Vistor NAS-34 User Manual Download Page 83

To change or create a RAID disk, 

1.

 

Click the types of mode you want to enter into the RAID Mode Setup page. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.

 

Select the disk that you wish to change or create.   

3.

 

Click 

Apply Change

 to build RAID.   

Note:

   

y

 HD will be format after clicking 

Apply Change

 button and all contents will be erased!!   

y

 After changing mode, the device will take some time to rebuild your system automatically. The 

required time depends on the mode you select and the capacity of your hard disk drive. (ex. For 
a 100G HDD, it may take 1 hour to rebuild in RAID 1 mode, but take about 5 minutes to rebuild 
in RAID 0 mode) Please wait patiently and do not remove HD when it is still running. Please wait 
patiently and do not remove HD when it is still running. 

 

 

Warning: 

Before changing or creating a RAID disk, please ensure that a hard disk drive has been installed 
in the first bay of the device. The system cannot build RAID if you leave the first bay of the device 
empty. Please insert the hard disk inside!! 
 

 

 

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Summary of Contents for NAS-34

Page 1: ...NAS 34 4 Bay Gigabit SATA NAS User s Guide...

Page 2: ...s subject to the following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired opera...

Page 3: ...s in the device 14 Software Installation 15 Installing the EZIP Backup 15 EZ VIEW UTILITY 17 Introduction 17 Getting Started 17 Connecting the device with EZ View 30 MANAGEMENT GUIDE 32 Starting the G...

Page 4: ...y 59 Account 67 User configuration 67 To add a new user 67 To delete a user 68 To configure a user 69 Group configuration 70 To add a new group 71 To delete a group 72 To configure a group 72 Folder c...

Page 5: ...y to share files by web site The NAS supports DDNS which allows you to designate a easy memorized domain name to this device The embedded printer server also brings you terrific convenience on sharing...

Page 6: ...95 98 98SE ME XP 2000 NT4 0 Linux MAC OS Vista Supports DDNS function Supports access management for 50 groups Supports 32 concurrently connected users Provides Password security for management HD Ac...

Page 7: ...Amber Data transmitting at 10 100 Mbps Steady Green Valid connection on USB I port USB I Off Invalid connection on USBI port Steady Green Valid connection on USB II port USB II Off Invalid connection...

Page 8: ...king Connection with the Device on page 12 Power Adapter Socket Connect the power supply cable to a power source eSATA Connector Connect this port with your eSATA device eSATA LED The LED stays light...

Page 9: ...ation Install a hard disk drive for the device 1 Use the key in the package to open the slot button 2 Draw out the hard disk drawer from the device 3 Take off the fixture from the drawer and prepare a...

Page 10: ...enly on the hard disk drawer The direction of the disk should be like the one in the following pictures 5 Screw your SATA hard disk on the drawer with the included screws in the package 6 Slide the Ha...

Page 11: ...vice equips two USB ports that allow users to connect the device to a USB storage device 1 Insert the USB Type A end of the cable to the device the other end to your USB storage Note y The Type A end...

Page 12: ...e Insert one end of the cable to this NAS the other end to the eSATA device Note You have to power on your eSATA device before powering on this NAS or this NAS cannot detect your eSATA device Power on...

Page 13: ...o perform the following steps Note The following TCP IP configuration guide uses windows XP as the presumed operation system 1 If you are in Classic Start menu view click Start Settings Control Panel...

Page 14: ...3 Choose Internet Protocol TCP IP and click Properties 4 Choose Use the following IP address to specify IP addresses manually Please click the OK button after your configuration 13...

Page 15: ...in 4Bay NAS or 192 168 1 2 3 Click OK to access the folder Note 1 We provide one default username password as admin admin 2 As default the Share folder is created automatically and it can be read writ...

Page 16: ...EZ Backup to start installation Note If the auto run program is not activated please click on My Computer your CD Rom Drive then click the autorun icon to start the main menu Or you can enter the EZI...

Page 17: ...u may click Browse to change the location 5 Click Finish to complete the software installation 6 After successful installation the shortcut shows on your windows desktop Note For instructions using th...

Page 18: ...tility which gives you a general idea of EZ View framework the second part teaches you how to connect this device with EZ View to make a basic configuration Getting Started 1 Insert the CD Rom that ca...

Page 19: ...exit the program Device list page After scanning the page shows the connection status of the Multimedia Network NAS on your LAN You should notice that y Without a connected PVR Router or AP NAS you ca...

Page 20: ...r LAN again Click this button to see Multimedia Network NAS information configure IP address user and folder and upgrade firmware Browse upload photos music or video files to the folders in Multimedia...

Page 21: ...ystem page 1 Shows Multimedia Network NAS information including hostname IP Address HD model name and capacity etc 2 Configure IP address net mask default gateway hostname workgroup and description Af...

Page 22: ...cluding hostname IP Address HD model name and capacity etc 2 Network page You can configure IP address net mask default gateway hostname workgroup and description in this page After setting please cli...

Page 23: ...figuration window pops up Fill in the blanks and click on Apply to add a new user To delete a user click on the checkbox and then click on DEL button Note You can also add or delete users from the gra...

Page 24: ...iguration window pops up Fill in the blanks and click on Apply to add a new folder To delete a folder click on the checkbox and then click on DEL button Note You can also add or delete folders from th...

Page 25: ...sion folder c Select the ntx_fwext tgz file and click Open to browse the file d Click Apply to perform installation It takes a few seconds to perform installing please wait upon installation Note You...

Page 26: ...timedia files in the folders of Multimedia Network NAS Please refer to the following descriptions for more information Browse Files 1 Select and click on Photo Music or Video buttons of your demand 2...

Page 27: ...Music or Video buttons 2 Click Browse button to browse the files or folders you wish to upload to the device 3 Select the folder you wish to upload from the drop down list 4 Enter the username and pa...

Page 28: ...imedia Network NAS and then click OK to access the folder 3 Select the folder you wish to upload 4 Enter the username and password to login to the folder with authentication 5 Drag the files or folder...

Page 29: ...dth height planes and bits pixel of the photo which shows on the bottom Use and buttons to browse pages backwards and forwards Double click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of the photo Use an...

Page 30: ...e list to play music It uses the default music playing software of your PC to play the audio files Video page This page shows the list of the available video files Use and buttons to browse pages back...

Page 31: ...older double click the icon The window pops up 2 Select NAS on EZ View and it starts to scan NAS on your LAN 3 After scanning the menu shows the NAS on your LAN You may click the button to search for...

Page 32: ...u wish to configure Enter the hostname workgroup and description On the bottom click the check mark to execute your setting 6 After successful IP address setting you may Click the Media button to acce...

Page 33: ...eb browser Open your web browser and fill in 4Bay NAS or 192 168 1 2 in the address bar and press ENTER To access GUI from EZ View utility Click on EZView on the auto run main menu or double click the...

Page 34: ...onfiguration categories on this device To get access to each category click on the button that you are going to configure 2 Configuration items Located on the right side of each page Shows the items t...

Page 35: ...enable disable and Jumbo mode selecting Alert To configure sender and receiver addresses to receive alert information from this device via MSN DDNS Dynamic Domain Name Service To enable disable DDNS c...

Page 36: ...e firmware version of the device H D used The usage percentage of HD Total amount of HD RAID mode The RAID mode of HD Samba Users The number of members who is currently connected to the Samba server F...

Page 37: ...Login This page provides password configuration which is used for getting access to the Graphic User Interface To set up password 1 Define a new password limited to 20 characters in the New password...

Page 38: ...e folder Note To know how to backup the configuration status see Backup the Device Configuration Status above 2 Click Upload to execute 3 The system restarts automatically to restore your later config...

Page 39: ...are upgrade The Firmware upgrade page allows users to upgrade the firmware and load the firmware extension Firmware upgrade To upgrade the firmware click Upgrade to perform firmware upgrade Note y To...

Page 40: ...Please put the ntx_fwext tgz into share fwextension folder HD Sleep The HD Sleep page provides function of HD sleep mode with time regulation from 10 minutes to 4 hours which stops the device temporar...

Page 41: ...the device time 1 Select the time zone that corresponds to your region from the Time Zone drop list 2 To apply the time on your computer to the device click on Time Sync button 3 To synchronize the t...

Page 42: ...list Hostname setup Items Information Hostname limited to 15 characters Defines the user defined device name Workgroup limited to 15 characters Defines the workgroup name for the device which is goin...

Page 43: ...me DHCP client To enable disable DHCP client IP address Specifies the device IP Subnet mask Defines the Subnet Mask Default gateway Defines the default gateway DNS server 1 2 Defines the DNS server Ju...

Page 44: ...on of MSN Alert of this device you have to 1 Install MSN messenger on your PC To download MSN messenger and apply MSN IDs and passwords please go to http www msn com 2 Apply an MSN ID and password for...

Page 45: ...t message after clicking the Test button you might have typed in the wrong address or password please retype them in the relevant boxes and test again Please ensure both of sender and receiver have be...

Page 46: ...ce Click to mark or clear the check box Service provider The website that provides DDNS service Please select noip dyndns from the drop list Domain name The hostname that you have applied for the devi...

Page 47: ...es with this device To open the Option page click Service on the configuration categories list Note Services may not be available if y HD is not installed Please install HD and build RAID disk y HD is...

Page 48: ...ity Allow FTP clients to connect with the device without username password authentication Code page Select a code that fits your computer Note a Please DO NOT use the number 80 and 8080 as the FTP por...

Page 49: ...ht corner of the screen automatically Right click the icon to access to the GUI interface directly Users that have no icon shows on your screen please click My Computer My Network Places Show icons fo...

Page 50: ...an the audio file in the media folder of this device which will be shown on the iTune client software list later Note iTunes service may not be available if y HD is not installed Please install HD and...

Page 51: ...timedia files with other clients in this device you have to put files into the media folder first Please perform the following steps 1 Click Start Run on your PC 2 Enter the IP Address then click OK t...

Page 52: ...4 Put multimedia files that you want to share here 5 Open UPnP AV or iTunes to check your sharing Note You can download the latest iTunes software from official Apple website http www apple com 51...

Page 53: ...or not Upload The maximum upload speed Download The maximum download speed Note a If your NAS device is located behind firewall please contact administrator to open port 6882 for BT user or port 4662...

Page 54: ...Start Run on your PC 2 Enter the IP Address then click OK to access the folders 3 Click share folder p2p folder and you will see three sub folders inside p2p folder 4 Get a torrent file for downloadi...

Page 55: ...ers of this device are warned against illegal downloading of copyrighted materials The P2P embedded functionality is provided for downloading authorized files only Downloading or distributing of unaut...

Page 56: ...extensions are not installed To create RAID disk please refer to RAID on page 78 to install firmware extensions please refer to Firmware Upgrade Firmware extension loaded on page 38 3 Open the Printe...

Page 57: ...our CD that came with your printer Click the Have Disk button 9 Browse to the driver in your CD Click Open to browse the driver Tip The correct driver is usually the file with the product name in Inf...

Page 58: ...10 Click the OK button to start driver installation 11 The printer is ready for use now 57...

Page 59: ...execute The clean button can be used to clean all MySQL database Note i After activating MySQL please go to http your IP address phpMyAdmin and do more configurations ii MySQL service may not be avail...

Page 60: ...your IP address cpg and do more configurations For more information please refer to http coppermine gallery net demo cpg14x docs index htm b Photo gallery service may not be available if y HD is not...

Page 61: ...the Init button to initialize the photo gallery 3 In the Photo Gallery page fill in Username and password and then click on Let s Go 4 After completed installation click on Let s continue to go on the...

Page 62: ...o gallery please follow the steps below c On the top of the page click on Admin mode d Click on Config to do basic configurations e Click on the Language Charset settings f In the Language drop down l...

Page 63: ...on Albums b Click on the New button to set up a new folder c In the blank fill in the album name d Click on Apply modifications to apply e Click CONTINUE to go on the procedure f The album thumbnail s...

Page 64: ...g Click Upload file to upload files g Click on Browse to select your files and then click on CONTINUE to upload 63...

Page 65: ...the files in 192 168 1 2 www cpg albums and follow the steps below 1 Click on the Batch add files button 2 Click on the folder you wish to upload 3 The page shows the files in the folder click OK to...

Page 66: ...4 The page shows the thumbnail files in the folder Click to mark the checkbox and select the album you wish to upload to After selection please click on the Insert selected files button to continue 65...

Page 67: ...it files to do more configurations of the picture click on Album properties to do more configurations of the album or click on Thumbnail view to see the uploaded file in a thumbnail view 6 This is the...

Page 68: ...users groups and folders To open the Account page click Account on the configuration categories list User configuration The User page allows users to y Add users y Delete users y Modify user propertie...

Page 69: ...again to confirm the password User description limited to 48 characters Fill in a description as a note for the user FTP enable Select Yes to allow this user to access the device with FTP client Selec...

Page 70: ...ge the user s properties by modifying the settings on each item Note For more information about each item see To add a new user on page 67 3 To change the user name click the Change name button The ch...

Page 71: ...Group configuration The Group page allows users to y Add groups y Delete groups y Modify group properties 70...

Page 72: ...16 characters Enter a group name as the group ID Note The first group name must start with an alphabet Group description limited to 48 characters Fill in description as a note for the group Authorized...

Page 73: ...to remove the group To configure a group 1 Move the cursor onto the icon of the group that you wish to configure 2 Modify the properties for the group Click Apply to execute the modification or click...

Page 74: ...users to y Add folders y Delete folders y Modify folder properties Note The share media and www folders are the system default folders You are not allowed to delete or configure them To add a new fold...

Page 75: ...characters The name for the folder Description limited to 48 characters A note for the folder Note y Both folder name and description are alphanumeric y Blank character is not allowed for folder name...

Page 76: ...t you are going to configure The folder configuration page shows up This page allows users to Change folder name description Add or remove authorized users or groups for this folder Change folder acce...

Page 77: ...llowing access permission rules Pre defined Levels Access Authority Authentication free access No authentication Everyone is allowed to get access to this folder without username and password No acces...

Page 78: ...Note Before starting you have to select Current access permission according to the following settings first By group Select an access permission rule for this group and click Save to apply By user Sel...

Page 79: ...sks into a single logical unit to target the aim of providing fault tolerance and improving performance The RAID page shows the Disk information and allows users to create different types of volumes T...

Page 80: ...The product name of HD Capacity The volume of HD Status and Check There are some relevant probabilities between Status and Check information please refer to the following definitions Status Check Defi...

Page 81: ...ode of the RAID Disk Disk Usage The used percentage of the RAID Disk Status The details of the RAID Disk Click Report or Resyncing to see detailed RAID information You will see HD rebuilding informati...

Page 82: ...ed but if one drive fails all data in the array will be lost RAID 1 2 RAID 1 provides mirroring data over both disks Select this mode to assure data integrity but the storing capacity is equal to a si...

Page 83: ...uired time depends on the mode you select and the capacity of your hard disk drive ex For a 100G HDD it may take 1 hour to rebuild in RAID 1 mode but take about 5 minutes to rebuild in RAID 0 mode Ple...

Page 84: ...SB storage for more than 4 partitions Type The format type of the connected USB eSATA storage device Size The volume of the connected USB eSATA storage device Remove button Click this button to safely...

Page 85: ...p format on your NAS 1 Double click the shortcut on your desktop 2 Click the icon on system tray The EZIP Backup window pops up You may click the button to close this program or click the button to mi...

Page 86: ...his folder Select the time that you are going to execute backup Click Setting Apply Note You may also mark the Disable Schedule Backup checkbox to disable EZIP Backup to backup your files by schedule...

Page 87: ...s not EXT3 ex NTFS Please format it with the provided Format tool The HD maybe broken Please change another HD and try again 4 I use the device as a Web FTP server but the users that outside the LAN c...

Page 88: ...ter server functionality you can refer to Management Guide Service Printer on page 55 for more information You may select an incompatible printer driver Click Start Setup Control Panel Double click th...

Page 89: ...Default Button One Power On Off Switch Button Connection speed 10 100 1000 Mbps Support Hard Diskette 1 eSATA HDD up to 1TB 4 removable 3 5 SATA interface HDD up to 1TB for each bay Diagnostic LEDs Po...

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