USER GUIDE SMCNAS04/ SMCNAS24 TigerStore™ SMB Network Attached Storage Server
SMCNAS04/SMCNAS24 User’s Guide Revision 1.
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SMC Networks, Inc. Warranty Statement This SMC Networks, Inc. product comes with a 2-year limited warranty from the date of purchase. SMC Networks, Inc. warrants in good operating condition for the warranty period. This warranty does not include non-SMC Networks, Inc. installed components. If the SMC Networks, Inc. product malfunctions during the warranty period, SMC Networks, Inc.
• The product was subjected to abuse, neglect, electrical fault, improper packaging, accident or acts of nature; • The product was installed improperly; • The serial number of the product is defaced or missing; For storage products: Under various circumstances, such as damage from extreme conditions like floods, power fluctuations, damage caused during the installation of the drive, damage caused by improper or improperly used packaging, or physical misuse or abuse, the data on a disk drive may be ina
Safety Information z WARNING: Before connecting to power, set the Voltage Switch on the rear of your system to the voltage matching your area – voltage rating 100~120 / 200~240 Vac. Device could be damaged when the Voltage Switch is at the wrong position. z Maximum operating ambient temperature 40 oC degree Important Notes z When ejecting the USB device from your NAS system, make sure to disconnect from the Samba connection first.
Model Information Before accessing SMCNAS04/SMCNAS24, please install the JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 first on your computer like shown in the QIG or chapter 3 of this manual, otherwise, the NASDiscovery.html tool will not work. You can also download it directly by, following the link to download it thru your computer, http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp z SMCNAS04 NAS system without Hard Disk Drives Installed.
Table of Contents Safety Information ............................................................. v Important Notes .................................................................................... v Model Information ................................................................................ vii Table of Contents .............................................................................. viii Chapter 1 Introduction ................................................................... 1 1.
Users ............................................................................................79 Groups ..........................................................................................90 Quota Management .....................................................................92 3.5 Shared Folders Page .........................................................................94 Add Shared Folder .......................................................................95 Assign Access ..........
Chapter 1 Introduction Your SMCNAS04/SMCNAS24 is a great storage solution for small and medium business and home network environments. With this high-speed networked storage, network users can easily access and share music, pictures, and video files. Also, it has a program for discovering the storage system automatic assigned IP address.
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1.2 Specifications NOTE: Specifications are subject to change without notice. Hardware Cabinet Form Factor Small Tower Processor LSI NAS401 System Memory 128 MB of DDR2 SDRAM Flash Memory 8 MB Hard Disk Drive Bay/Type Up to four 3.5-inch SATA (Serial ATA) Storage Capacity Provides greater than 2 TB USB-UPS Support HID power device standard Network Automatic MDIX Ethernet Port (10/100/1000 Mbps) Power Supply 100~127/200~240 V 50/60 Hz 128 W Dimension (H)230 x (W)187 x (D)288 mm Weight 6.
1.3 System View Front Components Ref n o Component Description Power Button Turns the power on and off. Power Indicator Shows the current power status. POWER ON Glows blue when the power is on. STANDBY Glows red when the system is in Standby mode (power cord is connected to an electrical outlet but storage system is at Standby state).
Ref p Component Description Network Indicator Shows the current network status. Glows green at 10/100 Mbps or blue at 1000 Mbps when system is connected to the network. Blinks green or blue to indicate system is trying to establish a network connection. q RAID Indicator RAID Shows the current RAID status. Glows blue to indicate RAID function is implemented. Blinks blue to indicate RAID function is rebuilding the hard disk drive.
Front Components (Compartment Door Open) Ref Component n Hard Disk Tray Door Handle Description Opens the hard disk tray.
Right-Side Components Ref n 7 Component Door Lock Description Locks the hard disk drive compartment door for security.
Left-Side Components Ref n Component USB Port Description Connects a USB device, such as a USB disk, printer, or USB-UPS.
Rear Components Ref Component n o p Power Connector Connects to the power cord. Voltage Switch Select the voltage matching your local standard setting. Ventilation Opening Maintain proper operating temperature. Do not cover or block the openings. q Reset Switch Allows you to reset the system to the factory default username, password, and DHCP. r RJ-45 Connectors 0/1/2/3 Connects the LAN cable to any one of the four connectors.
Chapter 2 Setting Up Step 1. Install the Hard Disks 1. Insert the key and turn clockwise (n) to unlock and open the door (o). 2. Slide the latch toward the right to release the handle.
NOTE: Install the first hard disk on the lowest level tray, the second hard disk on the second lowest level tray, and so forth. 3. Pull the handle to slide the hard disk tray forward. Then pull the hard disk tray out of the device. 4. Unfasten two screws from each side of the hard disk tray and remove the metal bracket. NOTE: Store the metal bracket in a safe place for future use.
5. Fit the hard disk into the tray with the connectors pointing toward the rear. Then align and fasten four screws to secure the hard disk in place. 6. Keeping the handle in its full-open state, slide the hard disk tray all the way into the device until the hinge of the handle is inside the device. Then, close the handle. The latch should click into place. 7. Follow the same procedure for installing other hard disk(s) in the other compartment(s). Step 2. Connect to the Network 1.
2. Connect one end of the Ethernet cable to any of the four network connector ( ) on the back of your storage system and the other end to a router. Or you can connect both your computer and storage system (NAS) to one switch, and this switch is connected to the network which has a DHCP server. Step 3. Connect to Power 1. Make sure that your storage system is turned off. 2. Before connecting to power, set the Voltage Switch to the voltage matching your local standard setting.
3. Connect one end of the power cord to your storage system and the other end to a standard electrical outlet. Step 4. Configure Your Storage System See the next chapter for the software configuration instructions.
Chapter 3 Configuring Your Storage System SMCNAS04 SMCNAS24 An SMCNAS04/SMCNAS24 network consists of an NAS server and several clients connected via network links.
3.1 Installing the Storage System Management You need to install Storage System Management before you can perform any system configurations. IMPORTANT: z If you are using the hard disk drive that has been installed with NAS middleware before, then follow the steps on the section “System Power-on Without Hard Disk Drive.” z If you are using full new hard disk drives that have never installed NAS middleware before, then follow the steps on the section “System Power-on With Full New Hard Disk Drives.
2. Click Install Java to install JAVA script on your computer and the following screen appears. (Please make sure your computer has internet connection to be able to access the online installation of JAVA.) NOTE: You can also click Install Non-JAVA based discovery tool to install non-JAVA based discovery tool. 3. After reading the license agreement, click Accept and the following screen appears showing the progress of installation (this may take a couple of minutes).
4. Click Finish when the following screen appears to exit installation.
5. Click Setup NAS Discovery Utility. 6. The following screen appears. Click Next.
7. Select the destination to install the NAS Discovery Utility and click Next. 8. The Select Start Menu Folder screen appears, click Next.
9. Click the Create a desktop icon checkbox to enable it and click Next. 10. When the Ready to Install screen appears, click Install.
11. The progress of installation will be shown onscreen. 12. When the following screen appears, click Finish to exit the installation process.
JAVA-based 13. Click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Æ Programs Æ NAS Discovery Utility Æ NAS Discovery Utility. Click Yes when the following screen appears to allow ActiveX controls. NOTE: If the following screen appears, click Run to allow the digital signature verification.
14. The following screen appears.
Non-JAVA based 13. Click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Æ Programs Æ LSI Corporation Æ NAS Discovery Utility. 14. The following screen appears.
For Apple Mac OS X (10.4.11 or above) 1. Insert the included utility disc into your computer and open the MAC AutoRun folder, and then click the AutoRun.app program. 2. The following screen appears. Click Setup NAS Discovery Utility.
3. The Welcome to the NAS Discovery Utility Installer screen appears. Click Continue. 4. Select the destination to install the NAS Discovery Utility and click Continue.
5. The Easy Install on “iDisk HD” screen appears, click Install. 6. The installer requires that you type the password of your Mac OS X Administrator account.
7. The Installing NAS Discovery Utility screen appears and progress of installation will be shown. 8. When the following screen appears, click Close to exit the installation process.
9. To get the latest font library, click MAC Æ Software Update to update to the latest MAC Operation System version. 10. The system would start to check for software update.
11. To set the Safari Cookies, click Safari Æ Preferences. Then Security to accept Cookies “Only from sites you navigate to”.
12. Click the NAS Discovery Utility icon in the hard drive installation directory or launch NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Applications Æ NAS Discovery Utility. 13. Click Trust to allow digital signature verification if the following screen appears.
14. The following screen appears. NOTE: z The NAS Discovery Utility must use the Safari web browser when system is using the Mac OS X (10.4.11 or above). z Use Mozilla Firefox to install SMCNAS and type in the SMCNAS IP in the Firefox address field. z When using the Safari web browser to log in to web management, make sure to have the correct setting: Safari Æ Preferences Æ Security Æ Accept Cookies Æ Only from sites you navigate to.
System Power-on Without Hard Disk Drive IMPORTANT: If you are using the hard disk drive that has been installed with NAS middleware before, then follow the steps on this section. You can also Reset your System to default by following this section. 15. When the discovery tool has discovered the NAS, it will show “Zero-Disk Mode” on the Firmware Version column. Click “Configure RAID Profile” on the Configuration URL column. 16. The following screen appears. Log in by “root” and no password is required.
17. After logging in the following screen appears. Install the hard disk drive into the lowest level tray (see chapter 2 portion on proper hard disk installation) and after around 30 seconds, click REFRESH (if no hard disk drive appears, click REFRESH again.
18. When the hard disk drive appears on screen, click CONFIGURE. 19. The following screen appears. Click OK.
20. The following screen appears. Install another hard disk drive into the second lowest level tray and after around 30 seconds, click REFRESH (if no hard disk drive appears, click REFRESH again.
21. The following screen appears, then click Configure. NOTE: If you want to install more hard disk drive(s) (not new hard disk drive but hard disk drives that installed NAS firmware before) into the other slots, perform steps 20 and 21 again, otherwise go directly to step 22 after you click Configure.
22. The following screen appears. NOTE: z Whenever you install a hard disk drive, you can use the default RAID mode (if one hard disk drive only default is Single, if two hard disk drives it will be JBOD, all 4 hard drives will be RAID 5). Or change the RAID mode by clicking CHANGE. z If you did not click REFRESH and CONFIGURE each time you insert a hard disk drive, it will have the wrong RAID mode and the inserted disk might be invalid.
23. If you use the default mode (JBOD if ≧ two hard disk drives or Single) without changing the RAID mode, click Upgrade and the following screen appears. Click OK to jump to step 29. 24. If you change the RAID mode, the following screen appears. Click OK.
25. The system will reboot and the following screen appears, wait for approximately 3 ~ 5 minutes.
26. After rebooting, log in by root again and no password is required.
27. The following screen appears, click Upgrade. 28. When the confirmation message appears, click OK.
29. System will start to format the hard disk drive. After formatting, the confirmation message will appear. Click OK. 30. The following screen appears.
31. Click Browse to select and install the Full Install Image “AG_NAS_Vx.x.x-SMC.cpioo.bz2”. This file is stored under the default C:\Program Files\NAS Discovery Utility\Firmware directory, otherwise it can be found under the firmware folder of the directory where you previously installed the NAS Discovery utility.
32. Then click Upgrade. The following screen appears. The system will start to install into the NAS hard disk drive.
33. If the NAS Discovery Utility screen is not on your computer anymore, again click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Æ Programs Æ NAS Discovery Utility Æ NAS Discovery Utility. 34.
35. When the following screen appears, click the Click to Configure NAS under the Configuration URL column to log in to Storage System Management. Proceed to the next section for details on Storage System Management.
System Power-on With Full New Hard Disk Drives IMPORTANT: If you are using full new hard disk drives that have never installed NAS middleware before, then follow the steps on this section. 1. When the discovery tool has discovered the NAS, it will show “Zero-Disk Mode” on the Firmware Version column. Click “Configure RAID Profile” on the Configuration URL column. 2. The following screen appears if you inserted two disks. Log in by root and no password is required.
3. After logging in the next screen will show how many hard disk drive(s) you installed. lf two hard disk drives are installed, the default RAID mode is RAID 1, if ≧ three hard disk drives are installed, the default RAID mode is RAID 5.
4. If you use the default RAID mode, click Upgrade and the following screen appears. Click OK to jump to step 10. 5. If you change the RAID mode, the following screen appears. Click OK.
6. The system will reboot and the following screen appears, wait for approximately 3 ~ 5 minutes.
7. After rebooting it will display your new RAID mode, log in again.
8. The following screen appears, click Upgrade. 9. When the confirmation message appears, click OK.
10. System will start to format the hard disk drive. After formatting, the confirmation message will appear. Click OK. 11. The following screen appears.
12. Click Browse to select and install the Full Install Image “AG_NAS_Vx.x.x-SMC.cpio.bz2”. This file is stored under the default C:\Program Files\NAS Discovery Utility\Firmware directory, otherwise it can be found under the firmware folder of the directory where you previously installed the NAS Discovery utility.
13. Then click Upgrade. The following screen appears. The system will start to install into the NAS hard disk drive.
14. If the NAS Discovery Utility screen is not on your computer anymore, again click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Æ Programs Æ NAS Discovery Utility Æ NAS Discovery Utility. 15.
16. When the following screen appears, click the Click to Configure NAS under the Configuration URL column to log in to Storage System Management. Proceed to the next section for details on Storage System Management.
3.2 Starting Storage System Management JAVA-based 1. Click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the JAVA-based NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Æ Programs Æ NAS Discovery Utility Æ NAS Discovery Utility. NOTE: If the following screen appears, click Yes to allow ActiveX controls. NOTE: If the following screen appears, click Run to allow the digital signature verification.
2. When the following screen appears, click the Click to Configure NAS on the Configuration URL column to log in the Storage System Management.
Non-JAVA based 1. Click the NAS Discovery Utility shortcut icon on your desktop or you can launch the non-JAVA based NAS Discovery Utility by clicking Start Æ Programs Æ LSI Corporation Æ NAS Discovery Utility. 2. When the following screen appears, click the Configure NAS Device on the Configuration URL column to log in the Storage System Management.
3. The system automatically scans the network for storage systems. This might take a few minutes. The following screen appears. 4. Enter the default User name “admin” and the default Password “smcadmin” then select the desired language. 5. Click Log In. The Storage System Management homepage contains six tabs namely, My NAS, Users & Groups, Shared Folders, Disk, Advanced, and Logout appears.
3.3 My NAS Page Displays a list of your storage system information (NAS name, Middleware and Flash version, MAC and IP address, Subnet mask, Gateway IP address, Disk Mode, System and Data utilization) and Current Connections (Shared folders, Users, and Login Time). System utilization: shows the current system data partition usage. Data utilization: shows the current data partition usage.
System Setting Allow you to specify the storage system name, date, time, time zone, NTP server name or IP address, administrator name, and password. 1. On the My NAS page, click System setting and the following screen appear. NOTE: Be careful when changing the Storage System Name. Inform your clients of any change of this column for providing available functions, including shared folders or backups.
To change this . . . Do this . . . Storage system name Enter the new name to use for the specific storage system. The name can be up to 15 characters long and can include letters, numbers, and hyphens. Date, Time, Time zone In the Date fields, enter or select the month, day, and year. In the Time fields, enter or select the hour, minute, and second. In the Time zone list, select the time zone.
Network Setting Allow you to configure the network settings that include the workgroup name, MAC address, and FTP server settings. NOTE: z The time between AD server and the SMCNAS Samba server must be in sync (use NTP). Please check chapter 5 for AD setup on how to do this. z You only can choose the “workgroup” of NAS or “AD full domain” z If AD domain is selected, user cannot use the local user account to connect to NAS via Samba. z “~”, “!”, “#”, “$”, “%”, “^”, “&”, “(“, “)”, “-“, “{“, “}”, “.
1. Click Network setting and the following screen appear.
To change this . . . Workgroup name Do this . . . Enter the new name for the specific workgroup. NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 15. Can include only letters (uppercase and lowercase A~Z), numbers (0~9), hyphens (–) and underlines (_). The first character must be a letter (uppercase and lowercase A~Z). Get an IP address automatically If you have a DHCP server on your network, the server can get its IP address from that DHCP server automatically.
Enable FTP Server To enable FTP server, take note of the following: z Transfer Mode Default is “passive” mode.
Select “Passive” when you enable Firewall protection on your Windows OS. z Port Default is “21” unless specified. You can set one of the port range from 49152 to 65535. z Code Page Default is “UTF-8”. For Japanese OS and you wish to upload/download file with Japanese filename, then select “Japanese.” For Japanese OS and you wish to upload/download file with English or Traditional/Simplified Chinese filename, then select “UTF-8.
NOTE: z If you use Filezilla v2.2.x (you are recommended to use Filezilla (shareware) as your FTP data transfer tool), DO NOT enable the Use multiple connections to transfer files setting. z If you use Filezilla v3.0.x, set the Active mode and set NAS to passive to upload the file.
z Click File and the following screen appears.
z Click New Site. z Select “Use active mode” on Passive transfer mode settings when using Windows OS with Firewall enabled and, select “Force” on Use UTF8 on server if available. Then click OK.
z When using the ActiveDirectory the user name for FTP is [Domain name]+[user name], e.g. Office-AD+Testuser. z When using Workgroup mode, please just use local user name.
If you choose the option Use this IP address, the following appears. 4. After making the necessary changes, click Apply. 5. When the confirmation message appears, click OK for the changes to take effect. WARNING: If you change the Static IP (Use this IP address) back to Dynamic IP (Get an IP address automatically), you need to shutdown the Storage System Management and restart it again.
3.4 Users & Groups Page Displays a list of all currently configured users and lets you add, modify, and remove users. This area also allows you to add, modify, and remove groups as well as perform quota management. Users 1. Click the Users & Groups button on the Storage System Management homepage. The following screen appears.
2. Click “Add” and the following screen appears, allowing you to specify the type of user (Windows/Mac OS X or Linux/Other Mac) you want to add. 2. Add the users. After the user is added, you can assign the user to shared folders by clicking Shared Folders to assign/restrict access (see later section for further details). NOTE: Windows users can be joined into groups as well as assign several users to a shared folder.
For Windows/Mac OS X Users 3. Click Next and the following screen appears. You must provide the requested user information.
To change this . . . Do this . . . User name In the User name field, enter the user name. Password NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 24 Confirm password Can include only letters (uppercase and lowercase A~Z), numbers (0~9), hyphens (–), underlines (_), dots (.), and @ symbol. The first character must be a letter (uppercase and lowercase A~Z). Must not be any of the following uppercase or lowercase words such as “root”, “backupuser”, “nobody”, “ftp”, “anonymous”, and “www”.
5. Click Remove and the following screen appear, allowing you to specify the type of user (Windows/Mac OS X) you want to remove.
6. Click Edit and the following screen appears, allowing you to specify the type of user (Windows/Mac OS X) you want to edit. 7. Enter the pertinent information and click Apply.
8. The follow screen appears.
For Linux/Other Mac OS Users 1. Click Next and the following screen appear. You must provide the requested user information. 2. Click Apply.
3. Click Shared Folders and the following screen appears.
4. Select the shared folder and click Assign Access. The following screen appears.
5. Select the authorized user(s) and grant access right. Then click Apply. NOTE: If you grant shared folder access right to Linux user, the Linux user can “mount –t nfs –o tcp NASIP:/content/shared foldername PCmountfolder” at Linux PC (Fedora 5/6/7) to mount the file to NAS as well as read/write the file to NAS.
Groups Placing users into groups makes it easier to give several users access to the same shared folder at once. 6. Click Groups under the Users & Groups page. The following screen appears. NOTE: Only Windows users can be included in groups.
7. Click Add and the following screen appear. Enter a group name and add all or selected users to this group. You can also remove all or selected users from a group. 8. Click Apply.
Quota Management Allows the administrator to limit (enlarge/shrink) user disk space. NOTE: Before enabling/disabling Quota Management, make sure that iTunes is not enabled, no USB device is mounted, and there is no existing Samba connection to your storage device (see later section for details). 1. Click Quota management under the Users & Groups page. The following screen appears.
To change this . . . Enable quota for all users Quota size on the SATA disk Administrator password Do this . . . Click the checkbox to set quota for all Windows users. In the Quota size on the SATA disk field, enter the quota size (MB). In the Administrator password field, enter the password for logging in to the Storage System Management. The password is case-sensitive. NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 8. Can include any printable ASCII characters but not ( ' ).
3.5 Shared Folders Page Displays a list of all currently configured and shared folders and allow you to add shared folders, change the right of access for users or remove them. 1. Click the Shared Folders button on the Storage System Management homepage. The following screen appears.
Add Shared Folder 2. Click Add to create a shared folder and the following screen appears. 3. Enter the name of the new shared folder and click Next. NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 64. Can include only letters (uppercase and lowercase A~Z), numbers (0~9), hyphens (–), underlines (_), and dots (.). First character must be a letter (uppercase and lowercase A~Z).
Assign Access 4. Select the shared folder whose user access you want to change (add or remove user). 5. Click Assign Access and the following screen appear.
6. You can Add (specify as Read-Only or Read/Write) users/groups to, as well as Remove existing users/groups from shared folders. Delete Shared Folder 7. Select the shared folder you want to remove. 8. Click Delete and the following screen appear. 9. Click OK to confirm deletion. 10. After adding, deleting, or assigning access to shared folder, click Apply. 11. When the confirmation message appears, click OK for the changes to take effect.
3.6 Disk Page Allow you to view information about the installed hard disk(s) slot, model, serial number, size, RAID type, and disk status (shows the RAID rebuilding percentage). 1. Click the Disk button on your Storage System Management homepage. The following screen appears. 2. Click Refresh to update the status of the hard disk(s) installed in your storage system.
3.7 Advanced Page Provides access to advanced storage system configuration options such as setting up email alert, upgrading firmware, UPS (uninterruptible power supply), iTunes/media/printer server, USB backup, viewing information about system events, shutting down and reboot the system remotely.
1. Click the Advanced button on the Storage System Management homepage. The following screen appears. 2. Enter the information about your SMTP email server, sender’s email address, and up to two email addresses that should receive the notification.
NOTE: z If your SMTP email server has authentication, enable it and enter the User name and Password. z The SMTP email server name’s maximum number of characters is 64. Can include only letters (uppercase and lowercase A~Z), numbers (0~9), hyphens (–), underlines (_) and dots (.). z The sender’s email address’ maximum number of characters is 128. 3. Click Apply. 4. When the confirmation message appears, click OK to confirm.
Firmware Allows you to upgrade your storage system to a newer firmware when available (check the support section of www.smc.com for the latest firmware). 1. Click Firmware on the Advanced page and the following screen appears. For additional security, you must enter your administrator password in order to upgrade the firmware. 2. Click Browse and select the Upgrade File “Upgrade_SMCNASx4-Vxx.xx.cpio.
5. When the confirmation message appears, click OK to confirm. 6. The upload percentage will be displayed. 7. System will reboot automatically after upgrade has finished.
iTunes Server Allow your storage system to function as an iTunes server for accessing digital music files from an iTunes client running either on a Windows Computer or Apple Computer with Mac OS X. 1. Click iTunes Server on the Advanced page and the following screen appears.
2. Click the checkbox iTunes Server enabled. 3. Click Apply and the following screen appears. 4. Click Re-Scan to synchronize iTunes. NOTE: z You need to do this every time there are new contents available. z The administrator is allowed to change the iTunes server name.
Media Server Allow your storage system to function as a media server by specifying the scan path, selecting the media file type(s), start scanning and afterwards display the results of the scan, as well as delete and backup media database. 1. Click Media Server on the Advanced page and the following screen appears.
To change this . . . Do this . . . Change Scan Paths Click Change Scan Paths if you want your computer to search for media files which differ from the one currently specified (see step 2). Media Scan Types Click on the checkbox of the file types on the list to be included, then click Set Types. Media Scan Control Click Start Scan to start scanning.
4. Click Apply. 5. When the confirmation message appears, click OK to confirm. Printer Server Allow your storage system to function as a printer server when a USB printer is connected. 1. Connect a printer to any USB port on your storage system. 2. Click Printer Server on the Advanced page and the following screen appears. NOTE: A warning message will appear if no USB printer is connected to your storage system.
3. Proceed to adding a new printer in Windows and the following screen appears. 4. Click Next and the following screen appears. Select A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer by clicking on the radio button.
5. Click Next and the following screen appears. Select Connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or office network by clicking on the radio button. 6. When setting up the USB printer on your computer, you need to check the SMCNAS system’s IP address (e.g., 192.168.1.25). Then, when installing the network printer you have to type the URL like as follows (http://192.168.1.25:631/printers/USB_Printer). 7. Click Next to continue. 8. When the confirmation message appears, click OK to confirm.
UPS Allow your storage system to use a USB-UPS as temporary backup power. 1. Connect a USB-UPS to any USB port on your storage system. NOTE: When using the USB-UPS and the power level is not adequate (power level remaining reaches <= 3 % of normal charge), an email alert will be sent to inform you to shutdown the storage system immediately. 2. Click UPS on the Advanced page and the following screen appears.
3. Click the checkbox UPS enabled. The Power status (amount of backup power available) will be shown. 4. Click Apply. NOTE: A warning message will appear if no USB-UPS is connected to your storage system. 5. When the confirmation message appears, click OK to confirm.
USB Backup Allow you to backup the contents of your USB storage device to your storage system. NOTE: USB backup supports both FAT32 and NTFS. 1. Click USB backup on the Advanced page and the following screen appears. 2. In the Administrator password text box, enter the password. NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 8. Can include any printable ASCII characters but not ( ' ).
3. Click Apply. The backup contents of your USB storage device would be copied to your storage system on a newly created timestamp folder under /USBBackup/ and the following screen appears. 4. Click OK. NOTE: To access the copied content in the USBBackup folder you need to map a user to the USBBACKUP folder. If you only want to access the shared folder (e.g. sdb1), please continue with step 5. 5. Click Shared Folders and the following screen appears.
6. Select the shared folder (e.g. USBBackup or sdb1) and click Assign Access. The following screen appears.
7. Select the authorized user(s) and grant access right (Read-Only or Read/Write). Then click Apply.
Eject USB Storage Device 1. To eject your USB storage device in case it is connected to your storage system, select the USB storage device from the Eject your USB dropdown list. NOTE: Before ejecting the USB device, disconnect the Samba connection first. 2. Enter the password again. 3. Click Apply. You can now remove the USB storage device and the following screen appears.
4. Click OK. 5. In the Criteria of backup available space textbox, enter the value (MB) to change the allocated disk space for backing up to your storage system. Otherwise do not change it, the default setting of 10 % is suggested. 6. Enter the password again. 7. Click Apply. NOTE: z When the total file size is over the limit, the warning message “The disk space is not enough” appears.
Download Station Allows peer-to-peer (P2P) download (BitTorrent file transfer protocol) of computer files (filename.torrent) from remote location to your storage system. The download task, percent and speed of download, and seed is displayed. You can pause/resume or delete the download anytime. 1. Click Download Station on the Advanced page and the following screen appears. 2. Create a new user and assign R/W (read/write) permission of shared folder “p2p” to this user.
3. Via Samba connection in “p2p” folder there is a “torrents” folder, place torrents file in it. 4. Click Yes to enable the download station. 5. Click Apply. 6. Wait for about 20 seconds, then open a new web browser by typing: http://your_nas_ip:4080. NOTE: z If you do not want to use the default maximum download/upload speed, you can type in the new value. z Click Pause/Resume to pause or resume the download, or Delete to remove the download. z In the “p2p” folder, there is an “incoming” folder.
System Log Display a list of events that have occurred on the storage system. Reviewing this list can help you identify and resolve any problems that you might encounter. 1. Click System log on the Advanced page and the following screen appears. The date and time of the event, the type of event (I stands for informational, E stands for error, W stands for warning, and C stands for critical error), and a brief description of the event are displayed. 2.
z When you click Erase All Logs it will erase all the log files in the system (under the “Event Log” shared folder). Shut Down To shut down the storage system, you can press the power button on the unit itself and hold it until the system status and disk activity LEDs start flashing, or you can shut the storage system down remotely by using Storage System Management. To use Storage System Management: 1.
3. Click Shut Down and the following screen appears. Click OK to confirm. 4. A message appears indicating that the system is shutting down. CAUTION: Always shutdown the system in accordance with the instructions above. An improper shutdown may affect the functionality of storage system in the next startup.
Reboot You can reboot the storage system remotely by using Storage System Management. To use Storage System Management: 1. Click Reboot on the Advanced page and the following screen appears, allowing you to reboot the storage system. CAUTION: Make sure no one is backing up a disk or using a shared folder before you reboot the storage system. 2. Enter the Administrator password. NOTE: Maximum number of characters is 8. Can include any printable ASCII characters but not ( ' ).
3. Click Reboot and the following screen appear. Click OK to confirm. 4. A message appears indicating that the system is rebooting. CAUTION: Always reboot the system in accordance with the instructions above. An improper reboot may affect the functionality of storage system in the next startup.
3.8 Logging Out of Storage System Management 1. To log out from the Storage System Management without shutting it down, click the Logout button.
2. When the confirmation message appears, click OK. 3. The following screen appears. You can allow it to stay in the background and perform other computer task. To use the Storage System Management later, click Log In.
3.9 How to reinstall your SMCNAS04/SMCNAS24 1. Make sure your SMCNAS04/SMCNAS24 uses Flash Firmware v.2.0 or higher. This can be controlled in the MyNas page. If your Flash Firmware shows a lower version then (v.2.0, please check the manual for Product Firmware v.1.5.8 that you can find on the SMC Website http://www.smc.com. It will show you how to reinstall your SMCNAS04/SMCNAS24 with the right procedure.
2. Please make a Backup of all the Data you have stored on the SMCNAS04/SMCNAS24! 3. After this, please shutdown your SMCNAS04/SMCNAS24. 4. Once the unit has shutdown, please make sure the power is off. 5. Take out all disks and follow the instructions in the chapter “System Power-on Without Hard Disk”. Important: Please keep in mind that this process will format your SMCNAS04/SMCNSA24 and all data will be lost.
Chapter 4 Map Shares Windows PC Your Storage System Management allows you to map shared folders. To map shared folders: 1. From the NAS Discovery tool, click the Click to Map under the MAP Shares column to map shared folders.
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2. The following screen appears. Key in the appropriate information and click Map. z NAS Samba Share: allows you to select which shared folder to connect z User Name/Password: the shared folder of what you selected Note: When AD domain is selected, the user name must be [Domain name] \[user name] 3. “Mapping Success…” will be shown on the left lower part of the screen upon completion.
4. Click Exit to exit mapping of shared folders. For Apple Mac OS X To map a Samba Share on an Apple Computer with Mac OS X, please follow the below steps to map a Share: 1. Click the Finder icon in the Dock of your Mac OS X desktop. 2. Choose Connect to Server from the Go menu. 3.
Chapter 5 AD support NOTE: z The time between the ADS's and the Samba server must be in sync (use NTP). The easiest way to achieve this is to add the IP of the ActiveDomain server as the NTP time server. Then the SMCNAS will sync its time with the AD server. But make sure your AD Server does synchronize its time with a failed NTP server and runs the NTP Server service itself. z If AD domain is selected, user cannot use the local user account to login to NAS.
At Router Portion DNS must be specified to the Windows 2003 server. At Windows XP Portion z You must renew IP after the router’s DNS is changed (the purpose is get the DNS server) z Join the domain of Windows 2003 server z Login via AD user account At NAS Portion You must renew the IP after the router’s DNS is changed (the purpose is get the DNS server).
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