Thecus 5TB Network Storage N5200B User Manuals

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• Thecus N5200B

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• N5200BR

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• User’s Manual

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• Copyright and Trademark Notice

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• Thecus and other names of Thecus products are registered trademarks of Thecus Technology Corp. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Apple, iTunes and Apple OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc. All other trademarks and brand names are the property of their respective owners. Specifications are subject to change without notice.

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• Copyright © 2008 Thecus Technology Corporation. All rights reserved.

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• About This Manual

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• All information in this manual has been carefully verified to ensure its correctness. In case of an error, please provide us with your feedback. Thecus Technology Corporation reserves the right to modify the contents of this manual without notice.

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• Product name: Thecus N5200B/BR

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• Manual Version: 1.1

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• Release Date: March 2008

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• Limited Warranty

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• Thecus Technology Corporation guarantees all components of Thecus N5200 are thoroughly tested before they leave the factory and should function normally under general usage. In case of any system malfunctions, Thecus Technology Corporation and its local representatives and dealers are responsible for repair without cost to the customer if the product fails within the warranty period and under normal usage. Thecus Technology Corporation is not responsible for any damage or loss of data deemed to be caused by its products. It is highly recommended that users conduct necessary back-up practices.

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• Safety Warnings

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• For your safety, please read and follow the following safety warnings:

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•  Read this manual thoroughly before attempting to set up your N5200.

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•  Your N5200 is a complicated electronic device. DO NOT attempt to repair it under any circumstances. In the case of malfunction, turn off the power immediately and have it repaired at a qualified service center. Contact your vendor for details.

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•  DO NOT allow anything to rest on the power cord and DO NOT place the power cord in an area where it can be stepped on. Carefully place connecting cables to avoid stepping or tripping on them.

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•  Your N5200 can operate normally under temperatures between 0°C and 40°C, with relative humidity of 20% – 85%. Using the N5200 under extreme environmental conditions could damage the unit.

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•  Ensure that the N5200 is provided with the correct supply voltage (AC 100V ~ 240V, 50/60 Hz, 3A). Plugging the N5200 to an incorrect power source could damage the unit.

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•  Do NOT expose the N5200 to dampness, dust, or corrosive liquids.

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•  Do NOT place the N5200 on any uneven surfaces.

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•  DO NOT place the N5200 in direct sunlight or expose it to other heat sources.

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•  DO NOT use chemicals or aerosols to clean the N5200. Unplug the power cord and all connected cables before cleaning.

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•  DO NOT place any objects on the N5200 or obstruct its ventilation slots to avoid overheating the unit.

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•  Keep packaging out of the reach of children.

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•  If disposing of the device, please follow your local regulations for the safe disposal of electronic products to protect the environment.

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• Table of Contents

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• Copyright and Trademark Notice 2

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• About This Manual 2

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• Limited Warranty 2

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• Safety Warnings 3

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• Table of Contents 4

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• Chapter 1: Introduction 8

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• Overview 8

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• Product Highlights 8

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• File Server 8

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• FTP Server 8

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• Backup Server 8

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• Printer Server 8

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• Superior Power Management 8

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• Package Contents 9

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• Front Panel 10

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• Hard Disk Trays 11

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• Rear Panel (N5200B) 11

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• Rear Panel (N5200BR) 12

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• Chapter 2: Hardware Installation 13

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• Overview 13

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• Before You Begin 13

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• Hard Disk Installation 13

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• Cable Connections 14

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• Checking System Status 15

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• System Status Normal 15

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• System Trouble 15

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• Chapter 3: First Time Setup 16

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• Overview 16

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• Thecus Setup Wizard 16

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• LCD Operation 18

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• LCD Controls 18

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• Display Mode 18

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• USB Copy 19

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• Management Mode 19

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• Typical Setup Procedure 19

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• Step 1: Network Setup 20

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• Step 2: RAID Creation 20

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• Step 3: Create Local Users or Setup Authentication 20

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• Step 4: Create Folders and Set Up ACLs 20

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• Step 5: Start Services 20

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• Chapter 4: System Management 22

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• Overview 22

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• Web Administration Interface 22

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• Menu Bar 22

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• Language Selection 23

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• Status Menu 24

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• Product Information 24

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• System/Service Status 24

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• System Information 25

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• Printer Status 25

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• UPS Settings 26

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• Wake-Up On Lan (WOL) 27

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• Power Management 28

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• Storage Management 29

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• Disks Information 29

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• S.M.A.R.T. Information 29

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• RAID Information 30

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• RAID Configuration 31

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• RAID Level 31

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• RAID Settings 32

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• Creating a RAID 32

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• Expanding a RAID 33

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• Migrating a RAID 34

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• Deleting a RAID 34

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• Space Allocation 35

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• Allocating Space for Target USB Volume 35

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• Folder Management 36

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• Adding Folders 36

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• Editing Folders 37

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• Deleting Folders 37

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• NFS Share 38

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• Folder Access Control List (ACL) 39

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• File System Check 40

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• Network Management 42

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• WAN Configuration 42

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• LAN Configuration 43

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• DHCP Configuration 43

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• WLAN Configuration 44

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• WAN LAN Exchange 45

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• Web Services Configuration 45

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• AFP (Apple Network Setup) 46

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• NFS Setup 46

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• User and Group Management 47

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• Local User Configuration 47

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• Adding Users 47

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• Modifying Users 48

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• Deleting Users 48

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• Local Groups Configuration 48

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• Adding Groups 48

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• Modifying Groups 49

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• Deleting Groups 49

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• Batch User and Group Creation 49

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• ADS/NT Configuration 50

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• System Settings 52

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• System Notifications 52

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• System Logs 52

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• Time and Date Settings 53

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• System Configuration Backup and Restore 54

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• Module Management 54

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• Reset to Factory Default Settings 55

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• Upgrading System Firmware 55

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• Change Administrator Password 56

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• Reboot and Shutdown System 56

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• Logout 56

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• Chapter 5: Additional Feature Setup 57

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• Overview 57

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• FTP Server 57

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• Media Server 58

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• Adding Media Share Folders 58

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• Connecting DMAs to the Media Server 58

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• Printer Server 60

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• Windows XP SP2 60

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• Windows Vista 61

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• Chapter 6: Using the N5200 64

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• Overview 64

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• Login Page 64

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• Using WebDisk 64

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• Mapping a Client PC to the N5200 65

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• Windows 65

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• Apple OS X 65

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• File Backup 66

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• Nsync 66

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• Adding an Nsync Task 66

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• Setting Up an Nsync Target on an Nsync Device 67

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• Setting Up an Nsync Target on Another Device 67

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• Designating N5200 as an Nsync Target 67

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• Thecus Backup Utility 67

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• Windows XP Data Backup 69

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• Apple OS X Backup Utilities 69

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• Chapter 7: Tips and Tricks 70

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• USB and eSATA Storage Expansion 70

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• Adding a Spare Disk 70

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• Target USB 70

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• Remote Administration 71

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• Part I - Setup a DynDNS Account 71

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• Part II - Enable DDNS on the Router 71

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• Part III - Setting up Virtual Servers (HTTPS) 71

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• Firewall Software Configuration 72

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• Replacing Damaged Hard Drives 72

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• Hard Drive Damage 72

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• Replacing a Hard Drive 72

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• RAID Auto-Rebuild 72

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• Chapter 8: Troubleshooting 73

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• Forgot My Password 73

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• Forgot My Network IP Address 73

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• Resetting NAS IP Address and Admin Password 73

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• Can't Map a Network Drive in Windows XP 73

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• Restoring Factory Defaults 74

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• Problems with Time and Date Settings 74

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• Appendix A: Product Specifications 75

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• Hardware Specifications 75

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• Software Specifications 75

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• Appendix B: Customer Support 77

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• Appendix C: RAID Basics 78

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• Overview 78

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• Benefits 78

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• Improved Performance 78

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• Data Security 78

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• RAID Levels 78

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• RAID 0 78

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• RAID 1 79

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• RAID 5 79

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• RAID 6 79

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• RAID 10 79

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• JBOD 79

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• Stripe Size 79

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• Disk Usage 80

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• Appendix D: Active Directory Basics 81

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• Overview 81

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• What is Active Directory? 81

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• ADS Benefits 81

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• Appendix E: UPS Compatibility List 82

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• Appendix F: Licensing Information 85

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• Overview 85

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• Source Code Availability 85

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• CGIC License Terms 86

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• Thank you for choosing the Thecus N5200 IP Storage Server. The Thecus N5200 is an easy-to-use storage server that allows a dedicated approach to storing and distributing data on a network. Data reliability is ensured with RAID features that provide data security and recovery—over one Terabyte of storage is available using RAID 5 and RAID 6. Gigabit Ethernet ports enhance network efficiency, allowing the N5200 to take over file management functions, increase application and data sharing and provide faster data response. The N5200 offers data mobility with a disk roaming feature that lets you hot swap working hard drives for use in another N5200, securing the continuity of data in the event of hardware failure. The N5200 allows data consolidation and sharing between Windows (SMB/CIFS), UNIX/Linux, and Apple OS X environments. The N5200’s user-friendly GUI supports multiple languages.

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• GNU General Public License 86

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• Chapter 1: Introduction

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  • Overview

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• First and foremost, the N5200 allows you to store and share files over an IP network. With a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, you can centralize your files and share them easily over your network. With the easy-to-use web-based interface, users on your network can access these files in a snap.

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  • Product Highlights

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    • File Server

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• To learn about the Web User Interface, go to Chapter 6: Using the N5200 > Using WebDisk.

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• With the built-in FTP Server, friends, clients, and customers can upload and download files to your N5200 over the Internet with their favorite FTP programs. You can create user accounts so that only authorized users have access.

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  • FTP Server

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• To set up the FTP Server, refer to Chapter 5: Additional Feature Setup > FTP Server.

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• Don’t leave precious data to chance. With advanced backup capabilities, you can easily upload mission critical files to the N5200, and even automate your backup tasks for true peace-of-mind.

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  • Backup Server

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• To find out how to backup your files with the N5200, refer to Chapter 6: Using the N5200 > File Backup.

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• With the N5200’s Printer Server, you can easily share an IPP printer with other PCs connected to your network.

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• To set up the Printer Server, refer to Chapter 5: Additional Feature Setup > Printer Server.

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  • Printer Server

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• N5200 supports schedule power on/off. With this feature, administrator can set at what time to turn on or off the system. This feature is a big plus for people who want to conserve energy. Wake-On-LAN enables administrator to remotely turn on the system without even leaving their own seat.

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  • Superior Power Management

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• To schedule system on and off, refer to Chapter 4: System Management > System Settings > Reboot and Shutdown System > Scheduled Power On/Off.

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• Your N5200 package should contain the following items:

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•  QIG

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•  CD-Title

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•  Ethernet Cable

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•  USB 2.0 Cable Accessory

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•  Screw Kit

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• Please check to see if your package is complete. If you find that some items are missing, contact your dealer.

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  • Package Contents

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• The Thecus N5200’s front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays:

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  • Front Panel

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• Each of the N5200’s hard disk trays has a lock, a latch, and two LED indicators:

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  • Hard Disk Trays

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• The Thecus N5200B’s rear panel features ports and connectors.

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  • Rear Panel (N5200B)

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• The Thecus N5200BR’s rear panel features ports and connectors.

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  • Rear Panel (N5200BR)

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• Your N5200 is designed for easy installation. To help you get started, the following chapter will help you quickly get your N5200 up and running. Please read it carefully to prevent damaging your unit during installation.

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• Chapter 2: Hardware Installation

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  • Overview

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• Before you begin, be sure to take the following precautions:

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• 1. Read and understand the Safety Warnings outlined in the beginning of the manual.

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• 2. If possible, wear an anti-static wrist strap during installation to prevent static discharge from damaging the sensitive electronic components on the N5200.

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  • Before You Begin

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• 3. Be careful not to use magnetized screwdrivers around the N5200’s electronic components.

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• The N5200 supports five standard 3.5” Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks. To install a hard disk into the N5200, follow the steps below:

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• 1. Remove a hard disk tray from the N5200.

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  • Hard Disk Installation

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• 2. Slide the new SATA hard disk into the tray and fasten the screws.

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• 3. Insert the hard disk and tray back into the N5200 until it snaps into place and lock it with a key if desired.

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• 4. The LED blinks green when the hard disk is accessed.

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• To connect the N5200 to your network, follow the steps below:

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• Connect an Ethernet cable from your network to the WAN port on the back panel of the N5200.

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  • Cable Connections

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• Connect the provided power cord into the universal power socket on the back panel. Plug the other end of the cord into a surge protector socket. Press the power supply switch to turn on the power supply.

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• 3. Press the power button on the Front Panel to boot up the N5200.

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• After making connections on the N5200 and powering up, check whether the system status is normal or has trouble by observing indicators on the front panel and hard disk trays.

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  • Checking System Status

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• The system status is normal if:

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• 1. The WAN and LAN LEDs glow green (assuming both are connected).

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• 2. The Power LED on the Front Panel glows blue.

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  • System Status Normal

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• 3. The HDD Power LED on each HDD tray glows blue (assuming all disks are installed).

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• 4. The default IP address of the WAN port is 192.168.1.100.

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• The system has trouble if:

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• 1. System Busy LED glows red.

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• If the system has trouble, please refer to Chapter 8: Troubleshooting.

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  • System Trouble

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• Once the hardware is installed, physically connected to your network, and powered on, you can configure the N5200 so that it is accessible to your network users. There are two ways to set up your N5200: using the Thecus Setup Wizard or the LCD display. Follow the steps below for initial software setup.

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• Chapter 3: First Time Setup

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  • Overview

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• The handy Thecus Setup Wizard makes configuring N5200 a snap. To configure the N5200 using the Setup Wizard, perform the following steps:

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• 1. Insert the installation CD into your CD-ROM drive (the host PC must be connected to the network).

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  • Thecus Setup Wizard

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• 2. The Setup Wizard should launch automatically. If not, please browse your CD-ROM drive and double click on Setup.exe.

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• 3. The Setup Wizard will start and automatically detect all Thecus storage devices on your network. If none are found, please check your connection and refer to Chapter 8: Troubleshooting for assistance.

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• 4. Select the N5200 that you like to configure.

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• 5. Login with the administrator account and password. The default account and password are both “admin”.

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• 6. Name your N5200 and configure the network IP address. If your switch or router is configured as a DHCP Server, configuring the N5200 to automatically obtain an IP address is recommended. You may also use a static IP address and enter the DNS Server address manually.

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• 7. Change the default administrator password.

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• 8. Finished! Access the N5200 Web Administrator Interface by pressing the Start Browser button. You can also configure another N5200 at this point by clicking the Setup Other Device button. Press Exit to exit the wizard.

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• The N5200 is equipped with an LCD on the front for easy status display and setup. There are four buttons on the front panel to control the LCD functions.

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  • LCD Operation

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• Use the Up (▲), Down (▼), Enter () and Escape (ESC) keys to select various configuration settings and menu options for N5200 configuration.

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• The following table illustrates the keys on the front control panel:

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  • LCD Controls

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• There are two modes of operation for the LCD: Display Mode and Management Mode.

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• During normal operation, the LCD will be in Display Mode.

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  • Display Mode

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• The N5200 will rotate these messages every one-two seconds on the LCD display.

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• The USB Copy function enables you to copy files stored on USB devices such as USB disks and digital cameras to the N5200 with a press of a button. To use USB copy, follow the steps below:

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  • USB Copy

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• 1. Plug your USB device into an available USB port on the Front Panel.

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• 2. In Display Mode, press the Down Button (▼).

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• 3. The LCD will display “USB Copy?”

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• 4. Press Enter () and the N5200 will start copying USB disks connected to the front USB port.

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• 5. All of data will be copied into system folder named “USBcopy”.

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• During setup and configuration, the LCD will be in Management Mode.

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• To enter into Management Mode, press Enter () and an “Enter Password” prompt will show on the LCD.

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  • Management Mode

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• At this time, the administrator has to enter the correct LCD password. System will check whether the correct LCD password has been entered. The default LCD password is “0000”. If correct password is entered, you will enter into the Management Mode menu.

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• From the Web Administration Interface, you can begin to setup your N5200 for use on your network. Setting up the N5200 typically follows the five steps outlined below.

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  • Typical Setup Procedure

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• For more on how to use the Web Administration Interface, see Chapter 4: System Management > Web Administration Interface.

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• From the Web Administration Interface, you can configure the network settings of the N5200 for your network. You can access the Network menu from the menu bar.

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  • Step 1: Network Setup

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• For details on how to configure your network settings, refer to Chapter 4: System Management > Network Management.

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• Next, administrators can configure their preferred RAID setting and build their RAID volume. You can access RAID settings from the menu bar of the Web Administration Interface by navigating to Storage > RAID.

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  • Step 2: RAID Creation

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• For more information on configuring RAID, see Chapter 4: System Management > RAID Configuration.

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• Don’t know which RAID level to use? Find out more about the different RAID levels from Appendix C: RAID Basics.

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• Once the RAID is ready, you can begin to create local users for the N5200, or choose to setup authentication protocols such as Active Directory (AD).

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  • Step 3: Create Local Users or Setup Authentication

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• For more on managing users, go to Chapter 4: System Management > User and Group Management.

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• For more information on configuring Active Directory, see Chapter 4: System Management > User and Group Management > ADS/NT Configuration.

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• For information about the benefits of Active Directory, see Appendix D: Active Directory Basics.

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• Once users are introduced into your network, you can begin to create various folders on the N5200 and control user access to each using Folder Access Control Lists.

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  • Step 4: Create Folders and Set Up ACLs

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• More information on managing folders, see Chapter 4: System Management > Folder Management.

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• To find out about configuring Folder Access Control Lists, see Chapter 4: System Management > Folder Management > Folder Access Control List (ACL).

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• Finally, you can start to setup the different services of the N5200 for the users on your network. You can find out more about each of these services by clicking below:

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  • Step 5: Start Services

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• SMB/CIFS

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• Apple File Protocol (AFP)

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• Network File System (NFS)

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• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

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• Media Server

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• Printer Server

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• The N5200 provides an easily accessible Web Administration Interface. With it, you can configure and monitor the N5200 anywhere on the network.

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• Chapter 4: System Management

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  • Overview

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• Make sure your network is connected to the Internet. To access the N5200 Web Administration Interface:

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• 1. Type the N5200’s IP address into your browser. (Default IP address is http://192.168.1.100)

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  • Web Administration Interface

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• 2. Login to the system using the administrator user name and password. The factory defaults are:

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• User Name: admin

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• Password: admin

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• If you changed your password in the setup wizard, use the new password.

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• Once you are logged in as an administrator, you will see the Web Administration Interface. From here, you can configure and monitor virtually every aspect of the N5200 from anywhere on the network.

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• The Menu Bar is where you will find all of the information screens and system settings of the N5200. The various settings are placed in the following groups on the menu bar:

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  • Menu Bar

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• Moving your cursor over any of these items will display the dropdown menu selections for each group.

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• In the following sections, you will find detailed explanations of each function, and how to configure your N5200.

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• The N5200 supports multiple languages, including:

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•  English

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•  French

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•  German

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•  Italian

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•  Traditional Chinese

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•  Simplified Chinese

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•  Japanese

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•  Korean

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•  Spanish

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  • Language Selection

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• On the menu bar, click Language and the Change Language screen appears. This screen allows you to select preferred language for the N5200. Press Apply to confirm your selection.

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• The Status Menu on the menu bar allows you to see various aspects of the N5200. From here, you can discover the status of the N5200, and even find out other details like firmware version and up time.

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  • Status Menu

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• Once you login, you will first see the basic Product Information screen providing Manufacturer, Product No., Firmware Version, and Up Time information.

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  • Product Information

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• To access this screen again, navigate to Status > About.

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• From the Status menu, choose the System item, and the System Status and Service Status screens appear. These screens provide basic system and service status information.

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  • System/Service Status

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• From Status menu, choose the Info item, and the System Information screen appears. You can change the system information that appears on the Login page by entering the new information here and pressing Apply to confirm.

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  • System Information

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• From the Status menu, choose the Printer item, and the Printer Information screen appears. This screen provides the following information about the USB printer connected to the USB port.

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  • Printer Status

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• If a corrupt print job is sent to a printer, printing may suddenly fail. If your print jobs seem to be locked up, pressing the Remove All Documents button to clear the print queue may resolve the issue.

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• For information on how to set up the Printer Server, refer to Chapter 5: Additional Feature Setup > Printer Server.

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• The N5200 can also support various uninterruptible power supply units, providing extra data security and accessibility in the case of a power failure.

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  • UPS Settings

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• From the Status menu, choose the UPS item and the UPS Setting screen appears. Make any changes you wish, and press Apply to confirm changes. See the following table for a detailed description of each item.

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• For a list of supported UPS units, see Appendix E: UPS Compatibility List.

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• The N5200 has the ability to be awoken from sleep mode via WAN port.

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• From the Status menu, choose the WOL item, and the Wake-up On Lan Configuration screen appears. From here, you can Enable or Disable.

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  • Wake-Up On Lan (WOL)

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• Using the N5200’s Power Management, you can save energy and money by scheduling the N5200 to turn itself on and off during certain times of the day.

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  • Power Management

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• From the Status menu, choose the Power Mgmt item and the Schedule Power On/Off screen appears.

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• To designate a schedule for the N5200 to turn on and off, first enable the feature by checking the Enable Schedule Power On/Off checkbox.

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• Then, simply choose an on and off time for each day of the week that you would like to designate a schedule by using the various dropdowns.

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• Finally, click Apply to save your changes.

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• Example - Monday: On: 8:00; Off: 16:00

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• System will turn on at 8:00 AM on Monday, and off at 16:00 on Monday. System will turn on for the rest of the week.

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• If you choose an on time, but do not assign an off time, the system will turn on and remain on until a scheduled off time is reached, or if the unit is shutdown manually.

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• Example - Monday: On: 8:00

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• System will turn on at 8:00 AM on Monday, and will not shut down unless powered down manually.

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• You may also choose two on times or two off times on a particular day, and the system will act accordingly.

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• Example - Monday: Off: 8:00; Off: 16:00

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• 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 Monday, system will stay off.

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• The Storage Menu displays the status of storage devices installed in the N5200, and includes storage configuration options such as RAID and disk settings, folder configuration, and Nsync settings.

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  • Storage Management

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• From the Storage menu, choose the Disks item and the Disks Information screen appears. From here, you can see various items about installed SATA hard disks. Blank lines indicate that a SATA hard disk is not currently installed in that particular disk slot.

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  • Disks Information

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• On the Disks Information screen, the status of each disk will be displayed in the Status column. Clicking on an OK or Warning link will display the S.M.A.R.T Information window for that particular disk.

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  • S.M.A.R.T. Information

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• From the Storage menu, choose the RAID item and the RAID List screen appears.

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• This screen lists the RAID volumes currently residing on the N5200. From this screen, you can get information about the status of your RAID volumes, as well as the capacities allocated for data and USB target. There is also a graph which represents how the RAID volume is currently allocated.

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  • RAID Information

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• To configure your RAID settings, press the RAID Config button to go to the RAID Configuration screen.

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• On the RAID List screen, press the RAID Config button to go to the RAID Configuration screen. In addition to RAID disk information and status, this screen lets you make RAID configuration settings.

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  • RAID Configuration

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• For more information on RAID, see Appendix C: RAID Basics.

  31
• You can set the storage volume as JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 or RAID 10. RAID configuration is usually required only when you first set up the device. A brief description of each RAID setting follows:

  31
  • RAID Level

    31
• Using RAID Settings, you can select stripe size, choose which disks are RAID disks or the Spare Disk, as well as enter a name for each disk.

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  • RAID Settings

    32
• To create a RAID volume, follow the steps below:

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• 1. On the RAID List screen, click New.

  32
• 2. On the RAID Configuration screen, set the RAID storage space as JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 — see Appendix C: RAID Basics for a detailed description of each.

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  • Creating a RAID

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• 3. Tick the checkboxes under the “member” heading of the hard disks you wish to use to create a RAID.

  32
• 4. Specify a stripe size — 64K is the default setting.

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• 5. Specify the percentage allocated for user data. The remaining space will be made available for target USB.

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• 6. Press Apply to build the RAID storage volume.

  1
• With a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 volume, you can also add a spare disk after the RAID is created. See Chapter 7: Tips and Tricks > Adding a Spare Disk for details.

  1
• To expand a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 volume, follow the steps below:

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• 1. Replace one of the hard drives in the RAID volume and allow it to automatically rebuild.

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  • Expanding a RAID

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• 2. Once rebuilt, you can continue to replace any remaining disks in the RAID array.

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• 3. When you are done replacing hard drives, log on to Web Management. Navigate to Storage > RAID to open the RAID List screen.

  33
• 4. On the RAID List screen, select the RAID volume by clicking on its radio button, and click RAID Config to open the RAID Configuration screen.

  33
• 5. On the RAID Configuration screen, click Expand.

  33
• 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 migrate a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 5 volume, follow the steps below:

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  • Migrating a RAID

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• 1. From the RAID Configuration screen, click Migrate RAID.

  34
• 2. A list of possible RAID migration configurations will be listed. Select the desired migration scheme and click OK.

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• 3. The system will begin migrating the RAID volume.

  34
• Below is a table listing of possible RAID migration schemes:

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•    To

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•  From

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• RAID 0

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• RAID 5

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• RAID 0

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• [RAID 0] HDDx2 to [RAID 0] HDDx3

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• [RAID 0] HDDx2 to [RAID 0] HDDx4

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• [RAID 0] HDDx2 to [RAID 0] HDDx5

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• [RAID 0] HDDx3 to [RAID 0] HDDx4

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• [RAID 0] HDDx3 to [RAID 0] HDDx5

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• [RAID 0] HDDx4 to [RAID 0] HDDx5

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• [RAID 0] HDDx2 to [RAID 5] HDDx3

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• [RAID 0] HDDx2 to [RAID 5] HDDx4

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• [RAID 0] HDDx2 to [RAID 5] HDDx5

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• [RAID 0] HDDx3 to [RAID 5] HDDx4

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• [RAID 0] HDDx3 to [RAID 5] HDDx5

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• [RAID 0] HDDx4 to [RAID 5] HDDx5

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• RAID 1

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• [RAID 1] HDDx2 to [RAID 0] HDDx2

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• [RAID 1] HDDx2 to [RAID 0] HDDx3

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• [RAID 1] HDDx2 to [RAID 0] HDDx4

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• [RAID 1] HDDx2 to [RAID 0] HDDx5

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• [RAID 1] HDDx2 to [RAID 5] HDDx3

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• [RAID 1] HDDx2 to [RAID 5] HDDx4

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• [RAID 1] HDDx2 to [RAID 5] HDDx5

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• RAID 5

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• X

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• [RAID 5] HDDx3 to [RAID 5] HDDx4

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• [RAID 5] HDDx3 to [RAID 5] HDDx5

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• [RAID 5] HDDx4 to [RAID 5] HDDx5

  34
• To delete a RAID volume, follow the steps below:

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

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  • Deleting a RAID

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• 2. On the RAID Configuration screen, click Remove RAID.

  34
• 3. The confirmation screen appear, you will have to input “Yes” with exactly wording case to complete “Remove RAID” operation

  34
• You may specify the space allocated for Target USB volumes.

  34
• To do this, under the Storage menu, click RAID and the RAID List window appears. Select the RAID volume you wish to reallocate by clicking on its radio button, and click Space Allocation. The RAID Information and Volume Allocation List windows will appear.

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  • Space Allocation

    35
• The Volume Allocation List displays the space allocated for Target USB volume on the current RAID volume.

  35
• To allocate space for a Target USB volume on the current RAID volume, follow the steps below:

  35
• Under the Space Allocation , click Target USB.

  35
  • Allocating Space for Target USB Volume

    35
• The Create Target USB Volume screen appears.

  35
• 2. Designate the percentage that should be allocated to the Target USB volume by selecting the appropriate percentage from the Allocation dropdown.

  35
• 3. Click OK to create the Target USB volume.

  35
• From the Storage menu, choose Folder, and the Folder screen appears. This screen allows you to create and configure folders on the N5200 volume.

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  • Folder Management

    36
• On the Folder screen, press the Add button and the Add Folder screen appears. This screen allows you to add a folder. After entering the information, press Apply to create new folder. Press Back to return to the Folder screen.

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  • Adding Folders

    36
• On the Folder screen, press the Edit button and the Edit Folder screen appears. This screen allows you to change folder information. After entering the information, press Submit to apply the changes. Press Back to return to the Folder screen.

  37
  • Editing Folders

    37
• To delete a folder, press the Del button from the specified folder row. The system will confirm folder deletion. Press OK to delete the folder permanently or Cancel to go back to the folder list.

  37
  • Deleting Folders

    37
• To allow NFS access to the share folder, enable the NFS Service, and then set up hosts with access rights by clicking Add.

  37
  • NFS Share

    38
• On the Folder screen, press the ACL button, and the Access Control List screen appears. This screen allows you to configure access to the specific folder for users and groups. Select a user or a group from the left hand column and then choose Deny, Read Only, or Writable to configure their access level. Press the Submit button to confirm your settings.

  38
  • Folder Access Control List (ACL)

    39
• To configure folder access, follow the steps below:

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• 1. On the ACL screen, all network groups and users are listed in the left hand column. Select a group or user from this list.

  39
• 2. With the group or user selected, press one of the buttons from the three access level columns at the top. The group or user then appears in that column and has that level of access to the folder.

  39
• 3. Continue selecting groups and users and assigning them access levels using the column buttons.

  39
• 4. To remove a group or user from an access level column, press the Remove button in that column.

  39
• 5. When you are finished, press Submit to submit and confirm your ACL settings.

  39
• The ACL screen also allows you to search for a particular user. To do this, follow the steps below:

  39
• 1. In the blank, enter the name of the user you would like to find.

  39
• 2. From the drop down select the group you would like to search for the user in.

  39
• 3. Click Search.

  39
• The File System Check allows you to perform a check on the integrity of your disks’ file system. Under the Storage menu, click Filesystm Check and the File System Check prompt appears.

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  • File System Check

    40
• To perform a file system check, click Apply.

  40
• Once clicked, the following prompt will appear:

  40
• Click Yes to reboot the system.

  40
• Once the system has rebooted, you will be returned to the File System Check prompt. There you will see the available RAID volumes to run the file system check on. Check the desired RAID volumes and click Next to proceed with the file system check. Click Reboot to reboot without running the check.

  40
• Once you click Next, you will see the following screen:

  40
• Click Start to begin the file system check. Click Back to return to the previous screen. Click Reboot to reboot the system.

  40
• When the file system check is run, the system will show 20 lines of information until it is complete. Once complete, the results will be shown at the bottom.

  40
• Use the Network menu to make network configuration settings as well as service support settings.

  41
• From the Network menu, choose WAN, and the WAN Configuration screen appears. This screen displays the network parameters of the WAN connection. You may change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings. See a description of each item in the following table:

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  • Network Management

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    • WAN Configuration

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• The N5200 supports two Gigabit Ethernet ports for higher service availability. To configure these ports, choose LAN from the Network menu, and the LAN Configuration screen appears. Press Apply to save your changes.

  42
  • LAN Configuration

    43
• A DHCP server can be configured to assign IP addresses to devices connected to the LAN port. To configure these ports, choose LAN from the Network menu.

  43
  • DHCP Configuration

    43
• When a compatible wireless USB dongle is installed on the N5200, the N5200 will become an access point, and the Network dropdown menu will contain a WLAN menu item. From the Network menu, choose WLAN, and the WLAN Configuration screen appears. This screen displays the wireless network parameters of the system. You can change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings.

  43
  • WLAN Configuration

    44
  • WAN LAN Exchange

    45
• The N5200 is equipped with both WAN and LAN ports. The WAN LAN Exchange function allows you to exchange the functionality of these ports directly through the Web User Interface.

  45
• From the Network menu, choose the WAN LAN Exchange item, and the WAN LAN Exchange Support screen appears. Choose Enable or Disable, and click Apply to save your changes. Click Cancel to exit without saving.

  45
  • Web Services Configuration

    45
• From the Network menu, choose the Service item, and the Web Service screen appears. This screen displays the service support parameters of the system. You can change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings. A description of each item follows:

  45
  • AFP (Apple Network Setup)

    46
• From the Network menu, choose the AFP item, and the AFP Configuration screen appears. This screen displays the configuration items for the Apple Filing Protocol. You can change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings. A description of each item follows:

  46
  • NFS Setup

    46
• From the Network menu, choose the NFS item, and the NFS Server Setting screen appears. The N5200 can act as an NFS server, enabling users to download and upload files with the favorite NFS clients. Press Apply to confirm your settings. A description of each item follows:

  46
  • User and Group Management

    47
• The N5200 has built-in user database that allows administrators to manage user access using different group policies. From the Accounts menu, you can create, modify, and delete users, and assign them to groups that you designate.

  47
  • Local User Configuration

    47
• From the Accounts menu, choose the Users item, and the Local User Configuration screen appears. This screen allows you to Add, Modify, and Delete local users.

  47
  • Adding Users

    47
• Click on the Add button on Local User Configuration screen, and Local User Setting screen appears.

  47
• 2. On the Local User Setting screen, enter a name in the User Name box.

  47
• 3. Enter a User ID number. If left blank, the system will automatically assign one.

  47
• 4. Enter a password in the Password box and re-enter the password in the Confirm box.

  47
• 5. Select which group the user will belong to. Group Members is a list of groups this user belongs to. Group List is a list of groups this user does not belong to. Use the << or >> buttons to have this user join or leave a group.

  47
• 6. Press the Apply button and the user is created.

  47
  • Modifying Users

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• 1. Select an existing user from the Local User Configuration screen.

  48
• 2. Click on the Modify button, and Local User Setting screen appears.

  48
• 3. From here, you can enter a new password and re-enter to confirm, or use the << or >> buttons to have this user join or leave a group. Click the Apply button to save your changes.

  48
  • Deleting Users

    48
• 1. Select an existing user from the Local User Configuration screen.

  48
• 2. Click on Delete button and the user is deleted from the system.

  48
  • Local Groups Configuration

    48
• From the Accounts menu, choose the Groups item, and the Local Groups Configuration screen appears. This screen allows you to Add, Modify, and Delete local groups.

  48
  • Adding Groups

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• 1. On the Local Group Configuration screen, click on the Add button.

  48
• 2. The Local Group Setting screen appears.

  48
• 3. Enter a Group Name.

  48
• 4. Enter a Group ID number. If left blank, the system will automatically assign one.

  48
• Select users to be in this group from the Users List by adding them to the Members List using the << button.

  49
• 6. Click the Apply button to save your changes.

  49
  • Modifying Groups

    49
• 1. On the Local Group Configuration screen, select a group name from the list.

  49
• 2. Press the Modify button to modify the members in a group.

  49
• 3. To add a user into a group, select the user from the Users List, and press the << button to move the user into the Members List.

  49
• 4. To remove a user from a group, select the user from Members List, and press the >> button.

  49
• 5. Click the Apply button to save your changes.

  49
  • Deleting Groups

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• 1. On the Local Group Configuration screen, select a group name from the list.

  49
• 2. Press Delete to delete the group from the system.

  49
  • Batch User and Group Creation

    49
• The N5200 can also add users and groups in batch mode. This enables you to conveniently add numerous users and groups automatically by importing a simple comma-separated plain text (*.txt) file.

  49
• 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 these steps:

  49
• 1. Click Browse… to locate your comma-separated text file.

  49
• The information in the text file should follow this format:

  49
• [USERNAME], [PASSWORD], [GROUP]

  49
• 2. Click Open.

  49
• 3. Click Import to begin the user list import.

  49
  • ADS/NT Configuration

    50
• If you have a Windows Active Directory Server (ADS) or Windows NT server to handle the domain security in your network, you can simply enable the ADS/NT support feature; the N5200 will connect with the ADS/NT server and get all the information of the domain users and groups automatically. From the Accounts menu, choose Authentication item and the ADS/NT Support screen appears. You can to change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings. A description of each item follows:

  50
• To join an AD domain, you can refer the figure and use the example below to configure the N5200 for associated filed input:

  50
  • System Settings

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• The System menu gives you a wealth of settings that you can use to configure your N5200’s system administration functions. You can set up system notifications, view system logs, and even upgrade firmware from this menu.

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  • System Notifications

    52
• From the System menu, choose the Notification item, and the Notification Configuration screen appears. This screen lets you have the N5200 notify you in case of any system malfunction. Press Apply to confirm all settings. See following table for a detailed description of each item.

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  • System Logs

    52
• From the System menu, choose the Logs item and the System Logs screen appears. This screen shows a history of system usage and important events such as disk status, network information, and system booting. See the following table for a detailed description of each item:

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  • Time and Date Settings

    53
• From the System menu, choose the Time item and the Time screen appears. Set the desired Date, Time, and Time Zone. You can also elect to synchronize the system time on the N5200 with an NTP (Network Time Protocol) Server. You can change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings.

  53
• See the following table for a detailed description of each item:

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  • System Configuration Backup and Restore

    54
• From the System menu, choose the Config Mgmt item and the System Configuration Download/Upload screen appears. From here, you can download or upload stored system configurations. See the following table for a detailed description of each item.

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  • Module Management

    54
• From the System menu, choose the Module Mgmt item and the Module Management screen appears. From here, you can install separate software modules to extend the functionality of your N5200.

  54
  • Reset to Factory Default Settings

    55
• From the System menu, choose the Factory Default item and the Reset to Factory Default screen appears. Press Apply to reset the N5200 to factory default settings. Press Cancel to go back to the main menu.

  55
  • Upgrading System Firmware

    55
• From the System menu, choose the Firmware Upgrade item and the Firmware Upgrade screen appears.

  55
• Follow the steps below to upgrade your firmware:

  55
• 1. Use the Browse button to find the firmware file.

  55
• 2. Press Apply.

  55
• 3. The beeper beeps and the Busy LED blinks until the upgrade is complete.

  55
  • Change Administrator Password

    56
• From the System menu, choose the Administrator Password item and the Change Administrator Password screen appears. Enter a new password in the New Password box and confirm your new password in the Confirm Password box. Press Apply to confirm password changes. See the following table for a detailed description of each item.

  56
  • Reboot and Shutdown System

    56
• From the System menu, choose Reboot & Shutdown item, and the Shutdown/Reboot System screen appears. Press Reboot to restart the system or Shutdown to turn the system off.

  56
  • Logout

    56
• To logout of the Web Administration Interface, navigate to System > Logout.

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• Chapter 5: Additional Feature Setup

  57
  • Overview

    57
• The N5200 can also act as an FTP Server, allowing employees and clients to transfer files using their favorite FTP programs. The integrated Print Server allows you to share a single USB printer will all users on the network. The following section shows you how.

  57
  • FTP Server

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• N5200 can act as a FTP server, enabling users to download and upload files with their favorite FTP programs. From the Network menu, choose the FTP item, and the FTP screen appears. You can change any of these items and press Apply to confirm your settings. A description of each item follows:

  57
• To access the share folder on the N5200, use the appropriate user login and password set up on the Users page (Accounts > Users). Access control to each share folder is set up on the ACL page (Storage > Folder > ACL).

  57
  • Media Server

    58
• With the built-in Media Server capability, the N5200 provides media streaming service to stand-alone networked home media adapters that support the UPnP AV protocol or are Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard compliant.

  58
• With the N5200’s built-in media server capability, you can share digital media such as music, pictures, and movies with any compatible device throughout your entire home.

  58
• To configure the media server, under the Network menu, click Media Server and the Media Manager Settings window will appear. A description of each field follows:

  58
  • Adding Media Share Folders

    58
• Once the Media Server software is installed, you can start adding folders that contain the media that you would like to share. To create a media share folder, follow the steps below:

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• 1. Click on Network > Media Server in the menu bar.

  58
• 2. From the Shared Media Folders window, select the folder that contains your media files, and click its checkbox.

  58
• 3. The contents in the folder will be scanned for the Media Server. The time required for scanning depends on the size of the folder.

  58
  • Connecting DMAs to the Media Server

    58
• Next, it’s time to connect your Digital Media Adapter (DMA) to the media server:

  58
• 1. Connect your DMA to your Media Server

  58
• a. Configure your DMA to use a Dynamic IP address. The IP address will be assigned by the router.

  58
• b. Some DMAs are wireless enabled. You can connect the DMA to a wireless router. For instructions on how to connect your DMA to a wireless router, please refer to your DMA’s user manual.

  59
• 2. Connect your DMA’s video output to video input of your TV set.

  59
• 3. Turn on the TV and change the video signal input to DMA.

  59
• 4. Setup the DMA (These steps will be different if you use a different DMA)

  59
• a. From the Server List screen, select “N5200:Mediabolic Server” as the server.

  59
• b. Go to My Media

  59
• c. Click on the Up/Down Arrow buttons to select Music Jukebox, Photo Albums, or Video Clips

  59
• d. Start enjoying the contents stored in your N5200.

  59
  • Printer Server

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• You can configure the N5200 to act as a printer server. That way, all PCs connected to the network can utilize the same printer.

  60
  • Windows XP SP2

    60
• To set up the Printer Server in Windows XP SP2, follow the steps below:

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• 1. Connect the USB printer to one of the USB ports (preferably the rear USB ports; front USB ports can be used for external HDD enclosures).

  60
• 2. Go to Start > Printers and Faxes.

  60
• 3. Click on File > Add Printer.

  60
• 4. The Add Printer Wizard appears on your screen. Click Next.

  60
• 5. Select the “A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer” option.

  60
• 6. Select “Connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or office network”, and enter “http://N5200_IP_ADDRESS:631/printers/usb-printer” into the URL field.

  60
• 7. Your Windows system will ask you to install drivers for your printer. Select correct driver for your printer.

  60
• 8. Your Windows system will ask you if you want to set this printer as “Default Printer”. Select Yes and all your print jobs will be submitted to this printer by default. Click Next.

  60
• 9. Click Finish.

  60
  • Windows Vista

    61
• To set up the Printer Server in Windows Vista, follow the steps below:

  61
• 1. Open Printer Folder from the Control Panel.

  61
• 2. Click the right mouse button in anywhere on the Printers folder and then select Add Printer.

  61
• 3. Select Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer.

  61
• 4. Select The printer that I want isn’t listed.

  62
• You can press The printer that I want isn’t listed to go into next page without waiting for Searching for available printers to finish.

  62
• 5. Click Select a shared printer by name.

  62
• Type http://<Thecus_NAS>:631/printers/usb-printer in the box, where <Thecus_NAS_IP> is the IP address of the N5200. Click Next.

  62
• 6. Select or install a printer and then press OK.

  62
• If your printer model is not listed, please contact your printer manufacturer for help.

  63
• 7. Windows will attempt to connect to the printer.

  63
• 8. You can choose to set this printer as the default printer by checking the Set as the default printer box. Click Next to continue.

  63
• 9. Done! Click Finish.

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• Chapter 6: Using the N5200

  64
  • Overview

    64
• Once the N5200 is setup and operating, users on the network may manage all varieties of digital music, photos, or files by simply using their web browsers. To manage your personal files or access public files on the N5200, just enter its IP address into your browser (default IP address is http://192.168.1.100), and you will be taken to the N5200 Login page.

  64
  • Login Page

    64
• To login to the system, enter your user name and password, and click Login to log into the system. You will be taken to the WebDisk interface.

  64
  • Using WebDisk

    64
• The N5200 provides a WebDisk function that allows you to access the system over the Internet from any browser.

  64
• 1. In the Login page, type in the User ID and password that were previously set for you in the Accounts menu. See Chapter 4: System Management > User and Group Management > Local User Configuration.

  64
• 2. The WebDisk page appears showing folders made currently available to you via the Access Control List (ACL).

  64
• 3. Click on a folder name to enter the folder.

  64
• 4. The folder’s page appears displaying files and folders. Click on a file to download the file.

  64
• 5. Buttons on the folder page allow you to create a new folder, upload files and delete files in the folder.

  64
• 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 create the folder.

  64
• 7. To upload a file from your computer to the current folder, press the New file (upload) button. When the screen appears, press Browse and locate the file to upload. Press OK and the file is uploaded to the current folder.

  65
• 8. To delete a file or folder, select the file or folder’s check box. Press the Delete selected items button. You can also check the check box as the red circle indicates to select all files and folders in this folder.

  65
• To access folders with access control, you must first login with a local user account.

  65
• For more information on how to setup user rights to the folders, please check Chapter 4: System Management > Folder Management > Folder Access Control List (ACL).

  65
  • Mapping a Client PC to the N5200

    65
• You can map share folders on the N5200 so that you can access them as if they were drives on your computer. You can connect to the shared network folders on the N5200 as follows:

  65
  • Windows

    65
• 1. Go to the My Computer folder in Windows.

  65
• 2. In the menu bar, select Tools and then Map Network Drive…

  65
• 3. The Map Network Drive window appears.

  65
• 4. Assign a drive letter for the share folder.

  65
• 5. Click the Browse button to find the folder over your network. Alternatively, you may enter the folder name you wish to connect to or enter its IP address. (i.e. \\192.168.1.100\share)

  65
• 6. Click Finish. When the Connect As… window appears, enter your user name and password.

  65
• 7. Click OK. The share folder appears as the drive you assigned. You can now access this folder as though it were a drive on your computer.

  65
  • Apple OS X

    65
• On an Apple computer, you can connect to shared computers and servers using a network address.

  65
• 1. Choose Go > Connect to Server…

  65
• 2. Enter the network address for the server in the Server Address text box.

  65
• When connecting using SMB/CIFS protocol, type:

  65
• smb://192.168.1.100/Folder1

  65
• When connecting using AFP protocol, type:

  65
• afp://192.168.1.100/Folder1

  65
• Click Connect.

  65
• 3. When MAC OS X is trying to connect N5200, it will ask for a User Name and Password which has access to the folder.

  65
• 4. When MAC OS X has connected to the N5200 successfully, an icon representing the folder will appear on the MAC OS X desktop. You can access the folder by double clicking on the icon.

  66
  • File Backup

    66
• There are a number of ways to back up data with the N5200.

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  • Nsync

    66
• You can backup a share folder to another N5200 (Nsync Target) or any FTP server for safe keeping as long as you have appropriate access right on that target. When using Nsync between two N5200s, you have the option to transmit files securely between two N5200s.

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• If the files on your N5200 are lost for any reason, you can restore those files from the target N5200. To backup files regularly, you can set up a scheduled task to run only once, daily, weekly, or monthly. You can also limit the bandwidth of your Nsync tasks, so other users on the network can share the bandwidth equally.

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• Under the Storage menu, click Nsync and the Nsync window appears. Below is a description of each field:

  66
  • Adding an Nsync Task

    66
• From the Nsync Information screen, click Add to display the Add Nsync Task screen.

  66
  • Setting Up an Nsync Target on an Nsync Device

    67
• On the Nsync target server, the administrator of that server has to set up a user account with a folder named “nsync” and grant write access.

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• 1. On the Nsync server, add a user for Nsync source (ex. nsyncsource1). For instructions on how to add a user on the N5200, see Chapter 4: System Management > User and Groups Management > Local User Configuration > Adding Users.

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• 2. On the Nsync server, grant that user (ex. nsyncsource1) write access to the nsync folder. For instructions on how to set up a folder’s ACL, see Chapter 4: System Management > Folder Management > Folder Access Control List (ACL).

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• 3. Once this is done, the target server will start accepting Nsync tasks from server using that ID and password.

  67
  • Setting Up an Nsync Target on Another Device

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• If you selected “Other Device” when setting up your Nsync task, the N5200 will use the FTP protocol to back up the share folder. On the external storage device, make sure there is a folder named “nsync”, and the Auth ID has writable permission in that folder.

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  • Designating N5200 as an Nsync Target

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• The N5200 can act as an Nsync server, enabling another Nsync-equipped Thecus NAS at a remote location backup their files to this N5200. From the Network menu, choose the Nsync Target item, and the Nsync Target Server Setting screen appears.

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  • Thecus Backup Utility

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• The Thecus Backup Utility is on your Installation CD. When you click on the CD, the Backup Utility will be installed under Program Groups > Thecus > Thecus Backup Utility. If it is not installed, you can copy the file (Thecus Backup Utility.exe) to a convenient location on your hard disk and double click to execute it.

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• When you execute this utility for the first time, it will ask you whether to create a DB file. Click Yes.

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• 1. Click Add to create a Backup task. The Add New Task dialog box appears.

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• 2. To schedule the task to run at regular intervals, click on the Schedule icon for that task. You can schedule the task to run Monthly or Weekly.

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• 3. To check the log for that task, click on the Log icon for that task.

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  • Windows XP Data Backup

    69
• If you use Windows XP Professional, you can also use the Windows Backup Utility (Ntbackup.exe) to backup your files.

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• If you use Windows XP Home Edition, follow these steps to install the utility:

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• 1. Insert the Windows XP CD into a drive and double-click the CD icon in My Computer.

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• 2. When the Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP screen appears, click Perform Additional Tasks.

  69
• 3. Click Browse this CD.

  69
• 4. In Windows Explorer, navigate to ValueAdd > Msft > Ntbackup.

  69
• 5. Double-click Ntbackup.msi to install the backup utility.

  69
• Once installed, you can use the Windows Backup Utility by following the steps below:

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• 1. Click Start, and point to All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup to start the wizard.

  69
• 2. Click Next to skip past the opening page. Choose Backup files and settings from the second page, and then click Next.

  69
• 3. Select which option you want to back up.

  69
• 4. Click Next and in the Backup Type, Destination, and Name page, specify a back up location using the Browse button.

  69
• 5. Find and select the drive that specifies your N5200 as your backup destination and click Next.

  69
• 6. Click Next to display the wizard’s final page and click Finish to start backing up.

  69
  • Apple OS X Backup Utilities

    69
• Mac OS X does not include any backup software. However, there are a number of backup solutions available for the Mac OS X, including: iBackup, Psyncx, iMSafe, Rsyncx, Folder Synchronizer X, Tri-BACKUP, Impression, Intego Personal Backup, SilverKeeper, and Apple's dotMac Backup utility to name just a few. To find even more freeware and shareware backup utilities to choose from, go to VersionTracker or MacUpdate and search on "backup".

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• Chapter 7: Tips and Tricks

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  • USB and eSATA Storage Expansion

    70
• The N5200 supports external USB hard disks through its three USB ports. Once a USB hard disk has successfully mounted, the entire volume will be copied automatically to the default USB HDD folder. The N5200 supports up to 6 USB external storage devices. All file names on the USB disk volume are case sensitive.

  70
• The N5200 also supports eSATA hard disks with its eSATA port.

  70
• Before attaching an eSATA or USB disk drive to N5200, you have to partition and format it on a desktop computer or a notebook first. The attached device will be located at \\192.168.1.100\usbhdd\sdf1 where 192.168.1.100 means the IP address of N5200 and sdf1 stands for the first partition on disk #6, the eSATA or USB disk drive. If it is an NTFS partition, NAS users can open or copy files from \\192.168.1.100\usbhdd\sdf1 but cannot add new files or modify existing files.

  70
  • Adding a Spare Disk

    70
• With a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 volume, you can add a spare disk after the initial RAID is setup. To add a spare disk, follow the steps below:

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• 1. On the RAID Configuration Screen, tick the checkbox of the hard disk you wish to designate as a spare disk.

  70
• 2. Click Add Spare. The disk will be configured as a spare disk. The system automatically rebuilds the spare disk when one of the disks in the RAID set fails.

  70
  • Target USB

    70
• N5200 can operate in dual mode. When connecting to a regular USB disk or thumb drive, N5200 is acting as USB host. When connecting to a PC thru its USB Type B connector on the back panel, N5200 can act as a USB disk. This feature allows user to transfer files without using network connection.

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• When you create RAID, you can assign a portion of space on the RAID to be used as USB disk. When connecting N5200 to a PC using the supplied USB A to B cable, the PC will recognize this space as an unformatted disk. At this point, the PC can format this portion of disk and create file system on it. Since this disk is created on the RAID, it will be protected by the RAID level you select.

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  • Remote Administration

    71
• You can set up your N5200 for remote administration. With remote administration, you can access your N5200 over the Internet, even if your N5200 is behind a router. This is especially useful if you are traveling and suddenly need a file from your N5200.

  71
• Setting up remote administration is a three-part process, and will require the following equipment:

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•  Thecus N5200 NAS device

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•  Cable/DSL Router with Dynamic DNS support

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•  Home PC

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•  Internet Connection

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  • Part I - Setup a DynDNS Account

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• 1. Go to http://www.dyndns.org from your home PC.

  71
• 2. Click on the Sign Up Now link.

  71
• 3. Check the Check boxes, select a user name (i.e.: N5200), enter your email address (i.e.: xxx@example.com), check Enable Wildcard, and create a password (i.e.: xxxx).

  71
• 4. Wait for an email from www.dyndns.org.

  71
• 5. Open the email and click on the link to activate your account

  71
  • Part II - Enable DDNS on the Router

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• 1. Go to the router setup screen and select IP Config > Miscellaneous DDNS Setting from your Home PC.

  71
• 2. Click on Yes for Enable the DDNS Client?

  71
• 3. Select www.dyndns.org.

  71
• 4. Go to router setup screen, and enter the following information:

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• a. User Name or E-mail Address: xxx@example.com

  71
• b. Password or DDNS Key: xxxx

  71
• c. Host Name: www.N5200.dyndns.org

  71
• d. Enable wildcard? Select Yes

  71
• e. Update Manually: Click Update

  71
  • Part III - Setting up Virtual Servers (HTTPS)

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• 1. Navigate to NAT Setting > Virtual Server.

  71
• 2. For Enable Virtual Server?, select Yes

  71
• 3. Setup the HTTPS Server

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• a. Well-Known Applications: Select User Defined

  71
• b. Local IP: Enter 192.168.1.100

  71
• c. Port Range: 443 (the default HTTPS port setting on the N5200)

  71
• d. Protocol: select TCP

  71
• e. Click Add.

  71
• f. Click Apply.

  71
• 4. Test the HTTPS connection from another computer on the Internet

  71
• a. From a remote computer, open your browser and enter https://www.N5200.dyndns.org

  71
• b. You should see the login page of N5200.

  72
  • Firewall Software Configuration

    72
• If you are using a software firewall (i.e. Norton Internet Security) and are having trouble connecting to the N5200, you can try the following steps:

  72
• 1. Double click the NIS icon on system tray, and then configure the Personal Firewall.

  72
• 2. On the Programs page, find the SetupWizard.exe and change its permission to "Permit All". If it's not in the program list, use the Add or Program Scan buttons to find it.

  72
• 3. On the Networking page, manually add N5200 IP address (i.e. 192.168.1.100) to the Trusted list.

  72
  • Replacing Damaged Hard Drives

    72
• If you are using RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10, you can easily replace a damaged hard drive in the Thecus N5200 while keeping your data secure with the system’s automatic data recovery.

  72
  • Hard Drive Damage

    72
• When a hard drive is damaged and data in the RAID volume, the system LCD will display warning message also the system beeps.

  72
  • Replacing a Hard Drive

    72
• To replace a hard disk drive in the N5200:

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• 1. Remove the tray with the damaged hard disk.

  72
• 2. Unscrew the damaged hard disk and remove it from the tray.

  72
• 3. Slide a new hard disk into the tray and fasten the screws.

  72
• 4. Insert the hard disk tray back into the N5200 until it snaps into place. You can also lock it with a key if desired.

  72
• 5. The LED blinks green when the HDD is accessed.

  72
  • RAID Auto-Rebuild

    72
• When using RAID 1, 5, 6, or 10 on the N5200, you can use the auto-rebuild function when an error is detected.

  72
• 1. When a hard disk fails the system beeps and/or an email notification is sent to specified receivers.

  72
• 2. Check the LCD to see which disk has failed.

  72
• 3. Follow the steps mentioned above to replace the failed hard disk.

  72
• 4. The system automatically recognizes the new hard disk and starts the auto-rebuild sequence to resume its status before the hard disk crash.

  72
• Chapter 8: Troubleshooting

  73
  • Forgot My Password

    73
• If you forget your password, you can reset the unit to use the default password. To do this, press the reset button on the front panel after system is booted, and N5200 will be reset. WAN IP address will become 192.168.1.100 and admin password will be admin.

  73
  • Forgot My Network IP Address

    73
• If you forget your network IP address and have no physical access to the system, you can find out the IP address by either looking directly onto the N5200’s LCD panel, or by using the setup wizard to retrieve the IP of your N5200.

  73
• 1. Start the Setup Wizard, and it will automatically detect all Thecus IP storage products on your network.

  73
• 2. You should be able to find the IP address of the N5200 which you have forgotten in the Device Discovery screen.

  73
  • Resetting NAS IP Address and Admin Password

    73
• In case you changed the N5200 IP address and then forgot it, or forgot the administration password, follow the steps below to reset to default settings:

  73
• 1. Power on the N5200 till system ready and press the Reset button while buzzer with long beeping approximately 3-5 seconds. (The reset button is right below power button)

  73
• 2. This resets the N5200 to its default IP address and password settings.

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• Default IP: 192.168.1.100 for WAN and 192.168.2.100 for LAN

  73
• Default admin password: admin

  73
• Jumbo Frame support: disabled

  73
• HTTP Port: 80, HTTPs:443

  73
  • Can't Map a Network Drive in Windows XP

    73
• You may have problems mapping a network drive under the following conditions:

  73
• 1. The network folder is currently mapped using a different user name and password. To connect using a different user name and password, first disconnect any existing mappings to this network share.

  73
• 2. The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred: Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again.

  73
• To check out existing network connections, type net use under the DOS prompt.

  73
• You may refer the URL below for more network mapping information.

  73
• http://esupport.thecus.com/support/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=57&nav=0

  73
  • Restoring Factory Defaults

    74
• From the System menu, choose the Factory Default item and the Reset to Factory Default screen appears. Press Apply to reset the N5200 to factory default settings.

  74
  • Problems with Time and Date Settings

    74
• The administrator is able to select an NTP Server to keep the N5200’s time synchronized. However, if the N5200 can not access the Internet, you may encounter a problem when setting the Time and Time Zone. If this happens:

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• 1. Login to the Web Administration Interface.

  74
• 2. Navigate to System > Time.

  74
• 3. Under NTP Server, select No.

  74
• 4. Set the Date, Time, and Time Zone.

  74
• 5. Click Apply.

  74
• In addition, if the N5200 is able to access the Internet and you want to keep the NTP Server clock.isc.org by default, please make sure the DNS Server is correctly entered, thereby allowing the NTP Server name to correctly resolve. (See Network > WAN > DNS Server)

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• Appendix A: Product Specifications

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  • Hardware Specifications

    75
  • Software Specifications

    75
• *PDC/AD support: Works as a client member in a Microsoft NT 4.0 domain/Active Directory domain, allowing the N5200 to utilize the domain users and groups setting for authentication to the system and authorization to the share folders.

  76
• **For supported USB dongles, please contact sales@thecus.com

  76
• Appendix B: Customer Support

  77
• If your N5200 is not working properly, we encourage you to check out Chapter 8: Troubleshooting, located in this manual. You can also try to ensure that you are using the latest firmware version for your N5200. Thecus is committed to providing free firmware upgrades to our customers. Our newest firmware is available on our Download Center:

  77
• http://www.thecus.com/download.php

  77
• If you are still experiencing problems with your N5200, or require a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA), feel free to contact technical support via our Technical Support Website:

  77
• http://www.thecus.com/support_tech.php

  77
• Customers in the US should send all technical support enquiries to this email address:

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• support-us@thecus.com

  77
• For Sales Information you can e-mail us at:

  77
• sales@thecus.com

  77
• Thank you for choosing Thecus!

  77
• Appendix C: RAID Basics

  78
  • Overview

    78
• A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is an array of several hard disks that provide data security and high performance. A RAID system accesses several hard disks simultaneously, which improves I/O performance over a single hard disk. Data security is enhanced by a RAID, since data loss due to a hard disk failure is minimized by regenerating redundant data from the other RAID hard disks.

  78
  • Benefits

    78
• RAID improves I/O performance, and increases data security through fault tolerance and redundant data storage.

  78
  • Improved Performance

    78
• RAID provides access to several hard disk drives simultaneously, which greatly increases I/O performance.

  78
  • Data Security

    78
• Hard disk drive failure unfortunately is a common occurrence. A RAID helps prevent against the loss of data due to hard disk failure. A RAID offers additional hard disk drives that can avert data loss from a hard disk drive failure. If a hard drive fails, the RAID volume can regenerate data from the data and parity stored on its other hard disk drives.

  78
  • RAID Levels

    78
• The Thecus N5200 supports standard RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD. You choose a RAID level when you create a system volume. The factors for selecting a RAID level are:

  78
•  Your requirements for performance

  78
•  Your need for data security

  78
•  Number of hard disk drives in the system, capacity of hard disk drives in the system

  78
• The following is a description of each RAID level:

  78
  • RAID 0

    78
• RAID 0 is best suited for applications that need high bandwidth but do not require a high level of data security. The RAID 0 level provides the best performance of all the RAID levels, but it does not provide data redundancy.

  78
• RAID 0 uses disk striping and breaking up data into blocks to write across all hard drives in the volume. The system can then use multiple hard drives for faster read and write. The stripe size parameter that was set when the RAID was created determines the size of each block. No parity calculations complicate the write operation.

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  • RAID 1

    79
• RAID 1 mirrors all data from one hard disk drive to a second one hard disk drive, thus providing complete data redundancy. However, the cost of data storage capacity is doubled.

  79
• This is excellent for complete data security.

  79
  • RAID 5

    79
• 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 applications that require data security such as office automation and online customer service. Use it also for applications with high read requests but low write requests.

  79
• RAID 5 includes disk striping at the byte level and parity information is written to several hard disk drives. If a hard disk fails the system uses parity stored on each of the other hard disks to recreate all missing information.

  79
  • RAID 6

    79
• RAID 6 is essentially an extension of RAID level 5 which allows for additional fault tolerance by using a second independent distributed parity scheme (dual parity)

  79
• Data is striped on a block level across a set of drives, just like in RAID 5, and a second set of parity is calculated and written across all the drives; RAID 6 provides for an extremely high data fault tolerance and can sustain two simultaneous drive failures.

  79
• This is a perfect solution for mission critical applications.

  79
  • RAID 10

    79
• RAID 10 is implemented as a striped array whose segments are RAID 1 arrays. RAID 10 has the same fault tolerance as RAID level 1.

  79
• RAID 10 has the same overhead for fault-tolerance as mirroring alone. High I/O rates are achieved by striping RAID 1 segments.

  79
• Under certain circumstances, RAID 10 array can sustain up to 2 simultaneous drive failures

  79
• Excellent solution for applications that would have otherwise gone with RAID 1 but need an additional performance boost.

  79
  • JBOD

    79
• Although a concatenation of disks (also called JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Disks") is not one of the numbered RAID levels, it is a popular method for combining multiple physical disk drives into a single virtual one. As the name implies, disks are merely concatenated together, end to beginning, so they appear to be a single large disk.

  79
• As the data on JBOD is not protected, one drive failure could result total data loss.

  79
  • Stripe Size

    79
• The length of the data segments being written across multiple hard disks. Data is written in stripes across the multiple hard disks of a RAID. Since multiple disks are accessed at the same time, disk striping enhances performance. The stripes can vary in size.

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  • Disk Usage

    80
• When all 5 disks are of the same size, and used in RAID, N5200 disk usage percentage is listed below:

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• Appendix D: Active Directory Basics

  81
  • Overview

    81
• With Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced Active Directory (ADS), which is a large database/information store. Prior to Active Directory the Windows OS could not store additional information in its domain database. Active Directory also solved the problem of locating resources; which previously relied on Network Neighborhood, and was slow. Managing users and groups were among other issues Active Directory solved.

  81
  • What is Active Directory?

    81
• Active Directory was built as a scalable, extensible directory service that was designed to meet corporate needs. A repository for storing user information, accounts, passwords, printers, computers, network information and other data, Microsoft calls Active Directory a "namespace" where names can be resolved.

  81
  • ADS Benefits

    81
• ADS lets the N5200 integrate itself with the existing ADS in an office environment. This means the N5200 is able to recognize your office users and passwords on the ADS server. Other major benefits ADS support provides include:

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• 1. Easy integration of the N5200 into the existing office IT infrastructure

  81
• The N5200 acts as a member of the ADS. This feature significantly lowers the overhead of the system administrator. For example, corporate security policies and user privileges on an ADS server can be enforced automatically on the N5200.

  81
• 2. Centralized user/password database

  81
• The N5200 does not maintain its own copy of the user/password database. This avoids data inconsistency between the N5200 and other servers. For example, without ADS support, an administrator might need to remove a specific user privilege on the N5200 and each individual server. With ADS support, the change on an ADS server is known to all of its ADS members.

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• Appendix E: UPS Compatibility List

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• Brand

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• Series

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• Model

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• Notes

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• Ablerex

  82
• MS-RT

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• ActivePower

  82
• 1400VA

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• AEC

  82
• MiniGuard UPS 700 M2501 cable

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• APC

  82
• Back-UPS Pro

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Matrix-UPS

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Smart-UPS

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Back-UPS

  82
• 940-0095A/C cables, 940-0020B/C cables, 940-0023A cable

  82
•  

  82
• Back-UPS Office

  82
• 940-0119A cable

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•  

  82
• Masterswitch Not a UPS - 940-0020 cable

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•  

  82
•  

  82
• Back-UPS RS 500 custom non-USB cable

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Belkin

  82
• Regulator Pro serial

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Resource

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Home Office

  82
• F6H350-SER, F6H500-SER, F6H650-SER

  82
•  

  82
• Universal UPS

  82
• F6C800-UNV, F6C120-UNV, F6C1100-UNV, F6H500ukUNV

  82
•  

  82
• Best Power

  82
• Fortress (newer)

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Fortress Telecom

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Axxium Rackmount

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Patriot Pro

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Patriot Pro II

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Patriot INT51 cable

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Micro-Ferrups

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Fortress/Ferrups f-command support

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Centralion

  82
• Blazer

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Clary

  82
• ST-800

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Compaq

  82
• T1500h

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Cyber Power Systems

  82
•  

  82
• 320AVR, 500AVR, 650AVR, 700AVR, 800AVR850AVR, 900AVR, 1250AVR,. 1500AVR, Power99550SL, 725SL, CPS825VA, 1100AVR, 1500AVR-HO

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•  

  82
• Deltec

  82
• PowerRite Pro II

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Dynex

  82
• 975AVR

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Effekta

  82
• MI/MT/MH 2502 cable

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Energy Sistem

  82
• (various)

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• ETA

  82
• mini+UPS WinNT/Upsoft cable

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• ETA

  82
• mini+UPS PRO UPS Explorer cable

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•  

  82
•  

  82
• Ever UPS

  82
• NET *-DPC

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• AP *-PRO

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Ever-Power

  82
• 625/1000

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Exide

  82
• NetUPS SE

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Fenton Technologies

  82
• PowerPal P-series

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• PowerPal L-series

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•  

  82
•  

  82
• PowerOn

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• PowerPure

  82
•  

  82
•  

  82
• Fairstone

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•  

  82
• L525/L625/L750

  82
•  

  82
• Fideltronik

  82
• Ares 700 and larger

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•  

  82
•  

  82
• Other Ares models

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•  

  82
•  

  82
• Fiskars

  83
• PowerRite MAX

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• PowerServer

  83
• 10, 30

  83
•  

  83
• Gamatronic

  83
• All models with alarm interface

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• MP110/210

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• MS-T

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• MS

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• µPS3/1

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Gemini

  83
• UPS625/UPS1000

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• HP

  83
• R3000 XR

  83
•  

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•  

  83
• R5500 XR

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•  

  83
•  

  83
• INELT

  83
• Monolith 1000LT

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Infosec

  83
• iPEL

  83
• 350, 500, 750, 1000

  83
•  

  83
• Ippon

  83
• (various)

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Liebert

  83
• UPStation GXT2 contact-closure cable

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Masterguard

  83
• (various)

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Meta System

  83
• HF Line

  83
• 1..4 boards, /2 5..8 boards

  83
•  

  83
• HF Millennium

  83
• 810, 820

  83
•  

  83
• HF TOP Line

  83
• 910, 920, 930, 940, 950, 960, 970, 980

  83
•  

  83
• ECO Network

  83
• 750, M1000, M1050, M1500, M1800M2000, M2100, M2500, M3000

  83
•  

  83
• ECO

  83
• 305, 308, 311, 511, 516, 519, 522

  83
•  

  83
• ally HF

  83
• 800, 1000, 1250, 1600, 2000, 2500

  83
•  

  83
• Megaline

  83
• 1250, 2500, 3750, 5000, 6250, 7500, 8750, 10000

  83
•  

  83
• MGE UPS SYSTEMS

  83
• NOVA AVR 600 Serial

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• NOVA AVR 1100 Serial

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Pulsar Ellipse

  83
• USBS Serial cable, S, Premium USBS Serial cable, Premium S

  83
•  

  83
• Ellipse Office

  83
• 600 Serial cable, 750 Serial cable, 1000 Serial cable, 1500 Serial cable

  83
•  

  83
• Pulsar EXtreme C / EX RT

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•  

  83
•  

  83
• Comet EX RT

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• Serial port, 3:1 Serial port

  83
•  

  83
• Pulsar Esprit

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•  

  83
•  

  83
• Evolution S

  83
• 1250, 1750, 2500, 3000

  83
• Serial Port

  83
• Pulsar M

  83
• 2200, 3000, 3000 XL

  83
• Serial Port

  83
• Pulsar

  83
• 700, 1000, 1500, 1000 RT2U, 1500 RT2U, MX 4000 RT, MX 5000 RT

  83
• Serial Port

  83
• Evolution, EXtreme C, ES+, ESV+, SV, ESV, EX, EXL, PSX, SX, Extreme

  83
• Comet EXtreme

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•  

  83
•  

  83
• Comet / Galaxy (Serial)

  83
• Utalk Serial Card (ref 66060), HID COM Serial Card (ref 66066)

  83
•  

  83
• MicroDowell

  83
• B.Box BP

  83
• 500, 750, 1000, 1500

  83
•  

  83
• Microsol

  83
• Solis

  83
• 1.0 1000VA, 1.5 1500VA, 2.0 2000VA, 3.0 3000VA

  83
•  

  83
• Rhino

  83
• 6.0 6000VA, 7.5 7500VA, 10.0 10000VA, 20.0 20000VA

  83
•  

  83
• Mustek

  83
• Various

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Powermust

  83
• 400VA Plus, 600VA Plus, 800VA Pro1000VA Plus, 1400VA Plus, 2000VA USB

  83
•  

  83
• Nitram

  83
• Elite

  83
• 500, 2002

  83
•  

  83
• Oneac

  83
• EG/ON Series advanced interface

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Online

  83
• P-Series

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• OnLite

  83
• AQUA 50

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Orvaldi

  83
• various not 400 or 600

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• Powercom

  83
• Powercom

  84
• SMK-800A

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• ULT-1000

  83
•  

  83
•  

  83
• TrustTrust 425/625

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•  

  84
•  

  84
• BNT-1000AP

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Advice Partner/King Pr750

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• BNT-2000AP

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• PowerGuard

  84
• PG-600

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• PowerKinetics

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• PowerTech

  84
• Comp1000 DTR cable power

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Power Walker

  84
• Line-Interactive VI1000

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Powerware

  84
•  

  84
• 3110, 3115, 5119, 5125, 5119 RM, PW5115PW5125PW9120, PW9125, 9120, 9150, 9305

  84
•  

  84
• Powerwell

  84
• PM525A/-625A/-800A/-1000A/-1250A

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Repotec

  84
• RPF525/625/800/1000

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• RPT-800A

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• RPT-162A

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• SMS (Brazil)

  84
• Manager III

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• SOLA

  84
•  

  84
• 325, 520, 610, 620, 330

  84
•  

  84
• SOLA/BASIC Mexico

  84
• various ISBMEX protocol

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Socomec Sicon

  84
• Egys 420 VA

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Soltec

  84
• Winmate 525/625/800/1000

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Soyntec

  84
• Sekury C

  84
• 500, 800

  84
•  

  84
• SquareOne Power

  84
• QP1000

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• SuperPower

  84
• HP360, Hope-550

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Sweex

  84
• 500/1000 smart - shipped with SafeNet

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• 500/1000 contact closure - shipped with UPSmart

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• BC100060 800VA

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Sysgration

  84
• UPGUARDS Pro650

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Tecnoware

  84
• Easy Power 1200

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Tripp-Lite

  84
• SmartUPS

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• SmartOnline

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• (various) Lan 2.2 interface - black 73-0844 cable

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Trust

  84
• UPS 1000 Management PW-4105

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• UNITEK

  84
• Alpha

  84
• 500 IC, 1000is, 500 ipE

  84
•  

  84
• UPSonic

  84
• LAN Saver 600

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Power Guardian

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Victron/IMV

  84
• (various)

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Lite crack cable

  84
•  

  84
•  

  84
• Appendix F: Licensing Information

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  • Overview

    85
• This product included copyrighted third-party software licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License. Please see THE GNU General Public License for extra terms and conditions of this license.

  85
  • Source Code Availability

    85
• Thecus Technology Corp. has exposed the full source code of the GPL licensed software. For more information on how you can obtain our source code, please visit our web site, http://www.thecus.com.

  85
• Copyrights

  85
•  This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).

  85
•  This product includes software developed by Mark Murray.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).

  85
•  This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).

  85
•  This product includes PHP, freely available from (http://www.php.net/).

  85
•  This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by Winning Strategies, Inc.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by the Apache Group for use in the Apache HTTP server project (http://www.apache.org/).

  85
•  This product includes software developed by Softweyr LLC, the University of California, Berkeley, and its contributors.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by Bodo Moeller.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by Greg Roelofs and contributors for the book, "PNG: The Definitive Guide," published by O'Reilly and Associates.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by the NetBSD Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by Yen Yen Lim and North Dakota State University.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by the Computer Systems Engineering Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan and its contributors.

  85
•  This product includes software developed by the Nick Simicich.

  85
•  This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).

  85
•  This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou for the NetBSD Project.

  85
  • CGIC License Terms

    86
• Basic License

  86
• CGIC, copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Thomas Boutell and Boutell.Com, Inc.

  86
• Permission is granted to use CGIC in any application, commercial or noncommercial, at no cost. HOWEVER, this copyright paragraph must appear on a "credits" page accessible in the public online and offline documentation of the program. Modified versions of the CGIC library should not be distributed without the attachment of a clear statement regarding the author of the modifications, and this notice may in no case be removed. Modifications may also be submitted to the author for inclusion in the main CGIC distribution.

  86
  • GNU General Public License

    86
• Version 2, June 1991

  86
• Copyright © 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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• 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

  86
• Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

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• When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.

  86
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  86
• We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.

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• Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.

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• The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.

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• 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".

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• Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).

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• 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.

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• You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.

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• In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.

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• b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

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• c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

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• The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.

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• 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.

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• It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system, which is implemented by public license practices. Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice.

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• 8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License.

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• NO WARRANTY

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• 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

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