Netgear Business Edition User Manuals

Table of Contents

• ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition User Guide

  1
• Contents

  5
• About This Manual

  9
  • Conventions, Formats, and Scope

    9
  • How to Use This Manual

    10
  • How to Print This Manual

    10
  • Revision History

    11
• Chapter 1 Getting Acquainted

  13
  • What is the ReadyNAS Pro?

    13
  • What Are the Benefits of X-RAID and X-RAID2?

    14
    • X-RAID Is Expandable RAID

      14
    • X-RAID2 Is Even More Flexible

      15
  • Introducing the Status Displays, Ports, and Drive Bay

    16
    • Front and Side Panel

      16
    • Drive Bay

      17
    • Rear Panel

      18
  • Choosing a Location for a ReadyNAS Pro

    19
  • Initial Setup

    19
    • Default IP Address, Login Name, and Password

      20
  • The RAIDar Setup Utility

    20
  • The FrontView Management Console

    21
  • NETGEAR ReadyNAS Community

    22
• Chapter 2 Setting Up and Managing Your ReadyNAS Pro

  23
  • Customizing Network Settings

    23
    • Ethernet Interfaces

      24
    • Global Network Settings

      27
    • WINS

      28
    • DHCP

      29
    • Route: A Manual Routing Table

      29
  • Updating the Admin Password

    30
  • Selecting Services for Share Access

    31
    • Standard File Protocols

      31
    • Streaming Services

      33
    • Discovery Services

      34
  • Understanding Volume Management

    34
    • Overview of RAID Levels and X-RAID2

      35
    • Volume Management for Flex-RAID

      37
    • Volume Management for X-RAID2

      40
    • Volume Maintenance

      41
    • Changing between X-RAID2 and Flex-RAID Modes

      42
    • Working with USB Volumes

      42
  • Setting Up Printers

    44
    • Print Shares over CIFS/SMB

      44
    • IPP Printing

      44
    • Managing Print Queues

      45
  • Adjusting System Settings

    46
    • Clock, System Time, and NTP Options

      46
    • Alerts, Alert Contacts, Alert Settings, SNMP, and SMTP

      47
    • Language Settings

      49
    • Updating ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition

      50
  • Configuration Backup

    53
• Chapter 3 Managing User Access

  55
  • Understanding Disk Share Security Access Modes

    56
    • User Security Mode

      57
    • Domain Security Mode

      58
  • Setting Up User and Group Accounts

    59
  • Changing User Passwords

    63
  • Managing Your Shares

    64
    • Adding Shares

      65
    • Managing Shares

      65
  • Web Browser

    70
  • FTP/FTPS

    72
  • Rsync

    73
  • Networked DVD Players and UPnP AV Media Adapters

    74
  • Remote Access

    74
    • Remote FTP Access

      75
    • Remote HTTP Access

      76
• Chapter 4 Securing Your Data

  79
  • Configuring Backup Jobs

    79
    • Adding a New Backup Job

      79
    • Viewing the Backup Schedule

      84
    • Programming the Backup Button

      85
    • Viewing the Backup Log

      86
    • Editing a Backup Job

      86
  • Snapshots

    86
  • Backing Up the ReadyNAS to a USB Drive

    90
• Chapter 5 Optimizing Performance

  91
  • Performance

    91
  • Adding a UPS for Performance

    92
  • Power Management

    93
    • Disk Spin-Down Option

      93
    • Power Timer

      94
    • UPS Configuration

      94
    • Wake-On-LAN

      94
• Chapter 6 Managing Levels of Service

  95
  • Viewing System Status

    95
    • Health

      95
    • Logs

      96
  • Replacing a Failed Disk

    97
    • Choosing a Replacement Disk

      97
    • Replacing a Failed Disk

      97
    • Resynchronizing the Volume

      99
  • Using the System Diagnostic Menu

    99
    • Use the OS REINSTALL Option to Re-install the Firmware

      100
  • Configuring RAID

    101
  • Shutdown

    102
• Appendix A Share Access from MAC and Linux Systems

  103
  • MAC OS X

    103
    • AFP over Bonjour

      104
    • AFP over AppleTalk

      105
  • MAC OS 9

    107
  • Accessing Shares from Linux/Unix

    109
• Appendix B Related Documents

  111
• Index

  113