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LaCie d2 Network 2
• DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON
Administering Your LaCie d2 Network 2
User Manual
page 37
4.6. Dashboard: General Settings
This page allows the administrator to modify some of your d2 Net-
work 2’s general parameters.
Machine Name:
Modify the machine name. The machine name
identifies your d2 Network 2 in LaCie Network Assistant and on the
local network.
IMPORTANT INFO:
The machine name is limited to 15 charac-
ters.
Date (mm/dd/yy):
Change the date.
Time:
Change the time.
Language:
Change the Dashboard language.
Time zone:
Change the time zone.
NTP Server:
Click the box, then click the field to the right and type
the address of a Network Time Protocol server to provide the time
for the d2 Network 2 automatically. While NTP is selected, you can’t
modify the time and date settings.
Workgroup:
Modify the Windows workgroup name to set your d2
Network 2 to belong to a certain workgroup.
Domain:
See section
4.6.1. Active Directory
.
TECHNICAL NOTE:
Mac users connected to a network with Win-
dows com puters can also access shares this way by selecting in the
Finder
Network > [Workgroup] > LaCie-d2
where “[Work group]”
is the name of the Windows workgroup.
Toggle Services:
Turn the various services off or on. By default, all
these services are enabled. However, UPnP and Time Machine ser-
vices also need to be enabled at the share level in order to be op-
erative (
4.9. Dashboard: Shares
).
This setting can be overridden at the Share level. See
4.9. Dash-
board: Shares
for details.
✦
SMB:
Toggle this feature to activate/deactivate the SMB net-
work transfer protocol.
✦
AFP:
Toggle this feature to activate/deactivate the AFP (Apple
Filing Protocol).
✦
FTP Service:
Toggle this feature on/off to allow your d2 Net-
work 2 to be accessible via File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Refer
to section
3.5. Accessing Shares through the Internet
for de-
tails on FTP access.
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