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Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction.......................................................................4 1.1 Overview................................................................................4 1.2 Features.................................................................................5 1.3 System Requirements .........................................................6 1.4 Package List..........................................................................6 1.5 Hardware Ports and Buttons ...
C Ch haap ptteerr 11:: IIn nttrro od du uccttiio on n Congratulations on your purchase of AirLive WMU-6500FS. This product is specifically designed for Small Office and Home Office needs. It provides a complete SOHO solution for Internet surfing, and is easy to configure and operate even for non-technical users. Instructions for installing and configuring this product can be found in this manual.
1.2 Features Basic Functions z Adapt for one 3.5-inch IDE or Serial-ATA(SATA) hard disk drive. z Network File Storage and File Sharing via My Network Places in Windows or Samba in Linux and Mac OS. z Backup files easily: compliant with Windows backup utility. z Support FAT, FAT32, and Ext2 files system and can read from NTFS file system. z Support security level as Guest or Authorization user for file sharing. z Real time clock to synchronize the computer time setting.
USB Device z Built-in USB2.0 host to connect to USB mass storage device, like USB flash drive, USB hard drive, etc. z Easy copy button: Offer the button to copy folders and files from USB device to internal HDD. Wireless Functions z Up to 54Mbps data rate by incorporating Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). z IEEE 802.11b compatible (11Mbps): Allowing inter-operation among multiple vendors. z IEEE 802.11g compatible (54Mbps): Allowing inter-operation among multiple vendors.
The AirLive WMU-6500FS package contains the following items: Item Quantity AirLive WMU-6500FS 1 Stand 1 IDE cable (inside the device) 1 SATA cable (inside the device) 1 Power cable to connect IDE or SATA HDD 1 (inside the device) 2.4GHz dipole antenna 1 Power adapter (12 Volts DC, 4A) 1 Power cord 1 RJ-45 Ethernet cable 1 Quick installation guide 1 CD (utilities and user manual) 1 Screws (For fixing HDD) 4 Rubber feet 4 1.
Backup Press the button for 4 seconds to copy data from attached USB device to HDD. Reset Press the buttons of “Shutdown” and “Backup” simultaneously for 6 seconds to reset the system setting to factory default. Rear Ports: Ports Description Antenna Connect 2.4GHz dipole antenna. LAN Automatically MDI / MDIX LAN port can sense the cable type when connecting to Ethernet-enabled computer, network of hub, switch, or router.
Status (Backup) 1. Blinking once per when second device works normally. 2. Blinking quickly when “Backup” button is pressed. C Ch haap ptteerr 22:: G Geettttiin ng gS Sttaarrtteed d 2.1 Hard Disk installation Follow the steps below to insert the 3.5-inch hard disk and assemble the device before using the AirLive WMU-6500FS. WARNING: The AirLive WMU-6500FS is not hot-swappable.
Step 3: Put the 3.5-inch IDE or SATA hard disk into the slot, and connect proper data (the red cable is used for SATA hard disk and the gray one is for IDE hard disk) and power cable to the hard disk. Then fasten the screws that are included in the package to fix hard disk. Step 4: Put the front panel back.
Step 5: Put the back cover back, and assemble tightly. Finally, fasten two screws. 2.2 Making Connections In order to access the AirLive WMU-6500FS as the AirLive WMU-6500FS drive or as a wireless AP, you need to configure the TCP/IP settings correctly in advance. Either the “Wired Ethernet Connection” or “Wireless Connection” can be used to connect to AirLive WMU-6500FS. 2.2.
Step 2: You may see there are many connections in your computer. Just select one which you will use it to connect to AirLive WMU-6500FS. Then choose the “Properties” of that connection. Step 3: Check the “Client for Microsoft Networks”, “File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks”, and “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” are installed or not. If not, please install those communication protocols.
In addition, you can also allocate a static IP address on your computer as below: Step 1: Find the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties from My Network Places and check the Properties of Local Area Network Connection. Choose “Use the following IP address”, and assign one IP address which can be from 192.168.123.1 to 192.168.123.253. Here we use the 192.168.123.88 as the IP address. The Subnet mask must be 255.255.255.0, and the Default gateway must be 192.168.123.254.
There are three methods to configure AirLive WMU-6500FS. Please refer to the following instructions, and choose one which is most convenient to you. Method 1: Use Configuration Tool to Setup Before you can do this, you need to install the configuration tool from installation CD first. After that, please use the configuration tool to “Query” and you will see the status page and input “airlive” to login. NOTE. The default login password is “airlive”.
Method 3: Use “My Network Places” to Search and Setup First, go to My Network Places and search “airlive_Storage”. NOTE. The default host name of AirLive WMU-6500FS is “airlive_Storage”. Double click on “samba server (airlive_Storage)”, and you will see two folders. Then double click the folder “Configure”. You can find there is a “Configure.html” in the folder, just double click on “Configure.html” directly to see configuration page. 2.2.
least one WLAN card installed on your computer, and AirLive WMU-6500FS is powered on. Step 1: Enabling the WLAN card first, and check the Wireless f Connection properties from My Network Places. Step 2: Select the Wireless Networks icon after entering the “Wireless Network Connection Properties”. You will find the airlive_Storage in the available network list, then select the airlive_Storage, and click Connect button to connect.
2.3.1 Accessing the network hard drive via my network places Select the “My Network Places” and type the address of “\\airlive_Storage” and press “Enter”. Then you will find the Storage icon. Click the “Storage” icon, and you will find the “C” folder as below. The folder “C” is the root directory of attached hard disk drive. NOTE. The other folder “USB” is the root directory of attached USB drive. 2.3.
2.3.4 Accessing Files via FTP The AirLive WMU-6500FS offers FTP service for the clients which don’t support Microsoft Windows File sharing. You can use any FTP client utility to connect to AirLive WMU-6500FS with anonymous username and password (username: ftp, and without password) when the Security Level is set to “Guest mode”. But if you change to “Authorization mode”, the accessing permission is limited, and then users have to input specified username and password to access any permitted folders.
C Ch haap ptteerr 33:: M Maakkiin ng gC Co on nffiig gu urraattiio on n The AirLive WMU-6500FS can be configured various settings through the proprietary Configuration Tool or general web browser. Even you don’t know which IP is being used by AirLive WMU-6500FS, the Configuration Tool will help you to find it. All you have to do is click the “Query” button of the Configuration Tool. NOTE. You need to know the IP address of AirLive WMU-6500FS if you want to configure it by web browser.
With wizard setting steps, you could configure AirLive WMU-6500FS in a very simple way. This configuration wizard includes settings of Language, IP & DHCP, Wireless, Time, and Disk. Press “Next” button to start configuration. Step 1: Select which language will be used for folder/file name in the hard disk. Incorrect language setting may cause folder/file name unreadable. Step 2: If you don’t know how to set DHCP option, just keep it as Auto.
If you choose Server/Auto/Static mode, you need to set some TCP/IP settings for AirLive WMU-6500FS. If you are not sure about these values, please ask your network administrator or ISP. Step 3: Choose which wireless mode that you want to use. You can also disable wireless feature of AirLive WMU-6500FS. If you choose AP Only Mode, in next page, you could specify the SSID and the wireless channel number for AirLive WMU-6500FS.
If you select the Wireless Client Mode, in next page, you would have to specify the AP that you want AirLive WMU-6500FS to connect to. You have two ways to do this job. One is searching the available AP that AirLive WMU-6500FS could get. After finish searching, you could select the AP that you want AirLive WMU-6500FS to connect to.
The other way to add an AP is setting the SSID manually. Step 4: Next, you have three ways to set time for AirLive WMU-6500FS. You could sync time with NTP server or your PC, or set time manually.
Step 5: Here you will see three options of security level. The “Guest Mode” means everyone can access any data in your hard disk drive. The “Authorization Mode” means only authorized user can access data which is stored in their home directory. Or you can decide the security level later if you don’t have any idea yet. If you choose Decide it later, the AirLive WMU-6500FS won’t do any change to your hard disk. So you can keep all your data which has been stored in the hard disk.
If you select “Yes”, the AirLive WMU-6500FS would ask you one more time to confirm your decision. If you need to format disk, please wait the progressing bar become 100%. WARNING: Even there is only one partition in your hard disk, the AirLive WMU-6500FS will format your hard disk again if you press OK. If you choose Authorization Mode, it’s necessary to initial your hard disk drive. The public directory will store data which can be accessed by any user.
WARNING: The initialization will erase all your data which has been stored in the hard disk. Step 6: This page will show the configurations that you choose, please check your settings again before saving. Click “Discard Settings”, then you would return to the first page and without saving any changes. If you want to change any setting, please click “Previous” button to go back to previous page. Finally, if everything is okay, click “Save Settings” to save your new settings.
WARNING: Do Not press any button or power off the AirLive WMU-6500FS when the After everything is done, system would format is in progress. reboot automatically. Please wait 30 seconds at least for system restarting. 3.2 Network Settings 3.2.1 DHCP Setting Following sections describe the various DHCP settings.
z General Settings: default machine IP is 192.168.123.254. This IP address must be unique on your network. You can change it if necessary. This setting is only used for DHCP server mode, and Static IP mode. Host name is the identification of AirLive WMU-6500FS when you browse it in Microsoft My Network Places. z DCHP Mode: The default mode is “Auto” 9 Client: If you have a DHCP server on the network, set this option to receive an automatic IP address and subnet mask assignment.
Following information will let you know the current wireless operation status. z Basic Settings: allow you to enable or disable wireless function. z Advanced Settings: the AirLive WMU-6500FS provides four wireless modes to select. Please refer to the following section to check details of each wireless mode separately. Choose the wireless mode you need, and click “Next” button to setup detail items. 3.2.2.
z Channel: choose the radio channel number. The default channel of AirLive WMU-6500FS is “1”. Please DO NOT set the same channel with your existed wireless network. z SSID: the SSID identifies a specific wireless LAN. Before associating with a particular wireless LAN, a station must have the same SSID as the access point. The default SSID setting is “airlive”. z Authentication: authentication ensures that digital data transmissions are delivered to the intended receiver.
z WPA, WPA2: WPA applies IEEE802.1x and Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) to authenticate wireless clients using an external RADIUS server. Please input the IP address of RADIUS server and Shared Secret. Please refer to FAQ in chapter 8 to get more detailed information. NOTE. This device can support WPA version 1 and version 2.
z Wireless mode: 11b/g mixed can let 11g or 11b computers both exist on the network, but the speed will be reduced. Select 11g only for maximum speed, but no 11b users will be allowed on the network. z Beacon interval: This represents the amount of time between beacon transmissions. The interval tells receiving devices on the network how long they can wait in low-power mode before waking up to handle the beacon. Beacons are packets sent by an Access Point to synchronize a wireless network.
The default setting is “Disable MAC filtering”, every wireless client could connect to this AirLive WMU-6500FS. When you select “ALL accept”, the wireless clients with the MAC addresses you enter below will be accepted to connect to this AirLive WMU-6500FS, the others will be rejected. When you select “ALL Reject”, the wireless clients with the MAC addresses you enter below will be rejected to connect to this AirLive WMU-6500FS, the others will be accepted.
Input encryption keys if needed. Then press “Connect” button to connect. NOTE. The encryption method is decided by remote AP. Then AirLive WMU-6500FS will save configurations and reboot automatically. After that, you can check the wireless status in the status page.
Besides selecting AP from available list, you can also add AP manually. Press “My Favorite APs” in the wireless configuration page. Press “Add” button to add a remote AP.
Input the SSID information of remote AP. You may also need to input correct encryption keys when remote AP activates encryption mechanism. Then press “Save” to save the configuration. You can also modify attributes of existed AP. Go to wireless “My Favorite APs” page, choose the AP that you want to modify, then press “Edit” button. When you finish all the modification, press “Save” button to save changes.
3.2.2.3 WDS Hybrid mode Select the “WDS Hybrid mode” and click “Next” to set up. After entering the WDS Hybrid mode setting, click “Add” to set up. You can select the remote AP from AP list, or you can also input the MAC address of remote AP manually. NOTE. The channel of AirLive WMU-6500FS and remote AP must be the same.
After indicating MAC address of remote AP, press “Next” to continue. Input information of wireless channel, SSID, and encryption method of AirLive WMU-6500FS. Then press “Next” to continue. NOTE. The wireless channel must be same as remote AP. You can keep the original setting of this page, and then press “Next”. NOTE. Please refer to 3.2.2.1 to review the meanings of this page.
Edit wireless MAC Filtering setting, and then press “Next”. NOTE. Please refer to 3.2.2.1 to review the meanings of this page. Finally, you could see the confirm page. If every setting is correct, just press “Confirm” to save all configurations. 3.2.2.
Select the “WDS only mode”, and click “Next” to set up. After entering the WDS Only mode setting, click “Add” to set up. You can select the remote AP from AP list, or you can also input the MAC address of remote AP manually. NOTE. The channel of AirLive WMU-6500FS and remote AP must be the same.
After indicating MAC address of remote AP, press “Next” to continue. Input information of wireless channel and encryption method of AirLive WMU-6500FS. Then press “Next” to continue. NOTE. The wireless channel must be same as remote AP. Finally, you could see the confirm page. If every setting is correct, just press “Confirm” to save all configurations.
C Ch haap ptteerr 44:: S Stto orraag gee C Co on nffiig gu urraattiio on n In this section, you will know how to use the “Disk Utility” to configure the hard disk setting. Besides, this chapter will also show you how to finish configuration of File Sharing, and assign user access rules. 4.1 Disk Utility Before using the hard disk, users need to format the hard disk first. Click “Format” button, and the AirLive WMU-6500FS will start to format the hard disk automatically.
system, you are recommended to do this by pressing “Check” button. Create a new partition You could also format your hard disk to one partition by FDISK Utility. If you press “Format” button, then the AirLive WMU-6500FS will make only one partition with total capacity of internal hard disk, and format that partition. WARNING: All data in the hard disk will be ERASED after pressing format button. The hard disk is formatted to Ext2 file system.
4.3 Access Control The AirLive WMU-6500FS can provide two security levels of access control. One is Guest mode, it means anyone can access any data which has been stored in the hard disk. With Guest mode, you don’t need to edit any user configuration and start to enjoy file sharing. Note. The security level here is applied to file sharing of Microsoft Network Places and FTP service. The other is Authorization mode, it means only authorized people can access certain folders in the hard disk.
WARNING: The initialization of hard disk will ERASE all data which have been stored in the hard disk. User Configuration With user configuration, you can add or delete user account for privileged user. After you input user name, password, and quota information, just press “Add” button to add user account. Note. The user information here is applied to file sharing of Microsoft Network Places and FTP service.
How to access folders in Authorization mode If you have added a user account (named user1), then you will find the following folders when you browse AirLive WMU-6500FS by My Network Places in authorization mode. With this scenario, everyone can access data which is stored in folder Public and usb_disk. But only user1 can access data which is stored in folder user1. If you try to access folder user1, an authentication window will pop-up. 4.
Step 1: Select a folder/file that you want to change name or delete. Step 2: Press the “Delete” button if you want to delete that file. Step 3: Or press the “Rename” button if you want to rename the file name. The field of “Current File” will become editable when pressing “Rename” button. After inputting a new file name, just press “Confirm” button to finish changing. C Ch haap ptteerr 55:: A Ad dvvaan ncceed dT To oo ollss Click the Advanced Tools option on the left panel to display its submenus.
to configure the various system settings. Refer to the following sections for more details. 5.1 Backup Configuration This option enables you to backup current settings of AirLive WMU-6500FS. 5.2 Reset Configuration to Default This option enables you to reset the AirLive WMU-6500FS to its default factory settings. 5.3 Reboot This option enables you to reboot the device. 5.4 Firmware Upgrade This option enables you to upgrade new firmware, or restore backup configuration to this product.
C Ch haap ptteerr 66:: M MIIS SC C 6.1 Time Setting The System Time provides three options for you to select. Get Date and Time by NTP Protocol: synchronize the date and time with Internet NTP server. Set Date and Time using PC’s Date and Time: synchronize the date and time with the computer. Set Date and Time manually: Manually setting up the date and time.
6.2 Login Setting Administrator Timeout: If users login, and idles for a period of time (the default value is 600 seconds), then that user will be logged out automatically. Set this value to “0” to disable this feature. Change Password: To change the login password, you have to enter the old password and confirm the new password twice.
6.3 System Log Logs are useful for troubleshooting, and you can review the whole system logs here. There are four categories of logs: System Log, Wireless, Samba, and FTP.
C Ch haap ptteerr 77:: D Do ow wn nllo oaad dA Assssiissttaan ntt With Download Assistant, you can download files from remote server without using any computer. The one thing you need to do is adding a download task in the configuration page. Besides, you can also set a schedule rule to indicate which time the download task will start. As a result, the download task won’t disturb your daily work, and can start automatically when you are sleeping.
authorized user name and password. Inform Receiver: This option is used for mail alert. This device will send a mail to inform the receiver when the file is downloaded completely. You can enter one or several E-mail address of receivers. Use “;” to separate different mail addresses. You need to also indicate the SMTP server by pressing “E-mail Alert Configuration” button at the first time. Start Time: The download task can be started immediately, or assign a schedule rule.
Job Name: Name of download task. URL: IP address and file path of remote HTTP server. (e.g. http://software.yahoo.com/file1.avi) Save To: Indicate which folder you will save the file in the hard disk. You can type the file path manually or press Browse button to select the destination folder. Press OK button when you finish the selection. Inform Receiver: This option is used for mail alert. This device will send a mail to inform the receiver when the file is downloaded completely.
Account Name: Please enter your login name of mail server if needed. Password: Please enter your login password of mail server if needed. 7.3 BitTorrent This product can also work with BitTorrent P2P service. Users just upload the Torrent file to this device, and it can start to download files without turning on PC. First, please select a torrent file to Upload. Then indicate the file path. Job Name: Name of download task. Save To: Indicate which folder you will save the file in the hard disk.
Inform Receiver: This option is used for mail alert. This device will send a mail to inform the receiver when the file is downloaded completely. You can enter one or several E-mail address of receivers. Use “;” to separate different mail addresses. You need to also indicate the SMTP server by pressing “E-mail Alert Configuration” button at the first time. Start Time: The download task can be started immediately, or assign a schedule rule.
is available. The Scheduled page contains download tasks that are scheduled to run. C Ch haap ptteerr 88:: F FA AQ Q& &T Trro ou ub bllee S Sh ho oo ottiin ng g 8.1 What can I do when I have some trouble? 1. How do I connect to AirLive WMU-6500FS? A: Please prepare one RJ45 cable and connect the LAN port directly. The AirLive WMU-6500FS already supports MDI/MDIX. 2.
device just can read files and can not copy any files to any NTFS folders. 5. No matter what I do, I can not configure AirLive WMU-6500FS even if I setup fixed IP and can search or Ping to AirLive-6500FS. A: Please check the Status LED or HDD LED. If normal, they will be flash. Otherwise, reset the settings to factory default and try it again. 6. I can not save the file which size is large than 2GB. A: Please check the file system of your hard disk.
This is because Windows system caches the previous login records, so that user can not use another account to login this device. To solve this problem, please disconnect previous network drive first. After deleting previous record, please try to login again. 8.2 How to setup wireless function? 1. How can I use the wireless function? A: Generally speaking, there are four modes to setup in this device. The most common function is “AP mode”. The user can make this device as a wireless AP device as follows.
Wireless Client Mode: First, you need to connect your computer to AirLive WMU-6500FS via a RJ45 cable. Then use Scan AP feature of AirLive WMU-6500FS to connect to another wireless router. After AirLive WMU-6500FS connect to wireless router, your computer can communicate with LAN Host#1 via AirLive WMU-6500FS. WDS only mode: WDSÆWireless Distribution system. This device also supports this function. How to configure this in your environment? The below Figure1 is for your reference.
Figure 2: WDS Hybrid mode: This device also supports WDS and AP mode at the same time. How to configure this in your environment? The below figure is for your reference. For the WDS setting, please refer to the above WDS only mode.
For AP setting, please refer to the AP mode. 2. How to configure 802.1x or WPA with RADIUS server? Equipment Details PC1: Microsoft Windows XP Professional without Service Pack 1. D-Link DWL-650+ wireless LAN adapter Driver version: 3.0.5.0 (Driver date: 03.05.2003) PC2: Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1a. Z-Com XI-725 wireless LAN USB adapter Driver version: 1.7.29.0 (Driver date: 10.20.2001) Authentication Server: Windows 2000 RADIUS server with Service Pack 3 and HotFix Q313664.
Certificate of the Windows XP Professional. DUT and Windows 2000 RADIUS Server Setup 1. Setup Windows 2000 RADIUS Server. We have to change authentication method to MD5_Challenge or using smart card or other certificate on RADIUS server according to the test condition. 2. Setup DUT 9 Enable the 802.1X (check the “Enable checkbox“). 9 Enter the RADIUS server IP. 9 Enter the shared key. (The key shared by the RADIUS server and DUT). 9 We will change 802.
Figure 2: Enable IEEE 802.1X access control Windows 2000 RADIUS server Authentication testing: 1. DUT authenticate PC1 using certificate. (PC2 follows the same test procedures.) 2. Download and install the certificate on PC1. (Figure 3) 3. PC1 choose the SSID of DUT as the Access Point. 4. Set authentication type of wireless client and RADIUS server both to EAP_TLS. 5. Disable the wireless connection and enable again. 6.
Figure 3: Certificate information on PC1 Figure 4: Authenticating Figure 5: Authentication success DUT authenticate PC2 using PEAP-TLS. 1. PC2 choose the SSID of DUT as the Access Point. 2. Set authentication type 65 of wireless client and RADIUS server both to PEAP_TLS.
3. Disable the wireless connection and enable again. 4. The DUT will send the user's certificate to the RADIUS server, and then send the message of authentication result to PC2. 5. Windows XP will prompt that the authentication process is success or fail and end the authentication procedure. 6. Terminate the test steps when PC2 get dynamic IP and PING remote host successfully. 8.
If the folder can only be accessed by authorized user, then you need to click “Connect using a different user name”, and input authorized user name and password. Step 4: After finish drive mapping, you can find an additional Z drive in My Computer group. Then you can access network drive via Z drive, and don’t need to search network drive every time.
8.4 How to backup data by using Microsoft backup utility? The backup utility is installed and ready for use if you use Windows XP Professional edition. Otherwise, if you use Windows XP Home edition, please install Ntbackup.msi from Windows installation CD first. Step 1: Please refer to 8.3 to map a network drive of AirLive WMU-6500FS first. Then start Windows backup utility, and press next button to continue.
Step 2: Here we choose “Back up files and settings”. Step 3: Choose “Let me choose what to back up”. Step 4: Choose which folder will be backup to AirLive WMU-6500FS.
Step 5: Choose the destination that you will save files. Here we choose drive Z, which is a network drive of AirLive WMU-6500FS. Step 6: Finally, press Finish button to start backup right now. Otherwise, press Advanced button to set a schedule rule for this backup task.
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