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NETGEAR ReadyNAS
Duo User Guide
NETGEAR, Inc.
4500 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA
202-10366-01
v1.1
April 2008
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© 2008 by NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved. Technical Support Registration on the website or over the phone is required before you can use our telephone support service. The phone numbers for worldwide regional customer support centers are on the Warranty and Support Information card that came with your product. Go to http://kbserver.netgear.com for product updates and Web support. Trademarks NETGEAR, the NETGEAR logo, ReadyNAS, X-RAID, FrontView, RAIDar, RAIDiator, Network Storage Processo
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Product and Publication Details Model Number: Publication Date: April 2008 Product Family: Network Storage Product Name: ReadyNAS Duo Home or Business Product: Home Language: English Publication Part Number: 202-10366-01 Publication Version Number: 1.1 iii v1.1, April 2008
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Contents NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide About This Manual Conventions, Formats, and Scope .................................................................................... x How to Use This Manual .................................................................................................. xi How to Print This Manual ................................................................................................. xi Revision History ......................................................
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Programming the Backup Button ...........................................................................1-39 Viewing the Backup Log .........................................................................................1-39 Editing a Backup Job .............................................................................................1-40 Setting Up Printers ......................................................................................................
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Resynchronizing the Volume ..........................................................................................3-5 Resetting Your System (System Switch) ........................................................................3-5 Changing User Passwords .............................................................................................3-6 Appendix A ReadyNAS Duo Glossary Appendix B General Glossary Index Contents vii v1.1, April 2008
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide viii Contents v1.1, April 2008
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About This Manual Congratulations on your purchase of a ReadyNAS™ Duo from NETGEAR, Inc. If you have not already done so, please read the printed Installation Guide provided with your product and the ReadyNAS Setup Manual on the Installation CD. The ReadyNAS Setup Manual takes you step-by-step through the Setup Wizard and quickly prepares the ReadyNAS Duo for your network. The NETGEAR® ReadyNAS Duo User Guide explains each of the available options in detail, including many of the advanced op
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Conventions, Formats, and Scope The conventions, formats, and scope of this manual are described in the following paragraphs: • Typographical Conventions. This manual uses the following typographical conventions: Italic Emphasis, books, CDs, file and server names, extensions Bold User input, IP addresses, GUI screen text Fixed Command prompts, CLI text, code italic URL links • Formats. This manual uses the following formats to highlight special messages: Note: Th
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide How to Use This Manual The HTML version of this manual includes the following: • Buttons, and , for browsing forward or backward through the manual one page at a time. • A button that displays the table of contents and a button that displays an index. Double-click on a link in the table of contents or index to navigate directly to where the topic is described in the manual. • A button to access the full NETGEAR, Inc. online knowledge base for the product model
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide • Click the print icon in the upper left corner of your browser window. Tip: If your printer supports printing two pages on a single sheet of paper, you can save paper and printer ink by selecting this feature. Revision History Version Part Number Date Description Number 202-10336-01 1.0 Feb. 2008 First publication 202-103336-01 1.1 April 2008 Documentation modifications xii About This Manual v1.1, April 2008
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Chapter 1 Configuring Your ReadyNAS Duo The Advanced Control mode shows all of the settings available in the Setup Wizard plus some more advanced features. The basic network settings and other, optional, more advanced features are included in this chapter. Figure 1-1 When you first switch to this mode, you see the menus on the left that allow you to quickly jump to the screen you want. As you click the menu buttons, you notice a similar theme across all screens. At the top right corner is t
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Toward the bottom left, there are two buttons that allow you to switch back and forth between the Setup Wizard mode and the Advanced Control mode. At the bottom of the screen is the status bar including the date button on the left which, which clicked, links you to the Clock screen. The status lights to the right give a quick glimpse of the system device status. Figure 1-3 Move the mouse pointer over the status light to display device information, or click a st
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-4 • IP Assignment. Select either Use values from a DHCP server or Use values below. – If you elect to assign the IP address using Use values from a DHCP server, NETGEAR advises that you set the lease time on the DHCP server/router to a value of at least a day. Otherwise, you might notice that the ReadyNAS Duo IP address changes even when ReadyNAS Duo has been powered down for only a few minutes. Most DHCP servers allow you to assign a static IP addres
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide • MTU. In some network environments, changing the default MTU value can fix throughput problems. NETGEAR advises that you leave the default setting otherwise. Figure 1-6 In the Performance Setting area, the Enable jumbo frames option allows you to optimize the ReadyNAS Duo for large data transfers such as multiple streams of video playback. Select this option if your NIC and your gigabit switch support jumbo frames. Note: The ReadyNAS Duo supports a 7936 byte f
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide •Workgroup The Workgroup is the file location name where your ReadyNAS Duo share folders reside. The default name is NETGEAR. This name is broadcast on your Network. This name can be changed to a name that is more familiar and recognizable. Just enter a new name and click Apply. Figure 1-7 • DNS Settings The DNS area allows you to specify up to three Domain Name Service servers for hostname resolution. The DNS service translates host names into IP addresses. I
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Setting Up Security The Security tab allows you to set the administrator password, administer security, and set up the password recovery feature on the ReadyNAS Duo. You will also be able to set up your User and Group Accounts. Admin Password The Admin Password tab allows you to change the administrator user password. The administrator user is the only user that can access FrontView, and this user has administrative privileges when accessing shares. Be sure to
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Figure 1-9 Setting Up User and Group Accounts In the User & Group Accounts security mode, the Accounts tab screen allows you to manage user and group accounts on the ReadyNAS Duo. Managing Users To manage user accounts: 1. Select Manage Users from the drop-down menu. 2. Click the Add User tab to add a new user. You can add up to five users at a time. For each user, add the following information: •User name, • E-mail address • User ID • Select a group from the
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NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo User Guide Only the user name field is required; however, you should specify a user e-mail address if you intend to set up disk quotas. Without an e-mail address, the user will not be warned when disk usage approaches the specified disk quota limit. If you do not wish to assign a disk quota, enter 0. If you wish to add a large number of users, select Import user list from the pull-down menu. Figure 1-11 Here, you can upload a CSV (Comma Separated Value) formatted file con
