ZyXEL Communications NSA310 Installation instructions

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NSA310
Support Note
Version 1.00
July, 2011

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Chapter 1 Applications .............................................................................................................. 3
1. NAS Starter Utility............................................................................................................... 3
2. Auto Upload Service.......................................................................................................... 11
2.1 Auto-upload pictures to Flickr....................................................................................... 11
3. Package Management....................................................................................................... 17
Chapter 2 FAQ ......................................................................................................................... 21
1. What is RAID?....................................................................................................................21
2. What kind of RAID is supported in NSA310?.....................................................................21
3. What is the file system supported in NSA320?................................................................. 21
4. Which kind of the multimedia server does NSA310 support?.......................................... 21
5. Does NSA320 support DLNA media server? ..................................................................... 21
6. Which kinds of video file format are supported by NSA310?...........................................21
7. Which kinds of audio file format are supported by NSA310?...........................................21
8. Which kinds of image file format are supported by SA310?.............................................21
9. What is the feature “Wake On LAN”?...............................................................................22
10. Which kinds of web browsers are supported by NSA310?.............................................22
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1. NAS Starter Utility
1. 1.1 NAS Starter Utility Installation
After you install a new hard drive on the NSA310, please make sure to use the NAS
Starter Utility to discover and access the NSA310 to assign an IP address by DHCP or
a static IP. The steps are as below.
a. Double-click setup.exe.
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.
2. 1.2 NSA310 Initialization
After successful installation, click the “NAS Starter Utility”. The first screen of NSU
shows the result of NSA Discovery. Click your NSA310’s button and click Run the
Initialization Wizard to set up the NAS310. If the connection is green, it means this
NAS is able to be reached by the PC shown in the screen. If the connection is red, this
NAS is not able to be accessed by the PC.
Figure 6. NAS Discovery.
Figure 7. Run Initialization
Then 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. Enter username and password.

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Choose Default Configuration or Manual Configuration and then click Next. Here,
we recommend users use Default Configuration. For security issue, we suggest users
change the admin’s password.
Figure 9. Choose a wizard type
Figure 10. Change the password.
Check if the settings are correct and click Next to begin configuring NSA310.
Figure 11. Confirm settings.
Figure 12. 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 Configure
network setting to start configuring. You can assign a new hostname of this NSA310
and configure an IP for NSA310.
Figure 14. NSU main menu.
Figure 15. Configure an IP for NSA310.
1.4 zPilot
Click Import files or folders with zPilot to launch zPilot. When you would like to
upload files to NSA310, just drag files onto zPilot icon. The files will be automatically
uploaded and sorted based on their types: Music, Photo and Video. The files which
are not the categorized in Music, Photo or Video will be uploaded to the Public
folder.
Figure 15.NSU main menu.
Figure 16. Enter the username and password
to login.
Figure 17. 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 Up to clear finished tasks.
Figure 18.The zPilot is transferring files to
NSA310.
1.5 Directory
Click Show the directory of the NAS and enter your username and password. Then
the directory of NSA310 will pop up. You will see the files you uploaded through
zPilot are automatically categorized by their types.
Figure 19.NSU main menu.
Figure 20. Enter the username and password
to login.
Figure 20. Directory of NSA310.
Figure 21. You can check the files which you
uploaded to NSA310 through zPilot before.

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1.6 Device Management
Click Manage the device and enter admin’s username and password to access
NSA310’s GUI. Then the administrator can manage the device and change the
configurations.
Figure 19.NSU main menu.
Figure 20. Enter admin’s username and
password to login GUI.
Figure 21.NSA310’s GUI.

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1.7 Play Media Files from Home Screen
Click Play media files from home screen to enjoy the music, video, and photos
through the web browser.
Figure 22.NSU main menu.
Figure 23. Enter the username and password.
The username can be admin or other regular
users.
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 NSA310.
Figure 24.NSA310 Home Screen.

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You can select one category in the list to play the music.
Figure 25.Play the music by selecting the category.
Just click on the song to start playing the music.
Figure 26.Music Folder.
Figure 27.Music List.

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If you find that the media files can’t display correctly, please check the status in
Applications > Media Server, or click “Rebuild Database”. Usually, you will some time
to see the photos displayed.
2. Auto Upload Service
ZyXEL NSA310 provides users to automatically upload their pictures to Flickr website
(http://www.Flickr.com) and video files to You Tube website
(http://www.youtube.com). Additionally, automatically FTP uploading is supported
in NSA310. To use this feature, you need to download the same package as
NSA210’s.
2.1 Auto-upload pictures to Flickr
For sharing pictures in Flickr website (http://www.Flickr.com), NSA310 supports
automatically uploading pictures in given folder in NSA310.
Configuration Procedure:
Enable auto-upload in Flickr service.
Configure the account Flickr account information.
Link your NSA310 with your Flickr account.
Specify the folders which you want NSA310 to automatically upload your
pictures.
Specify the grace period and other options in auto upload function.
Move pictures to the folders you specify in previous step.
Check the result in Flickr website.
Check the system log in NSA310.
First, log into the web GUI page in NSA310, go to Auto Upload >Flickr/YouTube.
Then, enable Flickr service as following figure. After enabling the Flickr service, you
will see two more icons in the same page.

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Figure 28. Enable Flickr service.
Press “config” icon to set more detail configuration. There will be several system
notification to warn that you are going to link to Flickr website. In the meanwhile,
please make sure you have Flickr account information.
After configuring the account information, system will warn you that the connection
to Flickr.
In the following popup browser, you need to authorize the connection between your
account and your NSA310.
Figure 29. Authorization between your account and NSA310.
The following figure shows that you agree this link after press “OK” button.

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Figure 30. Successful Authorization.
After allowing the agreement in Flickr page, please also press the “Get ready” button
in NSA310.
Figure 31. Press “Get Ready”.
You also can check the service status in NSA310 under Auto Upload > Flickr/YouTube.
In this case, we can see the storage status in your Fickr account.

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Figure 32. Monitor the service status.
Afterwards, users need to set which folder(s) in your NSA310 will be monitored and
uploaded to Flickr website. In this example, we are going to set folder named as
“2009_SpaceTraveling” under public folder to be monitored and uploaded all the
pictures to Flickr website.
Figure 33. Configure “Grace Period”in the GUI.
In this example, we configure the grace period as two minutes. This means that
NSA310 will upload any new added pictures in the folder you specify after 15
minutes since you press apply button.

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Figure 34. Configure “Grace Period”in the GUI.
Please specify the given folder that NSA310 will watch and upload the pictures after
applying configuration.
Figure 35. Specify the folder.
Please remember to press “APPLY” button after specifying the given folder. NSA310
will monitor any need added pictures in the folder you assigned after you press apply
button.

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Figure 36. Press “Apply”after specifying the folder.
After 15 minutes, NSA310 will upload new added photos to Flickr website. In this
example, we can see one picture has been uploaded to Flickr website.
Figure 37. Uploaded photo.

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3. Package Management
Package management is used to set up more useful applications in NSA310. This
feature enables user to use the following applications: BackupPlanner, DyDNS,
Gallery, NFS, PHP-MySQL-phpMyAdmin, SMART, SqueezeCenter, Wordpress and
eMule.
Firstly, click Applications > Package Management to display the screen. Then the
applications are listed as below.
Figure 38. Applications > Package Management
After you finished install an application and enable it, additional links display in the
navigation panel. For example, you can see SMART, DyDNS, NFS and eMule.

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Figure 39. Original navigation panel before applications installed.
For Gallery, PHP-MySQL-phpMyAdmin, SqueezeCenter and Wordpress, you can
access the applications’web configurators through the Package Management screen
or enter the IP address shown in the GUI in your web browser.
Figure 40. Applications’ link.
3. 3.1 Gallery
Gallery is a web-based application that allows NSA310 to host photos. You can
upload photos in the local computers or stored in NSA310. Use the administrator
account of NSA310 to log in to the Gallery GUI.

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Figure 41. Enter Gallery GUI.
Figure 42. Use Admin account to log in.
Figure 43. Upload photos from NSA310.

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Figure 44. Add selected files.
Then you can view the uploaded photos and edit photos in the screen.
Figure 45. Uploaded photos.