NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide NETGEAR, Inc. 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA 202-10320-01 v1.
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Contents NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide About This Manual Conventions, Formats, and Scope .................................................................................... x How to Use This Manual .................................................................................................. xi How to Print This Manual ................................................................................................. xi Revision History .....................................................................
USB Shares ...........................................................................................................1-41 Configuring Backup Jobs ..............................................................................................1-42 Adding a New Backup Job .....................................................................................1-43 Viewing the Backup Schedule ................................................................................1-48 Programming the Backup Button .........
Logs .........................................................................................................................3-2 Replacing a Failed Disk ..................................................................................................3-3 Ordering a Replacement Disk ..................................................................................3-3 Replacing a Failed Disk on the ReadyNAS NV+ .....................................................
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About This Manual Congratulations on your purchase of a ReadyNAS Network Attached Storage system from NETGEAR, Inc. If you have not already done so, please read the printed Installation Guide provided with your product and the ReadyNAS Setup Manual on the Installation CD. The ReadyNAS Setup Manual takes you step-by-step through the FrontView Setup Wizard and quickly prepares the ReadyNAS for your network.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Conventions, Formats, and Scope The conventions, formats, and scope of this manual are described in the following paragraphs: • • Typographical Conventions. This manual uses the following typographical conventions: Italic Emphasis, books, CDs, file and server names, extensions Bold User input, IP addresses, GUI screen text Fixed Command prompts, CLI text, code italic URL links Formats.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide How to Use This Manual The HTML version of this manual includes the following: • Buttons, at a time. and , for browsing forward or backward through the manual one page • A button that displays the table of contents and a button that displays an index. Double-click on a link in the table of contents or index to navigate directly to where the topic is described in the manual. • A model. • Links to PDF versions of the full manual and individual chapters.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • Click the print icon in the upper left corner of your browser window. Tip: If your printer supports printing two pages on a single sheet of paper, you can save paper and printer ink by selecting this feature. Revision History Part Number Version Date Number 202-10320-01 1.0 Description Oct. 2007 First publication xii About This Manual v1.
Chapter 1 Configuring Your ReadyNAS The FrontView Advanced Control mode shows all of the settings available in the Setup Wizard plus some more advanced features. The basic network settings and other, optional, more advanced features are included in this chapter. NETGEAR ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID] Figure 1-1 When you first switch to this mode, you see the menus on the left that allow you to quickly jump to the screen you want. As you click the menu buttons, you notice a similar theme across all screens.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Toward the bottom left, there are two buttons that allow you to switch back and forth between the Setup Wizard mode and the Advanced Control mode. At the bottom of the screen is the status bar including the date button on the left which, which clicked, links you to the Clock screen. The status lights to the right give a quick glimpse of the system device status.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • • IP Assignment. Select either Use values from a DHCP server or Use values below. – If you elect to assign the IP address using Use values from a DHCP server, NETGEAR advises that you set the lease time on the DHCP server/router to a value of at least a day. Otherwise, you might notice that the ReadyNAS IP address changes even when ReadyNAS has been powered down for only a few minutes. Most DHCP servers allow you to assign a static IP address for specified MAC addresses.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide If you wish to use the ReadyNAS in a VLAN environment, select the Enable VLAN support check box, and enter a numeric VLAN tag. You need to reboot the ReadyNAS for the VLAN function to take effect. Warning: Do not enable VLAN support unless you are sure that your clients also support VLAN. Otherwise, you can lose network access to the ReadyNAS, and you might need to reinstall the firmware to disable the VLAN setting.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Global Network Settings Figure 1-9 Hostname The Hostname you specify is used to advertise the ReadyNAS on your network. You can use the hostname to address the ReadyNAS in place of the IP address when accessing the ReadyNAS from Windows, or over OS X using SMB. This is also the name that appears in the RAIDar scan list. The default hostname is nas- followed by the last three bytes of your primary MAC address.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide DNS Settings The DNS area allows you to specify up to three Domain Name Service servers for hostname resolution. The DNS service translates host names into IP addresses. If you selected the DHCP option in the Ethernet or Wireless tab, the Domain Name Server fields are automatically populated with the DNS settings from your DHCP server. If you selected the Static option, you can manually specify the IP addresses of the DNS servers and the domain name here.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide DHCP The DHCP tab allows you to specify this device as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server. DHCP service simplifies management of a network by dynamically assigning IP addresses to new clients on the network. Figure 1-11 Select the Enable DHCP service check box if you want the ReadyNAS device to act as a DHCP server. This is convenient in networks where DHCP service is not already available.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide this password is kept in a safe place. Anyone who obtains this password can effectively change or erase the data on the ReadyNAS. Figure 1-12 Note: In User or Domain security mode, you can use the admin account to log in to a Windows share, and perform maintenance on any file or folder in that share. The admin user also has permission to access all user private home shares to perform backups.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • Share. The Share security mode is suitable for most home and small office environments, providing a simple way for people in a trusted environment to share files without the necessity of setting up separate user and group accounts. Shares that you create in this environment can be password protected if you want. • User. A more appropriate selection for the medium-size office or workgroup environment is the User security mode.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-14 Share Security Mode The Share Security Mode is the easiest security option to set up and is adequate for home or small offices. Select this option if you want to restrict share access with the use of an optional share password. Each user accesses the shares on the device as a common guest user and has the same read/write privilege as other users. This option supports setting disk quotas on a per-share basis. 1-10 Configuring Your ReadyNAS v1.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide You need to specify a workgroup only if you wish to change it from the default. A valid workgroup name must conform to the following restrictions: • The name must consist of characters a–z, A–Z, 0–9, and the symbols _ (underscore), – (dash), and. (period). • The name must start with a letter. • The name length mst be 15 characters or less. User Security Mode This option is ideal for medium-size offices or workgroups.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 3. Click Apply to save your changes. Domain Security Mode If you choose the Domain security mode option, you need to create a trusted relationship with the domain controller or the active directory server (ADS) that will act as the authentication server for the ReadyNAS device. You need the following information: • Domain name • Domain administrator login • Domain administrator password • If using ADS: – DNS name of the ADS realm – OU (Organization Unit).
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide If you have a large number of users in your domain, you may want to clear the Display users from trusted domains... check box. The FrontView management system might slow down to an unusable state. Note: NETGEAR does not recommend the use of the ReadyNAS in a domain environment with more than 1000 users at this time. Click Apply to join the domain. If Auto-detection is successful, users and groups from the domain now have login access to the shares on this device.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-16 After adding your groups, you can view or change your groups by clicking the alphabetical index tab, or click All to list all groups. Figure 1-17 If you wish to add a large number of groups, select Import group list from the pull-down menu. Figure 1-18 You can upload a CSV (Comma Separated Value) formatted file containing the group account information.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide name3,gid3,quota3,member31:member32:member33 : Please note the following: • Spaces around commas are ignored. • The name field is required. • Quota is set to default if not specified. • GID is automatically generated if not specified. • Empty fields are replaced with account defaults. • Group members are optional.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-19 Only the user name and password fields are required; however, you should specify a user e-mail address if you intend to set up disk quotas. Without an e-mail address, the user will not be warned when disk usage approaches the specified disk quota limit. If you do not wish to assign a disk quota, enter 0. If you wish to add a large number of users, select Import user list from the pull-down menu.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • UID is automatically generated if not specified. • Empty fields are replaced with account defaults.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Standard File Protocols The standard file protocols are common file-sharing services that allow your workstation clients to transfer files to and from the ReadyNAS using built-in file manager-over-network file protocols supported by the client operating system. The available services are: • CIFS (Common Internet File Service). Sometimes referred to as SMB. This protocol is used mainly by Microsoft Windows clients, and sometimes by Mac OS X clients.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Mac. Enabling rsync service on the ReadyNAS allows clients to use rsync to initiate backups to and from the ReadyNAS. Figure 1-22 Streaming Services The built-in streaming services on the ReadyNAS allow you to stream multi-media content directly from the ReadyNAS, without the need to have your PC or Mac powered on. Configuring Your ReadyNAS 1-19 v1.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-23 • SlimServer provides music streaming to the popular Squeezebox music players from Slim Devices. You can click the http setup link for more detailed configuration options. • iTunes Streaming Server enables iTunes clients to stream media files straight from the ReadyNAS. You can click the http setup link for more detailed configuration options.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • Home Media Streaming Server provides streaming of videos, music, and pictures to popular networked DVD players. The streaming players often utilize the streaming client developed by Syabas. Similar to UPnP AV, this service is used to stream videos, music, and pictures from the reserved media share to these adapters. If you wish to change the location where the media files are stored, you can specify a different share and folder path.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide There are advantages to both technologies. • • Flex-RAID: – The default volume can be deleted and re-created, with or without the snapshot reserved space. – Hot spare disk is supported. – Full volume management is available—you can create a volume utilizing RAID level 0, 1, or 5, specify the size of the volume, delete a disk from a volume, assign a hot spare, and so on.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Deleting a Volume To delete a volume, select the Volume tab of the volume you wish to delete (if there are multiple volumes) and click Delete Volume (in this case only Volume C is configured). Warning: Make sure that you back up the files you wish to keep before deleting a volume. All shares, files, and snapshots residing on that volume will be deleted are non-recoverable! Figure 1-25 You are asked to confirm your intention by typing DELETE VOLUME.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide . Figure 1-27 To add a volume: 1. Select the hard disks. In this example, we select the first three disks and elect not to specify any of them as a hot spare. 2. Select the RAID level. RAID level determines how the redundancy, capacity utilization, and performance are implemented for the volume. See Appendix A, “RAID Levels Simplified,” for more information. Typically in a configuration of three or more disks, RAID level 5 is recommended.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide In our example, we kept the maximum size that was calculated. 5. Click Apply, and wait for the instruction to reboot the system. It typically takes about 1 minute before you are notified to reboot. After rebooting, you are notified by e-mail when the volume has been added. Use RAIDar to reconnect to the NAS device.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Volume Management for X-RAID The X-RAID technology offers a simplified approach to volume management. X-RAID works on the premise that what most people want to do with their data volume over time is either adding redundancy or expanding it without the headaches usually associated with doing that. By using simple rules, X-RAID is able to hide all the complexities yet provide volume management features previously available only in enterprise-level storage solutions.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide within a few hours, your data volume will be fully redundant. The process occurs in the background, so access to the ReadyNAS is not interrupted. Adding a Third and Fourth Disk for More Capacity At a certain point, you will want more capacity. With typical RAID volumes, you have to back up your data to another system (with enough space), add a new disk, reformat your RAID volume, and restore your data back to the new RAID volume. Not so with X-RAID.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide When you receive a completion notification for the fourth disk, reboot the ReadyNAS. During reboot, volume capacity is expanded with the additional capacity from each disk. For instance, if you replaced four 250GB disks with four 600GB disks, the capacity of the volume increases by approximately 350GB x 3 (the fourth disk is reserved for parity).
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • If you specify a start and end time of 00:00, ReadyNAS will take one snapshot at midnight. A start time of 00:00 and an end time of 23:00 will set snapshots to be taken between midnight and 11 pm the next day at the interval you specify. Once you save the snapshot schedule, the time of the next snapshot is displayed. When the next snapshot is taken, the previous one is replaced. Figure 1-30 • If you prefer, you can manually take a snapshot by clicking Take Snapshot Now.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide You can also specify how long a snapshot should last. If you will be using snapshots for backups, you can schedule the snapshot to last slightly longer than the expected duration of the backup. Having an active snapshot can affect the write performance to the ReadyNAS, so deactivating it when it is not needed might be advantageous in write-intensive environments.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide After the snapshot is taken, if changes on the volume exceed this reserved space, the snapshot is invalidated and can no longer be used. Note: Changes that occupy space in the reserved snapshot space include new file creation, modifications, and deletions; for instance, any time you delete a 1MB file, the change caused by the deletion uses up 1MB of reserved space. When the snapshot does become invalidated, an e-mail alert is sent and the status reflected on the Snapshot screen.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide device number; for example, USB_HDD_2. If the device contains multiple partitions, the partitions are listed beneath the main device entry. Figure 1-35 Partitions on the storage devices must be one of the following file system formats: • FAT32 • NTFS • Ext2 • Ext3 To the right of the access icons are command options for the device.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Format FAT32 This option formats the device as a FAT32 file system. FAT32 format is easily recognizable by most newer Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems. Format EXT3 This option formats the device as an EXT3 file system. Select this option if you will be accessing the USB device mainly from Linux systems or ReadyNAS devices.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-36 Adding Shares To add a share: 1. From the main menu, select Volumes > Volume Settings. If more than one volume is configured, click on the volume you wish to add the share. 2. Select Add Shares. Add Shares has two views, depending on the security mode. In the Add Shares screen, enter the share name, description and, optionally, the password and disk quota. (The share password and share disk quota are available only in the security mode).
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide In the User or Domain security modes, the Add Share tab consists only of fields for the share name and description. Password and disk quotas are account-specific. In either case, you can add up to five shares at a time. Once you finish adding the shares, refer to Chapter 2, “Accessing Shares from Your Operating System for instructions on how to access them from different client interfaces.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide The settings are as follows: • Disabled. Access to this share is disabled. • Read-only Access. Access to this share is read-only. • Read/Write Access. Access to this share is read/write. • Read Access with exceptions.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide For example, select read-only for Default Access and list the hosts you wish to allow access to. Access from all other hosts will be denied. To allow only host 192.168.2.101 read-only access to the share, specify the following: • Default: Read-only • Hosts allowed access: 192.168.2.101 Multiple hosts can be separated with commas (see Appendix B, “Input Field Format” for information about valid host formats.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • Default: Read-only • Write-enabled users: fred • Write-enabled groups: engr If you wish to limit this access only to hosts 192.168.2.101 and 192.168.2.102, set the following: • Default: Read-only • Hosts allowed access: 192.168.2.101, 192.168.2.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-42 Recycle Bin. The ReadyNAS can have a Recycle Bin for each share for Windows users. The Enable Recycle Bin option is shown at the bottom of the CIFS screen. When this check box is selected, whenever you delete a file, the file gets inserted into the Recycle Bin folder in the share rather than being permanently deleted. This allows for a grace period during which users can restore deleted files.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide others (that is, everyone). Permission for newly created folders is read/write for everyone. If the default does not satisfy your security requirement, you can change it here. Opportunistic locking (often referred to as oplocks) enhances CIFS performance by allowing files residing on the NAS to be cached locally on the Windows client, thus eliminating network latency when the files are constantly accessed.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-45 Advanced Share Permission. The Advanced Share Permission section offers the options to override the default ownership and permission of the share folder on the embedded file system and to permeate these settings to all files and folders residing on the selected share. The Set ownership and permission for existing files and folders option performs a one-time change. Depending on the size of the share, this can take a while to finish.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-46 Note: Although access authorization is based on user login in non-Share mode, files saved on the USB device, regardless of the user account, are with UID 0. This is to allow easy sharing of the USB device with other ReadyNAS and PC systems. Configuring Backup Jobs The Backup Manager integrated with the ReadyNAS allows the ReadyNAS to act as a powerful backup appliance.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Adding a New Backup Job To create a new backup job, select Add a New Backup Job. A 4-step procedure screen for creating a job displays. Figure 1-47 Step 1 – Select Backup Source The backup source can be located remotely, or it can be a public or a private home share, or all home shares on the ReadyNAS. A USB device appears as a share, so if you want to back up a USB device, select a share name.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • Rsync server. Select this if you wish to perform backups from a rsync server. Rsync was originally available for Linux and other flavors of UNIX, but has lately become popular under Windows and Mac for its efficient use of incremental file transfers. This is the preferred backup method between two ReadyNAS devices. Once you have selected a backup source, you can enter the path from that source.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide My Documents/My Pictures With a remote source, you might need to enter a login and password to access the share. If you are accessing a password-protected share on a remote ReadyNAS server configured for Share security mode, enter the name of the share name for login. To make sure that you have proper access to the backup source, click Test Connection before continuing.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide If you wish, you can elect not to schedule the backup job so that you can invoke it manually instead by clearing (deselecting) the Perform backup every... check box. (You might want to do this if your ReadyNAS has a backup button.) Figure 1-49 Step 4 – Choose Backup Options In this last step, you can set up how you want backups to be performed. To set up a backup schedule: 1. Schedule a full backup. Select when you want full backups to be performed.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide as expected. You can elect to send only errors encountered during backup, full backup logs consisting of file listings (can be large), or status and errors (status refers to completion status). Note: Backup log e-mails are restricted to approximately 10K lines. To view the full backup log (regardless of length), select Status > Logs and click the Download All Logs link. 3. Remove files from backup destination.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Viewing the Backup Schedule After saving the backup job, a new job appears in the Backup Schedule section of the Backup Jobs screen. Figure 1-50 A summary of the backup jobs that have been scheduled are shown; jobs are numbered beginning at 001. To manage your backup jobs: 1. Click the Job number icon to modify the selected backup job. 2. Enable or disable job scheduling by selecting/clearing the Enable check box.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Programming the Backup Button On ReadyNAS systems that have the Backup Button feature, you can program the button to execute one or more pre-defined backup jobs (see “Backing Up the ReadyNAS to a USB Drive” on page 3-9 for more information). Figure 1-51 Simply select the backup jobs in the order that you want them run and click Apply. Pressing the Backup Button once starts the job(s).
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Editing a Backup Job To edit a backup job, you can either click the 3-digit job number button in the Backup Jobs screen, or you can click the Edit Backup Job link while viewing that job log. You can then make appropriate changes or adjustments to the job. Setting Up Printers The ReadyNAS device supports automatic recognition of USB printers. If you have not already done so, you can connect a printer now, wait a few seconds, and click Refresh to display detected printers.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide . Figure 1-54 IPP Printing The ReadyNAS also supports the IETF standard Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) over HTTP. Any client supporting IPP printing (IPP is available natively on the latest Windows XP OS and OS X) can now use this protocol to utilize printers connected to the ReadyNAS. The simplest way to utilize IPP printing is to use Bonjour to discover and set up the print queue.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Managing Your ReadyNAS System To set up and manage your ReadyNAS effectively, make sure that you review the settings in the following sections, and implement any necessary modifications or updates. Clock An accurate time setting on the Clock screen is required to ensure proper file timestamps. You can access the Clock screen by selecting System > Clock from the main menu.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide NTP Option You can elect to synchronize the system time on the device with a remote NTP (Network Time Protocol) server. You can elect to keep the default servers or enter up to two NTP servers closer to your locale. You can find an available public NTP servers by searching the Web. Alerts In the event of a device or an enclosure failure, a quota violation, low-disk space warning, and other system events requiring your attention, e-mail alerts are sent.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Alerts Settings This ReadyNAS device has been preconfigured with mandatory and optional alerts for various system device warnings and failures. The Settings tab allows you to control the settings for the optional alerts. Figure 1-58 NETGEAR strongly recommends that you keep all alerts enabled; however, you might choose to disable an alert if you are aware of a problem and wish to temporarily disable it.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-59 To set up SNMP service: 1. Select the SNMP tab to display the SNMP settings. 2. Select the Enable SNMP service check box. You can leave the Community field set to public, or specify a private name if you have opted for a more segregated monitoring scheme. 3. Enter a host name or an IP address in the Trap destination field. This is where all trap messages will be sent.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide SMTP The ReadyNAS device has a built-in e-mail message transfer agent (MTA) that is set up to send alert e-mail messages from the device. Some corporate environments, however, might have a firewall that blocks untrusted MTAs from sending out messages. If you were unable to receive the test message from the Alerts Settings tab, it might have been blocked by the firewall. In that case, specify an appropriate SMTP server in this tab.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-61 • Select Disable journaling if you understand the consequences of this action, and you do not mind a long file system check (only after unexpected power failures). File system journaling allows disk checks of only a few seconds verses possibly an hour or longer without journaling. Disabling journaling improves disk write performance slightly. Note: You can buy a UPS with USB monitoring at a very reasonable cost.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • – Since Windows runs in case-insensitive mode, one side-effect of enabling this option is that two file names with different cases (for example, ABC and abc) appear as two files but, when you open one file, the other file might actually open. – Another effect of this option is that, in Explorer, you now need to enter the exact case for search strings for the Find option (that is, searching for “abc” no longer returns file “ABC”).
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Language The Language Setting screen offers the option of setting the ReadyNAS device to the appropriate character set for file names. Figure 1-63 For example, selecting Japanese allows you to share files with Japanese names in Windows Explorer. Figure 1-64 It is best to select the appropriate language based on the region where the device will be operated. Configuring Your ReadyNAS 1-59 v1.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Note: This option does not set the web browser language display—browser settings must be done using the browser language option. If you wish, you can select the Allow Unicode for user, group and share names check box to allow for greater flexibility in non-English speaking regions. This option, once selected, cannot be reversed. Note: HTTP and WebDAV access do not work with Unicode user names. Other restrictions might exist.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide If you wish to continue, click Perform System Update. After the update image has been downloaded, you will be asked to reboot the system. The update process updates only the firmware image and does not modify your data volume. However, it is always a good idea to back up your important data whenever you perform an update.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Settings If you do have a reliable Internet connection, you can enable the automatic update check and download options in the Settings tab. Figure 1-68 If you select the Automatically check for updates check box, the ReadyNAS does not download the actual firmware update, but notifies you when an update is available.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Disk Spin-Down Option You can elect to spin down your ReadyNAS disks after a specified time of inactivity. The disks will spin up as needed. To enable spin-down mode, select the Enable disk spin-down after... check box, and specify the minutes of inactivity before spin up. Figure 1-70 Note: Enabling disk spin-down disables journal mode. Once enabled, if you decide to disable disk spin-down, you need to manually re-enable journal mode if desired.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide and time. (The Power ON option is available on the ReadyNAS NV through an add-on package.)1 The Power ON option does not appear if the ReadyNAS hardware does not support this feature. Note: When the ReadyNAS is powered off, any file transfers and backup jobs are interrupted, and backup jobs scheduled during the power off state do not run. UPS Configuration If this device is not connection to a UPS device, you may ele4ct to enable a UPS connection to another NAS device.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 1-71 When you reboot or shut down the ReadyNAS, you must close the browser window and use RAIDar to reconnect to FrontView. Configuring Your ReadyNAS 1-65 v1.
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Chapter 2 Accessing Shares from Your Operating System This chapter presents examples of how shares on the ReadyNAS device can be accessed by the various operating systems. If you have problems accessing your shares, make sure to enable the corresponding service by selecting Shares > Share Listing screen. Also make sure that the default access of the share is set to Read-only or Read/write.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-2 MAC OS X To access the same share over AFP with OS X, select Network from the Finder Go > Network menu. Figure 2-3 From here, there are two ways to access your AFP share, depending on how you have chosen to advertise your AFP share. 2-2 Accessing Shares from Your Operating System v1.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide AFP over Bonjour To access the AFP share advertised over Bonjour on Mac OS X, select Network from the Finder Go menu to see a listing of available networks. Figure 2-4 Open the My Network folder to display the ReadyNAS hostname. Figure 2-5 In Share security mode, select the Guest radio button to access the shares and click Connect. In User or Domain security mode, enter the user name and password you wish to use to connect to the ReadyNAS.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-6 From the Volumes field, select the share you want to access and click OK. AFP over AppleTalk If you chose to advertise your AFP service over AppleTalk, a listing of available networks is displayed. Figure 2-7 Open the My Network folder to display the ReadyNAS hostname. Select the one that has the hostname only. You are prompted with a connection box. 2-4 Accessing Shares from Your Operating System v1.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-8 Select Guest and click Connect. Then, select the share you want to connect to and click OK. Figure 2-9 In Share security mode, you need to specify only the user name and password—if you have set up a password for your share. If you have not set up a user name, enter the share name in place of the user name. In User or Domain security mode, enter the user name and password you wish to use to connect to the ReadyNAS.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide MAC OS 9 To access the same share under Mac OS 9, select Connect to Server from the Finder menu, choose the NAS device entry from the AppleTalk section, and click Connect. Figure 2-10 When you are prompted to log in, enter the share name and password if the ReadyNAS is configured for Share security mode, otherwise enter a valid user account and password otherwise, and click Connect.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-12 You should see the same files in the share that you do in Windows Explorer. Figure 2-13 Linux/Unix To access this share from a Linux or Unix client, you will need to mount the share over NFS by entering: mount :/ where backup is the share name. Running the ls command in the mounted path displays the share content. Accessing Shares from Your Operating System v1.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-14 Note: The ReadyNAS does not support NIS as it is unable to correlate NIS information with CIFS logins. In mixed environments where you want CIFS and NFS integration, you can set the security to User mode and manually specify the UID and GID of the user and group accounts to match your NIS or other Linux/Unix server settings.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide If the ReadyNAS is in Share security mode, enter the share name and share password. Otherwise, log in with a valid user name and password if the ReadyNAS is in User or Domain mode. Figure 2-16 If the Share access is read-only, only the file manager displays. Figure 2-17 If the Share is also writable, the file manager displays options for creating, modifying, and deleting files, as follows. Accessing Shares from Your Operating System v1.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 2-18 One useful application for a Web share is to set up an internal company website. You can copy HTML files to the Web share using Windows, Mac, NFS, or HTTP. When you set HTTP access to read-only, html files, including index.htm and index.html, can be viewed using any web browser. Note: Files created under the Web file manager can be deleted only under this file manager.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide FTP/FTPS To access the share via FTP in Share security mode, log in as “anonymous” and use your e-mail address for the password. Figure 2-19 . Note: Enabling FTP access in Share mode opens up the share to anyone on your network who has an FTP client. NETGEAR recommends that you enable FTP access only to shares you are comfortable making public on your network.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Rsync Access to the share through rsync is identical regardless of the security mode. If you specified a user or password in the rsync share access tab, you will need to specify this when accessing the rsync share. Unlike other protocols, rsync uses arbitrary user name and password that is specific only for rsync access. The user account you specify does not need to exist on the ReadyNAS or a domain controller.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Networked DVD Players and UPnP AV Media Adapters Networked DVD players and UPnP AV Media adapters detect the ReadyNAS if either the Home Media Streaming Server or the UPnP AV services are enabled. The content of the Streaming Services media share on the ReadyNAS is available to these players for playback.1 Multiple players can be connected to the ReadyNAS and can play the media files concurrently.
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Chapter 3 Maintenance and Administration Viewing System Status The Status menu contains links to the Health screen and Logs screen that provide system status information. Health The Health screen displays the status of each disk, and the fan, temperature, and UPS status in detail. When available, normal expected values are provided. Figure 3-1 For each disk, you can click SMART+ (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) to display the content of the internal disk log. 3-1 v1.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Figure 3-2 To recalibrate the fan, click Recalibrate. Logs Select Status > Logs to access the Clear Logs screen. The Clear Logs screen provides information about the status of management tasks, including a timestamp. Figure 3-3 The Download All Logs link is available in case you need to analyze low-level log information. If you click this link, a zip of all the logs is provided. 3-2 Maintenance and Administration v1.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Replacing a Failed Disk When a disk fails in your ReadyNAS device, you are notified of the failure by e-mail. The failed disk location can be seen in the FrontView status bar at the bottom by selecting Status > Health. Figure 3-4 On the front of the ReadyNAS device, a failed disk is identified by an amber LED. The left most LED is disk channel 1; the next one is disk channel 2; and so on. Take note of the failed channel.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 1. Open the disk tray door. 2. Press the button under the failed disk. The latch pops out. Figure 3-5 3. Pull out the disk tray and remove the screws. 4. Replace the failed disk, reassemble, and slide the disk tray back in. Make sure that the hard disk connectors are facing away from you when you reassemble the disk. Figure 3-6 The ReadyNAS system performs RAID synchronization in the background, and notifies you by e-mail when synchronization is complete.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 3. Replace the failed disk by placing the disk in the disk tray and sliding the disk tray back into the device. . Figure 3-7 Replacing the Failed Disk on the ReadyNAS 600/X6 On the ReadyNAS 600/X6 system, shut down the ReadyNAS and open up the enclosure as instructed in the Installation Guide. If you view the disks from the front of the enclosure, the leftmost disk is channel 1; the next disk is channel 2; and so on.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Resynchronizing the Volume If you had to power off to replace the failed disk, turn on the power on the ReadyNAS. The RAID volume automatically resynchronizes with the new disk in the background. The process takes several hours depending on disk size. During the resync process, the ReadyNAS can be used as normal, although access will be slower until the volume is finished resynchronizing. You will be notified by e-mail when the resync process is complete.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • To set the ReadyNAS device to Factory Default: Use the same process, except you must hold the System Reset switch for 30 seconds after powering on the system. You will see the disk LEDs flash for a second time to signify that the command has been accepted. Warning: This process reinstalls the firmware and resets all disk configurations, wiping out any data you might have on the NAS.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide The following figure illustrates the default configuration with redundancy in your ReadyNAS NV+. Figure 3-8 You can switch between the X-RAID Expandable Volume mode and the RAID 0/1/5 Flexible Volume mode only if you want to change the default configuration. It is not necessary to perform this procedure every time you boot up the system. The device remains in the selected mode until explicitly changed.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide 4. Open RAIDar. RAIDar will prompt you to click Setup. The ReadyNAS Volume Setup screen displays. Figure 3-9 5. Select either the Expandable Volume (X-RAID) or the Volume (RAID 0,1,5) radio button and click Create Volume Now. The volume and initialization process begins. Warning: If no action is taken within 10 minutes, the system defaults to X-RAID with 5GB reserved for snapshots. Warning: Before beginning any of these activities, make sure to back up all important data.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide ReadyNAS1100 Backup On the ReadyNAS1100, the Backup button is associated with the USB Port at the front of the system. By default, the Backup button copies the data from the Backup share onto the USB disk connected to the USB port at the front of the device (as shown in the following figure). Figure 3-10 ReadyNAS NV+ Backup On the ReadyNAS NV+, the Backup button is associated with the USB port at the front of the system.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide Removing the System Module from the ReadyNAS 1100 To access the system module and remove it from the ReadyNAS1100: 1. Power off the unit and remove the screws. 2. Lift up the latch. 3. Pull the system module forward; it slides out easily. The illustration on the right shows the ReadyNAS1100 with the system module removed. Figure 3-12 Changing User Passwords There are two ways in which user passwords can be changed in the User security mode.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide In Share and Domain security mode, the Password tab does not appear. Note: User passwords in Domain mode must be set on the domain or ADS server. 3-12 Maintenance and Administration v1.
Appendix A RAID Levels Simplified RAID can be somewhat daunting; this appendix helps to simplify RAID. RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Basically, if properly configured, it can store data on multiple disks in a way that if one disk fails, the data can still be accessed from one or more remaining disks. A RAID level selects how data is kept redundant, the most popular ones being levels 0, 1, and 5. Contrary to the RAID acronym, RAID level 0 does not provide any redundancy.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide RAID Level 5 RAID level 5 provides the best balance of capacity and performance while providing data redundancy. RAID 5 provides redundancy by striping data across three or more disks and keeping the parity information on one of the disks in each stripe. In case of disk failure, the surviving disks and the parity disk are used to reconstruct the lost data, providing data transparently to the user application.
Appendix B Input Field Format Domain or Workgroup Name A valid domain or workgroup name must conform to the following restrictions: • Name must consist only of characters a–z, A–Z, 0–9, and the symbols _ (underscore), (hyphen), and . (period). • Name must start with a letter. • Name length must be 15 characters or less. Host A valid IP address or a host name.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide • 192.168.2. • 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 • 192.168.2.0/24 Share Name • Name must consist only of characters a–z, A–Z, 0–9, and the symbols - (hyphen) and . (period). • Name cannot be an existing user name. • Name cannot end in -snap. • Name cannot be any one of the following reserved names: bin boot cdrom dev etc floppy frontview home initrd lib lost+found mnt opt proc root sbin tmp usr var admin administrator images language quota.user quota.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS User Guide User Password • The password can be any character except for ' (single quote). Input Field Format B-3 v1.
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Appendix C Glossary AFP AppleTalk Filing Protocol\ is the standard way Mac OS 9 and earlier versions share files across the network. CIFS Common Internet File System, a standard protocol that Windows users use to share files across the network. Mac OS X also has the capability to share files using CIFS. FTP File Transfer Protocol, a common protocol adopted by many OS to enable remote file download and upload for public sharing.
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Index Numerics setting contacts 1-53 1100 configuring RAID 3-7 replacing disk 3-4 system module removal 3-11 Apple File Protocol. See AFP. 1100 backup USB 3-10 B 600/X6 replacing disk 3-5 A accessing shares FTP/FTPS 2-11 Linux/Unix 2-7 MAC OS X 2-2 over MAC OS 9 2-6 Rsync 2-12 Web browser 2-8 Windows 2-1 account preferernces settings 1-17 active directory server. See ADS.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 3.01 Administration Manual D Default Gateway 1-5 Deleting a Volume Flex-RAID 1-23 DHCP 1-7 enabling/disabiling 1-7 settings 1-2 Digital Living Network. See DLNA.
NETGEAR ReadyNAS RAIDiator 3.01 Administration Manual configuring RAID 3-7 replacing disk 3-3 setting 1-3 static, setting 1-3 iTunes Streaming Server 1-20 J jumbo frames performance settings 1-4 NV+ backup USB 3-10 O Organization Unit. See OU.
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