Sitecom MD-253 manual

MD-253 /254 Home S torag e Cen ter Man ual[...]

Table o f content s Introduction ............. ............... ............ ............. ............... ............... ........ ...... 3 Features ............ ............... ............... .......... ............... ............... ............ ........ 4 Package contents ............... ............... .......... ............... .............[...]

Introdu ction The Site com MD-25 3/254 Home S torage Ce nter makes it ea s y to share your documents, m usic and vi deos across y our network or even on to the internet. T he device can hol d u p to two 3.5” SATA drives of any ca pacity, su pportin g JBOD, RAID 0 and RAID 1, offering fle xibi lity an d security. The MD-25 3/254 al lows to easi ly[...]

Feature s  Two HDD bays for 3”5 SATA Hard drives of any capac ity.  One USB port f or extra storage op tions.  High p erformance G igabit LAN.  Supports JBOD, RAID 0 and R AID 1.  Simpl if ied i nstall ation by a step by step util ity.  Easy automated backu p with inc luded backup s oftware.  User and f ol der management. [...]

Product l ayout HDD 1 Power Power but ton USB port Ethernet port Backup button Power rec eptacle Reset HDD 2 LAN[...]

Syste m requi rement s - Computer wi th: 1GHz pr ocessor/20 M B availabl e space/CD-RO M drive. - At l east one 3” 5 SATA HDD. - Win dows X P (with S ervice Pack 2), Vista or Win dows 7. - Mac OSX 1 0.4 or higher (Yo u can use th e network fu nctionalit y. The ins tallatio n and backup software i s wi ndows o nly).[...]

Prepar ing the Home Storag e Center[...]

Easy inst allation Configu ring the Home Storage C enter Windo ws Insert the CD-Rom t o your CD-Rom dr ive. T he CD wi ll start and prese nt you an option m enu. Sel ect ‘Laun ch Home St orage Center Uti lity’ The Site com Home Storag e Center Insta ller off ers an easy step by step instal lation f l ow. This makes it possi ble f or even the le[...]

1. Select y our lang uage from t he drop dow n box. Press Start to conti nue. 2. The install er i s now detectin g the ‘Home St orage Center’. Wait t ill the pro gress bar is comp lete ly fi lle d.[...]

Warning: If there are is a ny add itio nal f irewa ll software i nstalled , s uch as McAfee, Norton, Panda e.g. you may be requir ed to un block the S it ecom instal ler i n th is software. Please refer t o the d ocumentation of your firewal l softwar e. 3. You may b e require d to un block t he insta ller i n the wi ndows firewal l. Wind ows wil l[...]

5. The install er now shows the name of th e detected hard drive(s), th e si ze and S.M.A.R. T. status. To co ntinue c lick Form at Disk. 6. Choose a name for your ‘Home st orage ce nter’. Thi s is how t he storage ce nter wil l b e recogni zed wit hin yo ur network. Press N ext to contin ue. If any of the inserted Hard drives is not detec ted:[...]

7. Now we w i ll create a publ ic s hare. This fold er is for general u sage and al lows anonymous access. (See We b conf igurati on->User management -> sh ared fol der management.) 8. Choose t he maximu m size f or the pu blic fold er. Enter ‘0’ for maxi mum. Cli ck Next to conti nue. Note: to change the pr operti es of t his fo lder See[...]

9. The s hare can now be map ped to a drive l etter. Choose a desired drive l etter from the drop down box. Thi s is how the share wil l ap pear in ‘My c omputer’. Cl ick Next to conti nue. 10. Your ‘Home storage cent er’ is now ready for use. An d the pu bl ic fol der has been created and mapp ed to a drive l etter. Sel ect Finish to stop [...]

11. Ent er a user name and password; t hese credent ials wi ll be requir ed to access the personal fold er. Cho ose a desi red driv e lette r from the drop dow n box. Clic k Next to conti nue. 12. The personal f ol der has be en created and m apped. Cli ck Finish. The backup software i nstallati on w il l now be started.[...]

Packag es instal lation The package install er al lows you to expan d the f unctional ities of yo ur Home Storage Center. Select th e packages you wi sh to i nstall and c lick ‘ Finish’ to instal l thes e packages and conti nue to autosav e. Note: Twonkymedia wil l always be instal led as t his package updates the Twon ky server instal led a lr[...]

AutoSave In stallation After the Insta ller i s f ini shed, i t wi ll automatical ly start the instal lation f or your free backup software, A utoSave. Autosave wi ll a utomatical ly backu p your photo s, musi c and doc uments the H ome Storage Center. 1. Click Ne xt to start the instal lation 2. Select ‘ I accept t he terms i n the l icens e agr[...]

3. Fill in a n opti onal name and organizati on and cl ick Ne xt . 4. Click Ne xt to i nstall AutoSave to t he defau lt lo cation o n your computer.[...]

5. Click Ne xt to be gin the Instal lation. 6. Click fin ish to end the instal latio n and la unch AutoSa ve[...]

If you want to chang e the backu p locati on, fi les or schedu le, p lease see the AutoSave manual on CD-Rom f or detai led i nstructi ons. Using t he Home Storag e Center After this instal lati on is fin ished y ou’ll have at le ast a new ‘Pub lic on Sit ecomNAS’ network driv e in y ou're my Computer envi ronment. If you have made a per[...]

Configuring the Home S torage Cen ter Mac When in serting th e CD a wind ow appears. Cl ick th e Install Home Stora ge Center packet in staller. Click Co ntinue in the introduct ion pag e.[...]

The insta ller i s now detect ing the ‘H ome Storage Ce nter’. Wait ti ll the progress bar is comp lete ly fi lle d. After the d etection is finis hed the instal ler wi ll show the detected har d drives. Click Co ntinue to conti nue the i nstall ation. If any of the inserted Ha rd drives is not dete cted: Unplug t he power re ceptacl e and ch e[...]

Click OK to f ormat the dis k(s) in the N AS. The dis k(s) are bei ng f ormatted, this could take some tim e. Note: When 2 hard driv es are i nserted the instal ler wi ll aut omaticall y format the drives using R AID 1 for data rel iabi lit y. (See ad dendum for m ore inf ormation on storage schemes.) To change t he ‘Home storage c enter’ to a [...]

Now we w ill create a p ubli c share. Thi s fol der is for general usage and allo ws anonymous access. (See We b conf igurati on->User management -> sh ared fol der management.) The insta ller w il l create an alias to the share i n your user fol der. Cl ick Browse i f you want to s elect an a lternative locati on for th e alias . Choose the [...]

The package install er al lows you to expan d the f unctional ities of yo ur Home Storage Center. Th ese packages are install e d on th e harddrive and c onsume a littl e part of y our storage ca pacity Select th e packages you wi sh to i nstall and c lick ‘ Finish’ to instal l thes e packages[...]

When Tim e Machin e sup port has bee n selecte d a warni ng message w il l be s hown The sel ected packag es wi ll be i nstalle d. NOTE: Thi s coul d take up to 5 minutes when all packages are se lected[...]

The insta ller w il l wri te confi guration f il es to you r computer, c lick Instal l to continu e. The insta llati on prompts you for the root password of the comp uter. Fil l i n the password and username. Cl ick OK to conti nue.[...]

The insta llati on is fi nish ed, cli ck Close. The al iases to th e shares can be foun d in your home fo lder or i n the f older of y our choic e.[...]

Configuring T ime Machine Click t he Time M achi ne i con to start the config uration A message a ppears to i nform you Time Mach ine has not yet been confi gured, cl ick Set Up Time Machine . Click Select Backup Disk…[...]

Select t he TimeMac hin e on “S itecomNas(Time Machine)” an d cli ck Use for Backup You’ll be prompted for a us ername and a pas sword. Thi s is t he defau lt username an d password of the us erinterface of the Si tecom Home Storage Center. By defa ult thi s i s username: Admin and passw ord: Admin Tima Machi ne is now re ady for use an d you[...]

Web con figurati on Open your w eb brows er (Firefox, I nternet expl orer, Chrome or any oth er web browser). Enter the host name you have set in th e instal ler software in t he previ ous chapter (default: S itecomNas) in t he address bar. You wi ll be prompte d for a username and pass word. Fil l in t he username a nd password . The d efault cred[...]

Status All informatio n re garding t he current confi guration settin gs can be f ound h ere. The system , event and connection log pa ges lo g all latest ev ents all owin g good i nsig ht in the security an d stab ili ty of th e setup. This page gi ves an ov erview of the current net work settings a nd whic h servi ces are activated.[...]

System/Event /Connection lo g The log s gi ve an overv iew of a ll latest lo gged s ystem events. If there is not e nough internal memory for al l events, l ogs of o lder event s are delete d, but l ogs of the lat est events are retain ed.[...]

Setup Here you can co nfig ure the Home Storage Center. System set tings Device name: Ente r a desire d name f or your Home Stora ge Center. Thi s wil l be the name of the device wit hin yo ur network. Workgroup: Choose the name of the Workgroup t he Home Storage Center has to be added to. Password: All ows you to change th e defaul t p assword of [...]

Network se ttings Here the l ocal network settin gs are conf igure d. Type: Select either D ynamic I P to automatical ly ac quire netw ork setting from a DHCP server wit hin th e network (i. e. router) or choose Stati c to set the network parameters manual ly. IP address: Enter the desired I P address f or this devi ce. Subnet mask: Specify the s u[...]

Disk settings RAID function: Choose JBOD, R AID 0 or RAID 1 . Scan Disk: Scan the c onnected hard drives f or errors. Format: Formats the di sk dri ve. Refresh: This w il l re load the page. Warning: this w ill d elete al l data f rom the driv e. Note: for more inf ormation ab out these data storage schem es please s ee Addend um.[...]

Date and time s ettings Time zone: Select your time zon e from the drop- down l ist. Manual setting: Select th e correspon ding ra dio butto n to manual ly set current date and time. Click t o manuall y se lect the correct date.[...]

NTP time server: Place a ch eck in t he correspon din g radio button and select a t ime server if y ou woul d l ike to sy nchronize th e devi ce’s clock to a Network Time S erver over the i nternet. Manage NTP time servers : Ad d or del ete a NTP t imeserver address f rom the l ist. Click ‘A ppl y’ for any of t he chan ges to take eff ect.[...]

User s etting s In the User settings menu, access to t he storage c enter and users are managed. In the User management secti on you can create, del ete or mod ify users and ass ign quotas to thes e users. Shared folder manage ment all ows co nfigur ing al l fo lders on t he storage center. Set permis sions, l imitati ons and ass ign users to the f[...]

User manageme nt Create a user Username: Enter a desir ed username. Password: Enter a pa ssword for th e username. Quota settings: Enter a value to restrict th e user to a maxi mum ca pacity or enter 0 for unli mited. Click ‘A ppl y’ for any of t he change s to take eff ect.[...]

Modify a user Enter the d esired s ettings and cl ick ‘ap ply’. Click o n the us ername to modi fy the user. Click ‘De lete’ to remove the user.[...]

Shared folder management Service status : Enab le or D isabl e Samba. Security mode: ‘Gue st’ wi ll all ow restricte d access f or anonymous us ers. ‘User’ wi ll only al low acce ss to us ers created in user management. Click ‘A ppl y’ for any of t he chan ges to take eff ect. ( Note : disabl ing Samba wi ll disabl e l ocal shari ng)[...]

Create a user fold er: Clic k ‘add’. A pop up wi ndow wi ll a ppear. Fil l in a F old er Name and Securit y Mode . If ‘Personal’ is ch osen, us ers have to be added to t he fo lder i n the next step. Highl ig ht the new fol der. If i t is a n ‘Anonymous’ fold er the table below wil l sh ow the Anonymous s ettings whi ch always a llows l[...]

Servic es BitTorrent The downl oad ed fi les are store d in t he BitTorrent f older, w hich by defaul t is not mapped to yo ur comput er. You can acc ess it v ia Network -> [Home S torage Cent er Name] -> Bittorrent on any Wind ows com puter. Service status: E nabl e or disa ble the BitTorren t server. Port number: Enter a port number for B i[...]

Add a BitTorrent: Click browse a nd sel ect a .t orrent fil e to upload . Once confirmed with ‘Ap ply’ the down load progress is shown i n current down loads. Click ‘A ppl y’ for any of t he chan ges to take eff ect. Current downloads: Here current pro gress of th e torrents is show n. To Del ete, Start or Stop a downl oad, cl ick th e corr[...]

ITunes serve r The iTu nes server makes it easy t o share your mus ic fi les wit h other iTunes appli cations wit hin your network. Service status: Ena ble or d isabl e the i Tunes s erver. If enab le i s chose n a musi c folder m ust be select ed. Music folder: To se lect and share a musi c f older. S elect a fold er using th e correspondi ng ch e[...]

UPnP AV se rver The Twonky m edia server t urns your ‘Home s torage center’ i nto a DLNA cert ifie d multime dia server. Easil y watch yo ur pictures or stream music a nd vid eo over other devices such a s media players, PS3 and many other DLNA compati ble devic es. Twonky wi ll a utomatical ly serve t he fi les stored i n the ‘Medi a’ fol [...]

FTP server The FTP server makes it poss ibl e to eas ily s hare fil es on the internet. On this page FTP acc ess can be managed and t he server parameters conf igured. Service status: Enabl e or disable the FTP server. PASV Mode Port Range : Enter the port range you woul d l ike to use fo r passive FTP server mode. Allow anonymous l ogin: Choose he[...]

Toolbox Reboot When the storage center shows a bnormal behavi or it may be re quired to restart the device. C li ck ‘Reboot’ to restart the dev ice. To undo al l current setti ngs cl ick ‘R estore’. Note: This wi ll erase all current sett ings.[...]

Firmwa re upda te This too l al lows y ou to u pgrade the f irmware. Intranet Upgrad e To upgrade t he fi rmware, you nee d to dow nload the firmware fi le to y our local hard disk, a nd enter that f i le name a nd path i n the appro priate fi eld on thi s page. Yo u can also use t he Browse button to f ind t he firmware fil e on your PC. Once you?[...]

Packag e managem ent (M D-254 only) Package management al lows you to ma nage addi tional packages f or the Home storage center. T hese package s can be in stalle d through th e ‘Easy insta llatio n wizard’ the ‘Package in stallati on wizard’ or manual ly. The ‘Package i nstallat ion w izard’ can be started from the CD-Rom by se lectin [...]

Once the pa ckage is inst alled it becom es vis ible in the current package list. From here you can c hoose to either ‘ Start’, ‘Stop’ or ‘Del ete’ the sel ected pa ckage. Configu ration and usa ge Print server The prints erver package g ives your Home storage c enter support for host base d USB-printers, no addi tio nal conf iguratio n[...]

USB Ba ckup You can use the USB port on th e back of t he Home Storage Cent er to make a compl ete backup of the content on any USB Mass St orage devi ce, s uch as a removable hard drive or USB stic k. Insert the USB device i nto the USB port, and pr ess the Backup button for 5 seconds. The c omplete content of t he USB d evice wi ll be co pied int[...]

Addend um: Cho osing a sto rage sche me The Home Storage C enter su pports 3 diff erent storage schemes. The fo llow ing wil l outli ne the b enefits and disadvantages of each of these s chemes. JBOD (Just a Bun ch Of Disk s) Advantages: Mini mum of 1 hard dri ve is all owed. Total storage capa city is total of all hard drives t ogether. Disadvanta[...]