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Thecus N5500 User`s Manual

1. System Configuration Download Upload P System Management e Time Upload Please choose a file to upload S Notification e Firmware Upgrade S ups schedule On Off S Wake Up on LAN Sop 3 M Utility Ls ai angre ia a S Reboot amp Shutdown e Filesystem Check See the following table for a detailed description of each item System Configuration Download Upload Description Save and export the current system configuration Upload Import a saved configuration file to overwrite current system configuration Backing up your system configuration is a great way to ensure that you can revert to a working configuration when you are experimenting with new system settings The system configuration you have backup can be only restore in same firmware version And the backup details have excluded user group accounts 34 Factory default From the menu choose the Factory Default item and the Reset to Factory Default screen appears Press Apply to reset the N5500 to factory default settings Menu L System Information Rezet To Factory Default System Management Time S Notification Firmware Upgrade ups schedule On OfE Wake Up on LAN S SNMP a M Utility Administrator Password B ETT j Factory Default ee PSD ok GEL Filesystem Check Resetting to factory defaults will not erase the data stored in the hard disks but WARNING WILL revert all the settings to the fact
2. lt lt lt gt gt gt Use the forward gt gt gt and backward lt lt lt buttons to browse the log pages System Management The System Management menu gives you a wealth of settings that you can use to configure your N5500 s system administration functions You can set up system time system notifications and even upgrade firmware from this menu Time Setting system time From the time menu choose the Time tem and the Time screen appears Set the desired Date Time and Time Zone You can also elect to synchronize the system time on the N5500 with an NTP Network Time Protocol Server E System Information Setting system time P System Management Date 05 13 2000 c Time 17 30 5 Notification a Firmware Upgrade ee Asia Taipei Y UPS Actas NTP Server Enable Disable schedule On OF aes amp Wake Up on LAN Syne with external Yes clock ise org Y ir e sis NTE server S aqu s g W Unity SA Ne Administrator Password y Confis Memt aun Factory Default Reboot amp Shutdown Filesystem Check See the following table for a detailed description of each item Time Item Description Act as NTP Server Select Enable to synchronize with the NTP server Select Disable to close the NTP server synchronization Sync with external NTP Select YES to allow the N5500 to synchronize with an NTP server Server of your choice Press Apply to change If an NT
3. Designating N5500 as an Nsync Target The N5500 can act as an Nsync server enabling another Nsync equipped Thecus NAS at a remote location backup their files to this N5500 From the System Network menu choose the Nsync Target item and the Nsync Target Server screen appears Nsync Target Server Setting item Description gt Nsync Target Server Enable or Disable Nsync Target support To enable Nsync task to go thru firewall you have to open port TCP 1194 on your firewall in both directions 94 Thecus Backup Utility The Thecus Backup Utility is on your Installation CD When you click on the CD the Backup Utility will be installed under Program Groups gt Thecus gt Thecus Backup Utility If it is not installed you can copy the file Thecus Backup Utility exe to a convenient location on your hard disk and double click to execute it If you can not find Thecus Backup Utility on your CD please download it from the Thecus website http www thecus com When you execute this utility for the first time it will ask you whether to create a DB file Click Yes 1 Click Add to create a Backup task The Add New Task dialog box appears Add New Task lem Description O If unchecked the backup will be a full backup Excluded extensions Files with these file name extensions will be skipped and not back up to the destination Comments If you wish enter comments here for your records 2 To schedule the t
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5. erie W b Disk upp Nsync Target Bonjour A description of each item follows Apple Network Configuration item Description O AFP Server Enable or disable Apple File Service to use the N5500 with MAC OS based systems Zone Specifies Zone for Applet Talk service If your AppleTalk network uses extended networks and is assigned with multiple zones assign a zone name to the N5500 If you do not want to assign a network zone enter an asterisk to use the default setting 41 NFS Setup From the System Network menu choose the NFS tem and the NFS Support screen appears The N5500 can act as an NFS server enabling users to download and upload files with the favorite NFS clients Press Apply to confirm your settings L System information System Management Media Server HTTP Web Disk up Nsync Target Bonjour A description of each item follows NFS Server Setting Enable or Disable NFS support Apply Click Apply to save your changes FTP N5500 can act as a FTP server enabling users to download and upload files with their favorite FTP programs From the System Network menu choose the FTP item and the FTP screen appears You can change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings FTP FTP Enable Disable Secure FIP Explicit U Enable a Disable Port FTP ENCODE we Allow Anonymous acl 1 FTP Access Avto Rename
6. Setting up remote administration is a three part process and will require the following equipment Thecus N5500 NAS device Cable DSL Router with Dynamic DNS support Home PC Internet Connection Router setup will differ slightly depending on router used For this example we will use the Asus WL500g because it has support for Dynamic DNS Contact your router hardware vendor for setup help 113 Part Setup a DynDNS Account 1 Goto http www dyndns org from your home PC 2 Click on the Sign Up Now link 3 Check the Check boxes select a user name i e N5500 enter your email address i e xxx example com check Enable Wildcard and create a password 1 XXXxX 4 Wait for an email from www dyndns org 5 Open the email and click on the link to activate your account Part Il Enable DDNS on the Router 1 Goto the router setup screen and select IP Config gt Miscellaneous DDNS Setting from your Home PC Click on Yes for Enable the DDNS Client Select www dyndns org Go to router setup screen and enter the following information User Name or E mail Address xxx example com Password or DDNS Key xxxx Host Name www N5500 dyndns org Enable wildcard Select Yes Update Manually Click Update AS DONT Part Ill Setting up Virtual Servers HTTPS 1 Navigate to NAT Setting gt Virtual Server 2 For Enable Virtual Server select Yes 3 Setup the HTTPS Server a Well Known Applications
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8. ZFS Folder Add gedit Remove Lalnes Lal Snapshot p Folder name gt gt RAID ID File System Public Description 3 nsyne RAIDI ext3 no nsync J usbhdd RAIDI ext3 no usbhdd _Jusbcopy RAIDI ext3 no usbcopy LJ naswebsite RAID ext3 ves naswebsite L iTunes_music RAID ext3 ves iTunes music J BONNY RAIDI ext3 ves Snap Snapshot configuration If added folder has located in the RAID volume with ZFS file system then the folder management screen with Snap button will be configurable Snapshot List for meyne 11172 16 66 39 nap hot x Snapzhot Schedule F Take Shot e Remove Snapshot Date Snapshot Take Shot Click to take snapshot right away Click to remove snapshot schedule Schedule Click to open snapshot schedule setup screen Clicking on schedule button then schedule setup screen appear Checked the enable check box to activate the snapshot scheduled operation 67 Snapshot List for navne 11172 16 66 39 nap hot Xx Snapshot Schedule W Enabled Snapshot Schedule El Automatically remove oldest snapshot Schedule Rule Monthly gt Day 0 w Hour Apply The N5500 snapshot is supported total 16 versions Once checked Automatically remove oldest snapshot the oldest will be removed to let newest to added on top Otherwise if the check box is unchecked and snapshot versions are up to 16 then system will appear warning message and won t
9. i e 192 168 1 100 share 6 Click Finish When the Connect As window appears enter your user name and password 7 Click OK The share folder appears as the drive you assigned You can now access this folder as though it were a drive on your computer Apple OS X On an Apple computer you can connect to shared computers and servers using a network address 107 1 Choose Go gt Connect to Server 2 Enter the network address for the server in the Server Address text box When connecting using SMB CIFS protocol type smb 192 168 1 100 Folderl When connecting using AFP protocol type afp 192 168 1 100 Folderl Click Connect 3 When MAC OS X is trying to connect N5500 it will ask for a User Name and Password which has access to the folder 4 When MAC OS X has connected to the N5500 successfully an icon representing the folder will appear on the MAC OS X desktop You can access the folder by double clicking on the icon Mapping the N5500 as an iSCSI Drive With the N5500 you are able to map it as an iSCSI drive With iSCSI you can remotely access the N5500 at great speeds as if it were installed as a local drive in your computer To do this simply follow the steps below Windows 2000 XP 1 First download the iSCSI Initiator from the Microsoft website http www microsoft com You can find this software by entering iSCSI Initiator into the search box on their homepage 2 Once the download is complete
10. El a Upload Bandwidth 1 HTTP Web Dick j VEN Download Bandwidth La e Uilirmted E Neyne Target Bonjour Apply 42 A description of each item follows FTP Enable FTP Service on the N5500 has also security FTP setting enabled non standard port FTP ENCODE If your FTP client or operating system does not support Unicode e g Windows 95 98 ME or MAC OS9 8 select the same encoding as your OS here in order to properly view the files and directories on the server Available options are BIG5 HZ GB2312 GB18030 ISO EUC JP SHIFT JIS and UTF 8 Allow Anonymous FTP Upload Download Allow anonymous FTP users to upload or Access download files to from public folders Download Allow anonymous FTP users to download files from public folders No access Block anonymous FTP user access Auto Rename If checked the system will automatically rename files that are uploaded with a duplicate file name The renaming scheme is filename where represents an integer Upload Bandwidth You may set the maximum bandwidth allocated to file uploads Selections include Unlimited 1 2 4 8 16 and 32 MB s Download Bandwidth You may set the maximum bandwidth allocated to file downloads Selections include Unlimited 1 2 4 8 16 and 32 MB s To access the share folder on the N5500 use the appropriate user login and password set up on the Users page Access control to each share folder is set up on the ACL page Sto
11. Load Balance Failover 802 3ad O Disable UPnP Set IP Address by e Nsync Target 2 Bonjour Static Dynamic IP 172 16 65 183 Netmask 172 16 67 255 Gateway 172 16 66 135 DNS Server 172 16 66 244 168 95 1 1 WAN Configuration em Desert Jumbo Frame Support Enable or disable Jumbo Frame Support of the WAN interface on your N5500 IP Sharing Mode When enabled PCs connected to the LAN port will be able to access the WAN Link Aggregation Specifies whether WAN and LAN ports will be aggregated and act as one port Load Balance Ethernet traffic will flow alternative between two Ethernet ports Failover When one port fails the other one will take over 802 3ad Linkage two Ethernet ports in parallel to increase throughput Set IP Address by You can choose a static IP or Dynamic IP and input your network Static Dynamic configuration AN IP address of the WAN interface of the WAN interface Po LEE AAA which is generally 255 255 255 0 Default Gateway IP address DNS Server Domain Name Service DNS server IP address 38 Only use Jumbo Frame settings when operating in a Gigabit environment where all other clients have Jumbo Frame Setting enabled e Enabling DHCP automatically turns on UPnP see the Service Support Screen e If you are only using the WAN port we suggest that you disable IP Sharing Mode This will result in higher throughput e A correct DNS setting is vital to networ
12. System Information LCD Control Panel For basic configurations and status display System LED Display 5 x LED System LED Network Activity x 2 USB Copy System warning Height Width Depth Power Supply Server rated AC power supply 100 220V AC 50 60Hz Auto detect Security Certifications Software Specifications Network File Protocols Microsoft Networks CIFS SMB Apple Filing Protocol AFP 3 0 Network File System NFS v3 File Transfer Protocol FTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol HTTP Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol HTTPs Microsoft Active Directory Authentication AD Network Client Type Microsoft Windows NT 2000 XP 2003 Vista Unix Linux BSD MAC OS X 9 Network Configuration Fixed IP address Dynamic IP address 802 3ad based failover and link aggregation Disk idle spin down RAID RAID O 1 5 6 10 and JBOD Supports multiple RAID modes users can create multiple RAID volumes with different RAID levels in one system Auto rebuild 118 Hot swappable Hot spare Disk roaming RAID level migration RAID expansion iSCSI Target Supports Microsoft iSCSI Initiator v2 0 4 StarPort Initiator V3 5 2 MAC OS globalSAN iSCSI initiator version 3 0 1150 Linux open iscsi 2 0 865 Folder Management Share and sub folder level permission Public folder Quota Management Share folder quota control Backup Thecus Backup Utility Windows XP 2000 and MAC OS X Thecus Nsync System Management Web GUI Multilingu
13. We System Network 1508 Block size 512 Bytes For older version 15081 CRC Checksum Disable Y S Dido Apply rap Soace Allocation 8 share Folder E Stackable Description 150 Mount The 3031 block size can be set under system advance option default is 512 Bytes Please using 4K block size while more than 2TB capacity will be configured in Windows XP Please ming 512 Bytes block size for application like VMware ete 62 Space Allocation A The setting has been changed carry on with press Yes for confirmation 6 i iSCSI block size have setting success iSCSI Block Size Select the block size with 4K while the iSCSI volume size is over 2TB iSCSI CRC Checksum To enable this option the initiator can connect with Data digest and Header digest enabled CAC Checksum Data digest Header digest Share Folder From the Storage menu choose Share Folder and the Folder screen appears This screen allows you to create and configure folders on the N5500 volume System Information Folder A A ral ch Dad 23 2 Lap Lap S Folder name gt gt RAID ID File System Public Description P Q async RAID ext3 no nsync A Storage E eee 2 7 usbhdd RAID ext3 no usbhdd Sram gt usbeopy RAID ext3 no usbcopy T Space Allocation gt O naswebsite RAID ext3 yes naswebsite Share Folder Stackable 150 Mount A he Y User and Group Au
14. allowing the N5500 to take over file management functions increase application and data Sharing and provide faster data response The N5500 offers data mobility with a disk roaming feature that lets you hot swap working hard drives for use in another N5500 securing the continuity of data in the event of hardware failure The N5500 allows data consolidation and sharing between Windows SMB CIFS UNIX Linux and Apple OS X environments The N5500 s user friendly GUI supports multiple languages Product Highlights File Server First and foremost the N5500 allows you to store and share files over an IP network With a Network Attached Storage NAS device you can centralize your files and Share them easily over your network With the easy to use web based interface users on your network can access these files in a snap To learn about the Web User Interface go to Chapter 5 Using the N5500 gt Using WebDisk FTP Server With the built in FTP Server friends clients and customers can upload and download files to your N5500 over the Internet with their favorite FTP programs You can create user accounts so that only authorized users have access To set up the FTP Server refer to Chapter 4 System Network gt FTP Tunes Server With the built in Tunes server capability the N5500 enables digital music to be shared and played anywhere on the network To set up the Tunes Server refer to Chapter 4 Application Server gt
15. install the iSCSI Initiator by double clicking the EXE file You may be presented with the following security warning Click Run to continue Open File Security Warning Do you want to run this file Name Initiator 2 04 build3273 x86fre exe Publisher Microsoft Corporation Type Application From U JohniiSCsi Cancel While files from the Internet can be useful this file type can potentially harm your computer Only run software from publishers you trust What s the risk 108 3 You will now install the iSCSI Initiator using the Setup Wizard Click Next to continue Software Update Installation Wizard Use this wizard to install the following software update Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Before you install this update we recommend that you Back up your system Close all open programs You might need to restart your computer after you complete this update To continue click Next Cancel 4 Leave the default selections and click Next Software Update Installation Wizard Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Installation Microsoft iSCSI Initiator will be installed Installation Options V Software Initiator lt Back Cancel 5 Read the license agreement To continue with the installation click Agree and then click Next Software Update Installation Wizard License Agreement Please read the following license agreement To continue with setup you must accept the agreem
16. oo uo on a a on on on on oy W co LJ 0 00 amp 0 Oo W amp on A e gt pa fo 0 amp 00 amp w amp 0 te N D tenb ad Mal al A F H Ww Mr o a te o on oO o nun on on on o al H gt te pa oy Ut be Pp pp nanan 0 A 0 O o CO cO CO co co co co co J 05 amp 0 0 W nw amp amp amp Gr w On oO mH 2009 v vg0 syslv PS 144 files 3 03 non blocks RP 0 0 ooo on on 0 OV se Result RAID 1 2 3 4 5 System V Exit Code 0 No l a B ae os lt a y fesse see Y V O No errors The system must be rebooted before the N5500 can function normally after file system check complete 37 System Network Use the System Network menu to make network configuration settings as well as service support settings WAN Configuration From the System Network menu choose WAN and the WAN Configuration screen appears This screen displays the network parameters of the WAN connection You may change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your A See a description of each item in the following table e yz _ gt m WAN Configuration P System Management u i Host Name Domain Name Wy System Network N7700 thecus com WINS Server 1 WINS Server 2 2 LAN Samba CIFS MAC Address 00 14 FD 11 C8 4C arp Sus Jumbo Frame Support Disable Y FTP IP Sharing Mode C Enable Disable e Media Server Mow HTTP Web Disk Link Aggregation
17. www apache org This product includes software developed by Softweyr LLC the University of California Berkeley and its contributors This product includes software developed by Bodo Moeller This product includes software developed by Greg Roelofs and contributors for the book PNG The Definitive Guide published by O Reilly and Associates This product includes software developed by the NetBSD Foundation Inc and its contributors This product includes software developed by Yen Yen Lim and North Dakota State University This product includes software developed by the Computer Systems Engineering Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory This product includes software developed by the Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan and its contributors This product includes software developed by the Nick Simicich This product includes software written by Tim Hudson t h cryptsoft com This product includes software developed by Christopher G Demetriou for the NetBSD Project 129 CGIC License Terms Basic License CGIC copyright 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 by Thomas Boutell and Boutell Com Inc Permission is granted to use CGIC in any application commercial or noncommercial at no cost HOWEVER this copyright paragraph must appear on a credits page accessible in the public online and offline documentation of the program Modified versions of the CGIC library should not be distributed without the attachment of a
18. 1750 2500 3000 Serial Port Pulsar M 2200 3000 3000 XL Serial Port 700 1000 1500 1000 RT2U 1500 RT2U MX 4000 RT MX 5000 RT MGE UPS SYSTEMS Pulsar Serial Port Evolution EXtreme C ES ESV SV ESV EX EXL PSX SX Extreme Comet E Xtreme Utalk Serial Card ref 66060 HID COM Serial Card ref 66066 8 801 BP Sol Rhino Various A 400VA Plus 600VA Plus 800VA Pro 1000VA Plus 1400VA Plus 2000VA USB T 500 2002 126 Comet Galaxy Serial Mustek Powermust EGION Series advanced interface CO MEE O o o AQUA 50 O various not 400 or 600 A eee SMK 800A ULT 1000 Trust rust 425 625 Powercom BNT 1000AP Advice Partnering P50 d peur METIENDO o Powerkinetics 9001 Y A A epee fd e PW5125PW9120 PW9125 9120 9150 9305 o e Powercom hh o A A aa Tr O IO E SOLA BASIC various ISBMEX protocol Mexico Socomec Egys 420 VA Sg esa o Winmate 525 625 800 1000 Sekury C 500 800 ee QP1000 HP 360 Hope 550 O SafeNet Ei E with UPS mart BC 100060 800VA 100060 800VA Sysgraion__ UPGUARDS Pro650 Easy Power 1200 A ee SmartUPS A eee SmartOnline rripotite SMartOnline various Lan 2 2 interface black 73 0844 cable UPS 1000ManagementPW 4105 UNITEK Alpha 500 IC 1000is 500 ipE ae UPS LAN Savers00 Saver 600 NN onic Poe Guardia o s o y o IET A o oo Victron IMV Lite crack cable A E 127 e The UPSes marked B
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20. KAID is being created z p Building a RAID volume may take time depending on the size of hard drives and RAID mode In general while the RAI D volume building process is up to RAID Building then the data volume is capable to be accessed WARNI We Creating RAID destroys all data in the current RAID volume The data is unrecoverable With a RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 or RAID 10 volume you can also add a spare disk after the RAID is created See Chapter 6 Tips and Tricks gt Adding a Spare Disk for details For more information on RAID see Appendix C RAID Basics RAID Level You can set the storage volume as JBOD RAID O RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 or RAID 10 RAID configuration is usually required only when you first set up the device A brief description of each RAID setting follows RAID Levels JBOD The storage volume is a single HDD with no RAID support J BOD requires a minimum of 1 disk Provides data striping but no redundancy Improves performance but not data safety RAID O requires a minimum of 2 disks RAID 1 Offers disk mirroring Provides twice the read rate of single disks but same write rate RAID 1 requires a minimum of 2 disks RAID 5 Data striping and stripe error correction information provided 52 RAID 5 requires a minimum of 3 disks RAID 5 can sustain one failed disk Two independent parity computations must be used in order to provide protection against double disk failure Two differ
21. Panel Paste Shortcut 7 Additional Opt Undo Copy Me Appearance ar Clock Languar Ease of Access 0 Hardware and ng AutoPlay a Personalizati Power Optio Run as administrator Add Printer Server Properties 3 Select Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Choose a local or network printer Add a local printer Use this option only if you don t have a USB printer Windows automatically installs USB printers when you plug them in gt Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Make sure that your computer is connected to the network or that your Bluetooth or wireless printer is turned on 88 4 Select The printer that want isn t listed Searching for available printers 3 The printer that I want isn t listed You can press The printer that want isn t listed to go into next page without waiting for Searching for available printers to finish 5 Click Select a shared printer by name Find a printer by name or TCP IP address Browse for a printer Select a shared printer by name http lt Thecus_NAS_IP gt 631 printers usb printer Example computername printername or http computername printers printername printer Add a printer using a TCP IP address or hostname Type http lt Thecus_NAS gt 631 printers usb printer in the box where lt Thecus_NAS_IP gt is the IP address of the N5500 Click Next 6 Select or inst
22. SNMP Power NA EM Utility Seconds between power failure and first notification 2 Adminis Password 2 R i qT EE Laa Seconds between subsequence power failure notifications confir Memt E Factory Default Shutdown the system when the battery charge is less than ES Reboot amp Shutdown Filesystem Check See the following table for a detailed description of each item UPS Setting Item Description UPS Monitoring Enable or disable UPS monitoring Choose the UPS manufacturer from the dropdowns Model Choose the UPS model number from the dropdowns Battery Status Current status of the UPS battery UPS first notification seconds Seconds between subsequent power Delay between subsequent notifications in seconds failure notifications Shutdown the system when the Amount of UPS battery remaining before system battery charge is less than should auto shutdown Apply Press Apply to save your changes For a list of supported UPS units see Appendix E UPS Compatibility List Schedule Power On Off Using the N5500 s System Management you can save energy and money by scheduling the N5500 to turn itself on and off during certain times of the day From the menu choose the Schedule Power On Off item and the Schedule Power On Off screen appears To designate a schedule for the N5500 to turn on and off first enable the feature by checking the Enable Schedule Power On Off checkbox Then simply choose an on
23. Select User Defined b Local IP Enter 192 168 1 100 c Port Range 443 the default HTTPS port setting on the N5500 d Protocol select TCP e Click Add f Click Apply 4 Test the HTTPS connection from another computer on the Internet a From a remote computer open your browser and enter https www N5500 dyndns org b You should see the login page of N5500 Firewall Software Configuration If you are using a software firewall i e Norton Internet Security and are having trouble connecting to the N5500 you can try the following steps 1 Double click the NIS icon on system tray and then configure the Personal Firewall 2 Onthe Programs page find the SetupWizard exe and change its permission to Permit All If it s not in the program list use the Add or Program Scan buttons to find it 3 On the Networking page manually add N5500 IP address i e 192 168 1 100 to the Trusted list 114 Replacing Damaged Hard Drives If you are using RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 6 you can easily replace a damaged hard drive in the Thecus N5500 while keeping your data secure with the system s automatic data recovery Hard Drive Damage When a hard drive is damaged and data in the RAID volume the system LCD will display warning message also the system beeps Replacing a Hard Drive To replace a hard disk drive in the N5500 E 2 3 4 gt Remove the tray with the damaged hard disk Unscrew the damaged hard disk and
24. Setting i Do you want to delete this user E e Local Group Configuration From the Accounts menu choose the Group item and the Local Group Configuration screen appears This screen allows you to Add Edit and Remove local groups Local Group Configuration F Add Ge Edit SD Remove Group ID Group Name 102 Users Displaying topics 1 1 ofl Local Group Configuration item Description __ __ _ _ gt _ gt ________________ Add Press the Add button to add a user to the list of local groups Press the Edit button to modify a selected group from the system Press the Remove button to delete a selected group from the system 83 Add Groups 1 On the Local Group Configuration screen click on the Add button 2 The Local Group Setting screen appears 3 Enter a Group Name 4 Enter a Group ID number If left blank the system will automatically assign one 5 Select users to be in this group from the Users List by adding them to the Members List using the lt lt button 6 Click the Apply button to save your changes Add x Local Group Setting Users List Group Name Search Group ID 103 UserID User Name User Members List UserID User Name Edit Groups 1 On the Local Group Configuration screen select a group name from the list Press the Edit button to modify the members in a group To add a user into a group select the user from the Users List and press the lt lt b
25. Username System administrator admin Password A Protect your Seu Secure Your Dat a Using WebDisk The N5500 provides a WebDisk function that allows you to access the system over the Internet from any browser 1 Inthe Login page type in the User ID and password that were previously set for you in the Accounts menu See Chapter 4 User and Group Authentication gt Local User Configuration 2 The WebDisk page appears showing folders made currently available to you via the Access Control List ACL 3 Click on a folder name to enter the folder 4 The folder s page appears displaying files and folders Click on a file to download the file 5 Buttons on the folder page allow you to create a new folder upload files and delete files in the folder 97 6 To create a new folder within the current folder press the New folder button When the screen appears enter a name for the folder Press OK to create the folder 7 To upload a file from your computer to the current folder press the New file upload button When the screen appears press Browse and locate the file to upload Press OK and the file is uploaded to the current folder 8 To delete a file or folder select the file or folder s check box Press the Delete selected items button You can also check the check box as the red circle indicates to select all files and folders in this folder To access folders with access control you must fi
26. You can access RAID settings from the menu bar of the Web Administration Interface by navigating to Storage Management gt RAID Configuration For more information on configuring RAID see Chapter 4 System Management gt Don t know which RAID level to use Find out more about the different RAID levels from Appendix C RAID Basics Step 3 Create Local Users or Setup Authentication Once the RAID is ready you can begin to create local users for the N5500 or choose to setup authentication protocols such as Active Directory AD For more on managing users go to Chapter 4 User and Group Authentication For more information on configuring Active Directory see Chapter 4 User and Group Authentication gt Support For information about the benefits of Active Directory see Appendix D Active Directory Basics Step 4 Create Folders and Set Up ACLs Once users are introduced into your network you can begin to create various folders on the N5500 and control user access to each using Folder Access Control Lists More information on managing folders see Chapter 4 Storage Management gt Share Folder To find out about configuring Folder Access Control Lists see Chapter 4 Storage Management gt Share Folder gt Folder Access Control List ACL Step 5 Start Services Finally you can start to setup the different services of the N5500 for the users on your network You can find out more about each of these services by cli
27. also use a static IP address and enter the DNS Server address manually Thecus Setup Wizard Network Configuration Version 1 2 0 Y Device HostName N5500 Discovery Login System 172 16 66 39 Network Configuration 255 255 252 0 255 252 0 172 16 66 135 Change 168 95 1 1 Password 4 Complete 7 Change the default administrator password Thecus Setup Wizard Change Password Version 1 2 0 Device Discovery Login System J Network Configuration Change Password 4 Complete 8 Finished Access the N5500 Web Administrator Interface by pressing the Start Browser button You can also configure another N5500 at this point by clicking the Setup Other Device button Press Exit to exit the wizard 18 Thecus Setup Wizard 0 __ Complete Version 1 2 0 J Device Discovery Login System Setup Other Device Start Browser A Network Configuration Change Password Complete The Thecus Setup Wizard is designed for installation on systems running Windows XP 2000 or Mac OSX or later Users with other operating systems will need to install the Thecus Setup Wizard on a host machine with one of these operating systems before using the unit LCD Operation The N5500 is equipped with an LCD on the front for easy status display and setup There are four buttons on the front panel to control the LCD functions LCD Controls Use the Up A Down Y En
28. and off time for each day of the week that you would like to designate a schedule by using the various dropdowns Finally click Apply to save your changes 31 Schedule Power On Off F Enable Schedule Power On Off Time Notification Achan Tne aa Tine Firmware Upgrade Sunday None Y 00 00 as Mones 00 00 w Monday Mons Wr 00 00 We None we 00 00 oe None ji 00 00 v None y 00 00 v Administrator Password S Config Mgmt Wednesday None Le 00 00 Fee None Pe 00 00 si Factory Default Th dany J Wr F 7 ls Wi a Wr F 5 Reboot amp Shutdown as Hon a Ho 90 00 s Filesystem Check a 0 gt ii y Friday None 25 00 00 vw None 0 00 Saturday None gt 00 00 a None 00 00 x Example Monday On 8 00 Off 16 00 System will turn on at 8 00 AM on Monday and off at 16 00 on Monday System will turn on for the rest of the week If you choose an on time but do not assign an off time the system will turn on and remain on until a scheduled off time is reached or if the unit is shutdown manually Example Monday On 8 00 System will turn on at 8 00 AM on Monday and will not shut down unless powered down manually You may also choose two on times or two off times on a particular day and the system will act accordingly Example Monday Off 8 00 Off 16 00 System will turn off at 8 00 AM on Monday System will turn off at 16 00 PM on Monday if it was on I
29. execute the task till available version count The snapshot schedule rules can be setup for monthly weekly or daily hour Clicking on Apply after firmed with desired schedule These taken snapshot is only accessible though CIFS SMB by manually type NAS IP address snapshot and invisible from normal access Also the taken snapshot version is read only can not be deleted under CIFS SMB access but only click the Del button showing on the screen shot above Folder and sub folders Access Control List ACL On the Folder screen press the ACL button and the ACL setting screen appears This screen allows you to configure access to the specific folder and sub folders for users and groups Select a user or a group from the left hand column and then choose Deny Read Only or Writable to configure their access level Press the Apply button to confirm your settings ACL setting x p This process maybe need sometimes to sync e Are you want sync account ar 68 ACL setting x Recurzive Deny Read Only Writable Local Groups vy Mp Search 2 z Mia Name Name Name users ACL setting Deny Denies access to users or groups who are displayed in this column Read Only Provides Read Only access to users or groups who are displayed in this column Writable Provides Write access to users or groups who are displayed in this column Enable to inherit the access right for all its sub folders To configure folder acc
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31. normal Below is a table listing of possible RAID migration schemes To From RAID 0 OFFLINE RAID 0 HDDx2 to RAID 0 HDDx3 RAID 0 HDDx2 to RAID 0 HDDx4 RAID 0 HDDx2 to RAID 0 HDDx5 RAID 0 HDDx3 to RAID 0 HDDx4 RAID 0 HDDx3 to RAID 0 HDDx5 RAID 0 HDDx4 to RAID 0 HDDx5 OFFLINE RAID 0 HDDx2 to RAID 5 HDDx3 RAID 0 HDDx2 to RAID 5 HDDx4 RAID 0 HDDx2 to RAID 5 HDDx5 RAID 0 HDDx3 to RAID 5 HDDx4 RAID 0 HDDx3 to RAID 5 HDDx5 RAID 0 HDDx4 to RAID 5 HDDx5 57 RAID 1 OFFLINE RAID 1 HDDx2 to RAID 0 HDDx2 RAID 1 HDDx2 to RAID 0 HDDx3 RAID 1 HDDx2 to RAID 0 HDDx4 RAID 1 HDDx2 to RAID 0 HDDx5 RAID 1 HDDx3 to RAID 0 HDDx4 RAID 1 HDDx3 to RAID 0 HDDx5 ONLINE RAID 1 HDDx2 to RAID 5 HDDx3 RAID 1 HDDx2 to RAID 5 HDDx4 RAID 1 HDDx2 to RAID 5 HDDx5 RAID 1 HDDx3 to RAID 5 HDDx4 RAID 1 HDDx3 to RAID 5 HDDx5 RAID 1 HDDx4 to RAID 5 HDDx5 ONLINE RAID 1 HDDx2 to RAID 6 HDDx4 RAID 1 HDDx2 to RAID 6 HDDx5 RAID 1 HDDx3 to RAID 6 HDDx4 RAID 1 HDDx3 to RAID 6 HDDx5 RAID 1 HDDx4 to RAID 6 HDDx5 RAID 1 HDDx4 to RAID 0 HDDx5 RAID 1 HDDx4 to RAID 0 HDDx5 X ONLINE RAID 5 HDDx3 to RAID 5 HDDx4 RAID 5 HDDx3 to RAID 5 HDDx5 RAID 5 HDDx4 to RAID 5 HDDx5 RAID X X ONLINE 6 RAID 6 HDDx4 to RAID 6 HDDx5 Space Allocation You may specify the space allocated for both Target USB and iSCSI v
32. own Photo Gallery and all public Photo Albums on the network To manage any picture files you must first select the item by clicking the box Login Web Disk Photo Server Username Password www thecos co 99 Windows XP Publishing Wizard There are many ways for a local user to upload pictures into their photo album Users of Windows XP can upload their pictures using the Windows XP Publishing Wizard t 1 Click on the XP Publishing Wizard con on top right corner 2 2 The XP Web Publishing Wizard Client screen appears Click on the link to install the Publishing Wizard 3 Windows XP will ask whether you want to run or save this file Click Save to save the register file 100 File Download Security Warning Do you want to run or save this file Name lt PPublish reg Type Registration Entries 377 bytes From 172 16 66 158 While files from the Internet can be useful this tile type can potentially harm pour computer If you do not trust the source do not run or save this software What s the risk Once the register file is installed use the Windows file manager to browse the folder that contains the picture you want to publish On the left pane there will be an icon labeled Publish this folder to the Web Web Publishing Wizard BB Welcome to the Web Publishing Wizard This wizard will help you publish your files over the Internet or a local network so that other people ca
33. remove it from the tray Slide a new hard disk into the tray and fasten the screws Insert the hard disk tray back into the N5500 until it snaps into place You can also lock it with a key if desired The LED blinks green when the HDD is accessed RAID Auto Rebuild When using RAID 1 5 6 or 10 on the N5500 you can use the auto rebuild function when an error is detected When a hard disk fails the system beeps and or an email notification is sent to specified receivers Check the LCD to see which disk has failed Follow the steps mentioned above to replace the failed hard disk The system automatically recognizes the new hard disk and starts the auto rebuild sequence to resume its status before the hard disk crash 115 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting Forgot My Network IP Address If you forget your network IP address and have no physical access to the system you can find out the IP address by either looking directly onto the N5500 s LCD panel or by using the setup wizard to retrieve the IP of your N5500 1 Start the Setup Wizard and it will automatically detect all Thecus IP storage products on your network 2 You should be able to find the IP address of the N5500 which you have forgotten in the Device Discovery screen Can t Map a Network Drive in Windows XP You may have problems mapping a network drive under the following conditions 1 The network folder is currently mapped using a different user name a
34. the media that you would like to share To create a media share folder follow the steps below 1 Click on System Network gt Media Server in the menu bar 2 From the Shared Media Folders window select the folder that contains your media files and click its checkbox 3 The contents in the folder will be scanned for the Media Server The time required for scanning depends on the size of the folder Connecting DMAs to the Media Server Next it s time to connect your Digital Media Adapter DMA to the media server 1 Connect your DMA to your Media Server a Configure your DMA to use a Dynamic IP address The IP address will be assigned by the router b Some DMAs are wireless enabled You can connect the DMA to a wireless router For instructions on how to connect your DMA to a wireless router please refer to your DMA s user manual 2 Connect your DMA s video output to video input of your TV set 3 Turn on the TV and change the video signal input to DMA 44 4 Setup the DMA These steps will be different if you use a different DMA a From the Server List screen select N5500 Media Server as the server b Goto My Media c Click on the Up Down Arrow buttons to select Music Jukebox Photo Albums or Video Clips d Start enjoying the contents stored in your N5500 HTTP Web Disk From the System Network menu choose the HTTP Web Disk item and the Web Disk HTTP Support screen appears This screen disp
35. the printing and fax functions will work Other features such as scanning will probably not function 87 Windows Vista To set up the Printer Server in Windows Vista follow the steps below 1 Open Printer Folder from the Control Panel e Control Panel Home System and Maintenance Get started wrth Windows Back up your computer Security Check for updater Check this computer s security status e Fulow pragiam theowgh Winders Firewall Network and Internet Ven mitweork status amd teri User Accounts and Family Safety MO Set up parental contrets for ary user add dr como une accour s Appearance and Personalization Change detitep background Change the color scheme Adjust screen resolution Clock Language and Region Chunge keyboards of other mpu menhods Change display language Set up file sharing Ease of Access Let Windows suggest settings pierze vual dipli Hardware and Sound E CDs or other media automatically Recent Tasks 1 Programs Uninstall a program Ponies Change tarkup preqiareaa Additonal Options 2 Click the right mouse button in anywhere on the Printers folder and then select Add Printer Favorite Links Documents Status Comments Location Model D gt Fax Microsoft XPS Document E ocuments 0 Writer E Pictures Ready 0 B Music More Vil Folders BZ Desktop Group By E fae Stack By de Public Refresh 1 Computer Network Paste Control
36. this attribute value remains at zero it indicates that the quality of the corresponding surface area is low Test Type Set short or long time to test Test Result Result of the test Test Time Total time of the test If the Reallocated Sector Count gt 32 or Current Pending Sector of a hard disk drive gt 0 the status of the disk will show Warning This warning is only used to alert the system administrator that there are bad sectors on the disk and they should replace those disks as soon as possible Bad Block Scan On the Disks Information screen you may also perform disk bad block scan simply to click Yet to start to start with The result is only for reference and system will not take any action from its result Disk Information Disk Do Capacity UB Model Fims PLATOS Bad Bierk Sean MUA NA WA MA WA 2 76 315 WDC WDS8001D 0015 06 0 OK ho Haatehy 76 315 WDC 1WD5004433 00 05 0 Ep OK Po Ye tormi wA WA WA wA HA 5 AA MA MA UA MA Total Capac 1526358 ME The testing result will be stay till system reboot with Yet to start displayed as default RAID Information From the Storage menu choose the RAID tem and the RAID Information screen appears This screen lists the RAID volumes currently residing on the N5500 From this screen you can get information about the status of your RAID volumes as well as the capacities allocated for data target USB and iSCSI There is a
37. to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code 132 You may not copy modify sublicense or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License Any attempt otherwise to copy modify sublicense or distribute the Program is void and will automatically terminate your rights under this License However parties who have received copies or rights from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance You are not required to accept this License since you have not signed it However nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License Therefore by modifying or distributing the Program or any work based on the Program you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so and all its terms and conditions for copying distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it Each time you redistribute the Program or any work based on the Program the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients exercise of the rights granted herein You are not respon
38. 16 65 165 Share Folder naswebsite Y Authorized Username on Target user Server Password on Target Server Test Connection Connection test on 10 7 184 1 success Test Connection Schedule Enable Disable 9 Enable Disable Time 00 00 v Type 9 Daily Weekly Monthly v e Nzync dargel Server ManulatiUrer v NAS Legacy bir saves A yne Mode O Synchronize Compare source and tarzet then delete unexist files Incremental Copy file from source to target Target Server IP address 172 16 65 165 Share Folder naswebsite Y Authorized Username on Target User AV Password on Tarzet Server __ geese E Add Nsyne Task lest Connection 1 Success Test Connection Schedule Enable Disable Enable Disable Timet 00 00 v Type 0 Daily Weekly Monthly 2 Add Nsync Task o Item Descripti nm_ gt gt gt The name of your Nsync task Target Server Select whether the target is a Thecus Product e g N5500 or FTP Manufacturer server Nsync Mode Synchronize mode or Incremental mode Target Server IP The IP address of your target server Address Source Folder The share folder you want to backup Authorized Username The account name on the target server on Target Server 93 Password on Target The password for the username on the target server Server Test Connection Click to check the connection to the Target Server Schedule Enable or Disable schedule backup of your share folders The time when the Nsync task
39. 30 3 GB Capacity 27 4 GB 30 3 GB Allocating Space for Target USB Volume 1 Under the Volume Allocation List click Target USB The Create Target Volume screen appears y System Information Space Allocation Advance Option P System Management l pr RAID Information Whe System Network Pp en Master RAID Pea Disks Total Data USB iSCSI ee RAID Leval Used Capacity Capacity Capacity Capacity Disks RAID 5 Healthy 2 3 4 145 3 0 2 GB 55 9 GB N A N A Sram o Space Allocation S Share Folder e Stackable Volume Allocation List a pi eee Type Name Capacity Space Allocation x Create Target USB Volume RAID ID RAM Unused 30 56 29 GB Allocation 3 II 56 3 GB Limit 0 9 a z A Z length between 12 16 2 Designate the percentage to be allocated from the Allocation drag bar 3 Click OK to create the USB volume Create USB Volume item Description O lt OZ OZO OZO OoOO O RAID ID ID of current RAID volume Unused Percentage and amount of unused space on current RAID volume Allocation Percentage and amount of space allocated to USB volume Advance Option There are 2 options is currently allow Admin to Enable Disable to operate N5500 associated with iSCSI setting The details as listed in following screenshot With the option changed it will need to reboot system to activate Menu a System Information r Space Allocation PP System Management
40. 660 file system can be mounted Top 50 Folders Top 50 Pies Please type m the full path of the ISO ef not bated To mount new ISO file select from listed ISO file and input desired mounting name into Mount as field Click ADD with confirmation to complete mounting ISO file Or without Mount as ISO file export name input system will automatic to give the export name by ISO file name If left Mount as blink then system will create mount point by ISO file name 71 ISO Mount Are you sure to mount the 2 SO Yes 150 Aout ij naswebsre Thecus 01 iso is mcs After you have completed to add ISO then the page will displayed all mounted ISO files 4 j naswebsite Mounted Path gt ISO Path ISO Size LJ BT Seed naswebsite Thecus 01 naswebsite Thecus 01 iso 102 8MB _ Andy Weekly Report C AMD Thecus 01 _J Besttech GT LJ ACS 6xxx LJ AMCC Thecus 02 iso _J Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Pro J ATOM _J Andy Private Ki lt Page of 1 gt N Displaying iso mount information 1 1 of 1 File Selected Mount as Description Only ISO 9660 file system can be mounted Top 50 Folders Top 50 Files Please type in the full path of the ISO if not listed You could click Unmount to eliminate mounted ISO file 78 B Using I SO The mounted ISO file will be located same share folder with name giving Please refer the screen shot below ISO file image has mounted as folde
41. Add Edit Re ma Export share name IP Capacity Used Total Status Description lan lisesi 172 16 65 157 NIA Unknown file ign 2009 05 co1 Success x 1 You have successfully formatted stack folder iscsi With this newly attached stack target device you will see the information displayed and also several options you can choose In general if attached stack target device has been used by another N5200PRO 1U4500 N5500 N7700 N8800 as stack target volume then the Format item will be display and system will recognize it straight away and display its capacity Otherwise the Format tem will be available and the Capacity and Status items will show as N A and Unknown file system respectively Next click Format to proceed with formatting 74 After the format is complete the stack target volume will be created successfully You will see the volume s capacity and status in the Stack Target List screen C Edit a Stack Target To make any changes to stack targets click Edit for the corresponding stack target and system will bring up the following dialogue Edit iSCSI Target x Enable iSCSI Target 8 Enable 1 Disable Stackable Targat IF ign ka Username Password Export share name iarsi Limit 0 9 a z Deseription Browseable D yes no Publie yes 5 no Apply After your changes have been made click Apply to confirm any modifications Once changes are applied the associated info
42. B disk volume are case sensitive The N5500 also supports eSATA hard disks with its eSATA port Before attaching an eSATA or USB disk drive to N5500 you have to partition and format it on a desktop computer or a notebook first The attached device will be located at 192 168 1 100 usbhdd sdf1 where 192 168 1 100 means the IP address of N5500 and saf stands for the first partition on disk 6 the eSATA or USB disk drive If it is an NTFS partition NAS users can open or copy files from 192 168 1 100 usbhdd sdfl but cannot add new files or modify existing files If you want to write to an USB storage device the file system must be FAT32 USB FAT32 NTFS Storage Partition Partition Read OK OK p Write ok Adding a Spare Disk With a RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 or RAID 10 volume you can add a spare disk after the initial RAID is setup To add a spare disk follow the steps below 1 Onthe RAID Configuration Screen tick the checkbox of the hard disk you wish to designate as a spare disk 2 Click Add Spare The disk will be configured as a spare disk The system automatically rebuilds the spare disk when one of the disks in the RAID set fails Remote Administration You can set up your N5500 for remote administration With remote administration you can access your N5500 over the Internet even if your N5500 is behind a router This is especially useful if you are traveling and suddenly need a file from your N5500
43. FS access to the share folder enable the NFS Service and then set up hosts with access rights by clicking Add x Mount point raid0 data nzync Est Remove Host Name Privilege OS Support ID Mapping Config NFS share x Lerananansnnsnnnsnnd Mount point raid0 data nsync Host Name JO IDO A Privileze O Read Only 9 Writable OS Support O Unix Linux System AIX Allow source port gt 1024 ID Mappine 9 Guest system root account will have full access to this share root root Guest system root account vall be mapped to anonymous user nobody nogroup on NAS All User on guest system will be mapped to anonymous user nobody nogroup on HAS NFS Share Item Descriptin O O Z lt O Z OZO OoOO O Guest System Support There are two selections available e Unix Linux System e AIX Allow source port gt 1024 Choose the one which best fits your needs 66 IO Mapping There are three selections available Guest system root account will have full access to this share root root Guest system root account will be mapped to anonymous user nobody nogroup on NAS All user on guest system will be mapped to anonymous user nobody nogroup on NAS Choose the one which best fits your needs Apply Click to save your changes Snapshot The N5500 is capable for 16 snapshot version control To have snapshot to work on the file system creation for RAID volume has to be
44. I 7 Selected the file system you like to have for this RAID volume The selection is available from ext3 XFS and ZFS Select ZFS file system while snapshot is needed It is only one ZFS file system allowed to be created per system ZFS file system is only accessible by CIFS SMB not for AFP and NFS users XFS file system is not support folder quota feature RAID Configuration x RAID Information Create RAID Disk No Capacity MB Model Status Used Spare 1 N A WA NWA 2 76 319 WDC WDS800JD OK O 3 76 319 WDC WD800JD OK O 2 76 319 WDC WDS00AA OK O 5 N A N A NA RAID Level IBOD RAID O RAID 1 9 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID ID RAID Allow 0 9 a z A Z C Master RAID Take effect after checked box Stripe Size 64KB Data Percentage T 40 File System EXT3 Y Create 8 Press Create to build the RAID storage volume 51 Master RAID i Disks Total Data USB iSCSI RAID Level 3 Used Capacity Capacity Capacity Capacity o RAD 5 Build 1 3 2 3 4 145 3 GB 0 2 GB 55 9 GB N A N A e Disks o Eata S Space Allocation de J USB Share Folder Diiscsi e Stackable Ounused 150 Mount i A R RAID Status Build 1 2 61 9min RAID Configuration A All current active services will be stopped when RAID is being created Are you sure to create RAID now 2 RAID Configuration a 1 Yo EAI Setting Successfully LL All current active services will be stopped when
45. Local Users or Setup Authentication oococccccccccccnnnrcnnnnnnnnos 21 Step 4 Create Folders and Set Up ACLS arrneo eani nE AEn 21 Steps Stat SEIC S it AA ARA da 21 OVEFVICW rikrin iE E EE canade 23 Web Administration Interface sssnssssnnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 23 Menta o to o a 23 Me Sage BAr merra e tol oooa 24 LOGOO C acaso aida E N 25 Language Selection iii A 25 SVSLENT NOT MA tlO Neira 25 Product AO MAIN ARA AO 25 System Ser vice Stat iii 26 ql A AR A 27 System Management iii a A a eta cal 28 TIME Setting System UNE seria 28 Notification CONTIGUFATION AA 29 Pirin Ware UDS oia dime A 30 UPS CUNA A A 30 Schedule Power OM Olarra 31 Wake Up On LAN WOL rnanan a a a a a N a 32 SNMP UD DO tarro E T aa N os 33 o A eT Od ved A eee AE 33 System NetWork sescscisdaninc rsi aa 38 WAN CONTIGQUPAU Ora 38 LAN Vai irc 39 LAN CONTIGUOS AAA A 39 DHCP Server Configura N iisviceserpsrerrscnbadesdun a ra aar e 40 Sama All ot 40 SImba gt CIVIC as 40 PISAC EOSS Caca iaa 40 Samba ECV Cle BIN testa twat nuke a oi a antec a a tne nanan ete eondees wit ea awi bees 41 Samba Anonymous Login AUTNENTICATION ccc cece ccc c cece cece e eee e nese eeeeeeeneneeeeeneenees 41 AFP Apple Network Setup eiii di A 41 NES CUIDE ened enone 42 Borer ere rere ere er rrr err ern rr rere rc rrr err cr rrr Tree rer AAA 42 Media Servers es 43 Media Manager SS etUnd Suri ia e ai 43 Share Media FOIS iii A AA Sead ae A A AA
46. MYGROUP ADS NT Support C Enable Disable Authentication Method ADS WT ADS NT Server Name ADENT Realm a ida Local Administrator ID User S Group Administrator Password Batch Input i 79 A description of each item follows ADS NT Support item Description OOO Name N5500 Directory Server or Windows NT Windows NT Administrator ID Enter the administrators ID of Windows Active Directory or A Windows NT which is required for N5500 to join domain Administrator Enter the ADS NT Administrator password Password Apply To save your settings To join an AD domain you can refer the figure and use the exa configure the N5500 for associated a filed input mple below to System Properties ity EN A Axl General Network Identification Hardware User Profiles Advanced Windows uses the following information to identify your computer on the network Full computer name computert domain local ADS Server Name a Domain domain local Sa ral e A Work Group Domain Name ll ADS Realm HU orename this computer or joi a domaih click An 5 Properties Properties Note The identification of the computer cannot be changed because The computer is a domain controller Apply Cancel AD Domain Example Work Group Domain domain Name ADS Support ADS Server Name ADS NT Realm Administrator 1D Administrator KK OK KK OK Passwor
47. P server is selected please make sure your N5500 s network has been WARNING setup to access the NTP server Notification configuration From the menu choose the Notification item and the Notification Configuration screen appears This screen lets you have the N5500 notify you in case of any system malfunction Press Apply to confirm all settings See following table for a detailed description of each item Notification Configuration Beep Notification Enable EY Disable Email Notification 5 Enable Disable SMTP Server Port Auth Type w schedule On Off Wake Up on LAN er oe e SNMP Account Password a M Utility Administrator Password Be Meat Sras Config Memt Recarvers E Mail Address 1 el Factory Default SS Reboot amp Shutdown Filesystem Check Recervers E Mail Address 3 Receivers E Mail Address 2 Recemers E Mail Address 4 ree ae Notification Configuration Htem o Description OOO Beep Notification Enable or disable the system beeper that beeps when a problem occurs SMTP Account ID Set the SMTP Server Email account ID Account Password Enter a new password Set email address to send email Receiver s E mail Add one or more recipient s email addresses to receive email Address 1 2 3 4 notifications Consult with your mail server administrator for email server information 29 Firmware Upgrade From the menu choose the Firmware Upgrade tem and the Firmware Upgr
48. System Information Dizk Information Disk No Capacity MB Model Bad Block Scan 1 N A N A Ni Ni N A 76 319 WDC WD800JD 00LS Es 3 gt Yet to start 3 76 319 WDC WDS00JD 00LS SB P Yet to start RAD 4 76 319 WDC WDS00AAJ5 00 5 E p Yet to start 2 Space Allocation 5 WA N A Nis Ni N A e Share Folder Total Capacity 228957 MB e Stackable 180 Mount Disk Power Management Disk Power Management Disks Information item Description O Model Displays the SATA hard disk model name Bad Block scan Yes to start scan Bad Block Total Capacity Shows the total SATA hard disk capacity Disk Power The administrator can set the disk to power down after a period of Management inactivity 47 Indicates the status of the disk Can read OK Warning or Failed When the Status shows Warning it usually means there are bad sectors on the hard disk It is shown only as a precaution and you should consider changing the drives S M A R T Information On the Disks Information screen the status of each disk will be displayed in the Status column Clicking on an OK or Warning link will display the S M A R T Information window for that particular disk You may also perform disk SMART test simply to click Test to start with The result is only for reference and system will not take any action from its result SMART INFO x Info Tray Number 3 Model WHC WDOS800AA4T8 00 Power On Hours 9722 H
49. TY TO USE THE PROGRAM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS 134
50. Up Time 22 hours 15 minutes Service Statuz AFP Status Running NFS Status hoe SMBICIES Status mia FTP Status annie Mia Ep E Status Running UPaP Status Pea SNMP Stop System Status Item Description SS Displays current CPU workload of the N5500 Shows how long the system has been up and running AFP Status The status of the Apple Filing Protocol server 26 SNMP The status of the SNMP service Logs From the System Information menu choose the Logs item and the System Logs screen appears This screen shows a history of system usage and important events such as disk status network information and system booting See the following table for a detailed description of each item gt Time 2009 05 25 13 44 51 2000 05 25 13 41 20 2009 03 25 132 2009 05 25 13 16 08 2009 05 25 13 12 28 2000 03 25 13 11 03 O AAA 3 93 A itt m 3500 dualO svete y 3500 dual 1 53500 dualO1 3500 dualOl 3500 dual System Logz Dan Hho Warn Eror Ca Download AllLoz File 5 Truncate All Log File The number of lines per page 13 Lozs Information 7700 The system N7700 is recovering the RAID and rebuilding is in progress 2009 05 13 15 55 16 7700 Disk 4 on N7700 has been added 2009 05 13 15 39 49 7700 Disk 3 on N7700 has been added 2009 05 13 15 39 43 7700 Disk 2 on N7700 has been added 2009 05 13 14 08 36 7700 User admin log
51. V Master RAID Take effect after checked box Stripe Bize y Data Percentage File System w All current active services will be stopped when operation is in progress Are you sure to update setting now RAID Configuration 2 No RAID Configuration x i RAID Infomation update Successfully Remove RAID Click to remove the RAID volume All user data iSCSI and target USB data been created in selected RAID volume will be removed To remove a RAID volume follow the steps below 1 On the RAID List screen select the RAID volume by clicking on its radio button and click RAID Information to open the RAID Configuration screen 2 On the RAID Configuration screen click Remove RAID 3 The confirmation screen appear you will have to input Yes with exactly wording case to complete Remove RAID operation 54 RAD Configuration x RAID Information Expand Migrate RAID Edit Disk Mo Capacity MB Model Status Used Spare 1 HA WA WA 2 76 319 WDC WDI00JD OE 3 76 319 WHC WDS00ID OE 4 76 319 WDC WDS0044 OE 5 HA HA WA RAID Level TEOD RAIDO RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 RATE 10 RAID ID RAID E Allow 0 9 a z A Z W Master RAID Take effect after checked box Stripe Bie WF Data Percentage 1 File System y Remove RAID i Remove RAID destroys all data in the current RAID volume The data is WARNING unrecoverable Expanding a RAID To expand a RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 o
52. a AAAA EESO e O O Sai nas acc scancnssaccacnencanatnaa seers Thecus N5500 FW v3 00 01 User s Manual Copyright and Trademark Notice Thecus and other names of Thecus products are registered trademarks of Thecus Technology Corp Microsoft Windows and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Apple Tunes and Apple OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Computers Inc All other trademarks and brand names are the property of their respective owners Specifications are subject to change without notice Copyright O 2009 Thecus Technology Corporation All rights reserved About This Manual All information in this manual has been carefully verified to ensure its correctness In case of an error please provide us with your feedback Thecus Technology Corporation reserves the right to modify the contents of this manual without notice Product name Thecus N5500 Manual Version 1 00 Release Date June 2009 Limited Warranty Thecus Technology Corporation guarantees all components of Thecus N5500 are thoroughly tested before they leave the factory and should function normally under general usage In case of any system malfunctions Thecus Technology Corporation and its local representatives and dealers are responsible for repair without cost to the customer if the product fails within the warranty period and under normal usage Thecus Technology Corporation is not responsible for any damage or l
53. ade screen appears a System Information X Firmware Upgrade firmware 7 at ime amp Jo ities ion Apply S Firmware Uperade S uns Y Schedule On OF Wake Up on LAN S sup 3 MM Utitity e Administrator Password S Config Mgmt e Factory Default e Reboot amp Shutdown e Filesystem Check Follow the steps below to upgrade your firmware 1 Use the Browse button to find the firmware file 2 Press Apply 3 The beeper beeps and the Busy LED blinks until the upgrade is complete e The beeper only beeps if it is enabled in the System Notification menu e Check Thecus website for the latest firmware release and release notes e Downgrading firmware is not permitted Do not turns off the system during the firmware upgrade process WARNING This will lead to a catastrophic result that may render the system inoperable UPS Setting The N5500 can also support various uninterruptible power supply units via either Serial or USB interface providing extra data security and accessibility in the case of a power failure From the Status menu choose the UPS item and the UPS Setting screen appears Make any changes you wish and press Apply to confirm changes 30 UPS Setting UPS monitoring 5 Enable 8 Disable mathe Manufactura we e Notification Firmware Upgrade Model a Schedule Or OF means the product has been tested for Compatibility gt Wake Up on LAN Battery Status WA Ea
54. al support English French German Italian Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese Japanese Korean Spanish Russian and Polish NTP support Wake on LAN Scheduled Power On Off Email notification Buzzer notification LCD system shutdown on low battery Supported USB Devices USB Printer pil External HDD flash disk USB IEEE 802 11 b g dongle w AP mode support MAC OS X AD support Works as a client member in a Microsoft Active Directory domain allowing the N5500 to utilize the domain users and groups setting for authentication to the system and authorization to the share folders For supported USB dongles please contact sales thecus com 119 Appendix B Customer Support If your N5500 is not working properly we encourage you to check out Chapter 7 Troubleshooting located in this manual You can also try to ensure that you are using the latest firmware version for your N5500 Thecus is committed to providing free firmware upgrades to our customers Our newest firmware is available on our Download Center http www thecus com download php If you are still experiencing problems with your N5500 or require a Return Merchandise Authorization RMA feel free to contact technical support via our Technical Support Website http www thecus com support_tech php Customers in the US should send all technical support enquiries to the US contact window included in the following web page http www thecus com support_te
55. all a printer and then press OK Select the manufacturer and model of your printer f your printer came with an installation disk click Have Disk If your printer is not listed consult your printer documentation for a compatible printer Manufacturer Printers HP Sy HP DeskJet 615C IBM ES HP DeskJet 640C 642C 648C EX HP Deskjet 6500 Series EF UP Nest let ON digit r IN i 89 If your printer model is not listed please contact your printer manufacturer for help 7 Windows will attempt to connect to the printer Connecting to http 172 16 66 64 631 printers usb printer rrr 8 You can choose to set this printer as the default printer by checking the Set as the default printer box Click Next to continue Type a printer name Printer name usb printer on http 172 16 66 64 631 Y Set as the default printer This printer has been installed with the HP Deskjet 6500 Series driver 9 Done Click Finish You ve successfully added usb printer on http 172 16 66 64 631 To see if the printer is working correctly or to see troubleshooting information for the printer print a test page _frnta testpoge_ 90 iTunes Server With the built in Tunes server capability the N5500 enables digital music to be Shared and played anywhere on the network From the Network menu choose the iTunes item and the iTunes Configuration screen appears You may enable or disable the iTunes Se
56. ask to run at regular intervals click on the Schedule icon for that task You can schedule the task to run Monthly or Weekly 3 To check the log for that task click on the Log icon for that task Thecus Backup Utility also supports MAC OS X Just copy the Thecus Backup Utility dmg to your MAC OS X machine and double click to execute it Windows XP Data Backup If you use Windows XP Professional you can also use the Windows Backup Utility Ntbackup exe to backup your files If you use Windows XP Home Edition follow these steps to install the utility 1 Insert the Windows XP CD into a drive and double click the CD icon in My Computer 95 4 5 When the Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP screen appears click Perform Additional Tasks Click Browse this CD In Windows Explorer navigate to ValueAdd gt Msft gt Ntbackup Double click Ntbackup msi to install the backup utility Once installed you can use the Windows Backup Utility by following the steps below 1 Click Start and point to All Programs gt Accessories gt System Tools gt Backup to start the wizard Click Next to skip past the opening page Choose Backup files and settings from the second page and then click Next Select which option you want to back up Click Next and in the Backup Type Destination and Name page specify a back up location using the Browse button Find and select the drive that specifies your N5500 as your ba
57. ation RAID 6 RAID 6 is essentially an extension of RAID level 5 which allows for additional fault tolerance by using a second independent distributed parity scheme dual parity Data is striped on a block level across a set of drives just like in RAID 5 and a second set of parity is calculated and written across all the drives RAID 6 provides for an extremely high data fault tolerance and can sustain two simultaneous drive failures This is a perfect solution for mission critical applications RAID 10 RAID 10 is implemented as a striped array whose segments are RAID 1 arrays RAID 10 has the same fault tolerance as RAID level 1 RAID 10 has the same overhead for fault tolerance as mirroring alone High I O rates are achieved by striping RAID 1 segments Under certain circumstances RAID 10 array can sustain up to 2 simultaneous drive failures Excellent solution for applications that would have otherwise gone with RAID 1 but need an additional performance boost JBOD Although a concatenation of disks also called JBOD or Just a Bunch of Disks is not one of the numbered RAID levels it is a popular method for combining multiple physical disk drives into a single virtual one As the name implies disks are merely concatenated together end to beginning so they appear to be a single large disk As the data on JBOD is not protected one drive failure could result total data loss Stripe Size The length of the data segments be
58. booted you will be returned to the File System Check prompt There you will see the available RAID volumes to run the file system check on except ZFS volume ZFS has no need to perform file system check Check the desired RAID volumes and click Next to proceed with the file system check Click Reboot to reboot without running the check Thecus com File System Check File System Check ZFS is not need file system check E RAID Level Disks Status Filesystem Status Data Capacity Last Check Time RAIDS Healthy Normal 0 2 GB 41 8 GB Thecus com File System Check ZFS is not need file system check Once you click Next you will see the following screen Next 36 Status Latest 20 lines Information Result 2 Click Start to begin the file system check Click Reboot to reboot the system When the file system check is run the system will show 20 lines of information until it is complete Once complete the results will be shown at the bottom Status Latest 20 lines Information IES 14 5 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 contiguous HOH OH mH o o co co to 0 00 0 Oo AA teat E o y QQ amp OG w w Madre S iad Ww NHPO NN 200 3 anna E DUT Io OF qee anna 2009 pa pa ps pa pa pa pa pa ps mn un q UN oon on on on ran An wh 0 O CO O CO co ro co oO 00 om oD tl er Gl ai y Peg e Gy A y 16
59. ce Allocation Y Share Folder e Stacicable Volume Allocation List 150 Mount aa Modify QDetetd Q iSC3I Target C Type Name Capacity Target USB Target USB 27 4 GB iSCSI iscsi 30 3 GB To allocate space for an iSCSI volume on the current RAID volume follow the steps below 1 Under the Volume Allocation List click SCSI Target The Create iSCSI Volume screen appears Space Allocation A Create 15051 Volume RAID ID RAID Allocation 60 86 6 GB Unused 86 6 GE 15031 Target Volume 0 Enable 8 Disable Target Name Timit 0 5 a z iqn_Year 2000 i iqn Year 05 y Authentication 9 None E CHAP Username Limitx0 9 a z A Z Password Limit0 9 2 2 4 2 lansth between 12 16 Password Confirm Description The 15031 block size can be set under system advance option default is 512 Bytes Please using 4E block size while more than 2TE capacity will be configured in Windows XP Please ming 312 Bytes block size for application like VMware ste Create iSCSI Volume Item Description O O RAID ID ID of current RAID volume Allocation Percentage and amount of space allocated to iSCSI volume Percentage and amount of unused space on current RAID volume Stackable NAS function to identify this export share Authentication You may choose CHAP authentication or choose None Select the current month from the dropdown 59 Username Enter a username Password Enter a passwo
60. ch php For Sales Information you can e mail us at sales thecus com Thank you for choosing Thecus Thecus 120 Appendix C RAID Basics Overview A Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID is an array of several hard disks that provide data security and high performance A RAID system accesses several hard disks simultaneously which improves I O performance over a single hard disk Data security is enhanced by a RAID since data loss due to a hard disk failure is minimized by regenerating redundant data from the other RAID hard disks Benefits RAID improves I O performance and increases data security through fault tolerance and redundant data storage Improved Performance RAID provides access to several hard disk drives simultaneously which greatly increases I O performance Data Security Hard disk drive failure unfortunately is a common occurrence A RAID helps prevent against the loss of data due to hard disk failure A RAID offers additional hard disk drives that can avert data loss from a hard disk drive failure If a hard drive fails the RAID volume can regenerate data from the data and parity stored on its other hard disk drives RAID Levels The Thecus N5500 supports standard RAID levels O 1 5 6 10 and J BOD You choose a RAID level when you create a system volume The factors for selecting a RAID level are e Your requirements for performance e Your need for data security e Number of hard disk
61. cking below SMB CI FS Apple File Protocol AFP Network File System NFS File Transfer Protocol FTP Tunes Server Media Server 21 Printer Server Photo Server 22 Chapter 4 System Overview The N5500 provides an easily accessible Web Administration Interface With it you can configure and monitor the N5500 anywhere on the network Web Administration Interface Make sure your network is connected to the Internet To access the N5500 Web Administration I nterface 1 Type the N5500 s IP address into your browser Default IP address is HELO 192 168 1 100 Theg s IP Storage Server pS 7 Protect your seu Secure our Dat a Your computer s network IP address must be on the same subnet as the N5500 If the N5500 has default IP address of 192 168 1 100 your managing PC IP address must be 192 168 1 x where x is a number between 1 and 254 but not 100 2 Login to the system using the administrator user name and password The factory defaults are User Name admin Password admin X If you changed your password in the setup wizard use the new password Once you are logged in as an administrator you will see the Web Administration Interface From here you can configure and monitor virtually every aspect of the N5500 from anywhere on the network Menu Bar The Menu Bar is where you will find all of the information screens and system settings of the N5500 The various settings are p
62. ckup destination and click Next Click Next to display the wizard s final page and click Finish to start backing up Apple OS X Backup Utilities Mac OS X does not include any backup software However there are a number of backup solutions available for the Mac OS X including iBackup Psyncx iMSafe Rsyncx Folder Synchronizer X Tri BACKUP Impression Intego Personal Backup SilverKeeper and Apple s dotMac Backup utility to name just a few To find even more freeware and shareware backup utilities to choose from go to VersionTracker or MacUpdate and search on backup 96 Chapter 5 Using the N5500 Overview Once the N5500 is setup and operating users on the network may manage all varieties of digital music photos or files by simply using their web browsers To manage your personal files or access public files on the N5500 just enter its IP address into your browser default IP address is http 192 168 1 100 and you will be taken to the N5500 Login page Before proceeding make sure that WebDisk Support or Secure WebDisk Support is enabled in the Service Support screen in the system s Network menu See Service Support in Chapter 4 System Network gt HTTP Web Disk Login Page To login to the system enter your user name and password and select Web Disk or Photo server then click Login to log into the system You will be taken to the selected interface Thecus IP Storage Server Login Web Disk Photo Server
63. clear statement regarding the author of the modifications and this notice may in no case be removed Modifications may also be submitted to the author for inclusion in the main CGIC distribution GNU General Public License Version 2 June 1991 Copyright 1989 1991 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin St Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed PREAMBLE The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it By contrast the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software to make sure the software is free for all its users This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation s software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead You can apply it to your programs too When we speak of free software we are referring to freedom not price Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software and charge for this service if you wish that you receive source code or can get it if you want it that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs and that you know you can do these things To protect y
64. d 80 The DNS server specified in the WAN configuration page should be able to correctly resolve the ADS server name e The time zone setting between N5500 and ADS should be identical e The system time difference between N5500 and ADS should be less than five minutes The Administrator Password field is for the password of ADS Active Directory Server not N5500 Local User Configuration From the Accounts menu choose the User item and the Local User Configuration screen appears This screen allows you to Add Edit and Remove local users System Information Local User Configuration O Add Edit Remove User ID User Name Y User and Group Authentication aps 3 M Local 2 User 2 Group e Batch Input Pagell ofl No topics to display Local User Configuration o Item Description _ _ _ _ _ Press the Add button to add a user to the list of local users Press the Edit button to modify a local user Press the Remove button to delete a selected user from the system Add Users 1 Click on the Add button on Local User Configuration screen and Local User Setting screen appears 2 On the Local User Setting screen enter a name in the User Name box 3 Enter a User ID number If left blank the system will automatically assign one 4 Enter a password in the Password box and re enter the password in the Confirm box 5 Select which
65. d pictures into the album The Upload Photos screen will appear Users can select and upload up to 8 pictures at a time 3 Once the picture is uploaded you can view it in the aloum The owner of the album can delete or modify the pictures with the Delete or Modify buttons on the top right hand corner EXIF Information While viewing pictures you can also have the N5500 display the EXIF information for each photo Simply click the EXIF button to display EXIF information To hide this information click the EXIF button again 106 Slide Shows Slide shows are a great way to enjoy pictures stored on your N5500 You can click on the Start Slide Show icon on the top right hand corner to start the slide show ql E raa isis ia ener Data To stop the slide show click on the Stop Slide Show icon on the top right hand corner Mapping a Client PC to the N5500 You can map share folders on the N5500 so that you can access them as if they were drives on your computer You can connect to the shared network folders on the N5500 as follows Windows 1 Go to the My Computer folder in Windows 2 In the menu bar select Tools and then Map Network Drive 3 The Map Network Drive window appears 4 Assign a drive letter for the share folder 5 Click the Browse button to find the folder over your network Alternatively you may enter the folder name you wish to connect to or enter its IP address
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67. drives in the system capacity of hard disk drives in the system The following is a description of each RAID level RAID 0 RAID 0 is best suited for applications that need high bandwidth but do not require a high level of data security The RAID O level provides the best performance of all the RAID levels but it does not provide data redundancy RAID O uses disk striping and breaking up data into blocks to write across all hard drives in the volume The system can then use multiple hard drives for faster read and write The stripe size parameter that was set when the RAID was created determines the size of each block No parity calculations complicate the write operation RAID 1 RAID 1 mirrors all data from one hard disk drive to a second one hard disk drive thus providing complete data redundancy However the cost of data storage capacity is doubled This is excellent for complete data security 121 RAID 5 RAID 5 offers data security and it is best suited for networks that perform many small I O transactions at the same time as well as applications that require data security such as office automation and online customer service Use it also for applications with high read requests but low write requests RAID 5 includes disk striping at the byte level and parity information is written to several hard disk drives If a hard disk fails the system uses parity stored on each of the other hard disks to recreate all missing inform
68. e steps below for initial software setup Thecus Setup Wizard The handy Thecus Setup Wizard makes configuring N5500 a snap To configure the N5500 using the Setup Wizard perform the following steps 1 Insert the installation CD into your CD ROM drive the host PC must be connected to the network 2 The Setup Wizard should launch automatically If not please browse your CD ROM drive and double click on Setup exe 3 The Setup Wizard will start and automatically detect all Thecus storage devices on your network If none are found please check your connection and refer to Chapter 7 Troubleshooting for assistance Thecus Setup Wizard Device Discovery Version 1 2 0 9 Genre No HostName P MAC Discovery 1 N5500 172 16 66 39 00 14 FD 11 C8 4C Login System Network Configuration Enable Service Hard Disks Setup Change Passwo 4 Select the N5500 that you like to configure 5 Login with the administrator account and password The default account and password are both admin 17 Thecus Setup Wizard 2 __ Login System Version 1 2 0 J Device Discovery Login System A Network Configuration Enable Service Hard Disks Setup Change Password 4 Complete 6 Name your N5500 and configure the network IP address If your switch or router is configured as a DHCP Server configuring the N5500 to automatically obtain an IP address is recommended You may
69. ear Authentication Username Password Password Confirm Initiator Information Description RAID 39 56 3 GB Enable 5 Disable isci Limit 0 9 a z 2009 m 05 3 None E CHAP Limit 0 9 az 4 2 Limit 0 9 az A Z length between 12 16 iqn 2009 5 com thers RAID 150540 ved 15051 The 5031 block size can be set under system advance option default is 512 Bytes Please using 4B block size while more than 2TE capacity will be configured in Windows AP Please using 512 Bytes block size for application like VMware ete 2 Modify your setting Press ok to change Delete Volume To delete volume on the current RAID volume follow the steps below 1 Under the Volume Allocation List click Delete The Space Allocation screen appears System Information P System Management Space Allocation Advance Option RAID Information We System Network z Master RAID Disks Total H Storage rap P a Farias Used Capacity S Disks n RAID 5 Healthy 2 3 4 145 3 ram 2 Space Allocation Y Share Folder e Stackable Volume Allocation List 150 Monnt 3 Modity Delete CP iSCSI Target Type Name Tarzet USB Target USB iSCSI iscsi Space Allocation Data Capacity 5 2 GB 55 9 GB x a All data in the volume will be removed as well Are you sure is iJ 2 Press YES All data in the volume will be removed 61 USB Capacity 27 4 GB iSCSI Capacity
70. elow With the added stack target you could Enable or Disable now or later per usage needed Add iSCSI Target Add Stack Target R Enable 15051 Target Enable 8 Disable Stackable TargetfIP 172 16 65 157 ign 1qn 2000 05 com thecus XPS 150500 vel iscsi E Username Password Export share name Limit 0 9 a z Description Browseable 3 yes i ne Public E yes Mina Next input the target IP address of the stackable device and click the Discovery button The system will list available target volumes from the inputted IP address 71 Once IP with volume have been set you may need to input a valid user name and password to validate your access rights If there is no user name and password needed to access target volume then leave it blank Once IP with volume have been set you may need to input a valid user name and password to validate your access rights If there is no user name and password needed to access target volume then leave it blank Add iSCSI Target Add Stack Target Enable 15051 Target Enable Disable Stackable Target IP 11216065157 ign ign 2009 05 com thecus AF S iscsi0 vgl iscsi Y Username Password Export share name Limit 0 9 2 Description Browseable yes Ino anes eeeees Public C yes 9 ing Apply The Export share name will become the network share name and displayed through network access suc
71. ely between two N5500s If the files on your N5500 are lost for any reason you can restore those files from the target N5500 To backup files regularly you can set up a scheduled task to run only once daily weekly or monthly You can also limit the bandwidth of your Nsync tasks so other users on the network can share the bandwidth equally Under the Backup menu click Nsync and the Nsync window appears z Neyne B System Information OS J Q Adi Edit a Restore Dal retam N att Wi Syster rk pS 5 i z C Task name Server Share Folder Last Time Last Status Schedule Action y Storage y 1 Bandwidth Setting y Tleer and Group Authen i t User and Group Auther t 7 Application Server WA Module management Backup S Neyne Below is a description of each field Nsync item Description gt gt gt Click to delete an Nsync task Backup files on Nsync target is also deleted Action Administrator can run or stop an Nsync task by pressing the action button Bandwidth Setting Bandwidth control on Nsync tasks Add Nsync Task From the Nsync screen click Add to display the Add Nsync Task screen 92 Nzyne x z A Add Nsync Task Task name Nsync task 1 Target Server Manufacturer NAS Legacy FTP Server Nsync Mode 9 Synchronize Compare source and target then delete unexist files Incremental Copy file from source to target Target Server IP address 172
72. ent END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR MICROSOFT SOFTWARE Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 2 0 IMPORTANT PLEASE READ THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT EULA CAREFULLY BY INSTALLING COPYING OR OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE THAT 3 C Do Not Agree lt Back Cancel 6 The iSCSI Initiator will now install automatically Click Finish once completed Software Update installation Wizard Completing the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Installation Wizard Tou Fave puccedghully completed Pe cgi Sang El Do chee la wataed chek Frei 109 7 Start the iSCSI Initiator by double clicking its icon on the desktop The SCSI Initiator properties window will appear Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 8 Select the Discovery tab Under Target Portals click Add iSCSI Initiator Properties Target Portals Address Port Adapter IP Addr rer SNS Servers Name 9 Enter the IP address of the N5500 Click OK Add Target Portal Type the IP address or DNS name and socket number of the portal you want to add Click Advanced to select specific settings For the discovery session to the portal IP address or DNS name Port MXM KKK KKK MK 3260 10 On the iSCSI Initiator Properties window select the Targets tab With the SCSI target highlighted click Log On The Log On to Target dialogue will appear SCSI Initiator Properties General Discovery Targets Persistent Ta
73. ent algorithms are employed to achieve this purpose RAID 6 requires a minimum of 4 disks RAID 6 can sustain two failed disks RAID 10 RAID 10 has high reliability and high performance RAID 10 is implemented as a striped array whose segments are RAID 1 arrays It has the fault tolerance of RAID 1 and the performance of RAID 0 RAID 10 requires 4 disks RAID 10 can sustain two failed disks If the administrator improperly removes a hard disk that should not be WARNING removed when RAID status is degraded all data will be lost Edit RAID On the RAID Information screen press the Edit button to go to the RAID Information screen Using Edit RAID you can select RAID ID and the Spare Disk System Informatio ai RAID Tsformation i Syoem Manazemen y F Ereatd E Edit Woy System Nenwork Master ID RAID Sra Disks Toti Data USA SCS r RAID Lavel RO Used Capacipy Capacity Capacity Capacity P RN a RAID Heli 13 145368 026B 132768 NA NA Diska pa ps PR Boats 2 Space Allocation use Shave Fo Discs Suckable Durnused IS Minnt 1 Diser and Group Authenicatin Applicaton Server We fodule mamavereni 53 RAD Configuration RAID Information Expand Migrate RAID Edit Disk No Capacity MB Model Status Used Spare NA NA NWA 2 76 319 WHC WDS00ID OF 3 76 319 WHC WDS00ID OF 76 319 WDC WDS0044 OK 5 NA N A NA RAID Level TEOD RAID 0 RAID RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10
74. ep the 64K setting unless you require a special file storage layout in the storage volume A larger stripe size is better for large files Data Percentage The percentage of the RAID volume that will be used to store data Create Press this button to configure a file system and create the RAID storage volume To create a RAID volume follow the steps below 1 On the RAID Information screen click create 2 On the RAID Configuration screen set the RAID storage space as J BOD RAID O RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 6 or RAID 10 see Appendix C RAID Basics for a detailed description of each 3 Specify a RAID ID 4 If this RAID volume is meant to be the Master RAID volume tick the Master RAID checkbox 50 In a multiple RAID configuration one RAID volume must be designated as the Master RAID volume The Master RAID volume will store all installed modules If the Master RAID is changed to another location i e assigning volume 2 to be the Master RAID volume after volume 1 had been previously assigned then all modules must be reinstalled In addition all system folders that were contained on the Master RAID volume will be invisible Reassigning this volume to be the Master RAID will make these folders visible again 5 Specify a stripe size 64K is the default setting 6 Specify the percentage allocated for user data by drag the horizontal bar The remaining space will be made available for target USB or iSCS
75. ess follow the steps below L On the ACL screen all network groups and users are listed in the left hand column Select a group or user from this list With the group or user selected press one of the buttons from the three access level columns at the top The group or user then appears in that column and has that level of access to the folder Continue selecting groups and users and assigning them access levels using the column buttons To remove a group or user from an access level column press the Remove button in that column When you are finished press Apply to confirm your ACL settings If one user has belonged to more than one group but different privilege than the priority Deny gt Read Only gt Writable To setup sub folders ACL click on symbol to extract sub folders list as screen shot shows below You may carry on with same steps as share level ACL setting 69 Folder Das ea Sremeve Gears Cp E Act Folder name gt RAID 1D Fie System Publc Description b arme aasa axti no nayno Pe Euih aaea ext yes usbhdd D usbeopy dana ext na usbeooy o naavrebaite aaa ext no Nas webbed ay Tunes suse aaaa ext yes Munes_musit b E teat aaas ext yes at asun e no gt EJECR ne b LJ NatBench les NOTE The ACL can be set for share and sub folders level not for files The ACL screen also allows you to search for a particular user To do this follow the steps below 1 In the blank ente
76. f the system was already off at 16 00 PM on Monday system will stay off Wake Up On LAN WOL The N5500 has the ability to be awoken from sleep mode via WAN port a System Information Wake up On Lan p System Management WOL Service 5 Enable 8 Disable Time Notification e Firmware Upgrade urs a a e ai e Wate Up on LAN Administrator Password Confie Memt Factory Default Reboot amp Shutdown Filesystem Check 32 From the menu choose the WOL item and the Wake up On LAN screen appears From here you can Enable or Disable Wake up On LAN Configuration item Description o O WOL Service Enable or Disable WOL service Apply Click Apply to save changes SNMP Support From the menu choose the SNMP item and the SNMP Support screen appears You could enable the SNMP function and filled in the related information in each fields With the SNMP management software could get system basic information E System Information SNMP Support 5 FE Y E a E i 1 P System Management SNMP Servic S Time ses y Read Community Allow 0 2 a z A Z _ Notification Firmware Upgrade System Contact ups UE System Location schedute On OH Sees gt on LAN Trap Target IP E Administrator Password confis Memt gt Factory Default Reboot amp Shutdown Filesystem Check From the menu choose the SNMP item and the SNMP Support screen appears From here yo
77. fline 9 RAID 5 gt RAID 5 Online RAID 1 gt RAID 0 Offline RAID 6 gt RAID 6 Online RAID 1 gt RAID 5 Online 56 RAID Configuration gt Warning RAID migration may take several hours to complete depending on the RAID capacity EZ Are you sure ad RAID Configuration To avoid disaster data lost caused by power failure a full data backup is strongly recommanded Please type in Yes below to proceed Yad RAID Configuration l x RAID Setting Successfully You are in on line Migration NOW Migrating a RAID volume could take several hours to complete With RAID level migration function it has two different type On line and Off line alone with limitation as listed below 1 During RAID level migration it is not allowed reboot or shutdown system 2 Off line RAID level migration all services will stop and data Is inaccessible 3 To have ZFS file system created doing on line RAID level migration from R1 to R5 or R1 to R6 the all services will restart and volumes user data iSCSI and Target USB are read only during operation 4 To have ext3 and XFS file system created doing on line RAID level migration from R1 to R5 or R1 to R6 the all services will restart and volumes iSCSI and Target USB are read only but user data is capable read write during operation 5 The other combination to make as On line can have read write work as
78. g a Client PC to the N5500 sssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 107 NWINAOWSusaisna a adas 107 BODIE OSA si ia 107 Mapping the N5500 as an iSCSI Drive cococccccccnncccnnnnnnnnncnnn 108 Windows 2000X P praia Aa e 108 NWINAOWS VISta O ae eee 112 Chapter 6 Tips and TICKS iia 113 USB and eSATA Storage EXPansSION ccccsssennnneseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseneennenaeeeeeenes 113 AGGING a Spare DISK ani 113 Remote Administration cin id 113 Part I Set a DYNDNS ACCOU N Diserrntarse nono Porro e re iai 114 Part II Enable DDNS on the Router cccccoccccccccccccaconcca nn 114 Part III Setting up Virtual Servers HTTPS cccccceecsee cece eeeeeeeeeeeneaes 114 Firewall Software Configuration occccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnsss 114 Replacing Damaged Hard DriVv S ssssss22 5 115 Hara Drive Dama de ns da 115 Reblacihg a Hard DIVE es toieceuntanes steer censucetateracerenaeedeboreteteadoureniiueetedeiuens 115 RAID AUEO Re DUNG atado 115 Chapter 7 Troubleshooting iisicsssacinccininia iii 116 Forgot My Network IP AddresSS sssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 116 Can t Map a Network Drive in Windows XP cccsseeennssseeeeseeeeeeeeseennaaas 116 Restoring Factory Defaults 00cccccccccnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnsss 116 Problems with Time and Date SettingS ccccccccnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnananos 116 Dual DOM Supports for Dual Pro
79. ged in from 172 16 65 133 2009 05 13 13 45 03 7700 User admin logged in from 172 16 65 15 2009 05 13 11 11 45 7700 User admin logged in from 172 16 65 172 2009 05 13 09 59 19 7700 User admin logged in from 172 16 65 1 2009 05 13 09 41 26 7700 User admin logged in from 172 16 65 13 2009 05 13 09 32 40 7700 User admin logged in from 172 16 65 1 User admin logged in from 172 16 66 38 2007 01 02 02 35 01 7700 2007 01 02 02 34 26 7700 User admin logged in from 172 16 66 38 2007 01 02 02 33 06 7700 N7700 boot Page 1 lof 1 Displaying logs 1 vailable vallable Tea Columns E da Lies y Time vailable Logs Information available The svstem no 500 duall T found UPS is unavailable The system n5500 dual l found UPS is unavailable User admin logged in from 172 16 63 107 The svstem n3500 dual l found UPS is unavailable See the following table for a detailed description of each item INFO WARN Shows only warning messages ERROR Shows only error messages Download All Log File Export all logs to an external file System Logs lem Description i O messages and error messages INFO Records information about system messages 27 1 13 of 13 Truncate All Log File Clear all log files The number of lines per Specify desired number of lines to display per page page Sort Ascending Shows logs by date in ascending order Sort Descending Shows logs by date in descending order
80. group the user will belong to Group Members is a list of groups this user belongs to Group List is a list of groups this user does not belong to Use the lt lt or gt gt buttons to have this user join or leave a group 6 Press the Apply button and the user is created 81 R System Information Local User Configuration P Svstem Management Queso Remove Woy System Network i mi User Name Hs Add x 3 rod Group ANA Local Uzer Setting Group List aps User Name Search a MB Local User 1D 1002 GroupID Group Name User e Gove Password Y Batch Input Confirm Password Group Memberz GroupID Group Name 102 users Apply NOTE Edit Users 1 Select an existing user from the Local User Configuration screen 2 Click on the Edit button and Local User Setting screen appears 3 From here you can enter a new password and re enter to confirm or use the lt lt or gt gt buttons to have this user join or leave a group Click the Apply button to save your changes Edit Local Uzer Setting User Name User ID Password ATT Confirm Password TLLILLILLLIT l Group IDO Group Name 102 BEETS 82 Group List GrovpID Group Name Remove Users 1 Select an existing user from the Local User Configuration screen 2 Click on Remove button and the user is deleted from the system Local User Configuration Add Et Remove User ID User Name 1002 User x Local User
81. h as SMB You may refer the figures below to see the result Please note the naming limitation Add 1505 Target Add Stack Target x Enable 15051 Target Enable E Disable Stackable Target IP 1727 16 66 39 ign 1qn 20009 6 com thecus aaaa isesi vel abed Username Description Browseable 9 ves C no Public Ul wes 9 no From the figure above the Export share name is pmmeeting The figures below show the result before and after via Microsoft Network Access with settings have been completed 72 Y 1172 16 66 186 BRO REO BRAD RRB IAM RAD fi E E NE Dgs HER dd 0 8 Pe amp No Stack Target BED Y W172 16 66 186 Bez FRI D ca a cal 2 eB ARA oS NS O HERAS WHABAK a ta D Airs ABER E a 2 lt a By IRL PRBS Ce VideoTest a ERC UPnP RE ile Ce 601BM Q O PRETINA HERE wz H Thecus Y RABIE D Rift f 172 16 66 186 AE E ARZ 7 F Tse Y ERINTO 3 RO HE WAC EREA IAM MAW e A Dp BAK od O Bs 5 Stack target with export lt 3 MED WY 172 16 66 186 share name pmmeeting D 7 usbcopy 7 ii 7 VideoTest 7 WEEN a e Hi Tf 2 we BAKE Q ARALAR Q MESA USK 2 Attest WASHER to A ARTIE ACER UP ee gara Ria A Thecus 7 AE G Razi Aaz Ca RETIA N The Browseable setting will be same method of setting for system share folder It designates whether or not this folder will be visible th
82. he LCD will be in Management Mode To enter into Management Mode press Enter and an Enter Password prompt will show on the LCD At this time the administrator has to enter the correct LCD password System will check whether the correct LCD password has been entered The default LCD password is 0000 If correct password is entered you will enter into the Management Mode menu Management Mode Item Description o O Reset system to factory defaults Exit Management Mode and return to Display Mode You can also change your LCD password using the Web Administration Interface by navigating to System Management gt Utility gt Administrator Password For more on the Web Administration Interface see Chapter 4 System Management Typical Setup Procedure From the Web Administration Interface you can begin to setup your N5500 for use on your network Setting up the N5500 typically follows the five steps outlined below For more on how to use the Web Administration Interface see Chapter 4 Web Administration Interface 20 Step 1 Network Setup From the Web Administration Interface you can configure the network settings of the N5500 for your network You can access the Network menu from the menu bar For details on how to configure your network settings refer to Chapter 4 System Network Step 2 RAID Creation Next administrators can configure their preferred RAID setting and build their RAID volume
83. iTunes Configuration Media Server With the built in Media Server capability the N5500 provides media streaming service to stand alone networked home media adapters that support the UPnP AV protocol or are Digital Living Network Alliance DLNA standard compliant To set up the Media Server refer to Chapter 4 System Network gt Media Server Backup Server Don t leave precious data to chance With advanced backup capabilities you can easily upload mission critical files to the N5500 and even automate your backup tasks for true peace of mind To find out how to backup your files with the N5500 refer to Chapter 4 Backup gt Nsync Printer Server With the N5500 s Printer Server you can easily share an IPP printer with other PCs connected to your network To set up the Printer Server refer to Chapter 4 Application Server gt Printer Information Multiple RAID N5500 supports multiple RAID volumes on one system So you can create RAID O for your non critical data and create RAID 5 for mission critical data Create the RAID levels depending on your needs To configure RAID modes on the N5500 refer to Chapter 4 Storage Management gt RAID Information Dual Mode Support N5500 is not only a file server but it also supports iSCSI initiators Your server can access N5500 as a direct attached storage over the LAN or Internet There is no easier way to expand the capacity of your current application servers All the st
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85. ing Windows 98 or earlier may not support file names longer than 15 characters 64 Modify Folders On the Folder screen press the Edit button and the Modify Folder screen appears This screen allows you to change folder information After entering the information press Apply to save your changes Modify Folder x RAID ID w Folder name neyine Description nynt Browseable E Yes 9 No Public Yes No Share Folder Limit 0 GB Modify Folder RAID ID Folder Name Browseable Share Limit Enter the maximum size of the folder The folder will not grow beyond this limit You can enter a 0 to turn off the share folder limit Remove Folders To remove a folder press the Remove button from the specified folder row The system will confirm folder deletion Press Yes to delete the folder permanently or No to go back to the folder list Folder O ada g Eat E Remove P nrs C8 snapshot act Folder name gt gt RAID ID File System Public Description _J nsync RAID ext3 no nsyne usbhdd RAID ext3 no usbhdd _J usbcopy RAIDI ext3 no usbcopy _ naswebsite RAID ext3 ves naswebsite Tunes music RAID ext3 ves iTunes_music BONNY RAIDI ext3 ves v a E Info x The setting has been changed carry on with press Yes for confirmation 65 All the data stored in the folder will be deleted once the folder is deleted WARNING The data will not be recoverable NFS Share To allow N
86. ing written across multiple hard disks Data is written in stripes across the multiple hard disks of a RAID Since multiple disks are accessed at the same time disk striping enhances performance The stripes can vary in size 122 Disk Usage When all 5 disks are of the same size and used in RAID N5500 disk usage percentage is listed below RAID Level Percentage Used RAID 0 100 RAID 1 20 RAID 6 60 RAID 10 50 JBOD 100 123 Appendix D Active Directory Basics Overview With Windows 2000 Microsoft introduced Active Directory ADS which is a large database information store Prior to Active Directory the Windows OS could not store additional information in its domain database Active Directory also solved the problem of locating resources which previously relied on Network Neighborhood and was slow Managing users and groups were among other issues Active Directory solved What is Active Directory Active Directory was built as a scalable extensible directory service that was designed to meet corporate needs A repository for storing user information accounts passwords printers computers network information and other data Microsoft calls Active Directory a namespace where names can be resolved ADS Benefits ADS lets the N5500 integrate itself with the existing ADS in an office environment This means the N5500 is able to recognize your office users and passwords on the ADS server Other major benefit
87. is located under Storage Please refer the figure below for reference Select on the ISO mount function and you will have the screen shot appear as following ISO Mount Y System Information naswebsite Y Mounted Path ISO Path ISO Size rap e Space Allocation Y Share Folder da 150 Mount Pagell of 1 V No iso mount information to display Description Maximum 50 ISO files can be mounted in total 76 A Add a ISO file From the figure above select ISO file from drop down share list ISO Mount nsync usbhdd usbcopy naswebsite iTunes music ISO Path ISO Size After selection system will bring up Mount table for further setting screen V ISO filter 4 j naswebsite LJ BT Seed _J Andy Weekly Report AMD _ Besttech GT _J ACS xxx J AMCC Thecus 02 iso Thecus 01 iso _J Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Pro J ATOM Andy Private File Selected Mount as Add Y ISO filter a j naswebsite JBT Seed J Andy Weekly Report J AMD a Besttech GT LJ ACS Oxxx _J Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Pro LJ ATOM laJ Andy Private Unmount Mounted Path ISO Path ISO Size K lt 4 Pagef of1 D Pl amp No iso mount information to display Description Onty ISO 9660 file system can be mounted Top 50 Folders Top 50 Files Please type in the full path of the ISO if not listed Mounted Path K 4 Pagel oft P P E a j B Description Oniv ISO 9
88. ks services such as SMTP and NTP e To use the Link Aggregation with 802 3ad selected feature please make sure the networking equipment on the other end of Ethernet cable also supports 802 3ad protocol WARN l N G Most Fast Ethernet 10 100 Switches Routers do not support Jumbo Frame and you will not be able to connect to your N5500 after Jumbo Frame is turned on If this happens turn off the N5500 Then press the reset button on the front panel right below power button System will bring your network settings back to factory default LAN LAN Configuration The N5500 supports two Gigabit Ethernet ports for higher service availability To configure these ports choose LAN from the System Network menu and the LAN Configuration screen appears Press Apply to save your changes E LAWN Configuration System Information System Management MAC Address 00 14 FD 11 08 4D0 Jumbo Frame Support Disable Wp System Network wan TP 192 168 2254 So 355 255 255 0 samba CIFS arp NES DHCP Server Configuration FTP DHCP Server 6 Enable Disable Media Server ETTP Web Disk Start IP upap 2 Neyne Target S Bonjour 172 16 66 244 168 95 1 1 LAN Configuration Description item _ __ ipti Jumbo Frame Support AP i Specifies the IP address of the LAN interface _ Before enabling Jumbo Frame Support please make sure your net
89. laced in the following groups on the menu bar 23 Menu a System Information z PP System Management Wey System Network p Storage User and Group Authentication Y Application Server SA Module management Backup 7 Menu Bar ll Item Description gt gt gt System Information Current system status of the N5500 System Management Various N5500 system settings and information System Network Information and settings for network connections as well as various services of the N5500 Storage Information and settings for storage devices installed into the N5500 Moving your cursor over any of these items will display the dropdown menu selections for each group In the following sections you will find detailed explanations of each function and how to configure your N5500 Message Bar You can get information about system status quickly by moving mouse over Message Bar tem status Description O O OOOO Display the status of created RAID volume Click to go to RAID information page as short cut Disks Information Display the status of disks installed in the system Click to go to Disk information page as short cut Display system FAN Status Click to go to System Status page as short cut Display UPS device status Click to go to UPS Setting page as short cut 24 Temperature Green Systematic temperature is normal Red Systematic temperature is unusual Click to go to Sy
90. lays the service support parameters of the system You can change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings Menu E System Information WebDizk HTTP Support System Management Enable 50 Secure WebDizk Secure HITP Support Enable E Disable Nsync Target Bonjour A description of each item follows Web Service item Description gt gt gt HTTP WebDisk Support Enable or disable WebDisk support Enter the port number if this option is enabled The port number is default 80 HTTPs Secure WebDisk Enable or disable secure WebDisk support Enter the port if this Support option is enabled e Disable HTTP support and Enable Secure HTTP support to guarantee secure access 45 UPnP This device supports UPnP Media server which allows users to play media files with UPnP client ex DMA devices Enable or disable Universal Plug and Play protocol UPnP helps to find the IP address of the N5500 E We System Network wan Lan samba CIFS arp Sus rrp Media Server Nsync larget Bonjour Nsync Target From the System Network menu choose the Nsync Target item and the Nsync Setting screen appears Enable or Disable your Nsync Target Server Press Apply to confirm your settings Once Nsync Target has been enabled the other Thecus NAS product is able to operate remote replication to this NAS system 3 System I
91. lso a graph which represents how the RAID volume is currently allocated Woy System Network Mas RAID Siati Disks Total Data USB iSCSI m o Level Used Capacity Capacity Capacity Capacity Spaca Allocation SY Share Folder e Stackable 180 Mount 49 RAID Information lHtem Description OOO volume ore ips must be unique NOTE All RAID I Ds must be unique RAID Level Shows the current RAID configuration Create a RAID On the RAID Information screen press the create button to go to the CREAT RAID screen In addition to RAID disk information and status this screen lets you make RAID configuration settings Using Create RAID you can select stripe size choose which disks are RAID disks or the Spare Disk Status Indicates status of the RAID Can read either Healthy Degraded or Damaged Disks Used Hard disks used to form the current RAID volume RAID Configurations y Item _ __ Description Number assigned to the installed hard disks Capacity of the installed hard disks Model number of the installed hard disks Status of the installed hard disks If this is checked current hard disk is a part of a RAID volume Spare If this is checked current hard disk is designated as a spare for a RAID volume Check a box to designate this as the Master RAID volume See the NOTE below for more information Stripe Size This sets the stripe size to maximize performance of sequential files in a storage volume Ke
92. lue have been tested and work well e f your UPS is not in the support list be sure that the UPS supports one of following protocols o SEC protocol o Generic RUPS model o Generic RUPS 2000 Megatec M2501 cable o PhoenixTec protocol o Safenet software 128 Appendix F Licensing Information Overview This product included copyrighted third party software licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License Please see THE GNU General Public License for extra terms and conditions of this license Source Code Availability Thecus Technology Corp has exposed the full source code of the GPL licensed software For more information on how you can obtain our source code please visit our web site http www thecus com Copyrights This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young eayOcryptsoft com This product includes software developed by Mark Murray This product includes software developed by Eric Young eayOcryptsoft com This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit http www openssl org This product includes PHP freely available from http www php net This product includes software developed by the University of California Berkeley and its contributors This product includes software developed by Winning Strategies Inc This product includes software developed by the Apache Group for use in the Apache HTTP server project http
93. n the target 12 Right click My Computer on the desktop and select Manage 3 Desktop i E My Documents 3 H 314 F Collapse E Se ANE Explore E e DATA open dl S FATS search E gp mea Manage E A DD E E e public Map Network Drive u a Fae o Disconnect Network Drive ES Ed Conti Delete My Netw Rename E Recycle E Properties 111 13 Click on Disk Management and you will see a new hard disk listed LA Computer Mangement E he in Wee Weer bel da Ha Ff Bs I rr Mirad Local Cr re Typa Fis AE A ADAC Parton Mei WIPS healthy Sythe AR OLLIE EATA Dc Patton Bei NIPS Haath ENAT 06 Parton hac FATE hiato Codo Dei tes Dik Miri pair Sarees and Apki ratos E Feroe partir Y Cte pation M booed dere 14 Initialize the new hard disk and you will then be able to use the iSCSI target as a local drive Windows Vista Because Windows Vista has the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator pre installed you will not have to install this piece of software Instead start the iSCSI Initiator and follow steps 8 14 to map the N5500 as an iSCSI drive 112 Chapter 6 Tips and Tricks USB and eSATA Storage Expansion The N5500 supports external USB hard disks through its five USB ports Once a USB hard disk has successfully mounted the entire volume will be linked automatically to the default USB HDD folder The N5500 supports up to 5 USB external storage devices All file names on the US
94. n view them in their Web browsers To continue click Next i Cancel Select the pictures you want to publish to the Photo Web Server by placing a check mark on the top left hand corner of the picture Click Next 101 Wok Pikes hime Tirard Charge Toa Fis Selle A mata ipado rac m bo esas Pees gba ig 7 Your PC will start to connect to the Photo Web Server 8 Select N5500 Photo Gallery Wizard to publish your pictures to the N5500 Web Publishing Wizard Where do you want to publish these files Select a service provider to host your Web site If you do not have a membership account one will be created for you Service providers E5500 Photo Gallery N5500 N5500 Photo Gallery Wizard 9 Login into the N5500 with your local user name and password Web Publishing Wizard N5500 Photo Gallery Wizard Powered by Thecus Please input ID and Password ID Password Welcome to Thecus Thecus Technology Corporation 10 Create your album by entering an album name and clicking on the Create Album button 102 Web Publishing Wizard N5500 Photo Gallery Wizard Powered by Thecus Service On Gallery Please Select Album To Upload Emi xi Album name Welcome to Thecus L Thecus Technology Corporation Create Alburn 11 Select the album you want to upload your pictures to 12 Confirm the target album Web Publishing Wiza
95. nd password To connect using a different user name and password first disconnect any existing mappings to this network share 2 The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user using more than one user name are not allowed Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again To check out existing network connections type net use under the DOS prompt You may refer the URL below for more network mapping information http esupport thecus com support index php _m downloads amp _a viewdownload amp downloaditemid 57 amp nav 0 Restoring Factory Defaults From the System menu choose the Factory Default item and the Reset to Factory Default screen appears Press Apply to reset the N5500 to factory default settings WARNI Ne Resetting to factory defaults will not erase the data stored in the hard Problems with Time and Date Settings The administrator is able to select an NTP Server to keep the N5500 s time synchronized However if the N5500 can not access the Internet you may encounter a problem when setting the Time and Time Zone If this happens 1 Login to the Web Administration Interface 2 Navigate to System Management gt Time 3 Under NTP Server select No 116 4 Set the Date Time and Time Zone 5 Click Apply In addition if the N5500 is able to access the Interne
96. nformation PEE P System Management Nayne Target Server Enable F Disable We System Network wan Sia samba CIFS arp vrs S FTP Media Server HTTP Web Disk Bonjour Setting Bonjour is Apple Inc s trade name for its implementation of Zeroconf a service discovery protocol Bonjour locates devices such as printers as well as other computers and the services that those devices offer on a local network using multicast Domain Name System service records This definitive guide walks you through Bonjour zero configuration networking with a complete description of the protocols and technologies used to create Bonjour enabled applications and devices 46 L System Information Bonjour Setting P System Management Bonjour service FI Enable Disable Wey System Network wan Sia samba CIF arp us Media Server ETTP Web Disk up Nsync Target Storage Management The Storage menu displays the status of storage devices installed in the N5500 and includes storage configuration options such as RAID and disk settings folder configuration space allocation and ISO Mount Disks Information From the Storage menu choose the Disks item and the Disks Information screen appears From here you can see various items about installed SATA hard disks Blank lines indicate that a SATA hard disk is not currently installed in that particular disk slot Menu
97. ng system of UNIX series and SMB CIFS of Microsoft Windows operating system Server Message Block Common Internet File System Do the link in network protocol Enable or Disable SMB CIFS protocol for Windows Apple Unix drive mapping File Access Cache File Access Cache is default Enable This option will help to increase the performance while single client access share folder in writing under SMB CIFS protocol 40 Samba Recycle Bin The N5500 is supported recycle bin via SMB CIFS protocol Simply enable it then all of deleted files folders will reside in the recycle folder with hidden attribution in each share i m hip In general Windows has default to invisible all of hidden folders files So please enable this option to view recycle folder Samba Anonymous Login Authentication To enable this option no matter there is share folder has been created in public access The user account and password is needed from system to access under SMB CIFS protocol On the other hand no more anonymous login is allowed AFP Apple Network Setup From the System Network menu choose the AFP item and the AFP Support screen appears This screen displays the configuration items for the Apple Filing Protocol You can change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings AFF Support P System Management AFP Server 5 Enable Disable Wer System Network MAC CHARSET vs e ZONE Media Server
98. oid overheating the unit Keep packaging out of the reach of children If disposing of the device please follow your local regulations for the safe disposal of electronic products to protect the environment Table of Contents Copyright and Trademark NoticC ccssssscceeeeccccccssscnsennnnneeeeeeeeeees 2 About THIS Mantlal ainia 2 Limited WatrantViaa aa EAR 2 Satety Warnings siria 3 Fable Of Contents nina a 4 Chapter 1 LNtrOGUCCON iii ai 8 OU VIO We E A A AAA 8 Product HIGMIGQIUS rro iaa 8 Fl SE re a 8 PP OS 8 MUS Sens aces ve eee ins eta o E E E E E E 8 Media gt e VENA AD A 9 AS A a a a A a a ete ed ewe aieoe 9 PANCET e sacas cuna ias 9 MUDIE RA Dti doa a eee aie anaes nection rasta as at 9 Dual Mode SUDDO Estrato 9 superior Power Manage MENE ini ii A A ae ocd 9 Package Contents ia 10 PONE Panic 11 Hard DISK TraYS iii A A an 12 Rear Panel iaa 13 OVEIVIE Wa 14 B f re YOU BOQUIN A a a aaa 14 Hard DISK hnstallatiON ir 14 Cable CONNECTIONS iia 14 CHECKING Syst m Status cirios 15 Sy SEIN Seal USuINOF el lia NS meal eas 15 SV SUE Trolls dio iris 16 Chapter 3 First Time SetUDiianiar iaa 17 OVOIVIe Wi A A causes nunuenens 17 Thecus Seip Wizard init 17 ECD Operaatio M naaa 19 ECD Controla ion 19 ISI MOOG do dad cone 19 USB CODY naran ias 20 Management Mode sii E EA CAE E AREAN R EA 20 Typical Setup Proc dure numas sion 20 Step 1 NetWork Sell Doa add e A a E a a aaan 21 Step 2 RAID Croata E 21 Step 3 Create
99. olumes The iSCSI volume can be created up to 5 volumes per RAID volume To do this under the Storage menu click RAID and the RAID List window appears Select the RAID volume you wish to reallocate by clicking on its radio button and click Space Allocation The RAID Information and Volume Allocation List windows will appear The Volume Allocation List displays the space allocated for Target USB and SCSI volumes on the current RAID volume The N5200PRO supports up to five SCSI volumes Bsy nfort t 3 BS e Space Allocation Advance Option P System Managemer gt RAID Information Why System D tk gt Master ID RAID EOS Disks Total Data USB iSCSI p Storag RAID Level gt Used Capacity Capacity Capacity Capacity e Disks RAID Healthy 2 3 4 145 3 0 2 GB 55 9 GB N A N A Volume Allocation List 150 Mount z i i Ser doc E Modify Delete O iscsi Target Q Target USB Type Name Capacity Volume Allocation List Item Description 22323 Target USB Click to allocate space to USB volume Type of volume Can be either USB or iSCSI Name Name assigned to the volume Capacity Capacity of the allocated space 58 Allocating Space for SCSI Volume Space Allocation Advance Option RAID Information Master gt RAID Pea Disks Total Data USB iSCSI RAID Level y Used Capacity Capacity Capacity Capacity e Disks RAID 5 Healthy 2 3 4 145 3 5 2 GB 55 9 GB 27 4 GB 30 3 GB S rap e Spa
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101. orage needs can be centrally managed and deployed This brings ultimate flexibility to users To set up an ISCSI volume refer to Chapter 4 Storage Management gt Space Allocation gt Allocating Space for SCSI Volume Superior Power Management N5500 supports schedule power on off With this feature administrator can set at what time to turn on or off the system This feature is a big plus for people who want to conserve energy Wake On LAN enables administrator to remotely turn on the system without even leaving their own seat To schedule system on and off refer to Chapter 4 System Management gt Scheduled Power On Off Package Contents Your N5500 package should contain the following items N5500 Unit x1 Power Cord x1 USB Cable x1 QIG Quick Installation Guide x1 CD Title x2 DriveClone5 Pro CD Universal CD Ethernet Cable x1 Screw Kit Key Luck x1 HDD Compatibility list Card x1 Multiple Languages Warranty Card x1 o Please check to see if your package is complete If you find that some items are missing contact your dealer 10 Front Panel The Thecus N5500 s front panel has the device s controls indicators and hard disk trays VN UB WN Pp 00 13 9 10 11 12 Front Panel item Description gt O o 1 System LED e Blinking orange system is being upgraded or system startup data currently inaccessible 2 WAN LED e Solid green network link e Blinking green net
102. ory default values Reboot amp Shutdown From the menu choose Reboot amp Shutdown item and the Shutdown Reboot System screen appears Press Reboot to restart the system or Shutdown to turn the system off L System Information y Shutdown Reboot System ge Svetem Management Sims Reboot S Notification Firmware Upgrade ups schedule OnOff S Wate Up on LAN S au a M Utility Administrator Password Confie Memt File System check The File System Check allows you to perform a check on the integrity of your disks file system Under the menu click File system Check and the File System Check prompt appears 35 5 System Information File System Check Filesystem Check has been Enable successiully The system needs to reboot bo make the changes effective ZFS a not need file system check Es Time Press Apply to reboot the system now E Notification Apply Firmware Upgrade ups schedule On Off AD Wate Up on LAN S sone a M titty Administrator Password Confie Memt Factory Default Reboot amp Shutdown Sl Filesystem Check bel System Management To perform a file system check click Apply Once clicked the following prompt will appear File System Check X The setting has been changed carry on with press Yes for confirmation 2 Click Yes to reboot the system File System Check Reboot Reboot en EEE Once the system has re
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104. oss of data deemed to be caused by its products It is highly recommended that users conduct necessary back up practices Safety Warnings For your safety please read and follow the following safety warnings Read this manual thoroughly before attempting to set up your N5500 Your N5500 is a complicated electronic device DO NOT attempt to repair it under any circumstances In the case of malfunction turn off the power immediately and have it repaired at a qualified service center Contact your vendor for details DO NOT allow anything to rest on the power cord and DO NOT place the power cord in an area where it can be stepped on Carefully place connecting cables to avoid stepping or tripping on them Your N5500 can operate normally under temperatures between 0 C and 40 C with relative humidity of 20 85 Using the N5500 under extreme environmental conditions could damage the unit Ensure that the N5500 is provided with the correct supply voltage AC 100V 240V 50 60 Hz 3A Plugging the N5500 to an incorrect power source could damage the unit Do NOT expose the N5500 to dampness dust or corrosive liquids Do NOT place the N5500 on any uneven surfaces DO NOT place the N5500 in direct sunlight or expose it to other heat sources DO NOT use chemicals or aerosols to clean the N5500 Unplug the power cord and all connected cables before cleaning DO NOT place any objects on the N5500 or obstruct its ventilation slots to av
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106. ours Temperature Celsius 37 Reallocated Sector Count 0 Current Pending Sector 0 Test short 6 long _ rurum Test Time Mon Jun 13 11 36 06 CST 2005 S M A R T Information Tray Number Model Model name of the installed hard disk Power ON Hours Count of hours in power on state The raw value of this attribute shows total count of hours or minutes or seconds depending on manufacturer in power on state Temperature Celsius Reallocated Sector Count of reallocated sectors When the hard drive finds a Count read write verification error it marks this sector as reallocated and transfers data to a special reserved area spare area This process is also known as remapping and reallocated sectors are called remaps This is why on a modern hard disks you can not see bad blocks while testing the surface all bad blocks are hidden in reallocated sectors However the more sectors that are reallocated the more a decrease up to 10 or more can be noticed in disk read write speeds Current Pending Sector Current count of unstable sectors waiting for remapping The raw value of this attribute indicates the total number of sectors waiting for remapping Later when some of these sectors are read successfully the value is decreased If errors still occur when reading sectors the hard drive will try to restore the data transfer 48 it to the reserved disk area spare area and mark this sector as remapped If
107. r Image you could see The ISO file Thecus 01 without assign mounting name system automatically has folder Thecus 01 created G naswebsite 125 N5200 NEWUI 172 16 66 40 ERO REO PEO RHEEA IAM RAW Ay QE gt OQO7 gt Df 7 Oe o aer Ey HE 2 11172 16 66 40 1maswebsite JISE RGHRKIME 2 O ACS 6xxx O Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Pro O AMCC D EXA AE j Y sas AAA O AMD a Andy Private a Andy Weekly Report Shi gt faa ATOM aaa Besttech GT O BT Seed N5200 NEWUI 172 16 66 40 we RAIH a iene Ue gt Thecus 02 ARE A OF D FRx LS ee 5 peas ml FRE Ge HRS LAM maa y User and Group Authentication The N5500 has built in user database that allows administrators to manage user access using different group policies From the User and Group Authentication menu you can create modify and delete users and assign them to groups that you designate ADS NT Support If you have a Windows Active Directory Server ADS or Windows NT server to handle the domain security in your network you can simply enable the ADS NT support feature the N5500 will connect with the ADS NT server and get all the information of the domain users and groups automatically From the Accounts menu choose Authentication item and the ADS NT Support screen appears You can to change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings System Information a ADS NT Support system Management Work Group Domain Name
108. r RAID 10 volume follow the steps below L Replace one of the hard drives in the RAID volume and allow it to automatically rebuild Once rebuilt you can continue to replace any remaining disks in the RAID array When you are done replacing hard drives log on to Web Management Navigate to Storage gt RAID to open the RAID Configuration screen On the RAID Information screen and click Edit to open the RAID Configuration screen On the RAID Configuration screen click Expand NOTE RAID expansion did not support file system created by ZFS 55 RAID Configuration RAID Information i Unused 86 59 GB 60 Expand Capacity 86 59 GB Migrating a RAID Once a RAID volume has been created you may want to move it to other physical drives or change the RAID array all together To migrate a RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 6 volume follow the steps below 1 From the RAID Configuration screen click Migrate RAID 2 A list of possible RAID migration configurations will be listed Select the desired migration scheme and click Apply 3 The system will begin migrating the RAID volume RAID Configuration x RAID Information Expand Migrate RAID MODE Disk No Capacity MB Model Status Used Available Disk 1 N A NA y 76 319 WDC WD800JD OK 76 319 WDC WD800JD OK 76 319 WDC WD800AA OK 715 404 ST3750640A5 OK RAID Level RAID 0 gt RAID 0 Offline RAID 1 gt RAID 6 Online RAID 0 gt RAID 5 Of
109. r the name of the user you would like to find 2 From the drop down select the group you would like to search for the user in 3 Click Search Local Groups Y ia Search The system will list up to 1 000 users from the chosen category To narrow your search enter a search term in the blank provided Stackable NAS The N5500 s capacity can be expanded even further using the stackable function With it users can expand the capacity of their network storage systems up to 5 other stack target volumes which are located in different systems These can be Stacked through single network access like SMB or AFP acting as a Share folder type 70 Stackable Config to act as Stack Master Available target device from 104500 N5200 PRO 1 Target device volume available Capacity Expansion i 2 Target device volume available HUBS witch 1 Targel device volume avalable Can connect total 5 Thecus target device Up to 20 TB capacity From the main menu the stackable feature is located under Storage Please refer the figure below for reference Menu e System Information Stack Target List iz con N ga EE Add 2 e a LH Ei Export share name IP Capacity Used Total Status Description ign gt Space Allocation Y Share Folder S2 Stackable A Add a Stack Target Volume From the figure above click Add to access the stackable target device configuration page Please refer to the figure b
110. rage Management gt Shore Folder gt ACL Media Server a With the built in Media Server capability the uu N5500 provides media streaming service to iS stand alone networked home media adapters a that support the UPnP AV protocol or are WAN Home PC Digital Living Network Alliance DLNA e 5g standard compliant IP Camera LAN 4 port 10 100 Switch With the N5500 s built in media server capability you can share digital media such o y ce as music pictures and movies with any Pave compatible device throughout your entire home Media Manager Settings To configure the media server under the System Network menu click Media Server and the Media Manager Settings window will appear 43 E System Information Media Manager Settings PP System Management Media Server Bes Wer System Network wan amp LAN Shared Media Folders de o Samba CFS Shared Media Folders Action arp a S vrs Ey sieony amp re E maswebsite Media Server HITP Web Disk UPnP Nsync Target Bonjour A description of each field follows Media Manager Settings item __ Description gt gt gt O Shared Media Folders Select the folder s that contains media files to be shared Rescan Click the Rescan button to have the N5500 for new contents in the selected media folder Share Media Folders Once the Media Server software is installed you can start adding folders that contain
111. rd Password Confirm Reenter the chosen password 2 Designate the percentage to be allocated from the Allocation drag bar 3 Enable the iSCSI Target Service by selecting Enable 4 Choose to enable CHAP authentication or choose None 5 Enter a Target Name This will be used by the Stackable NAS function to identify this export share 6 Choose the current year from the Year dropdown 7 Choose the current month from the Month dropdown 8 If you ve enabled CHAP authentication enter a username and a password Confirm your chosen password be reentering it in the Password Confirm box 9 Click OK to create the iSCSI volume Modify iSCSI Volume To Modify iSCSI volume on the current RAID volume follow the steps below 1 Under the Volume Allocation List click Modify The Modify iSCSI Volume screen appears Bsy rmatiot z a z gt Space Allocation Advance Option P Sy fagemet RAID Information Wh S5 rortk A Master ID RAID ai Disks Total Data USB iSCSI p Stor RAID Level 3 Used Capacity Capacity Capacity Capacity e Disks RAID 5 Healthy 2 3 4 145 3 5 2 GB 55 9 GB 27 4 GB 30 3 GB raw S Space Allocation Y Share Folder e Stackable Volume Allocation List 150 Mount Delete iSCSI Target Type Name Capacity Target USB Target USB 27 4 GB iSCSI iscsi 30 3 GB 60 Space Allocation Modify iSCSI Volume RAID TD Unused Allocation iSCSI Target Volume Target Name ign Year ign Y
112. rd N5500 Photo Gallery Wizard Powered by Thecus The selected Album is Album Are you sure publish photos into the Album Welcome to Thecus Thecus Technology Corporation 13 Windows will show you that the picture upload is in progress Web Publishing Wizard Please wait while your files are copied File Winter ipg File progress 100 complete Currently copying file 4 of 4 To stop copying click Cancel 103 14 When the upload is finished the Wizard will ask you whether if you want to go to the website Click Finish to go to your Photo Web Server Web Publishing Wizard Completing the Web Publishing Wizard You have successfully published your files to this site M Open this site when click Finish To close this wizard click Finish 15 Click on the user s icon to go to that user s album 1 sStorage server E 16 You will see the user s album list Click on Album gt Storage Server ES ad amp Gi 104 17 Finished You will see the pictures just selected in the album gt Pe SAA a O ma ya oe Piaroa gt ancla ai EEA RA Fel Be po z de ne p Managing Albums and Photos Icon Function Description Make Cover Make selected photo your cover picture my Back Return to the previous screen Add Add a new album or photos Modify Edit the name and description of the selected album or photo Each name is limi
113. rgets Bound Yolumes Devices Select a target and click Log On to access the storage devices for that target Click details to see information about the sessions connections and devices for that target Targets Name ign 2007 05 com thecus RAID iscsi0 vg0 test Inactive 110 11 1f you have not enabled CHAP click OK to continue Log On to Target Target name ign 2007 05 com thecus RAID iscsiO vg0 test Automatically restore this connection when the system boots C Enable multi path A Only select this option if iSCSI multi path software is already installed on your computer If you have enabled CHAP click Advanced Under Advanced Settings check the CHAP login information checkbox and enter your username and password Click OK Advanced Settings General PSec Connect by using Local adapter Default Source IP Default Target Portal Default CRC Checksum C Data digest C Header digest CHAP helps ensure data security by providing authentication between a target and an initiator trying to establish a connection To use it specify the same target CHAP secret that was configured on the target for this initiator User name ign 1991 05 com microsoft thecus 2c1 fb4b4 thecus Target secret C Perform mutual authentication To use mutual CHAP specify an initiator secret on the Initiator Settings page and configure that secret o
114. rk follow the steps below 1 Connect an Ethernet cable from your network to the WAN port on the back panel of the N5500 2 Connect the provided power cord into the universal power socket on the back panel Plug the other end of the cord into a surge protector socket Press the power supply switch to turn on the power supply 14 Checking System Status After making connections on the N5500 and powering up check whether the system status is normal or has trouble by observing indicators on the front panel and hard disk trays System Status Normal The system status is normal if 1 2 3 The WAN and LAN LEDs glow green assuming both are connected The Power LED on the Front Panel glows blue The HDD Power LED on each HDD tray glows blue assuming all disks are installed The default IP address of the WAN port is 192 168 1 100 displayed on LCD 15 System Trouble The system has trouble if 1 System LED always glows orange If the system has trouble please refer to Chapter 7 Troubleshooting WARNI We There are no user serviceable parts inside the N5500 Please contact your distributor for service 16 Chapter 3 First Time Setup Overview Once the hardware is installed physically connected to your network and powered on you can configure the N5500 so that it is accessible to your network users There are two ways to set up your N5500 using the Thecus Setup Wizard or the LCD display Follow th
115. rmation will be updated on the Stack Target List window D Stack Target ACL If the stack target Public setting set to Yes then the ACL button will be grayed out However if Public setting is set to No then the ACL button will be available for you to setup user access permissions for the stack target ACL settings will be exactly the same as system folder that you may have setup previously ACL setting x Recursive Deny Read Only Writable Local Groups vy Mp Search T N N e y 2 IN Name Name Name Name 75 E Reconnect a Stack Target The enabled stack target devices may be disconnected by situations such as power outages or network disconnects When this happens the Reconnect button will available To attempt to reconnect the stack target click Reconnect Stack Target List i p FE Dase bras Remove d E Export share name IP Capacity Used Total status Description ign D iei 172 16 65 157 0GB 0 1GB Disable ign 2009 05 co1 Stack Target List DAd Edt GP Remove PP Reconnect Export share name iP Capacity Used Total Status Description ign iscsi 172 16 65 157 0GB 0 1 GB Disable jgn 2009 05 c01 Success i You have successfully reconnect to the stack folder iscsi ISO Mount The ISO Mount feature is very useful tool from Thecus products With it users can mount an ISO file and having export name to display all details from mounted ISO file From the main menu the ISO Mount feature
116. rough web disk You may refer the figures below for reference when Yes and No are selected Add iSCSI Target Add Stack Target x Enable i8C8I Target C Enable Disable Stackable Target IP 172 16 65 157 iqn 1q1 2009 05 com fhecus AF3 15c510 vg015051 E Username Password Export share name Limit 0 9 22 Description Browseable Publie C yes Gi ind The Public setting will be set same as what the setting for the system share folder associated with the ACL permission setup If Public is set to Yes all users will be able to access it and ACL button will be grayed out If Public is set to No the ACL button will be available on the Stack Target List window 73 Add iSCSI Target Add Stack Target Xx Enable iSCSI Target Enable 8 Disable Stackable Target IP 172 16 65 157 ign ign 2009 05 com thecus AF S iscsi0 vgl iscsi Y Username Password Export share name Limit 0 9 a z Description Browseable yes no Click Apply to save your changes B Activate a Stack Target After your settings have been applied the system will bring you back to Stack Target List window as shown below There is one stack target device has been attached into this stack master Stack Target List E a i FE Q Add Ett E Remove F Reconnect Export share name IP Capacity Used Total status Description ign gt DJ isesi 172 16 65 157 0GB 0 1GB Disable ign 2009 05 co1
117. rst login with a local user account For more information on how to setup user rights to the folders please check Chapter 4 Storage Management gt Share Folder gt Folder Access Control List ACL O Web Di Directory Tree 2 Browsing Directory iTunes_music _JiTunes_music A Home Reload amp Search lx ka YA Show directories Filter Y _jnaswebsite 3 nsync Name o Size Type Modified Owner Jusbcopy Jusbhdd Page ofi D P Done No items to display A Home Reload Search X Show Directories Filter ak Ne i Folder Page Button Button eseription OOO 4 Search Search files in the current web disk directory Must input the complete file name Creates a new folder or directory 98 Admin Change password and confirm new password logout To logout of the web disk interface Show Directories Show the files and folders in the directory Filter Search files in the directory You can only input some word string Displays the names of folders and files Shows the size of folders and files There is also the way by using right click button to bring up contact windows as short cut to operate Bpesinaniacca i s what you needed J iTunes_music a test 3 test A New File Directory Reload e Cancel Photo Server Using the Photo Server users can view and share photos and even create their own albums right on the N5500 You will see your
118. rvice from here Once enabled enter correct information for each field and press Apply to save your changes y Information System Infor 1 iTunes Configuration iTunes Enable 9 Disable Server Name Password Rescan Interval v MP3 Tag Encode v iTunes Configuration Enable or disable the iTunes Service Specify tag encoding for MP3 files stored in N5500 All 1D3 tags will be sent out in UTF 8 format Once the iTunes service is enabled the N5500 will make all music located in the Music folder available for Tunes equipped computers on the network Module Management Module Installation From the Module Management menu choose the Module Installation item and the Module Management screen appears From here you can install separate software modules to extend the functionality of your N5500 i en anses E 5 E oral HEl Medal Aron i Erakis Hair Miedo Cobo Aci E bream Merde re dekh Bey System Module The system module is officially provided by Thecus for new features added 91 User Module The user module is reserved for Thecus fans to build up 3 party functions in the future Backup There are a number of ways to back up data with the N5500 Nsync You can backup a share folder to another N5500 Nsync Target or any FTP server for safe keeping as long as you have appropriate access right on that target When using Nsync between two N5500s you have the option to transmit files secur
119. s ADS support provides include 1 Easy integration of the N5500 into the existing office IT infrastructure The N5500 acts as a member of the ADS This feature significantly lowers the overhead of the system administrator For example corporate security policies and user privileges on an ADS server can be enforced automatically on the N5500 2 Centralized user password database The N5500 does not maintain its own copy of the user password database This avoids data inconsistency between the N5500 and other servers For example without ADS support an administrator might need to remove a specific user privilege on the N5500 and each individual server With ADS support the change on an ADS server is known to all of its ADS members 124 Appendix E UPS Compatibility List EI Model Nites beres MSR ActvePower MOYA AEC MiniGuardUPS toomasoncable oo o o Backups Po o d d O AA d O EXT d Back UPS 940 0095A C cables 940 0020B C cables 940 0023A cable Back UPS Office 940 0119A cable O Masterswitch Nota UPS 940 0020 cable Back UPS RS 500 custom non USB cable Regulator Pro seria A ee E S O Belkin F6H350 SER F6H500 SER F6H650 SER A Universal UPS F6C800 UNV F6C120 UNV F6C1100 UNV FGHSO0UKUNV Fortress newer SSS ft Fortress Telecom O ee Axxium Rackmount A o Patriot Pro A ee Best Power Patriot Pro II S o Patriot INTSI cable a E MS OO Fortress Ferups fcommand support Blazer AAA Clary ST 800 OO
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121. stem Status page as short cut Network Green Connection to network is normal Red abnormal connection to the network Logout Logout Click to logout Web Administration Interface Language Selection The N5500 supports multiple languages including e English e Japanese e Traditional Chinese e Simplified Chinese e French e German e Italian Korean Deutsch Spanish Italiano Russia e Polish OLEA On the menu bar click Language and the selection list Spanish appears This user interface will switch to selected Rissa y language for the N5500 q System Information Information provides viewing on current Product info System Status Service Status and Logs The menu bar allows you to see various aspects of the N5500 From here you can discover the status of the N5500 and also other details Product Information Once you login you will first see the basic Product I nformation screen providing Manufacturer Product No Firmware Version and System Up Time information 25 Product Information Manufacturer Product No Firmware Version Up Time 19 hours 13 minutes Item Description gt O o System Service Status From the Status menu choose the System item System Status and Service Status screens appear These screens provide basic system and service status information Svztem Status CPU Loading s 10 CPU Fan Speed OK totem Faili OK
122. t e User and Group Authentication Apply Description Create local users and groups in batch mode Submit files containing user names passwords and group names separated by comma without any space each line represents one par ex Stedentl passwordl student_zroup Application Server The N5500 supports printer server and Tunes server The integrated Print Server allows you to share a single USB printer will all users on the network The N5500 provides activating the Tunes Server on the device You will be able to play music files on this device with your iTunes client software directly The following section shows you how Printer Information From the Application Server menu choose the Printer tem and the Printer Information screen appears This screen provides the following information about the USB printer connected to the USB port CO a System Information Printer Information PP System Management Printer 1 Manufacturer WA Model NA Status No Printer Detected Remove document EA from quave Restart printer service Printer Information Item Descripti mn_______ Displays the name of the USB printer manufacturer Model Displays the model of the USB printer Displays the status of the USB printer Remove document Click to remove all documents from printer queue from Queue Restart Printer service Click to restart printer service 86 If a corrup
123. t and you want to keep the NTP Server clock isc org by default please make sure the DNS Server is correctly entered thereby allowing the NTP Server name to correctly resolve See System Network gt WAN gt DNS Server Dual DOM Supports for Dual Protection The most advance and useful of N5500 is Dual DOM implemented In the normal circumstance it has no need to have this feature involved But with irresistible cause like power cut or human error by accident occurred especially during system booting stage this will become the great feature to prevent system down time Practically while it happened system will try to recovery the DOM 1 from DOM 2 first If it is unachievable then system can boot from DOM 2 And all of this procedure can be operated by LCM The Dual DOM in DOM1 is default master and FW upgrading will only execute in DOM1 unlike DOM2 is Read only initially Any circumstance occurred while DOM2 successes recover DOM1 The FW will be version of DOM2 Therefore it may need to upgrade to the version of DOM1 it has If DOM1 can not be recovery from DOM2 then system will boot up from DOM2 The original configuration in DOM1 may need to setup again with DOM2 operation 117 Appendix A Product Specifications Hardware Specifications Product Model N500 WAN LAN HDD Bays 5 x 3 5 SATA II HDD hot swappable HDD Support eSATA USB Ports 5 x USB type A ports Host mode 1 x USB type B ports Device mode
124. t for compatible USB devices such as USB disks and USB printers 6 System Fan e System fan that exhausts heat from the unit 7 Power Connector e Connect the included power cords to these connectors 8 USB Port e USB 2 0 port to connect PC Type B of target mode 13 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation Overview Your N5500 is designed for easy installation To help you get started the following chapter will help you quickly get your N5500 up and running Please read it carefully to prevent damaging your unit during installation Before You Begin Before you begin be sure to take the following precautions 1 Read and understand the Safety Warnings outlined in the beginning of the manual 2 If possible wear an anti static wrist strap during installation to prevent static discharge from damaging the sensitive electronic components on the N5500 3 Becareful not to use magnetized screwdrivers around the N5500 s electronic components Hard Disk Installation The N5500 supports five standard 3 5 Serial ATA SATA hard disks To install a hard disk into the N5500 follow the steps below 1 Remove a hard disk tray from the N5500 2 Slide the new SATA hard disk into the tray and fasten the screws 3 Insert the hard disk and tray back into the N5500 until it snaps into place and lock it with a key if desired 4 The LED blinks green when the hard disk is accessed Cable Connections To connect the N5500 to your netwo
125. t print job is sent to a printer printing may suddenly fail If your print jobs seem to be locked up pressing the Remove All Documents button to clear the print queue may resolve the issue You can configure the N5500 to act as a printer server That way all PCs connected to the network can utilize the same printer Windows XP SP2 To set up the Printer Server in Windows XP SP2 follow the steps below 1 Connect the USB printer to one of the USB ports preferably the rear USB ports front USB ports can be used for external HDD enclosures Go to Start gt Printers and Faxes Click on File gt Add Printer The Add Printer Wizard appears on your screen Click Next Select the A network printer or a printer attached to another computer option Select Connect to a printer on the I nternet or on a home or office network and enter http N5500_IP_ADDRESS 631 printers usb printer into the URL field Your Windows system will ask you to install drivers for your printer Select correct driver for your printer Your Windows system will ask you if you want to set this printer as Default Printer Select Yes and all your print jobs will be submitted to this printer by default Click Next Click Finish e Not all USB printers are supported Please check Thecus website for a list of supported printers e Note that if a multi function all in one printer is attached to the N5500 usually only
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127. tectiON ccmmcccccccccccccnnnoncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnas 117 Appendix A Product Specifications ssssssssss2222 s n 118 Hardware Specific CONS cidad 118 SoftWare SDECITICAUIONS iii id 118 Appendix B Customer SUppOrt sss2s 2 2 120 Appendix C RAID Basics siii aia 121 OVERVIEW sisi 121 BONG Iles cuna 121 PMD FOV COP Cl ORMANGCC settee ties td dos 121 Data Seco arar 121 RAID Leve Sinai a 121 A a o a a 121 RAID RNA 121 A RS 122 RAID A A 122 RAID A O IS 122 BOB trata bis 122 SIDE SIB iaa 122 DISK US age iii ia 123 Appendix D Active Directory BasSICs cccccccsssscnnnnnseeeeeeseeeeeensans 124 OVErFVIG WA 124 What 1S Active DIr ctOry iii A AAA 124 ADS BEMmevitss iS 124 Appendix E UPS Compatibility List ccccccssssnnnsnnnssseeeeeeeeeeeessens 125 Appendix F Licensing InformatiON ccccccccccocccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnns 129 OVELVIEW ainia a 129 Source Code Availability ini 129 CGOIC EICGNSe Ter MS ici 130 GNU General Public LiCenSe ccoo este eee ee ieee 130 Chapter 1 Introduction Overview Thank you for choosing the Thecus N5500 IP Storage Server The Thecus N5500 is an easy to use storage server that allows a dedicated approach to storing and distributing data on a network Data reliability is ensured with RAID features that provide data security and recovery over six Terabyte of storage is available using RAID 5 and RAID 6 Gigabit Ethernet ports enhance network efficiency
128. ted to 20 characters and each description is limited to 255 characters Delete Delete the selected albums or photos e Only logged in users will see these icons e To prevent system errors the N5500 sets the following limitations on photo files e Each file upload is limited to a size of 8MB Files exceeding 8MB will NOT be uploaded and no error message will appear e Only these photo file types will be uploaded jpg gif bmp png pcx psd bmp e If duplicate file names exist during upload process system will add a number in front of the original file name abc gt labc 105 Creating Albums To create a photo album follow the steps below 1 Click the Add button to create a new album 2 Enter a name for the album and enter a description if you wish Then click on the Create Album button Password Protecting Albums If you would like to put a password on a particular album follow these steps 1 Select the album to be protected click on the Edit button and the Album Edit screen will appear 2 The owner of the album can enter an album password to protect the album so that only people with the correct password can view the album Uploading Pictures to Albums Uploading pictures to albums using the Web User Interface is easy 1 When the album is created click the album icon to enter the album Initially the album is empty 2 Click the Add button to uploa
129. ter 1 and Escape ESC keys to select various configuration settings and menu options for N5500 configuration The following table illustrates the keys on the front control panel LCD Controls Icon Function Description A Up Button Select the previous configuration settings option vy Down Button USB copy confirmation display al Enter Enter the selected menu option sub menu or parameter setting ESC Escape Escape and return to the previous menu There are two modes of operation for the LCD Display Mode and Management Mode Display Mode During normal operation the LCD will be in Display Mode Display Mode Item Description O O S O Current host name of the system Current WAN IP setting 19 Disk Info Current status of disk slot has been installed RAID Current RAID status The N5500 will rotate these messages every one two seconds on the LCD display USB Copy The USB Copy function enables you to copy files stored on USB devices such as USB disks and digital cameras to the N5500 by press button To use USB copy follow the steps below 1 Plug your USB device into an available USB port on the Front end 2 In Display Mode press the Down Button V 3 The LCD will display USB Copy 4 Press Enter 1 and the N5500 will start copying USB disks connected to the front USB port 5 All of data will be copied into system folder named USB copy Management Mode During setup and configuration t
130. thentication 63 Adding Folders On the Folder screen press the Add button and the Add Folder screen appears This screen allows you to add a folder After entering the information press Apply to create new folder 1 System Information Folder P System Management 3 y gt WW System Network i Folder name gt gt RAD D File System Public Description i nsyne RAD ext3 no nsync Storage es e _ usbhdd RAD ext3 no usbhdd S Disks Orn L usbeopy RAD ext3 no usbcopy e Space Allocation _ naswebsite RAD ext3 yes naswebsite Share Folder e Stackable 150 Mount lt gt RAID ID RAID Y Folder name Description Browseable Yes Ei No Public Yes No Share Folder Limit D GB Apply i Add Folder is selected then the share folder will be browseable Admit or deny public access to this folder If Yes is selected then users do not need to have access permission to write to this folder When accessing a public folder via FTP the behavior is similar to anonymous FTP Anonymous users can upload download a file to the folder but they cannot delete a file from the folder Share Folder Limit Enter the maximum size of the folder in Gigabytes GB The folder cannot grow beyond this limit You can enter a 0 to turn off the share folder limit This option did not apply while XFS file system selected Apply Press Apply to create the folder Folder names are limited to 60 characters Systems runn
131. u can Enable or Disable Utility Administrator password From the menu choose the Administrator Password item and the Change Administrator Password screen appears Enter a new password in the New Password box and confirm your new password in the Confirm Password box Press Apply to confirm password changes There is also password for enter LCD setting you could setup here Enter a new password in the New Password box and confirm your new password in the Confirm Password box Press Apply to confirm password changes 33 Menu 3 system Information Change Administrator Password r F F System Management New Password Time Confirm Password S Notification Firmware Upgrade ups schedule On Off amp Wake Up on LAN Change LCD Pas word sue Mew Password E pii Mont Penrord Administrator Password Confie M gt Factory Default Reboot amp Shutdown Filesystem Check See the following table for a detailed description of each item Change Administrator and LCD Entry Password item _ _ Description O O S Type in a new administrator password Confirm Password Type the new password again to confirm Apply Press this to save your changes Config Mgmt From the menu choose the Config Mgmt item and the System Configuration Download Upload screen appears From here you can download or upload stored system configurations AA Se rer TT System Information y
132. utton to move the user into the Members List 4 To remove a user from a group select the user from Members List and press the gt gt button 5 Click the Apply button to save your changes UY N Edit x Local Group Setting Uzerz List Group Name Search Group ID UserID User Name User Members List UserID User Name 84 Remove Groups 1 On the Local Group Configuration screen select a group name from the list 2 Press Remove to delete the group from the system OOF E Local Group Configuration Ad iE Edt V Remove Group ID Group Name Group Local Group Setting Do you want delete this group d Batch Create Users and Groups The N5500 can also add users and groups in batch mode This enables you to conveniently add numerous users and groups automatically by importing a simple comma separated plain text txt file From the Accounts menu click Batch Mgmt and the Batch Create Users and Groups dialogue will appear To import your list of users and groups follow these steps 6 Click Browse to locate your comma separated text file The information in the text file should follow this format USERNAME PASSWORD GROUP Click Open Click Import to begin the user list import oo N 85 5 System Information Batch Create Users and Groups System Management Why system Network Hi Storage y ans a M Local e User e Group Batch Inpu
133. will run Type Select whether to run the Nsync task daily weekly or monthly Daily input the time of day to execute Nsync task Weekly input which day of the week to execute the task Monthly decide which day of the month to execute the task Press Add to submit your settings Before starting an Nsync Task make sure the target server s Nsync Server or FTP Server is enabled Setting Up an Nsync Target on an Nsync Device On the Nsync target server the administrator of that server has to set up a user account with a folder named nsync and grant write access 1 On the Nsync server add a user for Nsync source ex nsyncsourcel For instructions on how to add a user on the N5500 see Chapter 4 User and Groups Authentication gt Local User Configuration gt Add Users 2 On the Nsync server grant that user ex nsyncsourcel write access to the nsync folder For instructions on how to set up a folder s ACL see Chapter 4 Storage management gt Shore Folder gt Folder Access Control List ACL 3 Once this is done the target server will start accepting Nsync tasks from server using that ID and password Setting Up an Nsync Target on Another Device If you selected Other Device when setting up your Nsync task the N5500 will use the FTP protocol to back up the share folder On the external storage device make sure there is a folder named nsync and the Auth ID has writable permission in that folder
134. work activity e Solid green network link e Blinking green network activity 6 Reset Button e Reset system configuration to default value 7 USB Port e USB 2 0 port for compatible USB devices such as USB disks USB printers and USB wireless dongles 11 DN erro http esupport thecus com support LED e Solid blue System is power on 11 Enter Button e Push to enter LCD operate password for basic system setting 12 TRA Button ESC e Push to leave the current LCD menu 13 LCD 13 LCD Display e Displays current system status and warning messages 14 HDD Trays e Five 3 5 SATA HDD trays e Locks are provided for added security Hard Disk Trays Each of the N5500 s hard disk trays has a lock a latch and two LED indicators Hard Disk Trays Description 1 HDD Power LED e Solid blue hard disk is powered on 2 HDD e Blinking green system is accessing data on the hard disk Access Error LED e Use the lock to physically secure the hard disk to the unit 4 Handle e Pull out HDD tray 12 Rear Panel The N5500 rear panel features ports and connectors Back Panel ltem Description O O S O 1 WAN Port e WAN port for connecting to an Ethernet network through a switch or router 2 LAN Port e LAN port for connecting to an Ethernet network through a switch or router 3 Serial Port e This port is for external UPS device 4 eSATA Port e eSATA port for high speed storage expansion 5 USB Port e USB 2 0 por
135. work equipment supports Jumbo Frame If your equipment is incompatible you might not be able to connect to your N5500 39 DHCP Server Configuration A DHCP server can be configured to assign IP addresses to devices connected to the LAN port To configure these ports choose LAN from the System Network menu DHCP Configuration Description DHCP Server Enable or disable the DHCP server to automatically assign IP address to PCs connected to the LAN interface Start IP Specifies the starting IP address of the DHCP range End IP Specifies the ending IP address of the DHCP range DNS Server Displayed the DNS server IP address The IP Segment of WAN and LAN should not overlap The IP address of the LAN interface should not be in the range of the Start WARNING IP address and End IP address Samba CIFS There are 4 options is currently allow Admin to Enable Disable to operate N5500 associated with Samba CIFS protocol With the option changed it will need to reboot system to activate Samba CIFS E System Information p System Management Samba Service 9 Enable C Disable Wa System Network File Access Cache Enable 5 Disable WAN Samba Recycle Bin 5 Enable 3 Disable Lan Samba Anonymous Login Authentication E Enable Disable arp ves Media Server HTTP web Disk up Nsync Target Bonjour Samba Service Used for letting the operati

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