Lenovo px2-300d User manual

px2-300d Network Storage
with LifeLine 4.1
User Guide

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CONTENTS
Setting up Your px2-300d Network Storage 1
Setup Overview 2
About the px2-300d Device Components 3
Front Panel 3
Drive Bay Access 4
Rear Panel 5
Default Settings 5
Connecting the px2-300d Network Storage to Your Network 6
Check Package Contents 6
Connecting the px2-300d 6
Safety Information 8
Accessing Your Device If It's Not Discovered 9
Direct Access Using the Device IP Address or Model Name 9
Discovery Using LenovoEMC Storage Manager 9
Discovering the px2-300d Using Your Computer OS 9
Setting Up Favorite Features 11
Setting Up Additional Features 12
Device Setup 13
Device Configuration Options 15
Network Settings 16
Manually Configuring Network Settings 17
Bonding NICs 18
VLAN Settings 19
Naming Your px2-300d Network Storage 20
Configuring Your px2-300d Network Storage to Use Active Directory 21
Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains 22
Customizing Access to Features on Your px2-300d Network Storage 23
Enabling the Display of Features 23
Enabling Access Permissions to Features 23
Non-Administrator User Log In 24
Obtaining Alerts About Your px2-300d Network Storage 25
Tracing Events on Your px2-300d Network Storage 26
Downloading the complete event log file 26
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Obtaining System Status for Your px2-300d Network Storage 27
Space Usage 27
Control Panel 27
Device Information 27
Using Your px2-300d Network Storage in Various Time Zones 29
Setting the Display Language for Your px2-300d Network Storage 30
Printing Documents 31
Securing Your px2-300d Network Storage and Contents 32
How Do I Secure My px2-300d Network Storage? 33
Security Settings 34
Users and Groups 35
Users and Groups Overview 36
Users 36
Groups 36
How Access Rights Are Granted Using Groups in Workgroup Mode 36
Adding Users 37
Managing Users 38
Changing User Information 38
Changing User Access Permissions 39
Setting Quotas 39
Deleting Users 39
Adding Groups 40
Managing Groups 41
Removing a User from the Group 41
Changing Group Access Permissions 41
Deleting Groups 42
Using Active Directory Domain 43
Active Directory Users and Groups Overview 44
Managing Active Directory Users and Groups 45
Importing Users and Groups from Active Directory 45
Synchronizing with the Active Directory Controller 45
Changing Access Permissions 46
Setting Quotas 46
Deleting an Active Directory User or Group 46
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Managing Your px2-300d Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 47
Enabling Active Directory after Creating Users in Workgroup Mode 47
Logging in to Your px2-300d 47
Creating Local Users and Groups in Active Directory Mode 47
Creating Share Permissions for AD Users and Local Users 48
Switching to Workgroup Mode from Active Directory 48
Sharing Files 49
Sharing Overview 50
Interfaces for Sharing 50
Shares 51
What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? 51
Adding Shares 52
Managing Shares 53
Deleting Shares 55
Using Protocols to Share Files 56
What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? 56
AFP File Sharing for Macs 56
Bluetooth File Sharing 56
FTP File Sharing 57
TFTP 57
NFS File Sharing 57
rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers 58
Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool 59
Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https) 60
WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS 60
Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System 60
Windows File Sharing 61
Sharing Content through the Home Page 62
Sharing Your Content with the World 62
Adding a Custom Home Page 62
Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once 64
How to Set Up an Email Distribution Active Folder 64
Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 65
Managing Your Content 66
Transferring Content to and from Your px2-300d Network Storage with Copy Jobs 67
Copy Jobs Limitations 67
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Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device 68
Safely removing external storage 68
One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 69
Setting QuikTransfer 69
Drive Management 70
Managing Drives 71
Write Caching 71
Global Drive Management Settings 71
Storage Pool Information 72
Drive Status 72
Adding New Drives to Your px2-300d Network Storage 73
Storage Pool Management 75
Understanding How Your Content Is Stored 76
Storage Pools 76
Volumes 76
Adding and Managing Storage Pools 77
Adding a Data Storage Pool 77
Improving Performance with a Cache Storage Pool 78
Creating a Cache Storage Pool 78
Assigning a Cache Pool to a Volume 79
Volumes 80
Snapshots 80
Exposing/Unexposing the Snapshot 81
Restoring a Snapshot 81
Deleting a Snapshot 81
Displaying Shares in the Snapshot 81
Make the Snapshot Read-only 81
Changing Expose Mode 81
Adding and Managing Volumes 82
Deleting a Storage Pool 84
Changing RAID Protection Types 85
iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 86
iSCSI Overview 87
Adding iSCSI Drives 88
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Enabling iSCSI Drives 88
Connecting to iSCSI Drives 88
Managing iSCSI Drives 89
Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive 89
Deleting iSCSI Drives 90
Backing up and Restoring Your Content 91
Backup and Restore Overview 92
Backup of Data through RAID Protection 92
Backing up to and Restoring from Your px2-300d Network Storage 93
Backing up Macs with Time Machine 93
One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 93
Copy Jobs Overview 94
Backing up Your px2-300d Network Storage 95
Copy Jobs 95
From: Settings 96
To: Settings 97
Setting a Schedule 97
Registering with Avamar for Backup and Restore 99
Backing up with Amazon S3 100
Restoring Files with Amazon S3 100
Backing up with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 101
Restoring Files with Personal Cloud 101
Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the
World 102
What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ? 103
LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Key Terms 103
Is My Content Secure? 104
Creating a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 105
Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud 106
Router Port Forwarding 106
Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 107
Enabling Internet Access to the px2-300d 107
Changing Personal Cloud Settings 107
Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 108
Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 109
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Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud 110
Disconnecting Trusted Devices 110
Deleting Trusted Devices 110
Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 111
Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 112
Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 113
Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 114
Sharing Content Using Social Media 115
Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 116
Facebook 117
Flickr 118
YouTube 119
Share Content through LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 120
Media Management 121
Media Management Overview 122
Scanning for Media Content 122
Media Services Capabilities and Limitations 123
Sharing Media Content over the Internet 124
Enabling Internet Access from the Media Server Page 124
Media Aggregation 125
Enabling Media Aggregation 125
Social Media Sharing 126
Streaming Music, Movies, and Pictures 127
Example: Setting up iTunes 127
Example: Setting up Xbox 360 127
Photos 128
Photos Overview 128
Streaming Pictures 128
Creating a Slideshow on the Device Home Page 128
Automatically Resizing Your Photos 128
Getting Pictures from Your Camera 129
Music 130
Music Overview 130
Streaming Music 130
Videos 131
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Video Capabilities Overview 131
Streaming Movies 131
Adding Applications to Your px2-300d Network Storage 132
Application Overview 133
Application Installation 134
Application Manager 135
Starting or stopping an application 135
Adding applications 135
Removing applications 135
Software Updates 136
Auto-update process: installing a device software update 136
Manual update process: installing a device software update 136
Backing up and Recovering Your px2-300d Network Storage Settings 138
Backing Up Your px2-300d Network Storage Settings 139
Backing up Device Configuration 139
Restoring a Configuration Backup 139
Hardware Management 140
Energy Saving 141
Power Down Drives 141
Brightness 141
Wake On LAN 141
Creating a Power Schedule 141
Factory Reset 142
UPS Management 143
Troubleshooting Routers 144
Enabling the DMZ 144
Configuring Port Forwarding on Double NAT Networks 145
Bridging the Secondary Router 145
Bridging the Primary Router 145
Additional Support 147
How to Get Help 148
Support 149
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Legal 150
Open Source 151
Warranty Information 152
Limited Warranty Notice 152
Limited Warranty for Iomega Products 152
Regulatory Information 153
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement 153
Canadian Verification 153
European Union - Compliance to the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive 154
Important WEEE Information 154
European Union RoHS 154
India RoHS 154
California Perchlorate Information 155
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice 155
Recycling and environmental information 155
Export classification notice 155
Copyright and Trademark Information 156
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