Gigabit Ethernet Hard Drive User Guide
Contents Introduction.................................................................................... 2 Controls, Connectors and Indicators.................................................. 2 Front Panel Area. .............................................................................. 2 Rear Panel Area. ............................................................................... 3 About the Hard Disk...........................................................................
Browse My Computer.................................................................... 19 Sharing Files Using Mac OS X. ........................................................ 19 Attaching USB Devices.................................................................... 20 Attaching A Printer......................................................................... 20 Attaching A USB Storage Device.................................................... 21 NAS Administration Reference...........................
iTunes Server............................................................................................33 Media Server............................................................................................33 TorrentFlux................................................................................................35 Maintenance...............................................................................................37 Disk Utility.................................................................
Introduction Your Verbatim Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive is a versatile external hard drive featuring high-performance storage with an Ethernet interface. Once your drive is connected properly to your network, you will be able to use it as you would any hard drive for storing your data and for performing data back-up functions. Before you begin to use the NAS drive there are a few important things to learn about your new product.
now fully turned off. Rear Panel Area Along the rear panel you will find the interface connectors and a recessed micro-switch that is used for reset functions. Refer to the figure below. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. ON/OFF Button. Once the AC Adapter has been properly connected to the NAS drive and an AC outlet, you can press the ON/OFF button to power on the drive. To turn off the drive, press the ON/OFF button again. The LED will flash for about 15 seconds while the drive shuts down as described above. 2.
5. Reset Button. If the NAS drive is having a problem connecting to the local area network (LAN) or appears to be hung, press the reset button momentarily using the end of a paper clip. This will cause the unit to reset, similar to rebooting your PC. If the problem persists, or if you are unsure of current settings (such as forgetting your administration password), press and hold in the Reset button for 5 seconds. This will restore the factory default settings. 6. Fan.
Locating NAS Drive on Your Desk Place the NAS drive on a sturdy desk or table that is free from clutter that could block airflow around the unit. Bundled Software The included CD-ROM contains copies of the User Guide, as well as three software applications: 1) Finder.exe, 2) Nero backup software and 3) TorrentFlux. Finder.exe This is a Windows application that can locate all Verbatim NAS drives on your LAN and display the corresponding IP address of each drive. To run this application, copy the Finder.
Power up your router (or Ethernet switch) first, and then power up the NAS drive. The figure below provides one example of a typical LAN configuration. Computer 2 Computer 1 Router To Internet via Cable Modem Verbatim Gigabit Ethernet Hard Drive Before attempting to establish a connection to the network it would be useful first to review some background information about how the NAS drive handles data over the network.
About NAS Drive User Accounts The NAS drive keeps track of data stored by its network users by managing the data’s destination folder (also referred to herein as a “shared folder” or simply a “share”). Furthermore, the NAS drive must keep track of who may read from, and write to, each folder. It does this by setting up user accounts and groups. A group is a collection of specific user accounts.
• The folder “guest-share” can be accessed by anyone on the LAN, even if they have not set up a user account. Access to this folder does not require entering a user name and password. This folder can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. • The group @guest-share contains two members, which are user “admin” and user “guest-share”. • The folder “admin” is a private folder for user “admin”. This means only user “admin” can access this folder.
domain (e.g., 192.168.1.x). 5. Connect the included AC Adapter to the NAS drive, and then to a wall outlet. 6. Press the ON/OFF button on the rear of the NAS drive. The front green LED will come on to indicate that the unit is now powered on. 7. Wait for the NAS drive to boot up and to auto-configure its connection on the network. Depending on your particular LAN configuration and settings, this may take several minutes.
8. After successfully connecting to your network you will be able to see the NAS drive on your network. Its default name is “verbatimnas” and it will be located in the network workgroup named “Workgroup”. In Windows go to My Network Places/ Entire Network / Microsoft Windows Network / Workgroup, or in Mac OS X go to Finder / Network / Workgroup. You can open the device to see the following default folders: a. admin b. guest-share c.
assigns addresses automatically, your router’s manual will describe how to determine your drive’s IP address. Alternatively, you can find your drive’s IP address using the included Finder.exe utility as described above.
Set Language, Password, Hostname, IP Address, and Time A special setup wizard will lead you through the configurations for user interface language, administrator password, hostname, IP address, and time. 2. Select Wizard. 3. 4. 5. 6. Select your language preference from the pull-down menu. The selection “set from browser options” will automatically set the administrator language to the current browser language setting.
7. 8. Press Next to continue. The next screen allows you to manually set the date and time, or to use an available Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. It is useful to set the correct date and time because time stamps are used in the various status logs that are described later in this manual. After filling in your selections, press Next. The settings made in the previous steps are summarized on this screen for your review.
be a maximum of 20 alphanumeric characters, without spaces. The User Name must begin with an alphabetic character. Note: If your Windows username currently contains a space character, or begins with a number, you may want to modify your Windows username slightly so that it can follow the same format required by the NAS drive. For Mac OS X user accounts, your username is automatically saved without spaces as a field called “Short Name”.
defined shares. Of course, if you checked “Create Private Folder” in step (9), then read/write access has automatically been provided to this user’s private folder. Though the initial factory setting provides for three default shares (admin, guest share, and public), only “public” is available for selection for access to new user accounts. When done with this form, press Complete. Add New Group 12. Next you may optionally setup a new group.
read/write access. When done with this form, press Complete. Add New Shared Folder 15. The final procedure for Quick Setup allows you to optionally setup a new share. If you do not want to set up a share at this time, you may exit the administration tool as described in Step 18. Begin share setup by selecting the Quick Setup / Add Share button. 16. Fill in the initial screen with a name for your new share.
CIFS. You can assign read-write access for all users and groups by checking the box marked “Allow for all”. Alternatively, you can assign no access, read-only access, or read-write access privileges individually for each user and group. Note that group names in the list provided are denoted with the “@” character as the first character in the name. When done with this form, press Next to continue with assignment of NFS access privileges. 17. 18.
• Copy and paste data to NAS drive • Make and delete folders • Share files and folders • Back-up your data How you access the drive will depend on your computer’s operating system. A brief overview for accessing files for both Windows and Mac OS X is provided next. You should consult your computer’s documentation for more detailed explanations of file sharing using your specific operating system.
Places. Browse to Workgroup to find the NAS drive shared folders. Search Dialogue Select Start in the system tray and select Search. Use the Search dialogue to search for Computers. For the computer name to search for enter “verbatimnas” and then press Search Now to find the connected NAS drive. Double-click the NAS drive entry to connect and view its shared folders. Browse My Computer Open My Computer and double-click on My Network Places. Browse to Workgroup to find the NAS drive share folders.
Attaching USB Devices Your NAS drive contains two USB-A ports on the rear panel. A USB-A port can be used to attach either a USB printer or a USB storage device, such as a flash disk. This section describes how to install and use these USB devices while the NAS drive is connected to your LAN. Attaching a Printer Once your USB printer is attached and installed to the connected NAS drive, you can send print jobs to this printer from any user account.
list, you can alternatively insert the driver CD-ROM from your printer manufacturer and follow the dialogue for installing a driver from CD. 7. You can verify that the verbatimnas printer has been installed by going to Advanced/ Printers and Faxes. Under Printers and Faxes you will see the verbatimnas printer icon. Now your printer is ready to accept print jobs like any other printer on your system.
Now press the Format button. You will be prompted to confirm. Press YES to continue. After successfully reformatting your device, you can logout of the administration tool and again look for the device in your file browser. Now you can drag and drop files to your USB storage device like any other storage device on your system. Access to the attached USB storage device is not password protected.
BASIC Quick Setup Wizard Add User Add Group Add Share ADVANCED Users and Groups User Management Group Management File and Print File Server Share Management Print Server System LAN Settings Time Settings Turn Off Server Information Disk Usage Error Notification Network Service DHCP Server Bonjour TorrentFlux Media Server Maintenance
Because the Basic / Quick Setup functions (Wizard, Add User, Add Group, and Add Share) have been described previously under “Basic Settings for Initial Setup”, we begin this reference section with a description of the Advanced group of functions. Users and Groups This group of settings provides an alternate way to create a new user account or new group, and also provides a method to modify properties of existing user accounts or groups.
the left. The list of groups in the right box includes groups for which the user is not a member. By selecting group names and pressing either the Add or Remove button you can reassign the user to various existing groups. When done with your assignments, press Save to save your changes. Note that if you are using the User Management dialogue to create a new user, there may be other properties that you want to set for this user.
The Members screen presents a list of the selected group’s assigned members in the box on the left. The users listed in the right box are not currently members of the group. By selecting user names and pressing either the Add or Remove button you can reassign various users to the group. When done with your assignments, press Save to save your changes. Note that if you are using the Group Management dialogue to create a new group, there may be other properties that you want to set for this group.
description. If a WINS server is available, you may optionally fill in its IP address. FTP Server Setting You can enable or disable the FTP server support. If enabled, you can enter the port number you will use for FTP (default is port 21). Once FTP is enabled, you can remotely login to the NAS drive via FTP using your username and password. You will then have FTP access to those folders for which you have access privileges.
Guest Access Setting When Guess Access is enabled, anyone on the LAN can access the “guest-share” folder, even if they have not set up a user account. Here you can also optionally set a storage quota (in megabytes), provided that the disk has not been formatted to FAT32, which does not support the quota function. Also, when Guest Access is enabled, you can access the guest-share folder via FTP by logging into FTP anonymously. When Guess Access is disabled, anonymous FTP is not permitted.
button. To assign NFS access privileges, press the NFS Access button. Using the screen for SMB/CIFS Access (Windows, FTP Access) you can assign read-write access for all users and groups by checking the box marked “Allow for all”. Alternatively, you can assign no access, read-only access, or read-write access privileges individually for each user and group. When done with this form, press Save to save your changes.
Address automatically”. With these selections enabled, the NAS drive will act as a DHCP client and attempt to retrieve its IP Address and its DNS Server Address from the DHCP server active on your LAN. Under some LAN environments you will need to enter fixed addresses in the form provided. The bottom of this screen displays the Media Access Control (MAC) address of the product. When done with this form, press Save to save your settings.
Disk Usage Basic information about your hard disk, such as total and free space, can be displayed by selecting Advanced / System / Disk Usage. If you have a USB storage device connected to one of your USB-A ports as described previously under “Attaching a USB Storage Device”, then you will also see information about this device on the screen. Error Notification The NAS drive features a range of features to monitor product status and to report errors.
addresses for these e-mail notices. Pop-Up Notification In addition to e-mail notification, the product has the capability to use the Windows Messenger service to display a pop-up message on your computer screen. To enable this feature, check the box marked “Enable” and fill in the form provided with the hostnames of up to five (5) computers that will receive these pop-up notices.
If your LAN contains some equipment with fixed IP addresses that you would like the server to avoid when issuing new addresses, you can define these static IP addresses and MAC addresses on the screen accessed by pressing the Static IP button at the bottom of the page. Be sure and save any changes you would like to make when entering static IP addresses. After the DHCP Server has been running on your LAN, you can periodically check back to this screen and review the addresses that have been issued.
/ Network Service / Media Server. The factory default setting is disabled. Press Save to save any change to this screen. Only the administrator can access this menu option. The ports used by the server include UDP ports 1030, 1900, 9080 and the first free TCP port above 9000. The server supports the following content formats in accordance with the corresponding DLNA 1.
Sharing Content Locations Rescan in x minutes Clients / Security Internet Radio Advanced Setup External applications Naming Music Tree Photo Tree Video Tree Network Miscellaneous Support Maintenance FAQ For more information about the TwonkyMedia Server, refer to additional documentation on the CD-ROM. TorrentFlux TorrentFlux is an open-source implementation of the BitTorrent protocol, originally written by Bram Cohen.
Warning: Verbatim expressly does not encourage or condone the use of this software for illegal activities, such as downloading and/or sharing copyrighted content. The use of this software for illegal purposes can result in serious legal consequences for those who engage in it. Note that the destination folder for the torrent file is initially set to /mnt/ide1/public This protocol requires access to certain ports for proper operation.
Search for Torrents RSS Torrents Drive Space Server Stats / Who All Directory List My Directory Directory History My Profile Specify user Password Theme Language Cookie management Messages Admin Settings Queue Search Settings Activity Links RSS New User Initiate Backup For further information, refer to the TorrentFlux web site at www.torrentflux.com .
Disk Utility Enter this screen by selecting Advanced / Maintenance / Disk Utility. You will be presented with a table that lists the status of all detected storage devices. The first device listed (“/dev/hda/”) will be the main data partition of the NAS hard drive. If you have another storage device attached to one of the USB-A ports, its status will be displayed on the next row of the table.
the encryption/unencryption process results in slower performance. Transfer rates for encryption may reach only 20-30% of what you will achieve using an unencrypted drive. The factory default format is un-encrypted. Regarding auxiliary storage devices attached to either of your USB-A ports, you may find that you need to reformat your attached device to FAT32 using Disk Utility before your device will mount properly using the NAS drive.
Enter this screen by selecting Advanced / Maintenance / Firmware Upgrade. Make a note of your current version number, which is displayed at the top of this screen. Then visit Verbatim’s Technical Support web site (refer to the Getting Help section later in this manual) to check if a more recent version is available. If so, follow the download instructions provided on the site.
This means that the application programs are saved in the controller’s internal Flash memory. However, some network services and functions can be installed from your PC or from the supplied CD-ROM. This method allows for features to be added in the future, and also allows for a very large application to run from a protected partition of the NAS hard drive even when there is not sufficient space in the internal Flash memory.
Log File / Samba Log. FTP Log To view the log of events that have occurred during FTP file transfers, select Advanced / Log File / FTP Log. DHCP Server Log To view the log of events that have been recorded by the NAS drive’s DHCP Server, select Advanced / Log File / DHCP Server Log. System Log To view the log of events that have recorded by the system monitor, select Advanced / Log File / System Log.
tion tool, you can press the Logout button to end your session. Getting Help If you are experiencing difficulty installing or using your Verbatim product, please visit the main Technical Support website at www.verbatim.com/support.
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