assigning an IP address to the COOLMAX CN-330 Map COOLMAX CN-330 disk into Local Network Operating COOLMAX CN-330 through GUI Web Interface Administration of the COOLMAX CN-330 COOLMAX CN-330 Configuration Account Information Quick Setup Users and Groups File and Print A. Share Management B. Windows and FTP Access C. NFS Access D. Delete Share E.
Setting up COOLMAX CN-330 Assigning an IP Address: This COOLMAX CN-330 has DHCP function built in. The default setting is DHCP client 192.168.1.1. When the COOLMAX CN-330 is connected to a LAN that already has a DHCP server present, the COOLMAX CN-330 takes an IP address assigned to it by the server. When the COOLMAX CN-330 is connected to a LAN that does not have a DHCP server, the COOLMAX CN-330 becomes the DHCP server in the network.
Log in using the SAMBA User Account which is created by you. The network drive can be found on client’s system.
Operating COOLMAX CN-330 through GUI Web Interface Once the COOLMAX CN-330 is connected to the network, use the browser (supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, Netscape Navigator 4.5 or later) to complete administrative task of COOLMAX CN-330. Administration of the COOLMAX CN-330 The following methods allow an administrator to access the administration page. Launch your web browser if you know the IP address of the COOLMAX CN-330. Type the correct IP address in the browser.
After logging into the COOLMAX CN-330 by browser, there are 3 main selections: “Basic”, “Control panel”, and “Personal Info”.
Maintenance Disk Utility Firmware Upgrade Save Configuration Restore Configuration Factory Reset Log File Samba Log FTP Log DHCP Server Log System Log Administration Log Account Information The hard drive should be automatically detected by the system whether or not it is installed A new non-formatted hard drive should be found and formatting the hard drive is suggested by the pop-up window. The system will restart automatically after the format is completed.
To add user support, select the Add User chapter for setting. Please refer to Users and Groups chapter for more detail. To add group support, select the Add Group chapter for setting. Please refer to Users and Groups chapter for more detail. To add folder sharing support, select the Add Share chapter for setting. Please refer to Share Management chapter for more detail. Users and Groups In the User Management menu, there will be a display of all existing users in the system.
name and click the “Delete Group” button to delete a specified group. To add or remove users from an existing group, highlight the group name and click the “Members” button. File and Print Three sections are included in “File and Print“: “File server”, “Share Management”, and “Printer server”.
Share Management It shows all existing shared names; “public” was the factory default share name located at system/shares/public directory. Create Share Fill in the “Share name” and “Path” boxes. By pressing “save”, a new share name will be created. Property Change Click a share name in the “Existing Shares” box to modify the property of the share name. Press “Windows, FTP Access” or “NFS Access” button could set or remove read/write permission of the share.
NFS Access You could check “Allow for all” to allow all clients access to the NFS server. Or you can add client PCs IP address/Subnet mask to the permission list to allow only those on the permission list to access the NFS server. Delete Share “Delete Share” deletes a specified share name. Printer Server Check the Printer Server “Enable” box to enable Print Server functions.
System setting There are eight sections included in “System Setting”, which are “LAN Settings”, “Time Setting,”, “RAID Setting”, “Turn Off Server”, “Information”, “Disk Usage”, and “Error Notification”. LAN Settings: Hostname: You must assign a unique name for each COOLMAX CN-330 as the identification within your local area network. IP address setting: Obtain IP address automatically: The system obtains the IP address automatically via DHCP protocol if the local network has DHCP server available.
Acquire a unique IP address, Subnet mask, and Default gateway information from your network system administrator. Then fill in the information to the GUI. Obtain DNS server address automatically: The system gets DNS server addresses from DHCP server if available. Use static DNS server addresses: Specify DNS server address in the GUI. Time Setting Set current Date, Time and Time zone. Specify NTP server if you want to get Date and Time from time server.
RAID Setting COOLMAX CN-330 supports RAID type 0, 1 and 5 depending on the hard driver amount. If COOLMAX CN-330 only plugs in one hard driver, the “RAID Type” box will show “None” item. If COOLMAX CN-330 plugs in two hard drivers, the “RAID Type” box will show “None”, “raid0” and “raid1” items. If COOLMAX CN-330 plugs in three or four hard drivers, the “RAID Type” box will show “None”, “raid0”, “raid1” and “raid5” items.
Turn Off Server To restart the server, click the “Restart” button. To power off the server, click the “Shutdown” button. Disk Usage Collects and displays all HDDs usage summary and user’s quota information. Error Notification Monitoring Services Setting: Disk Usage: The system will send a message informing the administrator when the disk usage reaches 90%. Windows File Sharing Server: The system will send a message informing the administrator if the samba task encounters any problems.
Check Interval: You can select intervals from hourly to daily to have the system perform checks. Email Notification Setting: Enable: Enable notification method by an email. Error Handling Mail Server: Specify your email host name. Error Handling Email Addresses: Specify administrator email address. Pop-Up Notification Setting: Enable: Enable notification method by Windows pop-up messages. Error Handling Pop-Up Machines: Specify administrator PC IP address.
Network Service DHCP Server To enable DHCP Server, take the following steps: If COOLMAX CN-330 failed to get an IP address from the external DHCP Server, it uses the default IP address 192.168.1.1 and turn on its DHCP Server automatically. If COOLMAX CN-330 successfully gets an IP address from the external DHCP Server, you should set COOLMAX CN-330 IP address to a static IP address before enabling DHCP Server.
Bonjour COOLMAX CN-330 supported Apple Bonjour protocol and Apple iTunes server. Check Enable box to enable Bonjour protocol. Check iTunes Enable box to enable iTunes server. All MP3 music files should be put in /public/music folder through samba or ftp protocol then client pc can search COOLMAX CN-330 and play music within iTunes tool. The iTunes tool can be downloaded from Apple’s website.
BTorrent COOLMAX CN-330 supported BTorrent P to P download function. You can download the seed to the system by inputting the correct path and the seed name in the “Open torrent file” Box, or browse by Windows Explorer. Set maximum bandwidth down rate limit Set maximum bandwidth up rate limit Add Button: This is used to add new seed to system. Start Button: This is used to start download job. Stop Button: This is used to stop download job. Delete Button: This is used to delete job.
Maintenance Five sections are included in Maintenance: “Disk Utility”, “Firmware Upgrade”, “Save Configuration”, “Restore Configuration”, and “Factory Reset”. Disk Utility Disk utility shows the device name, type of file system, total disk size, used disk size, volume mounted, and disk mount status of all disks. For new attached hard disk, you should format the hard drive before any settings.
Firmware Upgrade This function shows “Current Firmware Version”. You can download the latest firmware version to the system by inputting the correct path and the upgrade file name in the “Upgrade File” box or browse by Windows Explorer. When you upgrade the firmware, all the network services will stop. The system counts down and reboots when download completes.
Save Configuration This function will back up the current system configuration to a local disk and save it in a specified file name. The default file name is “config.tar”.
Restore Configuration When the system configuration is destroyed, lost, or incorrectly changed, you can restore the system configuration that you saved using the “Save Configuration” function. Select a configuration file by Windows File Explorer, and press the “Restore” button to restore the system configuration using the selected configuration file.
Factory Reset Factory Reset will reset the system configuration to factory default configuration. When this button is pressed, all users, networking, and other configuration information will be lost.
3.2.7 Log File Five sections are included in Log File: “Samba Log”, “FTP Log”, “DHCP Server Log”, “System Log”, and “Administration Log”.
FTP Log
DHCP Server Log
System Log: Specify the destination Linux PC that you want to redirect system log file.
Administration Log
Account Account is the only section in the “Personal Information” tab. You could change the password and user ID, ‘admin’, and the language shown in the menu. Share list, system disk quota and the percentage of disk used is shown as well.
Logout
