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[ 鍵入文字 ] 1 NSA310 Support Note Version 1.00 July, 2011[...]
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2 Chapter 1 Applications .............................................................................................................. 3 1. NAS Start er Utility ............................................................................................................... 3 2. Auto Upload Servi ce ..................................................[...]
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3 1. NAS Starter Utility 1. 1.1 NAS Starte r Utility Installation After you install a new hard drive on the NSA310, please make sure to use the NAS Starter Utility to d iscover and access the NSA 310 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. [...]
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4 Figure 5 . Installati on is finis hed. 2. 1.2 NS A 310 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 u p the NAS310 . If the connection is green, it mea ns this NAS is abl[...]
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5 Choose Default Configuration or Manual Configuration and then click Next . Here, we recommend users use Default Configuration . Fo r security issue, we suggest users change the admin ’ s password. Figure 9 . Choose a wizard type Figure 10 . Change the pass word. Check if the settings are correct and click Next to begin configuring NSA310 . Figu[...]
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6 1.3 Netwo rk Set tin g After successful in itialization, go back to the NSU main menu and click Configure network setting to start conf iguring. Y ou can assign a new hostname of this NSA310 and configure an IP for NSA 310 . Figure 14 . NSU main men u. Figure 15 . Configure an IP for NSA310. 1.4 zPilot Click Impor t files or folders with zPilot t[...]
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7 When users double click on th e zPilot icon, the detail status of zPilot will be sho wn as follows. Click Clean Up to clear finished task s. Figure 18 . The zPilot is trans ferring files to NSA 310 . 1.5 Directory Click Show the directory of the NAS and enter your username and p assword. Then the d irectory of NSA 310 will pop u p. You will see t[...]
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8 1.6 Device Management Click Manage the device an d enter admin ’ s u sername and password to acc ess NSA310 ’ s GUI. Then the administrator can manage the device and ch ange the configurations. Figure 19 . NSU main menu. Figure 20 . Enter admin ’ s username and password to logi n GUI. Figure 21 . NSA 310 ’ s GUI .[...]
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9 1.7 Play Media Files f rom Home Screen Click Play m edia files from home s creen to enjoy the music, vide o, and photos through the web browser. Figure 22 . NSU main menu. Figure 23 . Enter the username and password. The username can b e admin or ot her reg ular users. The Home screen displays. You can click on the icon to listen t o the music, w[...]
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10 You can select one category in the list to play the music. Figure 25 . Play the music by s electing the c ategory. Just click on the song to start playing the music. Figure 26 . Music Folder. Figure 27 . Music List.[...]
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11 If you find that th e media files can ’ t display correctly, plea se check the status in Applications > Media Server, or click “ Rebu ild Database ” . Usually, you will some t ime to see the photos displayed. 2 . Auto Upload Service ZyXEL NSA310 provides users to automatically upload their pictures to Fli ckr website ( http://www.Flickr[...]
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12 Figure 28 . Enable Flickr se rvice. Press “config” icon to set more det ail configu ration. Th ere will b e several system notification to warn t hat you are going to link to Flickr website. In the meanwhile, please make sure you have Flickr account information. After configuring the account information, syste m will warn you that the connec[...]
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13 Figure 30 . Successful Authori zation. After allowing the agreement in Flickr p age, please also press the “Get ready” button in NSA 310 . Figure 31 . Press “ Get Ready ” . You also can check t he service status in NSA310 under Auto Upload > Flic kr/YouTube . In this case, we can see the storage status in your Fick r account.[...]
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14 Figure 32 . Monitor the service status. Afterwards, users need to set which folder(s) in your NSA310 will be mo nitored and uploaded to Flickr website. In this examp le, we are goin g to set folder named as “2009_SpaceTraveling” under p ublic folder to be monitored and u ploaded all the pictures to Flickr website. Figure 33 . Configure “ G[...]
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15 Figure 34 . Configure “ Grac e 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 [...]
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16 Figure 36 . Press “ Apply ” after specifying t he 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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17 3. Package Management Package managem ent is used to set up more useful applications in NSA 310 . This feature enables u ser to use the f ollowing applications: BackupPlanner, DyDNS, Gallery, NFS, PHP-MySQL-ph pMyAdmin, SMART, SqueezeCenter, Wordpress and eMule. Firstly, click Applications > Package Management to display the screen. Then the [...]
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18 Figure 39 . Original navigation pane l before application s installed. For Gallery, PHP-MySQL-phpMyAdmin, SqueezeCenter and Wordpress, you can access t he applications ’ web configurators through the Package Management screen or enter the IP address shown in the GUI in your web browser. Figure 40 . App lications’ link . 3. 3.1 Gallery Galler[...]
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19 Figure 41 . Enter Ga llery GUI. Figure 42 . Use Admin account to log in. Figure 43 . Uplo ad photos from NSA310.[...]
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20 Figure 44 . Add se lected files. Then you can view the uploaded photos and edit photos in the screen. Figure 45 . Uplo aded photos.[...]
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21 1. What is RAID? RAID sta nds for R edunda nt A rra y of I nexpensive D isk s. It takes two or mor e hard disks to ac hieve grea ter levels of performa nce, reliability and/ or larger vol ume of data siz e. 2. Wh at kind of RAID is supported in NSA 310 ? NSA 310 supports Raid 1, JBOD, or RAID0. 3. Wh at is the file system supported in NSA310? In[...]
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22 9. What is the feature “ W ake On LAN ” ? You can turn on the NSA 310 through its wired Ethernet connection after enabling Wake On LAN. To use Wake On LAN from a computer on your LAN, install a program such as Wake On LAN EX or other Wake On LAN programs that support sending magic packets. You can also use Wake On LAN from a remote location [...]