ZyXEL Communications NSA325 Installation instructions

NSA325
Support Note
Version 1.00
Sep, 2011

Content
Chapter 1 Applications……………………………………………..…………..………….………..3
1. NAS Starter Utility................................................................................................................3
1.1 NAS Starter Utility Installation.....................................................................................3
1.2 NSA325 Initialization...................................................................................................4
1.3 Network setting...........................................................................................................6
1.4 zPilot...........................................................................................................................6
1.5 Directory......................................................................................................................7
1.6 Device Management...................................................................................................8
1.7 Media Player...............................................................................................................9
2. Auto Upload Service..........................................................................................................10
2.1 Auto-upload pictures to Flickr...................................................................................10
3. Package Management.......................................................................................................17
3.1 Gallery......................................................................................................................19
4. Dropbox............................................................................................................................20
4.1 zDownload...............................................................................................................24
5. SmartPhone.....................................................................................................................25
5.1 File Browser.............................................................................................................26
6. Network IPv6....................................................................................................................27
Chapter 2 FAQ.......................................................................................................................28
1. What is RAID?..................................................................................................................28
2. What kind of RAID is supported in NSA325?...................................................................28
3. What is the file system supported in NSA325?................................................................28
4. Which kind of the media server does NSA325 apply?.....................................................28
5. Does NSA325 support DLNA media server?...................................................................28
6. What is the feature “Wake On LAN”?...............................................................................28
7. Which kind of video file formats are supported by NSA325?...........................................29
8. Which kind of audio file formats are supported by NSA325?...........................................29
9. Which kind of image file formats are supported by NSA325?..........................................29
10. Which kind of web browsers are supported by NSA325?..............................................29

Chapter 1 Applications
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1. NAS Starter Utility
1.1 NAS Starter Utility Installation
After you install a new hard drive on the NSA325, please make sure to use
the NAS Starter Utility to discover and access the NSA325 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.

Figure 5.Installation is finished.
1.2 NSA325 Initialization
After successful installation, click the “NAS Starter Utility”. The first screen of
NSU is trying to discovery for NSA devices. Click the “NAS Seeker”, you can
choose devices which do you want to connect.
Figure 6.NAS Discovery. Figure 7.NAS Seeker
Then click Run the Initialization Wizard to set up the NAS325, 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.

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 10.Choose a wizard type Figure 11.Change the password.
Check if the settings are correct and click Next to begin configuring NSA325.
Figure 12.Confirm settings.
Figure 13.NAS is under setting.
Figure 13.Configuration is finished.

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 of this NSA325, set TimeZone, PPPoE connection information and
configure an IP for NSA325.
Figure 14.NSU main menu.
Figure 15.Configure an IP for NSA325.
1.4 zPilot
Click zPilot to launch zPilot. When you would like to upload files to NSA325,
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 16.NSU main menu. Figure 17.Enter the username and password
to login.
Figure 18.zPilot icon

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

Figure 24.Use Guest to login. Figure 25.You are able to select that NSA
has shared public folder for directly on PC.
Figure 26.Directory of NSA325.
1.6 Device Management
Click Configuration > Administrator and enter admin’s username and password to
access NSA325’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 GUI.

Figure 29. NSA325’s GUI
1.7 Media Player
Click Media Player to enjoy the music, video, 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.
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.
Figure 32.NSA325 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.
Figure 35.Music Files.
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.