Thecus N4100PRO Manuel d'utilisateur

Thecus N4100PRO FW v3.00.05 User’s Manual

z Screw Kit & Key-Luck x1 z HDD Compatibility list Card x1 z Multiple Languages Warranty Card x1 Please check to see

Creating Albums To create a photo album, follow the steps below: 1. Click the Add button to create a new album. 2. Enter a name for the album, and

Slide Shows Slide shows are a great way to enjoy pictures stored on your N4100PRO. You can click on the Start Slide Show icon on the top right hand

1. Choose Go > Connect to Server… 2. Enter the network address for the server in the Server Address text box. When connecting using SMB/CIFS pro

3. You will now install the iSCSI Initiator using the Setup Wizard. Click Next to continue. 4. Leave the default selections and click Next. 5.

7. Start the iSCSI Initiator by double-clicking its icon on the desktop. The iSCSI Initiator properties window will appear. 8. elect the Discovery

11. If you have not enabled CHAP, click OK to continue. If you have enabled CHAP, click Advanced. Under Advanced Settings, check the CHAP login infor

13. Click on Disk Management and you will see a new hard disk listed. 4. Initialize the new hard disk and you will then be able to use the iSCSI ta

Chapter 6: Tips and Tricks SB Storage Expansion he N4100PRO supports external USB hard disks through its three USB ports. Once USB hard disk has bee

Replacing Damaged Hard Drives If you are using RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10, you can easily replace a damaged hard drive in the Thecus N4100PRO

Chapter 7: Troubleshooting orgot My Network IP Address you forget your network IP address and have no physical access to the system, ou can find out

Front Panel The N4100PRO’s front panel displays the unit’s array of status LED’s and is also where you’ll find the power buttons. See the table below

4. Set the Date, Time, and Time Zone. addition, if the N4100PRO is able to access the Internet and you want to keep the TP Server clock.isc.org by d

Chapter 8: Revision updated (FW 3.00.03 to 3.00.05) What’s New There are additional features implemented into the new 3.00.04 version firmware. RAI

iSCSI Thin-Provisioning An advanced thin-provisioning for iSCSI feature is available in this firmware release. With this function, the iSCSI capacit

Now you can start to create iSCSI targets to join the newly-created iSCSI thin-provision volume. Basically, the iSCSI target under iSCSI thin-provisi

The screen shot for iSCSI target volume creation under thin-provisioning; the physical capacity 333.8GB. The screen shot to setup an iSCSI target

This screenshot lists iSCSI target volumes created under thin-provisioning. The 2nd iSCSI target volume under thin-provisioning has been created with

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Appendix A: Product Specifications Hardware Specifications Product Model N4100PRO Core Processors / Memory Processor AMD LX800 500Mhz Memory 256MB

RAID expansion Folder Management Share folder level permission Public folder Quota Management Share folder quota control Backup Thecus Backup Utili

Appendix B: Customer Support If your N4100PRO is not working properly, we encourage you to check out Chapter 7: Troubleshooting, located in this manua

Item Description Lock • The tray lock lets you physically secure the HDD with accessory keys. Latch • Use the latch to open and remove or close an

Appendix C: RAID Basics Overview A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is an array of several hard disks that provide data security and high p

RAID 5 RAID 5 offers data security and it is best suited for networks that perform many small I/O transactions at the same time, as well as applicatio

Disk Usage When all 7 disks are of the same size, and used in RAID, N4100PRO disk usage percentage is listed below: RAID Level Percentage Used RAID

Appendix D: Active Directory Basics Overview With Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced Active Directory (ADS), which is a large database/information sto

Appendix E: UPS Compatibility List Brand Series Model Notes Ablerex MS-RT ActivePower 1400VA AEC MiniGuard UPS 700 M2501 cable

Brand Series Model Notes Ares 700 and larger Fideltronik Other Ares models PowerRite MAX Fiskars PowerServer 10, 30 All model

Brand Series Model Notes Oneac EG/ON Series advanced interface Online P-Series OnLite AQUA 50 Orvaldi various not 400 or 600

o Safenet software o PhoenixTec protocol o Generic RUPS 2000 (Megatec M2501 cable) o Generic RUPS model o SEC protocol • If your UPS is not in the s

Appendix F: Licensing Information Overview This product included copyrighted third-party software licensed under the terms of GNU General Public Licen

CGIC License Terms Basic License CGIC, copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Thomas Boutell and Boutell.Com, Inc. Permis

Chapter 2: Hardware Installation Overview Your N4100PRO is designed for easy installation. To help you get started, the following chapter will help y

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Cable Connections Make the following connections on the Thecus N4100PRO and then power up the unit: 1. Connect an Ethernet cable from your network t

Chapter 3: First Time Setup Overview Once the hardware is installed, physically connected to your network, and powered on, you can configure the N41

4. Select the N4100PRO that you like to configure. 5. Login with the administrator account and password. The default account and password are both

8. Finished! Access the N4100PRO Web Administrator Interface by pressing the Start Browser button. You can also configure another N4100PRO at this

The following table illustrates the keys on the front control panel: LCD Controls Icon Function Description ▲ Up Button Select the previous config

Step 1: Network Setup From the Web Administration Interface, you can configure the network settings of the N4100PRO for your network. You can access t

Copyright and Trademark Notice Thecus and other names of Thecus products are registered trademarks of Thecus Technology Corp. Microsoft, Windows, and

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Chapter 4: System Administration Overview The N4100PRO provides an easily accessible Web Administration Interface. With it, you can configure and mo

Menu Bar Item Description System Information Current system status of the N4100PRO. System Management Various N4100PRO system settings and informat

Temperature. Green: Systematic temperature is normal. Red: Systematic temperature is unusual. Click to go to System Status page as short cut. Networ

Product Information Item Description Manufacturer Displays the name of the system manufacturer. Product No. Shows the model number of the system. F

See the following table for a detailed description of each item: System Logs Item Description All Provides all log information including system m

System Management The System Management menu gives you a wealth of settings that you can use to configure your N4100PRO’s system administration functi

Notification Configuration Item Description Beep Notification Enable or disable the system beeper that beeps when a problem occurs. Email Notificat

Follow the steps below to upgrade your firmware: 1. Use the Browse button to find the firmware file. 2. Press Apply. 3. The beeper beeps and

Shutdown the system when the battery charge is less than Amount of UPS battery remaining before system should auto-shutdown. Apply Press Apply to save

Safety Warnings For your safety, please read and follow the following safety warnings: Read this manual thoroughly before attempting to set up yo

System will turn off at 8:00 AM on Monday. System will turn off at 16:00 PM on Monday, if it was on. If the system was already off at 16:00 PM on Mond

New Password Type in a new administrator password. Confirm Password Type the new password again to confirm. Apply Press this to save your changes.

˙ Reboot & Shutdown Resetting to factory defaults will not erase the data stored in the hard disks, but WILL revert all the settings to the fa

on. Check the RAID volumes and click Next to proceed with the file system check. Click Reboot to reboot without running the check. Once you click Ne

The system must be renormally after file systebooted before the N4100PRO can function m check complete. NOTE System Network Use the System Netwo

WAN Configuration Item Description Host name Host name that identifies the N4100PRO on the network. Domain name Specifies the domain name of the N41

LAN Configuration Item Description MAC Address Displays the MAC address of the LAN interface. Jumbo Frame Support Enable or disable Jumbo Frame Su

Samba Service Used for letting the operating system of UNIX series and SMB/CIFS of Mi

Protocol. You can change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings. A description of each item follows: Apple Network Configuration

Apply Click Apply to save your changes. FTP N4100PRO can act as a FTP server, enabling users to download and upload files with their favorite FTP pr

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Media Server With the built-in Media Server capability, the N4100PRO provides media streaming service to stand-alone networked home media adapters tha

Connecting DMAs to the Media Server Next, it’s time to connect your Digital Media Adapter (DMA) to the media server: 1. Connect your DMA to your Med

NOTE • Disable HTTP support and Enable Secure HTTP susecure access. pport to guarantee UPnP This device supports UPnP Media server, which allows

Bonjour Setting Bonjour, is Apple Inc.'s trade name for its implementation of Zeroconf, a service discovery protocol. Bonjour locates devices suc

Firmware Shows the SATA hard disk firmware version. Status Indicates the status of the disk. Can read OK, Warning, or Failed. Bad Block scan Yes to

hidden in reallocated sectors. However, the more sectors that are reallocated, the more a decrease (up to 10% or more) can be noticed in disk read/wri

RAID Information Item Description ID ID of the current RAID volume. RAID Level Shows the current RAID configuration. Status Indicates status of

3. Specify a RAID ID. 4. Specify a stripe size — 64K is the default setting. 5. Specify the percentage allocated for user data by drag the hor

Building a RAID volumeand RAID mode. In gene“RAID Building” then th may take time, depending on the size of hard drives ral, while the RAID volum

Remove RAID Click to remove the RAID volume. All user data and iSCSI has been created in selected RAID volume will be removed. To remove a RAID

SystemLogs ...Time: SNotificaFirmwaUPS SeSchedulWake-UUtility..WAN CoLAN ...LAN ConDHCP SSamba Samba SFile AcceSamba RSamba AAFP (ApNFS SetMedia MSha

1. On the RAID List screen, select the RAID volume by clicking on its radio button, and click RAID Information to open the RAID Configuration screen

Migrating a RAID Once a RAID volume has been created, you may want to move it to other physical drives or change the RAID array all together. To mi

NOTE Migrating a RAID volume could take several hours to complete With RAID level migration function, it has two different type “On line” and “O

Below is a table listing of possible RAID migration schemes: To From RAID 0 RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 0 [OFFLINE] [RAID 0] HDDx2 to [RAID 0] HDDx3 [RAID

Allocating Space for iSCSI Volume To allocate space for an iSCSI volume on the current RAID volume, follow the steps below: 1. Under the Volume Al

Month Select the current month from the dropdown. Username Enter a username. Password Enter a password. Password Confirm Reenter the chosen passwo

2. Modify your setting. Press ok to change. Delete Volume To delete volume on the current RAID volume, follow the steps below: 1. Under the Volume

2. Press YES. All data in the volume will be removed. Advance Option There are 2 options is currently allow Admin to Enable/Disable to operate N4100PR

Adding Folders On the Folder screen, press the Add button and the Add Folder screen appears. This screen allows you to add a folder. After entering

Add Folder Item Description Folder Name Enter the name of the folder. Description Provide a description the folder. Browseable Enable or disable u

ADS/NTLocal UsAdd UseEdit UseRemoveLocal GAdd GroEdit GroRemoveBatch CPrinter WindowWindowNsync .Add NsySetting USetting UDesignaThecus WindowApple OW

setting will only apply while access via SMB/CIFS and web disk. Public Admit or deny public access to this folder. Share Limit Enter the maximum si

NFS Share Item Description Hostname Enter the name or IP address of the host Privilege Host has either read only or writeable access to the fold

Folder and sub-folders Access Control List (ACL) On the Folder screen, press the ACL button, and the ACL setting screen appears. This screen allows yo

3. Continue selecting groups and users and assigning them access levels using the column buttons. 4. To remove a group or user from an access level

The system will your search, entelist up to 1,000 users from the chosen category. To narrow r a search term in the blank provided. NOTE Stackable

Next, input the target IP address of the stackable device and click the Discovery button. The system will list available target volumes from the inpu

From the figure above, the Export share name is “pmmeeting”. The figures below show the result before and after via Microsoft Network Access with set

The Public setting will be set same as what the setting for the system share folder associated with the ACL permission setup. If Public is set to Yes

With this newly attached stack target device, you will see the information displayed and also several options you can choose. In general, if attach

ACL settings will be exactly the same as system folder that you may have setup previously. E. Reconnect a Stack Target The enabled stack target dev

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From the main menu, the ISO Mount feature is located under “Storage”. Please refer the figure below for reference. Select on the ISO mount function

To mount new ISO file, select from listed ISO file and input desired mounting name into “Mount as:” field. Click “ADD” with confirmation to complete

You could click “Unmount” to eliminate mounted ISO file. B. Using ISO The mounted ISO file will be located same share folder with name giving. Ple

A description of each item follows: ADS/NT Support Item Description Work Group / Domain Name Specifies the SMB/CIFS Work Group / ADS Domain Name (e

AD Domain Example Item Information Work Group / Domain Name domain ADS Support Enable ADS Server Name Computer1 ADS/NT Realm Domain.local Administ

2. On the Local User Setting screen, enter a name in the User Name box. 3. Enter a User ID number. If left blank, the system will automatically ass

Remove Users 1. Select an existing user from the Local User Configuration screen. 2. Click on Remove button and the user is deleted from the syst

Local Group Configuration Item Description Add Press the Add button to add a user to the list of local groups. Edit Press the Edit button to modify a

1. On the Local Group Configuration screen, select a group name from the list. 2. Press the Edit button to modify the members in a group. 3. To add

From the Accounts menu, click Batch Mgmt and the Batch Create Users and Groups dialogue will appear. To import your list of users and groups, follow t

Chapter 1: Introduction Overview Thank you for choosing the Thecus N4100PRO IP Storage Server. The Thecus N4100PRO is an easy-to-use storage server th

Printer Information Item Description Manufacturer Displays the name of the USB printer manufacturer. Model Displays the model of the USB printer. S

NOTE • Not all USB printers are supsupported printers. • Note that if a multi-funN4100PRO, usually onlfeatures, such as scannported. Please check

3. Select Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer. 4. Select The printer that I want isn’t listed. You can press The pr

Type http://<Thecus_NAS>:631/printers/usb-printer in the box, where <Thecus_NAS_IP> is the IP address of the N4100PRO. Click Next. 6. S

9. Done! Click Finish. iTunes® Server With the built-in iTunes server capability, the N4100PRO enables digital music to be shared and played a

Module Management Module Installation From the Module Management menu, choose the Module Installation item and the Module Management screen appears. F

Item Description Add Click to add a Nsync task Edit Click to Edit an Nsync task. Restore Restore share folder from an Nsync target. Del Click to d

Add Nsync Task Item Description Task Name The name of your Nsync task. Target Server Manufacturer Select whether the target is a Thecus Product (e.

1. On the Nsync server, add a user for Nsync source (ex. nsyncsource1). For instructions on how to add a user on the N4100PRO, see Chapter 4: User an

1. Click Add to create a Backup task. The Add New Task dialog box appears. Add New Task Item Description Task Specifies a name for the current task

Media Server With the built-in Media Server capability, the N4100PRO provides media streaming service to stand-alone networked home media adapters tha

5. Find and select the drive that specifies your N4100PRO as your backup destination and click Next. 6. Click Next to display the wizard’s final pa

Chapter 5: Using the N4100PRO Overview Once the N4100PRO is setup and operating, users on the network may manage all varieties of digital music, photo

6. To create a new folder within the current folder, press the New folder button. When the screen appears enter a name for the folder. Press OK to cr

(Admin) Change password and confirm new password. (logout) To logout of the web disk interface. Show the files and folders in the directory. Se

Windows XP Publishing Wizard There are many ways for a local user to upload pictures into their photo album. Users of Windows XP can upload their pic

4. Once the register file is installed, use the Windows file manager to browse the folder that contains the picture you want to publish. On the lef

7. Your PC will start to connect to the Photo Web Server. 8. Select N4100PRO Photo Gallery Wizard to publish your pictures to the N4100PRO. 9.

11. Select the album you want to upload your pictures to. 12. Confirm the target album. 13. Windows will show you that the picture upload is in pro

14. When the upload is finished, the Wizard will ask you whether if you want to go to the website. Click Finish to go to your Photo Web Server. 15.

17. Finished! You will see the pictures just selected in the album. Managing Albums and Photos Icon Function Description Make Cover Make selecte