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Metal Gear Box NAS User Guide 

 

 

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Страница 1: ...Metal Gear Box NAS User Guide ...

Страница 2: ...t page 15 1 Manage the Users and Groups 16 A To add a user 16 B To delete a user 16 C To place a user into a group 16 2 File Management 17 A File Server 17 B FTP Server Setting 18 C NFS Server Setting 18 D Guest Access Setting 19 E Share Management 20 3 System Settings 21 A Network Setting 21 B Time Setting 22 C Turn Off Server 22 D Information 23 E Disk Usage 23 4 Maintenance 24 A Disk Utility 24...

Страница 3: ...nge or WWW and would be identified as an accessible storage disk through Network Neighborhood Microsoft Windows Apple Macintosh OS or Linux Samba with user group privilege setting function equipped it could even prevent important data files from being accessed by unauthorized people Using a NAS you don t have to keep your original data center PC server operating all day long anymore a smaller size...

Страница 4: ...users could use it as a NAS where network connection is available or bring it as a portable HDD external enclosure accessing it via its USB 2 0 client jack This dual functionality design gives users a great deal of flexibility to access the unit anytime anywhere First time Hardware Installation Content Check List Hard disk drive may come pre installed or leave to user s integration 4 ...

Страница 5: ... Up System Fan Speed Available Disk Capacity System Power On Duration After system boots up the IP address assigned to this unit will be displayed for 30 minutes Then the current system will be displayed The display will rotate in the following order System Time IP Address System Temperature System Fan Speed Disk Space Power On Duration Back to System Time 5 ...

Страница 6: ...already has hard disk drive installed Please skip this step and jump to step 2 Open the upper cover of Metal Gear Box NAS through the 2 screws located in the back end of Metal Gear Box NAS with your hands 2 Uncover the upper case take out the HDD rack and fix your HDD onto the rack with the attached screws 6 ...

Страница 7: ...3 Put the HDD with the HDD rack back into Metal Gear Box NAS and fix it with attached screws cover the upper case up 4 Using the hand screwed screws to get the upper case fixed on Metal Gear Box NAS 7 ...

Страница 8: ...e and power adapter core into the LAN and DC IN plugs Metal Gear Box NAS would boot up with NAS mode y If you are plugging the attached USB cable and power adapter core into the USB and DC IN plugs Metal Gear Box NAS would boot up with USB HDD external enclosure mode y If you are plugging the attached RJ 45 USB cables and power adapter core into the LAN USB and DC IN plugs Metal Gear Box NAS would...

Страница 9: ...After booting up you can use your PC laptop computer to search and add this printer as a Network Printer 7 Plug the other side of the RJ 45 cable into your PC laptop or your Ethernet HUB This is very important for Metal Gear Box NAS when booting up Metal Gear Box NAS would automatically detect whether the operation mode is NAS function or USB hard disk drive external enclosure by identifying if th...

Страница 10: ...for at least 3 seconds to turn on the system power Note Due to its sophisticated software design the system may take up to 3 minutes to boot During the booting process the icon Booting on the front panel flashes When the system finishes booting the IP address assigned to this device will be shown on the display 10 ...

Страница 11: ...d enter the administration page Metal Gear Box NAS would inform us that our HDD needs to be formatted If we re not using a whole new HDD here please go directly to Control Panel Maintenance Disk Utility to use Metal Gear Box NAS format tool To using Metal Gear Box NAS as both a NAS and USB 2 0 HDD external enclosure we need to format our HDD here into FAT32 file system format please don t use your...

Страница 12: ...or direct connection to a computer please make sure the IP address of your computer is located in 169 254 X X range if not please change your original IP address within the 169 254 X X address range here we use 169 254 100 34 for example i For Microsoft Windows users we use XP Home Professional for your reference here Please click Start Control Panel Network Connections Right click the network con...

Страница 13: ...with this path Local Macintosh Hard Disk System Folder Control Panels TCP IP The control panel will look like this Select Using Static IP address set your PC NB IP address to 169 254 100 34 Netmask to 255 255 0 0 Click Ok twice to complete the setting Please jump to step 2 for advanced setting instruction Metal Gear Box NAS also supports Bonjour runs under Mac OSX Tiger 13 ...

Страница 14: ...omputer s file manager software to connect to Metal Gear Box NAS user interface Identifying and using Metal Gear Box NAS on your network After completing the hard disk format procedure the default enabled Anonymous access function would enable you identify Metal Gear Box NAS on your windows based Network Neighborhood The default NetBEUI name of Metal Gear Box NAS is metalgearboxnas you could type ...

Страница 15: ...rd drive Special Note even the hard drive is preformatted in other system and contains data the disk will not be recognized until the system performs it own format process All data will be deleted Please backup the data to some other places before proceeding or get a brand new hard disk drive For the first time setup just complete the six step wizard to get the system up and running To access the ...

Страница 16: ...create the account B To delete a user i Click on the account you want to delete from the Existing Users list ii Click the Delete User on the bottom and click Yes to delete C To place a user into a group i If you want to file an account into an existed Group click the account in the Existing Users list and click Groups on the bottom the screen would show the current existing Groups you could use Ad...

Страница 17: ...rs created on Metal Gear Box NAS to access it i Windows Setting ii You could enable this setting to let Metal Gear Box NAS be recognized by other Microsoft Windows based PC NB through the Networking Neighborhood Just set Metal Gear Box NAS into the same Workgroup as your PC NB then it could be identified automatically as a computer device by your PC NB when you try to explore any new computer thro...

Страница 18: ...ecify the transfer port FTP default transfer port is 21 while it s often attacked by hackers we provide you the flexibility to change the port 100 65535 would be recommended C NFS Server Setting NFS Network File System is a service supported by Linux based system to let users access the other devices through network Metal Gear Box NAS supports NFS service so you can enable disable it by check unch...

Страница 19: ...ccess function to allow forbid anonymous users entering Metal Gear Box NAS furthermore the Enable Quota function could let you limit the storage capacity assigned for anonymous users The Disk Quota function are not supported by using FAT32 format HDD To complete the setting please click Save at the bottom to implement the changes you ve made 19 ...

Страница 20: ...S add a description on it ii Click Windows FTP Access to grant the share you ve created from being able to be accessed through Microsoft Windows Network Neighborhood and other FTP clients iii Click NFS Access to grant the share you ve created from being able to be accessed through NFS service clients iv If you want to delete a share folder select it from the Existing Shares list and click Delete S...

Страница 21: ... 169 254 X X And you could change the IP address related settings here i Hostname This is what Metal Gear Box NAS would be identified in your network ii IP Address Setting iii The IP address related settings DHCP Static IP and the DNS settings could be set up here iv You could also see the MAC address of Metal Gear Box NAS here sometimes you would need this information to set up Metal Gear Box NAS...

Страница 22: ...d automatically help you correct the time on Metal Gear Box NAS NTP function could ONLY work under the network environment which could connect onto Internet for correcting Metal Gear Box NAS time C Turn Off Server This function enables you to Restart or Turn off Metal Gear Box NAS through remote side simply click Restart or Turn off to execute the functions 22 ...

Страница 23: ...pgrading reference hardware version and the current IP address it uses E Disk Usage Through this function you could check the left capacity and the usage percentage of the HDD storage in Metal Gear Box NAS You could view it from the whole HDD view or a single user usage view by selecting it from the up right side roll down menu 23 ...

Страница 24: ...Gear Box NAS If you want to use Metal Gear Box NAS as a USB 2 0 external enclosure for Windows systems please format the HDD with FAT32 format for ext2 ext3 could be recognized only for UNIX Linux based systems B Firmware Upgrade You could upgrade the firmware from here If you re not using a certified file for upgrading and results in the damage of Metal Gear Box NAS would charge the customer for ...

Страница 25: ...click Save and choose the destination where you want to store the configuration settings on your PC NB and click OK to download it D Restore Configuration If you want to restore the settings click Browse to locate the previous configuration settings backup you ve made and click Restore to execute the restore process 25 ...

Страница 26: ...nd You could change the password choose get the account related storage usage information by entering Personal Info Only an Admin account can access the Metal Gear Box NAS system related configuration Control Panel for setting up it a single user account can only enter Personal Info area for password changing a getting storage usage information Log Out eep unknown users accessing Metal Gear Box Re...

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