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User’s Manual

NAS-7103

1-Bay SATA NAS RAID Server

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Page 1: ...1 User s Manual NAS 7103 1 Bay SATA NAS RAID Server ...

Page 2: ...sent a commitment on the part of PLANET PLANET assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies that may be contained in this User s Manual PLANET makes no commitment to update or keep current the information in this User s Manual and reserves the right to make improvements to this User s Manual and or to the products described in this User s Manual at any time without notice If you find information...

Page 3: ...the product on PC Windows XP Vista Windows 7 11 3 2 Use the product on MAC above Mac 10 5 5 17 4 Explorer 18 5 Downloads 19 5 1 Downloading 19 5 2 Complete 20 5 3 Trash 21 6 Settings 22 6 1 User 22 6 2 Folder 23 6 3 Disk 24 6 4 Network Setting 26 6 5 Network Services 32 6 6 Power 39 6 7 System 42 6 8 Wizard 45 7 Help 46 Appendix A iTunes service 47 Appendix B DLNA service 49 Appendix C Access on P...

Page 4: ...he Amount of Available Disk Space to Individual Users 1 Standard USB 2 0 Port for External USB HDD Supports Windows Utility and Web Based Management Shares Music Pictures Movies and Data over Network Supports BT Download DLNA compatible Interface 10 100 1000Base TX Auto MDI MDI X supports auto crossover detection Supports most popular OS including Windows 7 XP Vista MAC 10 5 and later 1 3 Package ...

Page 5: ... following figure illustrates the front rear panel of NAS 7103 Front Panel View Front LED Indication Item LED Color Status Power LED Blue Power on Rear Panel View Gigabit Ethernet Reset button USB host port Power switch Power slot USB device port ...

Page 6: ...S 7103 Reset Press 5 sec to restore factory default Connector Description DC Connector Connect the bundled power adapter LAN Supports 10 100 1000Base T interface USB Host Used for external USB storage USB Device Connect your USB2 0 port of computer for firmware upgrade ...

Page 7: ...7 2 1 Hardware Installation Step 1 Loosen the screws in this case and pull out the tray Step 2 Place the HDD on the tray Step 3 Secure the HDD with the screws at the side ...

Page 8: ...tray back in this case and locking screws ÍNote Before slide in the HDD please do make sure the HDD is in the correct direction Slide in and push the HDD with violent could damage the SATA interface of the RAID Server ...

Page 9: ...Description 1 Connect NAS 7103 and a PC with USB2 0 Cable TYPE A 2 In the CD along with the product run NAS Config exe to search and select the device 3 Click Browse and select the firmware file Click Upgrade button to install firmware ...

Page 10: ...t the USB devices connected 3 Connect the power supply to NAS 7103 4 Press the Power button to turn on NAS 7103 The HDD activate LED on the front panel will light up during booting up NAS 7103 will be ready to use when the blue LED lights up steady ÍNote 1 Not connect computer with RJ 45 Ethernet cable and USB2 0 cable TYPEA 2 The firmware is installed on the hard disk If you replace the hard disk...

Page 11: ...1 Setup exe for installation The Language setup window will pop up After a language is selected If the operating system is English System this step is not needed click OK and then the PLANET Tools Setup Wizard will pop up Click Next to continue a License Agreement window will pop up The software installation will continue only after the terms listed under License Agreement are accepted by clicking...

Page 12: ... installation path or use the default setting to install Click Install button for the installation of software and the installation progress will be shown at the bottom of interface of path After the installation a dialogue box of running the program now or not pops up and it is shown as follows ...

Page 13: ...llation the installation is completed The PLANET Tools shortcut icon will appear on the desktop automatically and the Quick Launch Toolbar Right click tool icon at the toolbar you can search devices located in your LAN and select language ...

Page 14: ...ick Storage button to access my storage System will pop up a window as below Enter user name and password and click OK to login The default User Name and Password are both admin Finally you can discover these folders home Share Time machine and others created by admin ...

Page 15: ...ick Login button It will go to the Web management page on web browser Enter User Name and Password to login Default User Name and Password are admin If you want to change User Name and the Password once you login as admin you can custom your User Name and Password by the pop up wizard ...

Page 16: ...ÍNote Also you can access web manually by typing IP address on web explorer like http xx xx xx Default is 192 168 0 100 ...

Page 17: ...MAC above Mac 10 5 5 Use the MAC version client tool to search device then press log in to access NAS by safari Or you can access NAS by way of opening Safari and type IP address as http xx xx xx Default is 192 168 0 100 and go ...

Page 18: ...4 Explorer There is a NAS folder explorer through WebDAV you can do download upload files from to between NAS and client computer Also you can do copy move create operation on NAS ...

Page 19: ...g list 5 1 Downloading Item Action Start Click Start to resume a Task which has been paused Stop Click Stop to suspend the downloading task Delete Click Delete to stop and delete the download task The deleted task will be removed to Trash and it can be restored Info Select one task and press information icon to see the more detail information of this task Settings You can set downloading task numb...

Page 20: ...sks are displayed on the sidebar of the completed tasks list Select a task and click Delete to delete the completed task Only the download task will be deleted and the actual downloaded file will still remain in the saved directory ...

Page 21: ...ask to continue downloading Click Trash to select a deleted task that you want to continue downloading and then click Reload The task will be restored to the download list ÍNote It will continue downloading from the last completed percentage when it was deleted ...

Page 22: ...cess ftp access AFT time machine service and so on Item Action User Name This is the user account name when you login in Password The password is case sensitive and should be 6 to 64 displayable characters including letters numbers Add user Press Add user button enter the user information and press save button to create one user account ÍNote Password must be alphanumeric and at least 6 characters...

Page 23: ...access to folder Press save button to execute the change There are Read Read Write and No Access option for access privilege setting The default setting is no access that s mean this user cannot even see this folder The folder name only uses letters and numbers The dash or underscore _ may be used to separate two names Maximum folder name is up to 26 characters The privilege setting works in all k...

Page 24: ...ld in Fan will begin to work 2 External USB storage you can get the capacity information and safely remove it 3 Volume There are volume settings for example create a new volume and format current volume Also it can check volume information such as available free space and types of file system Only support XFS format file system Format or create volume operation will cause lost data in the hard dis...

Page 25: ...gle Disk Volume Press this Save button to format a specific HDD It supports EXT3 Check the encrypt box to allow password protection over the HDD Note This mode can also be one hard disk and then you just need create one volume ...

Page 26: ...in samba on windows series type hostname in file manager address bar ftp on windows series type ftp hostname in web explorer address bar and web on windows series type http hostname in web explorer address bar Also you can use the host name to identify the NAS on our application tools on PC MAC And so on The host name must begin with a letter and followed by a combination of letters and numbers Ma...

Page 27: ...erver the NAS will get these configurations from DHCP server if not or cannot get configurations successfully the system will set to default IP address 192 168 0 100 Manual You can configure these settings manually you can reference your computer configurations or get more help from internet ...

Page 28: ...nfiguration of its configured hostnames addresses or other information So DDNS can let you access your NAS on Internet at anywhere Configure DDNS steps Step 1 Enable DDNS option through accessing web page of NAS Step 2 Select on DDNS server provide and register an account if you do not use yet Let s take dyndns org as an example Register an account in https www dyndns com account entrance free of ...

Page 29: ... host services to enter the application window of domain name Fill hostname IP address hostname will be as domain name go to access NAS fill IP address by Address list box below showing If your PC and NAS are in the same LAN type http domain name planetrd dyndns org to access NAS in the WAN filling domain name and IP are corresponding ...

Page 30: ...Meanwhile select the purpose of application Your domain name can be seen in Host Service of DynDNS website once the application succeeds shown as follows ...

Page 31: ...e hostname username password as just got from server provider And press confirm to execute the setting also you should add NAS IP address to router DMZ zone see router manual for more reference Follow 6 4 4 HTTP Settings ...

Page 32: ...ion based on your language you used 3 Anonymous enable enable this option to let anonymous user access your data anonymous user only can see share folder 4 FTP access port the default access port is standard 21 you can change the option if needed Item Action HTTP Access Port HTTP setting is used to set web access port the default port is 9080 you can modify as need Also we support standard default...

Page 33: ...local area network First enable this function before use 6 5 3 Linux File Service It is used on Linux OS to access NAS through NFS Allow write IP address Access IP is used to specify a range of IP address in your local network for computers that can access and do write operation on NFS share directory ...

Page 34: ...eve service nfs restart Shutting down NFS mountd OK Shutting down NFS daemon OK Shutting down NFS quotas OK Shutting down NFS services FAILED WARNING Deprecated config file etc modprobe conf all config files belong into etc modprobe d Starting NFS services OK Starting NFS quotas OK Starting NFS daemon OK Starting NFS mountd OK 5 In Terminal mount the NAS directory to Linux OS as below command root...

Page 35: ... MacOs help or go on their website for more information How to use this function Enable this function in server Mac file service on web On MAC computer go to system preference ÆTime Machine turn on the function and in select disk option select the NAS folder as the target you need type the NAS account and password Now it work and then your backup data will be stored into NAS at Time Machine folder...

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Page 37: ...ed you to remote login to the NAS Linux OS and do some operation you can use putty or other tool to connect You can use admin or general account to login or you can use root account password 20080826 to login 6 5 6 Download Service ...

Page 38: ...rvice allows user play NAS music library at iTunes client 6 5 7 2 UPnP DLNA DLNA allow NAS streaming media movie photo music to client player like windows media player net TV network Media Player Play station 3 Xbox 360 and other DLNA compatible devices ...

Page 39: ... requirement from user the system will leave sleep mode to general mode 6 6 2 POWER Off Restart To power off the device select power off option and click confirm button and system will power off and Status LED will flicker then off To restart the device select restart option and click confirm button to do Status LED will flicker then be on when restart is finished Web page turns to the new page fo...

Page 40: ...to guide NAS shutdown or power time Item Action Status Make sure it is on state thus your setting is effective Type If you check Power On means that you set the time will guide NAS boot If you check Power Off means that you set the time will guide ...

Page 41: ...41 NAS shutdown Period Time The two options will guide NAS shutdown or power time ...

Page 42: ...Internet Sync enter time sync frency NTP update frequency It will become effective after press confirm button 6 7 2 Notification Settings Setting of email notification in case of application of email notification service it s required to fill in the email address email server user name and email password confirm the password and press confirm button to execute this setting The email specified by u...

Page 43: ...tings Backup settings are used to save the current setting parameters of the Device system Also you can restore the setting from the saved setting file 6 7 4 Firmware Upgrade This feature is used to update device firmware ...

Page 44: ...tep 2 Click confirm button to begin upgrading After upgrading the system will reboot and you can check firmware version at the bottom of main UI 6 7 5 Reset Settings Item Action Restore to Factory Default Restoring the NAS to the factory default settings will remove all the customized configuration and will destroy all the content of the NAS ...

Page 45: ...s a wizard for basic setting step by step ÍNote The feature only restores the device default settings for all functions The current downloading tasks are not affected by this operation After the device is restored to default configuration the IP address is 192 168 0 100 ...

Page 46: ...7 Help Here is Help information of the device ...

Page 47: ...ep2 Copy several songs to built in disk by samba or FTP which are recommended put into music inside of share Step3 Then open iTunes in your computer It will search network share devices automatically you can find device name at the left list pitch on the device to open music playlist ...

Page 48: ...iTunes server mp3 m4a wav aiff ÍNote 1 Newly increased media files to device maybe need restart of iTunes service and then iTunes client can recognize them 2 Not only on Mac but also on PC this function can be applied properly ...

Page 49: ... management Application on PC Operation procedure 1 Please make sure client PC has been set to a shared network In Windows 7 for example Click the lower right corner on the toolbar of PC monitor network icon click the option Open Network and Sharing Center ...

Page 50: ... left side of the interface Open Media streaming that you can find media on the network 2 Add media files folders to the shared Access device by Samba FTP section 3 section 4 and copy multimedia files to Music Movies Pictures fodder under the share directory ...

Page 51: ...X M2TS MKV MOV MP4 NPG TS VOB WMV JPEG PNG TIFF BMP GIF 3 Open Windows Media Player 11 Windows Vista Windows 7 click the device name on the left and you will see media files stored in the device Then you can select the desired one to play ÍNote DLNA service can also support other DLNA compatible devices such as Media Player Play station 3 Xbox 360 ...

Page 52: ...ith FTP client tool 1 Please install FTP client software like Filezilla Client 2 Double click the icon on desktop to open and then enter the host name as ftp xx xx xx IP address or ftp device name user name and password to login shown as below ...

Page 53: ... computer or browser 2 Then enter user name and password to login For more detail please see 6 1 1 ÍNote When access the device through above two methods if Chinese characters show messy code please try to change the encoded mode for UTF 8 in the browser or FTP terminal software ...

Page 54: ...ol TCP IP NTP SMTP DDNS File Protocols WebDAV SMB CIFS FTP NFS AFP Apple Talk Time Machine SSH Multimedia Server iTunes DLNA UPnP AV Server Client OS Windows 7 Vista XP Mac OS 10 5 and later System Configuration Windows Mac Based utility Web Browser Operating Temperature 5 40 Degree C Humidity 5 90 non condensing Storage Temperature 0 60 Degree C Humidity 5 90 non condensing Dimension W x D x H 20...

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