LevelOne FNS-5000B, User Manual

Page 1: ...FNS 5000B Network Attached Storage 2 Bay SATA HDD w Gigabit Ethernet User Manual Ver 1 00 0608...

Page 2: ...Any form of damages due to improper packaging will not be compensated Safety Warnings 1 FNS 5000B can operate normally in the temperature of 0 35 and relative humidity of 0 85 Please make sure the en...

Page 3: ...Users 20 3 Powerful Services 27 3 1 Server Administration 31 3 2 Quick Configuration 32 3 3 System Settings 36 3 3 1 Server Name 36 3 3 2 Date Time 37 3 3 3 Encoding Setting 38 3 3 4 View System Sett...

Page 4: ...Settings 69 3 8 4 System Update 70 3 8 5 Change Logo 71 3 8 6 Remote Replication Disaster Recovery 72 3 8 7 Backup Restore Reset Settings 75 3 9 Event Logs 76 4 Copy USB Ports Data Directly 77 5 Mult...

Page 5: ...Enrich your digital multimedia life and manage personal albums and multimedia files easily 9 Built in Web server FTP server File server and Printer server functionality 9 Remote back provides remote...

Page 6: ...6 1 3 Hardware Illustration K Lock Security Slot USB 2 0 x 2 LAN Port Reset Button Power Connector Power Button One Touch Copy Button USB 2 0 LED Indicators USB Status HDD1 HDD2 LAN and Power...

Page 7: ...ews in the front of FNS 5000B and remove the front panel 2 Loosen the screws on the disk trays and take out the disk trays 3 Install a hard disk on each tray Make sure the disk holes match the holes a...

Page 8: ...trays to FNS 5000B Push the disk trays to the end Fasten the screws on the trays When two disks are installed make sure HDD1 is installed on top of HDD2 5 Cover FNS 5000B with the front panel and fas...

Page 9: ...0641AS SATA II 3GB s with NCQ 500 7200 16 Barracuda 7200 10 SATA ST3320620AS SATA II 3GB s with NCQ 320 7200 16 Barracuda 7200 9 SATA ST3300622AS SATA II 3GB s with NCQ 300 7200 16 Barracuda 7200 8 SA...

Page 10: ...work environment and select the appropriate installation method before installing FNS 5000B 2 3 1 Office Home Connect FNS 5000B and PC to the same hub switch router 2 3 2 Individual Connect FNS 5000B...

Page 11: ...000B to hub switch router or PC according your network environment 2 Connect USB printer to FNS 5000B and enable USB printer service 3 Connect the power 4 Press the power button of FNS 5000B to turn o...

Page 12: ...llowing LED information is applicable only when you have properly installed HDD1 and or HDD2 and connected FNS 5000B to the network and power n USB Status o Status p HDD1 q HDD2 r LAN s Power LED Syst...

Page 13: ...ed alternatively Disk capacity is almost full long beep twice oStatus Blink in red Disk full any volume p qHDD 1 HDD2 Blink in orange Accessing data rLAN Blink in orange Accessing network s Power Blue...

Page 14: ...0B The configuration procedure of Windows and Mac users are different Please select the appropriate procedure according to your OS 2 5 1 Windows Users Insert FNS 5000B CD ROM in your PC Wait for a few...

Page 15: ...ser name and password Default user name administrator Password admin Name of server IP address of server Windows workgroup joined by server View the details of selected server Map network drive for th...

Page 16: ...NS 5000B are in the same LAN If you are not sure about the network settings please contact your network administrator or ISP Note All files and directories on FNS 5000B will be created using Unicode e...

Page 17: ...he steps below to proceed a For example to map the folder Public as your drive select the folder and click Map Network Drive Note The share folders Qdownload Qmultimedia Qusb and Qweb are system defau...

Page 18: ...rt to use the share folder on FNS 5000B You can access these folders by opening My Computer 3 Quick Install Wizard will appear when all configurations are completed Double click on the name of FNS 500...

Page 19: ...please click the help button on the top right hand corner of the page To modify system settings click Administration Enter the user name and password to login Default user name administrator Password...

Page 20: ...5000B by the network A Connect FNS 5000B by Mac directly 1 Please go to Network settings and select Using DHCP Then connect FNS 5000B to your Mac via a cable 2 Open a web browser and enter the default...

Page 21: ...ame and password to login Default user name administrator Password admin 4 Follow the step by step guide in Quick Configuration to complete the settings of FNS 5000B If you have any questions during w...

Page 22: ...ect Using DHCP Note If you are not sure about the network settings please contact your network administrator or ISP 2 Connect FNS 5000B to your Mac by a cable Open a web browser and enter the default...

Page 23: ...23 3 When the administration page is shown click Administration Enter the default user name and password to login Default user name administrator Password admin...

Page 24: ...of your Mac and other devices in LAN Configure the subnet mask and default gateway of FNS 5000B to the same as subnet mask and router address of Mac which you set in Step 1 Click Apply to confirm Note...

Page 25: ...to take effect Please wait patiently for FNS 5000B to restart 6 Connect your Mac and FNS 5000B to the network Open a web browser and enter the IP address of FNS 5000B you set up in step 4 Note Please...

Page 26: ...to login Default user name administrator Password admin 8 Follow the step by step guide in Quick Configuration to complete the settings of FNS 5000B If you have any questions during web administration...

Page 27: ...annot find the server please browse the whole network to search for FNS 5000B Double click the name of FNS 5000B for connection b Use Run function in Windows Enter FNS 5000B name or FNS 5000B IP to ac...

Page 28: ...access FNS 5000B FNS 5000B supports Internet Explorer 6 0 only Please use the browser Safari in Mac to access FNS 5000B The user name here should be the same as the server name you enter in Chapter 2...

Page 29: ...s shown click Administration Web File Manager Web Server Multimedia Station or Download Station Enter the user name and password and then start to manage FNS 5000B For further details please refer to...

Page 30: ...are folder backup via the network In case of data damage in PC you can restore all backup data Please refer to Chapter 3 8 6 Web Server FNS 5000B enables you to upload html files and manage your own w...

Page 31: ...31 3 1 Server Administration There are 8 main sections in server administration...

Page 32: ...n to complete the settings of FNS 5000B If you have any questions during web administration please click the help button on the top right hand corner of the page Other buttons are described as below R...

Page 33: ...trator password or select to use the original password Step 3 Enter the date time and select the time zone for the server Step 4 Select the language the server uses to display files and directories Th...

Page 34: ...34 Step 5 Enter the IP address subnet mask and default gateway for the server Step 6 Initialize disk volume in FNS 5000B for the first time configuration...

Page 35: ...35 Step 7 When FNS 5000B is initialized the basic settings will be shown...

Page 36: ...er name date time and view system settings 3 3 1 Server Name Enter the name of FNS 5000B The server name can be 14 characters long at maximum which supports alphabets numbers and hyphen The server doe...

Page 37: ...tion occurs 9 Synchronize with an Internet time server automatically You can enable this option to update the date and time of the system automatically with specified NTP Network Time Protocol server...

Page 38: ...B will be created using Unicode encoding If your FTP clients or the OS of your PC does not support Unicode e g Windows 95 98 ME select the language the same as your OS here in order to view the files...

Page 39: ...tomatically via DHCP If your network supports DHCP FNS 5000B will use DHCP protocol to retrieve the IP address and related information automatically 2 Use static IP address To use fixed IP address for...

Page 40: ...ers to the size in bytes of the largest packet that a given layer of a communications protocol can transmit FNS 5000B uses standard Ethernet frames 1500 bytes by default If your network appliances sup...

Page 41: ...n the field for WINS server IP address 9 Domain Master There is a unique Domain Master Browser for collecting and recording resources and services available for each PC in the network or workgroup of...

Page 42: ...FNS 5000B If you do not want to assign a network zone enter an asterisk to use the default setting This setting is disabled by default 3 4 4 Web File Manager To access files on FNS 5000B via web brow...

Page 43: ...t setting is No Since most FTP clients do not support Unicode currently it is recommended that you disable Unicode support here and select the language the same as your OS in System Settings Encoding...

Page 44: ...f FNS 5000B and play the files on a display device e g TV To use UPnP Media Server please enable this function and click the following link http FNS 5000B 9000 to enter the configuration page of UPnP...

Page 45: ...PROVIDED FOR DOWNLOADING AUTHORIZED FILES ONLY DOWNLOADING OR DISTRIBUTION OF UNAUTHORIZED MATERIALS MAY RESULT IN SEVERE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTY USERS ARE SUBJECT TO THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE COPYRI...

Page 46: ...46 3 4 9 View Network Settings You can view current network settings and status of FNS 5000B in this section...

Page 47: ...47 3 5 Device Configuration You can configure SATA disk USB disk and USB printer settings in this section...

Page 48: ...ad blocks on the disks When the SATA disks are formatted FNS 5000B will create the following default share folders 9 Public Network share for file sharing 9 Qdownload Network share for Download Statio...

Page 49: ...ng Disk Volume RAID 0 striping disk combines 2 or more drives into one larger disk It offers the fastest disk access but it does not have any protection of your data if the striped array fails The dis...

Page 50: ...supports USB disks and thumb drives for extended storage Connect the USB device to the USB port of FNS 5000B when the device is successfully detected the details will be shown on this page USB device...

Page 51: ...r sharing function for network users you can simply connect a USB printer to the USB port of FNS 5000B FNS 5000B will detect the printer automatically 2 A printer icon should be shown in the share fol...

Page 52: ...4 When finished you can start to use network printer service of FNS 5000B Note 1 FNS 5000B supports general USB printer only but not multifunction printer 2 FNS 5000B printer service is only supporte...

Page 53: ...fault administrator has access to system administration and cannot be deleted 2 Guest This is a built in user and will not be displayed on User Management page When you use a non registered user name...

Page 54: ...new user 9 User name The user name must not exceed 32 characters It is case insensitive and supports double byte characters such as Chinese Japanese and Korean except 9 Password The password is case...

Page 55: ...oup have administration right You cannot delete this group 2 Everyone All registered users belong to everyone group You cannot delete this group You can manage user groups with the following options 1...

Page 56: ...nes Lee for Administration Department and Ms Jane Wu for Sales Department The IT Department therefore needs to create two user accounts for them to access company data on FNS 5000B i To create a user...

Page 57: ...e user groups the users belong to on the right list i e Mr Jones Lee for Administration Dept and Ms Jane Wu for Sales Dept and click Add Then click Close iv The user names will appear on the list on C...

Page 58: ...Administration Department only please go to User Management User Groups page Select the user group Administration Dept and click Create Private Network Share on the right 2 Enter the network share nam...

Page 59: ...59 3 You can see the folder media in Network Share Management page 4 Enter Access Control You can see that only Administration Dept has full access right to the folder...

Page 60: ...ta for all users ii Quota size on each disk volume Please refer to the following example to configure the quota setting of users The IT department is planning to set the disk quota of Mr Jones Lee fro...

Page 61: ...ee on User page and click Quota Settings on the right 3 Enter the quota size 2000MB and click OK 4 Follow the same steps and enter the quota size 4000MB for Jane Wu and click OK The quota setting is s...

Page 62: ...imary purpose of network storage is file sharing You can create different network share folders for various types of files and provide different file access rights to users or user groups There are fi...

Page 63: ...annot contain the following characters 9 Disk volume This area shows the disk volume status 9 Path All data is stored under the assigned path onto the disk volume You can select Specify path automatic...

Page 64: ...64 3 7 2 Property To edit the property of an existing network share select a share and click Property You can then edit the content of that share...

Page 65: ...s or user groups 9 Deny access Access to the network share will be denied 9 Read only Users can read the files only on the network share 9 Full access Users can read write create or delete files and f...

Page 66: ...3 7 5 Restore If the default network shares of FNS 5000B are not created successfully you can use the Restore function to restore the network shares To do so click Restore and the shares will be creat...

Page 67: ...67 3 8 System Tools System Tools enable you to optimize the maintenance and management of FNS 5000B...

Page 68: ...ugged an email will be sent to the administrator automatically You can go to Event Logs refer to Chapter 3 9 to check the details of all errors and warnings If your mailbox requires SMTP authenticatio...

Page 69: ...hard disk will go to standby mode if there is no access within the specified period iii Enable light signal alert when the free size of SATA disk is less than the value The Status LED indicator will...

Page 70: ...vel1 com Read the release notes carefully to make sure you need to upgrade the firmware Step 2 Before upgrading system firmware back up all disk data on the server to avoid any potential data loss dur...

Page 71: ...71 3 8 5 Change Logo You can choose your own picture to display on the login page of FNS 5000B The size of the picture cannot exceed 20K bytes...

Page 72: ...LevelOne NAS series The files will be compressed before the replication process in order to save time for data transfer Make sure a network share is created before creating a remote replication task...

Page 73: ...to save or Cancel to quit Note To use remote replication enable Microsoft Networking service make sure the destination network share and directory have been created and the user name and password are...

Page 74: ...74 ii Edit a Select the task to be edited b Click Edit c Modify the settings d Click OK to save or Cancel to quit iii Delete a Select the task to be deleted b Click Delete...

Page 75: ...ng user accounts server name and network configuration etc click Backup and select to open or save the setting file To restore all settings click Browse to select a previously saved setting file and c...

Page 76: ...6 3 9 Event Logs FNS 5000B can store thousands of recent event logs including warning error and information messages In case of system malfunction event logs can be retrieved to analyze system problem...

Page 77: ...s the Copy button on FNS 5000B All data on the USB device will be copied to the folder Qusb xxxxyyzz on FNS 5000B instantly Intelligent one touch copy button FNS 5000B will detect the data in the conn...

Page 78: ...by web administration 1 To use Multimedia Station of FNS 5000B make sure a SATA disk is installed correctly in FNS 5000B according to the instructions in Chapter 2 1 A share folder Qmultimedia will be...

Page 79: ...without administration right can view the photos and multimedia files on Multimedia Station but they do not have the right to modify the files 4 Click Browse to select the multimedia file and then cl...

Page 80: ...erver name or server IP to access share folder on FNS 5000B 2 Open the folder Qmultimedia Enter the user name and password to login 3 Drag the files and folders to the folder directly Please wait pati...

Page 81: ...o Home Create folder Rename file or folder Select all Select none Delete Support file format list Type File format Picture jpg bmp gif Video wmx wvx avi mpeg mpg mpe m1v mp2 mpv2 mp2v mpa dvr ms asf a...

Page 82: ...thumbnail of the picture 2 The information of the photo e g file name resolution size camera producer will be shown on the right You can enter a description for the picture in the box below the photo...

Page 83: ...ockwise Zoom in Zoom out Play slideshow Select the time interval in seconds Click play to play slide show To stop playing click stop Print the image Save the picture Play music or video files To play...

Page 84: ...provided for downloading authorized files only Downloading or distribution of unauthorized materials may result in severe civil and criminal penalty Users are subject to the restrictions of the copyr...

Page 85: ...85 2 Click on the link http FNS 5000B IP Qdownload on Download Station page or click Download Station on the login page of FNS 5000B to access Download Station...

Page 86: ...egal torrent files by searching on the Internet There are websites that provide legally sharing torrents e g www legaltorrents com Please download the torrent files to your local disk and then upload...

Page 87: ...figure the time for sharing the torrent file or click Set Config to set the maximum number of downloads at the same time default value is 3 You can also set the maximum download and upload rate defaul...

Page 88: ...are paused or finished in View Pause List and View Finish List respectively To restart a paused task select the task in View Pause List and click Pause Restart download task 7 You can also increase or...

Page 89: ...d task You can select to remove the download task only and retain the downloaded files or remove the task and downloaded files 9 To logout Download Station click on the top right hand corner 10 To acc...

Page 90: ...90 Dump Diagnostic Information To view the diagnostic details of a download task select a task on the list and click Dump Diagnostic Information...

Page 91: ...sure a SATA disk is installed correctly in FNS 5000B according to the instructions in Chapter 2 1 A share folder Qweb will be created Enable Web Server function and enter the port number in Network S...

Page 92: ...ck on the link http FNS 5000B IP on Web Server page or click Web Server on the login page of FNS 5000B to access the web page you upload Note that when Web Server is enabled you have to type http FNS...

Page 93: ...follow the steps below or refer to the INSTALL file in the downloaded SQLiteManager tar gz to install the SQLiteManager 1 Unpack your download file SQLiteManager tar gz 2 Upload the unpacked folder SQ...

Page 94: ...function in Network Settings and follow the steps below 1 Open an IE browser and enter ftp FNS 5000B IP or ftp FNS 5000B name OR 2 By Web File Manager of FNS 5000B A Go to FNS 5000B administration pa...

Page 95: ...95 B Click FTP C Enter the user name and password to login FTP service D You can start to enjoy FTP service...

Page 96: ...b browser and go to FNS 5000B administration page Select Web File Manager and enter the correct login name and password You may also enter guest in the login name field without password to access the...

Page 97: ...on a file displayed on the web page The information of the file will be shown If your browser does not support the file format a download window will pop up automatically Download the file and you can...

Page 98: ...delete ii Click Delete on the toolbar iii Confirm to delete the file or folder To delete all files and folders click Select All and Delete Upload file i Open the folder to upload file to ii Click Bro...

Page 99: ...hinese you may have to configure the browser settings Take Internet Explorer as an example follow the steps below to configure the settings 1 Click on Tools in IE browser 5 Restart the browser 2 Click...

Page 100: ...t folder Refresh the current page Return to network share list home page Create folder Rename file or folder Delete file or folder Select all Cancel selection Logout Full access network share folder R...

Page 101: ...start Shutdown in System Tools 2 Click Restart to reboot the server or Shut Down to turn off the server 10 2 Reset Password and Network Settings To reset the administrator password and network setting...

Page 102: ...bnormal Shutdown In case of power outage or improper shutdown of FNS 5000B the system will resume to the state before it is shut down If your server does not function properly after restart please do...

Page 103: ...successful login the following screen will appear Enter the configuration values and click OK Name of server IP address of server Windows workgroup joined by server View the details of selected serve...

Page 104: ...r Note You may have to restart FNS 5000B after changing the network configuration Set the name date and time for FNS 5000B The length cannot exceed 14 characters The system will obtain IP address auto...

Page 105: ...105 View Details Select a FNS 5000B available on Quick Install Wizard and click Details The following screen will be shown...

Page 106: ...106 Map Drive Select a NAS and click Map Drive Select the correct network share and click Map Network Drive Then select the drive letter for the connection...

Page 107: ...AS again To refresh the search results click Refresh to display all available servers within the network Help If you have any enquiries about Quick Install Wizard when using the program you can click...

Page 108: ...108 Enter the homepage Double click on NAS to enter the administration page...