ZyXEL Communications NSA325 Installation and operating instructions

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NSA325 v2
Application note
Version 2.00
June, 2015

Content
Chapter 1 –Applications
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1. NAS Starter Utility ...................................................................................................... 1
1.1 NAS Starter Utility Installation........................................................................ 1
1.2 NSA325 v2 Initialization.................................................................................. 2
1.3 Network Setting................................................................................................ 4
1.4 zPilot................................................................................................................... 4
1.5 Directory............................................................................................................ 5
1.6 Device Management........................................................................................ 6
1.7 Media Player..................................................................................................... 7
2. Auto-upload Service................................................................................................. 10
2.1 Auto-upload Pictures to Flickr...................................................................... 10
3. Package Management ............................................................................................ 16
3.1 BackupPlanner ............................................................................................... 18
3.2 Gallery.............................................................................................................. 30
3.3 Memopal.......................................................................................................... 33
3.4 NFS .................................................................................................................. 38
3.5 Polkast............................................................................................................. 46
3.6 SMART ............................................................................................................ 52
3.7 SqueezeCenter............................................................................................... 54
3.8 Transmission................................................................................................... 59
3.9 WordPress....................................................................................................... 64
3.10 eMule............................................................................................................. 70
3.11 DyDNS........................................................................................................... 77
3.12 Google Drive................................................................................................. 81
3.13 NZBGet.......................................................................................................... 88
3.14 ownCloud ...................................................................................................... 96
3.15 PHP-MySQL-phpMyAdmin ...................................................................... 106

3.16 pyLoad......................................................................................................... 111
3.17 Syslog Server............................................................................................. 118
3.18 TFTP............................................................................................................ 122
4. Dropbox ................................................................................................................... 126
4.1 Using the zDownload Folder...................................................................... 129
5. Smartphone APP.................................................................................................... 130
5.1 File Browser.................................................................................................. 131
6. Network.................................................................................................................... 132
7. Access NSA325 v2 via Samba on Linux............................................................ 133
8. Login to NSA325 v2 via FTP on Linux................................................................ 135
9. Login to NSA325 v2 via Telnet on Linux............................................................. 139
Chapter 2 – FAQ
................................................................................................................. 141
1. What is RAID? ........................................................................................................ 141
2. What kind of RAID is supported by the NSA325 v2?........................................ 141
3. What is the file system supported by the NSA325 v2?..................................... 141
4. Which kind of multimedia server does the NSA325 v2 support?.................... 141
5. Does the NSA325 v2 support a DLNA media server?...................................... 141
6. What is the feature “Wake On LAN”?.................................................................. 141
7. Which types of video file formats are supported by the NSA325 v2?............ 142
8. Which types of audio file formats are supported by the NSA325 v2?............ 142
9. Which types of image file formats are supported by the NSA325 v2?........... 142
10. Which types of web browsers are supported by the NSA325 v2?............... 142
11. Why is Dropbox account registration failing so that there is no way to set up
the account?................................................................................................................ 142
12. Why can’t the newly created account be registered on the NSA325v2?....... 143
13. How can users register an account on Memopal? ........................................... 143
14. Why can’t the PC/NB mount a NAS NFS share folder?................................... 144
15. How can an NFS share be mounted on Windows 7?...................................... 145

16. Why can’t the PC/NB connect to the NAS TFTP server and instead shows the
error “tftp is not recognized as an internal or external command”?....................... 145
17. Why can users ping the NAS and log into it but TFTP connection requests fail?
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18. How can users access the SQL databases of WordPress, Gallery, ownCloud
and SqueezeCenter from phpMyAdmin?................................................................. 146
19. Does the NAS325 v2 support MySQL commands through Telnet?............... 146
20. What can be done if the screen is stuck at "Discovering connection
information" while associating the NAS device with the Polkast account?.......... 147
21. Why can’t the Time Machine volume be found on the NSA325 v2? .............. 147
22. Why can’t the data be backed up to the target NSA volume?......................... 148
23. What is the solution for when the progress bar gets stuck at 98% after deleting
a volume?..................................................................................................................... 148
24. What can be done if the status of the volume shows as Degraded?............. 148
25. Does WordPress let users customize site themes, including the blog’s
skin/interface?.............................................................................................................. 148
26. How can users create backups and restore posts, pages, comments, custom
fields, categories and tags from the WordPress GUI?............................................ 149
27. Where should I put my media files so the Twonky media server can find it? 150
28. Why can’t I access the Townky server’s GUI through http://IP:8080?........... 150
29. In Windows, why can’t I see the NAS’s media server appeared in Windows
Media Player?.............................................................................................................. 150
30. Why does my media player not show the right track information?................. 150
31. Which type of files can ZyXEL media server support?..................................... 151
32. What can’t my syslog server receive logs from a remote syslog client?........ 152
33. Why can’t my NAS download files via NZBGet?............................................... 152
34. Where to find the NAS’s log files that help diagnose problems with starting,
running, or using SqueezeCenter? ........................................................................... 152
35. Why can’t I telnet to the NSA325v2 from my Windows 7? .............................. 153
36. How should I do if I fail to connect to the remote NAS when I configure the
remote backup target?................................................................................................ 154
37. Why can’t I back up/restore files to/from the set remote target folder?.......... 154

38. Why did I fail to access my NSA325v2 behind a router using its host name?
....................................................................................................................................... 154
39. I have entered my Gmail address and the SMTP server. Why can I still not get
any log reports in my e-mail?..................................................................................... 155
40. Can iPad or iPhone connect to the NAS’s iTunes server? .............................. 157
41. Can Apple TV connect to the NAS’s iTunes server?........................................ 158
42. Can a Windows PC/NB connect to the NAS’s iTunes server? ....................... 158
43. What is the maximum number of download tasks the NAS can handle at the
same time?................................................................................................................... 158
44. Why can’t I set up the account with my YouTube account for the auto upload
feature on the NAS?.................................................................................................... 158
45. Why can’t the pictures be automatically uploaded to my Flickr account?...... 160
46. How to enlarge a photo when I preview it on my screen in Gallery?.............. 160
47. How to limit guests to see the photos in Gallery?............................................. 162
48. A user forgot the password to log into Gallery. How can the administrator help
him? .............................................................................................................................. 162
49. Can I limit the download speed in pyLoad?....................................................... 163
50. Can I download FTP files using pyLoad on the NAS?..................................... 165
51. Where can a user find the downloaded files from Transmission on the NAS?
....................................................................................................................................... 167
52. How can a user change the download/upload rate with Transmission?........ 167
53. How can a user set a download schedule with Transmission?....................... 168
54. Can I limit a guest user’s storage space and the number of share groups in
ownCloud?................................................................................................................... 168
55. Can I change the uploading size for ownCloud?.............................................. 170
56. Why can’t I download files via the eMule application in the NAS? ................. 171
Referance............................................................................................................................. 171

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Chapter 1 –Applications
1. NAS Starter Utility
1.1 NAS Starter Utility Installation
After you install a new hard drive on the NSA325 v2, please make sure to use
the NAS Starter Utility to discover and access the NSA325 v2 to assign an IP
address by the DHCP server or a static option. The steps are as below.
a. Double-click setup.exe. NSU_2.10_build_1057
b. Click “Next” to begin the installation.
Figure 1.Click “Next”.Figure 2.Select a folder to install the utility.
Figure 3.Click “Install”.Figure 4.NSU Installation is processing.

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Figure 5.Installation is finished.
1.2 NSA325 v2 Initialization
After a successful installation, click on the “NAS Starter Utility”. The first
screen of the NSU will try to discover the NSA devices. Click on “NAS
Seeker”, and then choose the devices that you want to connect.
Figure 6.NAS Discovery. Figure 7.NAS Seeker.
Then click Run the Initialization Wizard to setup the NSA325 v2, and enter
the username and password to start the initialization. The default username is
admin and the password is 1234. These two words are case sensitive.
Figure 8. Run Initialization. Figure 9.Enter username and password.

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Choose Default Configuration or Manual Configuration and then click
Next. Here, we recommend that users use Default Configuration. For
security purposes, we suggest the users change the admin’s password.
Figure 10.Choose a wizard type. Figure 11.Change the password.
Check if the settings are correct and click Next to begin configuring the
NSA325 v2.
Figure 12.Confirm settings.
Figure 13.NAS is under setting.
Figure 13.Configuration is finished.

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1.3 Network Setting
After successful initialization, go back to the NSU main menu and click
Configuration > System Setting to start configuring. You can assign a new
hostname for this NSA325 v2, set the TimeZone and PPPoE connection
information as well as an IP address for the NSA325 v2.
Figure 14.NSU main menu.
Figure 15.Configure an IP address for
NSA325 v2.
1.4 zPilot
Click zPilot to launch zPilot. When you would like to upload files to NSA325
v2, just drag the files onto the zPilot icon. The files will be automatically
uploaded and sorted based on their types: Music, Photos and Videos. The
files which are not categorized in Music, Photos or Videos will be uploaded to
the Public folder.
Figure 16.NSU main menu. Figure 17.Enter the username and password
to login.
Figure 18.zPilot icon

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When users double-click on the zPilot icon, the detail status of zPilot will be
shown as follows. Click Clean Completed to clear the finished tasks.
Figure 19.The zPilot is transferring files to
NSA325 v2.
1.5 Directory
Click Network Drive and enter your username and password. Then the
directory of NSA325 v2 will appear. You will see the files that you uploaded
through zPilot automatically categorized by their types.
Figure 20.NSU main menu. Figure 21.Enter the username and
password to login.
Figure 22.Select the NAS folder for directly on the PC Figure 23.Directory of NSA325 v2.

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Figure 24.Use Guest to login. Figure 25.You are able to select that NSA
has shared public folder for directly on the PC.
Figure 26.Directory of NSA325 v2.
1.6 Device Management
Click Configuration > Administrator and enter the admin’s username and
password to access the NSA325 v2’s GUI. Then the administrator can
manage the device and change the configurations.
Figure 27. NSU main menu.
Figure 28. Enter admin’s username and
password to login to the GUI.

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Figure 29. NSA325 v2’s GUI
1.7 Media Player
Click Media Player to enjoy the music, videos, and photos through the web
browser.
Figure 30.NSU main menu. Figure 31.Enter the username and
password. The username can be admin
or other regular users.

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The Home screen displays. You can click on the icon to listen to the music,
watch the movies, or enjoy the photos stored in the NSA325 v2.
Figure 32.NSA325 v2 Home Screen.
You can select one category in the list to play the music.
Figure 33.Play the music by selecting the category.
Just click on the song to start playing the music.
Figure 34.Music folder.

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Figure 35.Music files.
If you find that the media files are not displayed correctly, please check the
status in Applications > Media Server. Usually, you will see the photos
displayed.

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2. Auto-upload Service
ZyXEL NSA325 v2 allows users to automatically upload their pictures to the
Flickr website ( http://www.Flickr.com) and video files to the YouTube website
( http://www.youtube.com). Additionally, automatic FTP uploading is
supported in the NSA325 v2. To use this feature, you need to download the
same package as the NSA210’s.
2.1 Auto-upload Pictures to Flickr
To share pictures on the Flickr website (http://www.Flickr.com), the
NSA325 v2 supports automatic uploading of pictures from a given folder
of the NSA325 v2.
Configuration Procedure:
Enable auto-upload in Flickr service.
Configure the account Flickr account information.
Link your NSA325 v2 with your Flickr account.
Specify the folders which you want NSA325 v2 to automatically upload
your pictures.
Specify the grace period and other options in the auto-upload function.
Move pictures to the folders you specified in the previous step.
Check the result in the Flickr website.
Check the system log in the NSA325 v2.
First, log into the web GUI page in NSA325 v2, go to Auto Upload
>Flickr/YouTube. Then, enable Flickr service as shown below. After
enabling the Flickr service, you will see two more icons on the same page.
Figure 36.Enable Flickr service.

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Click on the “config”icon to set a more detailed configuration. There will be
several system Notifications to warn you that you aregoing to link to the Flickr
website. Meanwhile, please make sure that you have the Flickr account
information.
After configuring the account information, the system will inform you about the
connection to Flickr.
In the following pop-up browser, you need to authorize the connection between
your account and your NSA325 v2.
Figure 37. Authorization between your account and NSA325 v2.
The following figure shows that you can agree to this link after clicking on “OK”
button.
Figure 38. Successful authorization.

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After allowing the agreement in the Flickr page, please also click on the “Get
ready”button in the NSA325 v2.
Figure 39. Click on “Get Ready”.
You can check the service status in the NSA325 v2 under Auto Upload >
Flickr/YouTube.
In this case, we can see the storage status in your Fickr account.
Figure 40. Monitor the service status.
Afterwards, users need to set which folder(s) of the NSA325 v2 will be
monitored and uploaded to the Flickr website. In this example, we are going to
set the folder named as ““ under the public folder to be monitored and upload all
the pictures to the Flickr website.

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Figure 41. Configure “Grace Period”in the GUI.
In this example, we have configured the grace period as two minutes. This
means that the NSA325 v2 will upload any newly added pictures from the
folder that you specified after 15 minutes from when you clicked on the
“Apply” button.
Figure 42. Configure “Grace Period”in the GUI.

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Please specify the given folder that the NSA325 v2 will monitor and upload the
pictures after applying the configuration.
Figure 43. Specify the folder.
Please remember to click on the “Apply”button after specifying the given folder.
The NSA325 v2 will monitor any need added pictures in the folder you assigned
after you have clicked on the “Apply” button.
Figure 44. Click on “Apply” after specifying the folder.

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After 15 minutes, the NSA325 v2 will upload the newly added photos to the
Flickr website. In this example, we can see that one picture has been uploaded.
website.
Figure 45. Uploaded photo.