Galaxy 3508NAS User manual

Metal Gear Box NAS User Guide

Index
What is NAS?......................................................................................3
Metal Gear Box NAS Introduction .....................................................4
First time Hardware Installation.......................................................4
Booting up Metal Gear Box NAS........................................................5
Notice: Format Your HDD using Metal Gear Box NAS Disk Utility
format software. .......................................................................11
How to set up Metal Gear Box NAS .................................................12
Identifying and using Metal Gear Box NAS on your network.........14
Entering the system management 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
B. Firmware Upgrade...................................................................................... 24
C. Save Configuration..................................................................................... 25
D. Restore Configuration................................................................................ 25
E. Factory Reset .............................................................................................. 26
Account Management......................................................................26
Log Out............................................................................................26
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What is NAS?
NAS is the abbreviation of Network Attached Storage, which represents a HDD
based storage box can be connected with a RJ-45 network cable. It could be
accessed by all the devices located on the same IP network range, some
advanced version could be also connected by a outside device (i.e. another IP
network range 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, more stable, less
power-consumption, less heat, less cost, easier to access device would make
your life more convenient!
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Metal Gear Box NAS Introduction
What’s the difference?
Metal Gear Box NAS, it’s not only an ease of use network storage, with it’s
integrated USB client chip, it is a dual-function HDD box, 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.
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About the Metal Gear Box NAS Display
System Time
System in NAS Mode
System IP Address
System in USB Mode
System Temperature
System Shutting Down
System Booting 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
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Booting up Metal Gear Box NAS
Assembly
1. Put in a hard disk drive, if the Metal Gear Box NAS version you got 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.
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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.
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5. Metal Gear Box NAS equips with SMART User Mode Auto-Detection
function, it could automatically operate under the mode you want to use
(NAS / USB HDD external enclosure) through the cable you are plugging
into：
yIf you are plugging the attached RJ-45 cable and power adapter core
into the “LAN” and “DC IN” plugs, Metal Gear Box NAS would boot up
with NAS mode.
yIf 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.
yIf 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 boot up with NAS mode for higher boot-up priority.
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6. Metal Gear Box NAS provides Printer Server function, if you want to use
Metal Gear Box NAS as your printer server in your LAN environment,
please plug the USB cable of the printer into the back end of Metal Gear
Box NAS before you boot up it. 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 there’s any activity from RJ-45 network side.)
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8. Plug the other side of the power core into the power plug.
9. Press and hold the power switch at the front panel 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.)
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If you need to restore the default system settings in Metal Gear Box NAS,
please use a sharp-pointed item such as a pen to press the “RESET” button in
the back end of Metal Gear Box NAS when it operates, it would automatically
shut down and boot up again to restore all the default system settings.
Notice: Format Your HDD using the embedded Metal Gear Box NAS
Disk format Utility. After we boot up Metal Gear Box NAS and 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 Windows based PC/laptop to format the HDD, for Windows
embedded format utility could only format a HDD partition no more
than 32GB, it’s quite inconvenient if you’re using a large volume
HDD in Metal Gear Box NAS.
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How to set up Metal Gear Box NAS
1. After Metal Gear Box NAS is booted up, use a web browser (i.e. Microsoft
Internet Explorer) to login Metal Gear Box NAS, there would be some
different steps needed to be taken accordingly.
A. For users have a DHCP server in your network environment, (home
environment with DSL or cable modem router or office
environment…) http://(the IP address shown on the display panel),
for example, http://192.168.1.207
B. For users don’t have a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
based network environment (no internet access 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 connection you’re using.
♦Choose “Properties”->“General” tag, double-left-click Internet
Protocol (TCP/IP) to enter the configuration window
♦Choose “General”->”Using the following 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.
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ii. For Apple Macintosh users. (we use OSX for your reference here)
♦Select the “Open Transport Control Panel” from the “Control
Panels” folder in the “Apple” or open the file directly 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.
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2. Log in Metal Gear Box NAS using its default IP address “169.254.X.X,”
(Non-DHCP based network), if you’re under a DHCP based environment,
use the delivery-attached SearchNAS.exe to find the Metal Gear Box NAS IP
address or directly type the default Network Neighbor name
“\\metalgearboxnas” in your computer’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
“\\metalgearboxnas” in a file browser and access its anonymous access area
for file exchanging.
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Entering the system management page
Type in the default administrator account and password, the default account
and password are both “admin” to log in, you can see the following screen
If the hard disk drive is not formatted, user will be asked to format the hard
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 storage space, type \\MetalGearBoxNAS under Network Places.
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1. Manage the Users and Groups
You could manage the user accounts through “Control Panel”->“Users and
Groups”.
A. To add a user.
i. Fill in the desired new user account and password (twice for
confirming), you could decide whether the Private folder would be
created or not, and enable/disable the disk quota.
The “Disk Quota” function are not supported by using FAT32
format HDD.
ii. Click “Save” to 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
“Add” or “Remove” to manage the account adopting Groups level
privileges, click “Save” to finish the Group setting.
P.S. You could manage your groups in the same way to add/remove
an account.
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2. File Management
Metal Gear Box NAS is a sharing center for you to share your data, files,
music, movies with authorized users by your own. Here you can set the
related information for your Metal Gear Box NAS to be recognized on the
intranet where it operates.
A. File Server
Through File Server settings, you could decide what and how the users
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 through “Networking Neighborhood.” If
you have a WINS server operating in your intranet, simply fill its IP
address into the “WINS Server” column.
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B. FTP Server Setting
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method for you to use FTP client logging
into Metal Gear Box NAS and upload/download files. You could
enable/disable the service here by check/uncheck the square and
specify 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/uncheck the square here.
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D. Guest Access Setting
What if someone doesn’t have an account on Metal Gear Box NAS but
wants to access it? You could enable/disable the Guest Access 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.
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E. Share Management
Share Management including the functions to manage “how” you share
the data/files stored on Metal Gear Box NAS.
i. You could simply create a Share Name and specify the actual path in
your Metal Gear Box NAS, 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 Share” at the bottom.
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