MGB100 Portable Wireless AP Storage (for 2.5” HDD use) USER MANUAL Ver. 1.
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Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction.................................................................................... 5 1.1 Overview........................................................................................... 5 1.2 Features ........................................................................................... 6 1.3 System Requirements ...................................................................... 7 1.4 Package List .........................................................
Chapter 5: ADVANCED FUNCTIONS .......................................................... 58 5.1 Config Backup ................................................................................ 58 5.2 Reset to Default.............................................................................. 58 5.3 Reboot ............................................................................................ 58 5.4 F/W Upgrade ..................................................................................
C Ch haap ptteerr 11:: IIn nttrro od du uccttiio on n Congratulations on your purchase of this outstanding Storage device. 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.
music and video files easily. Besides, the click-and-copying of files from a flash drive to the MGB100 hard disk make the user backup files efficiently. 1.2 Features Basic functions z Ultra DMA 133 IDE controller to adapt for 2.5-inch hard disk drive. z Network File Storage and File Sharing via the Network Neighborhood (or My Network Places) in Windows or Samba in Linux. z Support FAT, FAT32, Ext2 files system and can read NTFS file system.
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 to button: Offer the Button to Copy folders and files form USB device to 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.
02.11b(11Mbps) for wireless connection. z TCP/IP and NetBIOS network protocol installed. z Internet Browser installed. The MGB100 requires an external 5V, 3A power supply which is included in the MGB100 package. For safe operation, please use only the power adapter provided by MGB100. 1.4 Package List The MGB100 package contains the following items: z MGB100 x 1 z 2.
1.5 Hardware Ports and Buttons Ports Description Power 5V/3A Power inlet USB1 / USB2 The ports where you can connect to any USB storage. LAN Automatically MDI/MDIX LAN port can sense the cable type when connecting to Ethernet-enabled computer, network of hub, switch or router Buttons Description Shutdown Press the button for 4 seconds to shut down the whole system before power-off. Backup Press the button over 4 seconds to copy data from USB device to HDD.
1.6 LED Indicators USB 1 Power USB 2 LAN Backup WLAN HDD HDD Status LED Off On PWR Power off Power on LAN No device Linked WLAN No packet On Transmitting HDD Not in use HDD read/write USB1 / USB2 No device USB drive ready Backup Blinking In use Backup files from USB to HDD HDD Status No HDD HDD full or error More blinking quickly, fewer available HDD capacity.
C Ch haap ptteerr 22:: G Geettttiin ng gS Sttaarrtteed d 2.1 Hard Disk installation Follow the steps below to insert the 2.5-inch hard disk and assemble the device before using the MGB100. Warning: The MGB100 is not hot-swappable. Please make sure that it is turned off and not connected to the power outlet when performing the following assembly procedure. Step 1: Use one hand to hold on the MGB100, and the other hand to open the upper cover carefully.
Step 2: Remove the upper cover Step 3: Insert the 2.5-inch hard drive into the slot. Make sure the hard drive connecting pins and the connectors are properly aligned.
Step 4: Put the upper cover back and assemble the cover tightly. Step 5: Fasten the screw to make sure the hard drive would not loosen.
2.2 Making Connections In order to access the MGB100 as the network storage drive or as an AP, you may need to configure the TCP/IP settings correctly. Either the “Wired Ethernet settings” or “Wireless Connection” can be used to connect the MGB100 easily. 2.2.1 Check TCP/IP Settings MGB100 will detect automatically if the DHCP server is existed, it will get a IP address form DHCP server. If there is no DHCP server, MGB100 will assign a random IP to client and you can get some information as below shown.
Method 1: Use Configure.exe to Setup Then, please use the configure.exe to “Query” and you will see the status page and input “admin” to start.
If there is a DHCP server in the network, MGB100 will be as the client and get one IP address form DHCP server. Please use utility “configure” to Query to start. For example, the network subnet is 192.168.122.x and MGB100 will get a 192.168.122.171 form the DHCP server.
Method 2: Use “My Network Places” to Search and Setup First, go to My Network Places and search “Computer name”. Input “MGB100” and start to search and you will find one device.
Click “samba server” and you will see two folders. Then click the folder “Configure”. Please click “Configure.html” directly to see configuration page.
In addition, the user can allocate the IP by himself as below: Step 1: Find the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties from the My Network Places and check the Properties of Local Area Network Connection. And click the “General” icon 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. Then click “OK” button to complete TCP/IP setup.
Step 3: Type the “ipconfig” and press the “Enter”. Then the following message should be found. Check the IP address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway addresses are same as previous setting. If same, you are successful to set up the network configuration.
Step 2: Choose the “Properties” of Local Area 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. About other operating systems, such as Linux X-window or Mac OS. Please use Browser to configure.
2.2.2 Wireless Connection: Follow the steps below to connect the MGB100 in a wireless environment. Step 1: Enabling the WLAN card first, and check the Wireless Network Connection properties from My Network Places. Step 2: Select the Wireless Networks icon after entering the “Wireless Network Connection Properties”. You will find the MGB100 in the Available networks, then select the MGB100, and click Configure to connect.
Step 3: Open the DOS command from the Start Menu->Run. Type “cmd” in the Open folder, then click OK to enter the DOS environment. Step 4: type the “ipconfig” and press the “Enter” in the DOS environment. Then the following message should be found. Check the IP address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway address are same as previous settings. If same, you are successful to set up the network configuration.
2.3 File sharing The MGB100 can be a shared network hard drive in an existing wireless or wired network environment. The users in the same network area can read or write data from the device as required. The following various steps are for users to start using the network hard drive. 2.3.1 Accessing the network hard drive via my network places Select the “My Network Places” and type the address of “\\mgb100” and press “Enter”, then you will find the Storage icon.
2.3.2 Searching the computers Open “My Computer” on the desktop menu, and use the “Search” function to search the computer of “mgb100” as below: 2.3.3 Search the “Entire Network” Manually Open Windows Explorer, and then click the My Network Places icon. Double click the Entire Network to view the components of the network. Select and click the Microsoft Windows Network icon, then the various network components showed in the list.
2.3.4 Accessing Files via FTP MGB100 offers FTP service for the clients which don’t support Microsoft Windows File sharing. You can use any FTP client utility to connect to MGB100 with anonymous username and password (username: ftp, and without password) when the permission setting is set to “Guest Only”. But if you change to “Authorization users” mode, the accessing permission is limited, and then users have to input specified username/password to access any permitted folders.
C Ch haap ptteerr 33:: M Maakkiin ng gC Co on nffiig gu urraattiio on n The MGB100 can be configured various settings through the Configuration Tool. Even you don’t know which IP is being used by MGB100, the Configuration Tool will help you to find it. All you have to do is click the “Query” button of the Configuration Tool.
When you enter the configuration mode, you are requested to provide the “System Password” to activate the configurations. The default authorization password is “admin”. After login, you could see these buttons: Press “Wizard” if you want to do basic settings with simpler way. (Please check chapter 3.1) Press “General” if you want to make some advanced settings. (Please check each item from chapter 3.2) Press “Log out” if you don’t want to do anything.
3.1 Wizard With wizard setting steps, you could configure MGB100 in a very simple way. Press button Next to start configuration.
Step 0: Select Language Step 1: You have to choose the DHCP option, default setting is Auto.
If you use Server/Auto/Static mode, you need to set some TCP/IP settings for MGB100. If you are not sure these values, ask your MIS or ISP. Step 2: You have to choose the Wireless mode, default setting is AP Only Mode.
If you choose to use AP Only Mode, in next page, you could specify the SSID and the wireless channel number for MGB100. If you select the Wireless Client Mode, in next page, you would have to specify the AP that you want MGB100 to connect to.
You have two ways to do this job. One is searching the AP that MGB100 could get. In this page, you could select the AP you want MGB100 to connect with.
The other way to add an AP is adding the SSID manually. Step 3: You have two ways to set time for MGB100. You could sync time with your PC, or set time manually.
Step 4: If you use a whole new hard disk, please select “Yes”. If you already have data in this hard disk, you might want to select “No”. This option would format your hard disk to one partition if you select “Yes”. To confirm your decision, MGB100 would ask you one more time.
Step 5: Check your settings again before saving. Click “Discard Settings” and you could return the first page. If you want to change any setting, please click “Previous” button. If everything is okay, click “Save Settings”. If you need to format disk, please wait the progressing bar become 100%. After all done, system would 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 IP Settings: default machine IP is 192.168.123.254. This IP address must be unique to your network. You can change if necessary. This setting is only used for DHCP server mode, and Static IP mode.
option to receive an automatic IP address and subnet mask assignment. 9 Server: The MGB100 will be a DHCP server on the network. 9 Auto: Select this option to let MGB100 send out a DCHP request during boot up. If you have a DHCP server on the network, the MGB100 will receive an automatic IP address and subnet mask assignment. If no DHCP server on the network, the MGB100 will be a DHCP server on the network. 9 Static: You can manually configure the IP address and subnet mask.
3.2.2 Wireless Setting Select the Wireless option in the configuration mode. Followings information will let you know the current wireless operation status. z Wireless: you can select “Enable” or “Disable” the wireless function. z Status: to show the current wireless mode you are using. z Wireless mode description: to describe the each wireless mode’s major function. z Wireless modes selection: MGB100 provides four wireless modes to select.
Choose the wireless mode you need and click “Go” to set up detail functions. 3.2.2.
AP setting: 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 “MGB100”. NOTE: Please DO NOT set the same SSID with your current wireless network. z Channel: The radio channel number. The default channel is “6”. NOTE: Please DO NOT set the same Channel with your current wireless network.
the authentication method for various encryption schemes for the selected AP. z Open or shared WEP Encryption: Select “64” or “128” bits in the pull-down menu for encryption method to protect your data by encrypting it. The WEP key can be 5~13 ASII characters or 10~26 hexadecimal characters based on whether you select 64 bit or 128 bit WEP encryption. z 802.1X: IEEE802.1x authentication can be done by using an external RADIUS server. Please input the IP address of RADIUS server and Shared Secret.
Please input the IP address of RADIUS and Shared Secret. Please refer to FAQ in Chapter 7 to get more detailed information.
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.
for DTIM interval is set to 3. z Preamble Type: The Preamble Type defines the length of the CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) block for communication between the Access Point and roaming wireless adapters. z SSID Broadcast: Enable or Disable a SSID broadcast. When enabled, the SSID of MGB100 is sent to wireless enabled devices on the LAN. Press “Next” button, you could see the Wireless MAC Filtering setting. The default setting is “Disable Mac filtering”, every wireless client could connect to this AP.
the MAC addresses you enter bellow will be accepted to connect to this AP, the others will be rejected. When you select “ALL Reject”, the wireless clients with the MAC addresses you enter bellow will be rejected to connect to this AP, the others will be accepted. After press “Save” button, MGB100 would show you this page about the wireless settings you have done.
3.2.2.2 Wireless client mode Select the “Wireless client mode” and click “Go” to set up under the Wireless client mode. After entering the Wireless client mode setting, click the AP List icon to set up the AP connecting list.
Click the “Scan AP” to scan the existing AP list. Select the AP you want to connect and click “Add” to set up the AP list. Select the AP you want to connect and click “Add” to set up the AP list. Click “Mod” to specify the AP information. After clicking the “Mod” button, you will find the following information and modify it depending on your actual wireless environment; this should be done necessarily when you are in the secured wireless network with WEP.
Click the “Next” for advanced setting, or click “Save” or “Undo” for your need.
For the meanings of above items, please refer to “Advanced setting”. After saving the values of client mode, you have to go back the “Wireless Client mode Basic Setting” page and click “Save” on the top of the page. Then you could check the settings that you have done. 3.2.2.3 WDS Hybrid mode Select the “WDS Hybrid mode” and click “Go” to set up After entering the WDS Hybrid mode setting, click the AP List icon to set up the AP connecting list. Then click the “AP Setting” icon and set up the AP.
NOTE: You MUST use the same channel with the AP you want to bridge. In this example, we set the channel to 10. Click the Advanced Setting icon, and you could set more values. About the meanings of these please refer to 3.2.2.1.
Go back to Basic Setting, and click “Save”. If everything goes fine, you could see the confirm page, and let you know configurations have been saved.
3.2.2.4 WDS only mode Select the “WDS only mode” and click “Go” to set up. After entering the WDS only mode setting, click the AP List icon to set up the AP connecting list, or add it manually.
NOTE: In WDS only mode, each AP that bridged together MUST use the same channel. After all, click “Save” to make it work. NOTE: Each WDS device MUST set the others’ MAC addresses, or the WDS mode would be failed.
C Ch haap ptteerr 44:: D Diisskk M Maan naag geem meen ntt In this section, you will know how to use the “Disk Management” tools to configure the hard disk setting. 4.1 Disk Utility Before using the hard disk, users need to format this hard disk first. Click “Format” button, and the MGB100 will start to format the hard disk automatically. Once finishing the format, the MGB100 will reboot automatically, and please reconnect the network in 30 seconds. The Hard disk will be formatted as “ext2” file system.
Advanced Function In the advanced function, two more options will be shown: The first option is used for disk checking. If you power off MGB100 before normally shut down the system, you are recommended to do this. With second option, you could partition your hard disk to the size you want. Total Disk Capacity: to indicate the total capacity of the hard disk. This page shows the partitions of internal hard disk, you could format/check one of them.
Change the partition capacity: this tool can make you create up to four partitions. Specify the size of the partitions in megabytes and click the “Apply” to apply the new settings. When you click “Apply”, system would alert this message to confirm if you really want to do the format action. Warnings: Any data in the hard disk will be lost after creating the new partitions. The hard disk is formatted to EXT2 file system. It can not be connected directly to a Microsoft Windows system without reformatting.
C Ch haap ptteerr 55:: A AD DV VA AN NC CE ED DF FU UN NC CT TIIO ON NS S Click the Advanced Functions option on the left panel to display its submenus. The Advanced Functions menus enable you to configure the various system settings. Refer to the following sections for more details. 5.1 Config Backup This option enables you to back up your settings. Once you want to restore these settings, please click the F/W Upgrade option and use the bin file you saved. 5.
C Ch haap ptteerr 66:: M MIIS SC C 6.1 Administrator Timeout If users login, and idles for a period of time (e.g. 600 seconds), then that user will be logged out automatically.
6.2 Change Password To change the password, you have to enter the old password and confirm the new password twice.
6.3 System Time The System Time provides two options for you to select. 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.
C Ch haap ptteerr 77:: T Trro ou ub bllee S Sh ho oo ottiin ng gss What can I do when I have some trouble in the first time? 1. How do I make the client to connect the MGB100? A: Please prepare for one RJ45 cable and connect the LAN port directly. MGB100 already supports MDI/MDIX. 2. How to “Reset to default”? A: Press the buttons of “Shutdown” and “Backup” simultaneously over 6 seconds to reset the system to the factory default setting. 3.
5. I can not save the file which size is large than 2GB. A: Please check the file system of your HDD. If it is FAT or FAT32. This problem is existed. Suggestion: To convert to ext2. 6. I can’t access the shared folder with 98/Me. A: If you use Windows 98/Me, and want to access the authorized folder, you MUST have the same account and password in MGB100 and your computer. 7. Why do I see the wrong name of file during the setting or in the my network place? A: Please select the language as you need.
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 common function is “AP mode”. The user can make this device as Wireless AP device as follows: First, the wireless client sets up the same SSID with MGB100 and get IP from Router. Then Wireless client can associate the network or roam Internet via Router.
Wireless Client Mode: First, please configure the wireless setting of MGB100 via wire. Then use Scan AP of AP-List and join it. Plug up the cable form MGB100. The client from LAN can use “Configure” utility to Query. WDS only mode: WDSÆWireless Distribution system. This device also supports this function.
below Figure1 is for the reference. First, check which channel you want to use. For example, channel 10. Scan other AP which channel is 10 and supports WDS function. Second, add the wireless MAC address of MGB100 in this Wireless Router # 2. (Figure2). And use Scan AP to find the wireless which SSID is “WR-2” and join it in the list. Third, if it is normal, LAN-Host#1 can find the devices, like Wireless Router #2 and LAN-Host#2.
Figure2: WDS Hybrid mode: This device also supports WDS and AP mode at the same time. How to configure this in your circumstance? The below figure is for the reference.
For the setting of WDS, 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.
Pack 3 and HotFix Q313664. Note. Windows 2000 RADIUS server only supports PEAP after upgrade to service pack 3 and HotFix Q313664 (You can get more information from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;313664) DUT Configuration: 1. Enable DHCP server. 2. WAN setting: static IP address. 3. LAN IP address: 192.168.123.254/24. 4. Set RADIUS server IP. 5. Set RADIUS server shared key. 6. Configure WEP key and 802.1X setting. The following test will use the inbuilt 802.
9 Enter the RADIUS server IP. 9 Enter the shared key. (The key shared by the RADIUS server and DUT). 9 We will change 802.1X encryption key length to fit the variable test condition. 3. Setup Network adapter on PC 9 Choose the IEEE 802.1X as the authentication method. (Figure 2) Note. Figure 2 is a setting picture of Windows XP without service pack 1.
Figure 2: Enable IEEE 802.
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 4) 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. The DUT will send the user's certificate to the RADIUS server, and then send the message of authentication result to PC1.
Figure 4: Certificate information on PC1 Figure 5: Authenticating 73
Figure 6: Authentication success DUT authenticate PC2 using PEAP-TLS. 1. PC2 choose the SSID of DUT as the Access Point. 2. Set authentication type 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.
Problems of security level 1. Why can’t I access the file from my places after enabling Security Level? A: Sometimes, I can not access the folders via my places after enabling Security Level, like below: If the user sees the warning message, please restart windows and try it again.
Situation 1: The users can access the files or folders before MGB100 is not enabled “security Level”. But when MGB100 is enabled it, the authorization users can not login by inputting the account and password. Please restart your window OS and It can be accessed. Situation 2: Change the account and password of MGB100. In brief, the users have some Limit authority to access the folders, but if someone changes account and password this time, other authorization users can not access at all.
Create two folders. One is “read”, and the other is “write”. The authority is as follows: Then click the User Access Configuration and save “Security Level”.
Use search MGB100 hostname, if you can not access the directory “Storage”. Then you will find the MGB100 and will find some folders, like read, write and Storage.
If you are a guest and you just can copy the files in the folder ”read” and copy, move and delete the files or folders in the folder ”write”. ※But if you are an Authorization user. Anyway you directly click the folders “read and write”. However, you just have the same limits of authority with guests. Please login the folder “Storage” to begin. This product also defines two user-level(Guest and Authorization users) to share files by ftp service. The configuration is the same with above.
FCC RF Radiation Exposure Statement 1. The antenna(s) used for this transmitter must be installed to provide a separation distance of at least 20 cm from all persons and must not be co-located or operating in conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter. 2. Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user authority to operate the equipment.
