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Media Server
NSA210, NSA221, NSA310, NSA320, NSA325

IMPORTANT!

Default Login Details
Web
Address

nsa210
nsa221
nsa310
nsa320

User Name

admin

Password

1234

READ CAREFULLY
BEFORE USE.
KEEP THIS GUIDE
FOR FUTURE
REFERENCE.
IMPORTANT!

www.zyxel.com

Firmware Version 4.40
Edition 2, 07/2012

www.zyxel.com

IMPORTANT!
READ CAREFULLY BEFORE USE.
KEEP THIS GUIDE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.
Disclaimer
This is a User’s Guide for a series of products. Not all products support all firmware features.
Screenshots and graphics in this book may differ slightly from your product due to differences in
your product firmware or your computer operating system. Every effort has been made to ensure
that the information in this manual is accurate.

Related Documentation
• Quick Start Guide
The Quick Start Guide is designed to help you get your NSA up and running right away. It
contains information on setting up your network and configuring for Internet access.
• Web Configurator Online Help
The embedded Web Help contains descriptions of individual screens and supplementary
information.

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Contents Overview

Contents Overview
User’s Guide ........................................................................................................................... 15
Getting to Know Your NSA .........................................................................................................17
NAS Starter Utility for NSA221, NSA310, NSA320, and NSA325 ..............................................21
NAS Starter Utility for NSA210 ...................................................................................................31
Web Configurator Basics ...........................................................................................................47
Tutorials .....................................................................................................................................67

Technical Reference ............................................................................................................ 151
Status Screen ...........................................................................................................................153
System Setting .........................................................................................................................157
Storage .....................................................................................................................................161
Network ...................................................................................................................................175
Applications ..............................................................................................................................185
Package Management .............................................................................................................229
Auto Upload .............................................................................................................................279
Dropbox ....................................................................................................................................293
Using Time Machine with the NSA ...........................................................................................297
Users ........................................................................................................................................301
Groups .....................................................................................................................................307
Shares ...................................................................................................................................... 311
Maintenance Screens ..............................................................................................................319
Protecting Your Data ................................................................................................................341
Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................................343
Product Specifications ..............................................................................................................361

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Contents Overview ..............................................................................................................................3
Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................5

Part I: User’s Guide ......................................................................................... 15
Chapter 1
Getting to Know Your NSA.................................................................................................................17
1.1 Overview ...........................................................................................................................................17
1.1.1 Hard Disks for 2-Bay Models ...................................................................................................18
1.1.2 Hard Disks for 1-Bay Models ...................................................................................................18
1.1.3 COPY/SYNC Button ................................................................................................................19
1.1.4 RESET Button .........................................................................................................................19

Chapter 2
NAS Starter Utility for NSA221, NSA310, NSA320, and NSA325 ....................................................21
2.1 Overview ...........................................................................................................................................21
2.2 Starting the NAS Starter Utility ..........................................................................................................21
2.3 NAS Seeker Screen ..........................................................................................................................21
2.4 Main NAS Starter Utility Screen ........................................................................................................23
2.5 Initialization Wizard ...........................................................................................................................24
2.5.1 Default Configuration ...............................................................................................................24
2.5.2 Manual Configuration ..............................................................................................................25
2.5.3 Directory of the NAS ................................................................................................................26
2.6 Import Files or Folders with zPilot .....................................................................................................27
2.7 Network Drive ....................................................................................................................................28
2.8 Manage the Device ...........................................................................................................................29
2.9 Configure System Settings ................................................................................................................29

Chapter 3
NAS Starter Utility for NSA210 ..........................................................................................................31
3.1 Overview ...........................................................................................................................................31
3.2 Starting the NAS Starter Utility ..........................................................................................................31
3.3 NAS Discovery Screen ......................................................................................................................32
3.4 Main NAS Starter Utility Screen ........................................................................................................33
3.5 Initialization Wizard ...........................................................................................................................34
3.5.1 Default Configuration ...............................................................................................................35
3.5.2 Manual Configuration ..............................................................................................................37

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3.5.3 Directory of the NAS ................................................................................................................42
3.6 Import Files or Folders with zPilot .....................................................................................................43
3.7 Add a Network Drive to My Computer ...............................................................................................44
3.8 Manage the Device ...........................................................................................................................44
3.9 Configure Network Setting ................................................................................................................45

Chapter 4
Web Configurator Basics ...................................................................................................................47
4.1 Overview ...........................................................................................................................................47
4.2 Accessing the NSA Web Configurator ..............................................................................................47
4.2.1 Access the NSA Via NAS Starter Utility ...................................................................................47
4.2.2 Web Browser Access ...............................................................................................................48
4.3 Login .................................................................................................................................................49
4.4 Home Screens .................................................................................................................................50
4.4.1 Now Playing (Music) ................................................................................................................53
4.4.2 Exif and Google Maps (Photos) ...............................................................................................54
4.4.3 Slideshow and CoolIris (Photos) .............................................................................................54
4.4.4 Favorite ....................................................................................................................................55
4.4.5 File Browser ............................................................................................................................56
4.4.6 Share and Folder Names ........................................................................................................59
4.4.7 Application Zone ......................................................................................................................60
4.4.8 System Settings ......................................................................................................................61
4.5 Administration Screens ....................................................................................................................62
4.5.1 Global Administration Icons ....................................................................................................63
4.5.2 Navigation Panel ....................................................................................................................63
4.5.3 Main Window ..........................................................................................................................64
4.5.4 Status Messages ....................................................................................................................65
4.5.5 Common Screen Icons ...........................................................................................................65
4.5.6 Session Example (Windows) ...................................................................................................66

Chapter 5
Tutorials ...............................................................................................................................................67
5.1 Overview ...........................................................................................................................................67
5.2 Windows 7 Network ..........................................................................................................................67
5.2.1 If the NSA Icon Does Not Display ............................................................................................69
5.2.2 NSA Icon Right-click Options ..................................................................................................70
5.3 Windows 7 Network Map ..................................................................................................................71
5.4 Playing Media Files in Windows 7 .....................................................................................................74
5.5 Windows 7 Devices and Printers ......................................................................................................74
5.5.1 Windows 7 Desktop Shortcut ..................................................................................................76
5.6 Creating a Volume in a 2-Bay NSA ...................................................................................................77
5.6.1 Creating a RAID 1 Volume ......................................................................................................77
5.6.2 Migrate Button .........................................................................................................................78

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5.6.3 Create an Internal Volume Button ...........................................................................................78
5.7 Creating a Volume in a 1-Bay NSA ...................................................................................................79
5.7.1 Creating a RAID 1 Volume ......................................................................................................80
5.7.2 Migrate Button .........................................................................................................................80
5.7.3 Create a SATA Volume Button .................................................................................................81
5.7.4 Creating a PC Compatible Volume ..........................................................................................83
5.8 Deleting a Volume .............................................................................................................................86
5.9 File Sharing Tutorials ........................................................................................................................87
5.9.1 Creating a User Account .........................................................................................................87
5.9.2 Creating a Share .....................................................................................................................89
5.9.3 Creating a Group .....................................................................................................................91
5.9.4 Accessing a Share From Windows Explorer ...........................................................................92
5.9.5 Accessing a Share Using FTP .................................................................................................94
5.9.6 Accessing a Share Through the Web Configurator .................................................................95
5.10 Download Service Tutorial ..............................................................................................................96
5.10.1 Copying/Pasting a Download Link .........................................................................................96
5.10.2 Installing the Link Capture Browser Plugin ............................................................................99
5.10.3 Using the Link Capture Browser Plugin ...............................................................................104
5.10.4 Configuring the Download Service Preferences ..................................................................106
5.10.5 Using Download Service Notification ...................................................................................108
5.11 Broadcatching Tutorial ................................................................................................................... 111
5.12 Printer Server Tutorial ................................................................................................................... 115
5.13 Copy and Flickr Auto Upload Tutorial ........................................................................................... 117
5.14 FTP Uploadr Tutorial ..................................................................................................................... 118
5.15 Web Configurator’s Security Sessions ..........................................................................................121
5.15.1 Customizing the NSA’s Certificate .......................................................................................122
5.15.2 Downloading and Installing Customized Certificate .............................................................123
5.15.3 Turn on the NSA’s Web Security .........................................................................................127
5.16 Using FTPES to Connect to the NSA ............................................................................................134
5.17 Using a Mac to Access the NSA ...................................................................................................135
5.17.1 Finder ..................................................................................................................................136
5.17.2 Go Menu ..............................................................................................................................137
5.18 How to Use the BackupPlanner ....................................................................................................138
5.18.1 Creating an Archive Backup ................................................................................................138
5.18.2 Creating a Synchronization Backup ....................................................................................141
5.18.3 Restoring Archived Files by Backup Job .............................................................................144
5.18.4 Restoring by Backup Files ...................................................................................................147

Part II: Technical Reference.......................................................................... 151
Chapter 6
Status Screen ....................................................................................................................................153

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6.1 Overview .........................................................................................................................................153
6.2 The Status Screen ..........................................................................................................................153

Chapter 7
System Setting..................................................................................................................................157
7.1 Overview .........................................................................................................................................157
7.2 What You Can Do ...........................................................................................................................157
7.3 What You Need to Know .................................................................................................................157
7.4 The Server Name Screen ..............................................................................................................158
7.5 The Date/Time Screen ....................................................................................................................158

Chapter 8
Storage ..............................................................................................................................................161
8.1 Overview .........................................................................................................................................161
8.1.1 What You Need to Know About Storage ................................................................................161
8.2 The Storage Screen ........................................................................................................................162
8.2.1 Disk Replacement Restrictions ..............................................................................................162
8.2.2 Storage Screen ......................................................................................................................163
8.2.3 Volume Status ........................................................................................................................164
8.3 Creating an Internal (SATA) Volume ...............................................................................................165
8.4 Editing a Volume .............................................................................................................................167
8.4.1 Scanning a Volume ................................................................................................................168
8.5 Creating an External (USB) Volume ................................................................................................168
8.5.1 External Disks ........................................................................................................................169
8.6 Storage Technical Reference ..........................................................................................................170
8.6.1 Volumes and RAID ................................................................................................................170
8.6.2 Choosing a Storage Method for a Volume .............................................................................170
8.6.3 Storage Methods ...................................................................................................................171

Chapter 9
Network .............................................................................................................................................175
9.1 Overview .........................................................................................................................................175
9.2 What You Can Do ...........................................................................................................................175
9.3 What You Need to Know .................................................................................................................175
9.4 The TCP/IP Screen .........................................................................................................................176
9.5 UPnP Port Mapping Screen ............................................................................................................178
9.5.1 UPnP and the NSA’s IP Address ...........................................................................................179
9.5.2 UPnP and Security ................................................................................................................180
9.5.3 The NSA’s Services and UPnP ..............................................................................................180
9.5.4 Configuring UPnP Port Mapping ...........................................................................................181
9.6 The PPPoE Screen ........................................................................................................................182

Chapter 10
Applications ......................................................................................................................................185

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10.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................185
10.2 What You Can Do .........................................................................................................................185
10.3 What You Need to Know ...............................................................................................................185
10.4 FTP Server ....................................................................................................................................188
10.5 The Media Server Screens

.........................................................................................................189

10.5.1 The Media Server Share Publish Screen

..........................................................................191

10.5.2 The Media Server ID3 Tag Decoding Screen
10.5.3 The Media Server iTunes Server Screen

....................................................................192

..........................................................................193

10.5.4 The Media Server SqueezeCenter Screen ........................................................................193
10.6 The Download Service Screen ......................................................................................................194
10.6.1 Adding a Download Task .....................................................................................................197
10.6.2 Configuring General Settings ..............................................................................................199
10.6.3 Configuring the P2P Download Settings .............................................................................201
10.6.4 Edit IP Filter ........................................................................................................................203
10.6.5 Selecting Files to Download ................................................................................................204
10.6.6 Displaying the Task Information ..........................................................................................205
10.7 The Web Publishing Screen ..........................................................................................................206
10.8 The Broadcatching Screen ............................................................................................................207
10.8.1 Adding a Broadcatching Channel ........................................................................................209
10.8.2 Editing a Broadcatching Channel .......................................................................................212
10.9 The Print Server Screen ...............................................................................................................213
10.9.1 Print Server Rename ..........................................................................................................214
10.10 The Copy/Sync Button Screen ....................................................................................................215
10.11 Technical Reference ....................................................................................................................216
10.11.1 Sharing Media Files on Your Network ................................................................................216
10.11.2 Download Service ..............................................................................................................217
10.11.3 Link Capture Browser Plugin .............................................................................................218
10.11.4 Download Service Notification ...........................................................................................218
10.11.5 P2P Download Security .....................................................................................................219
10.11.6 Web Publishing Example ...................................................................................................221
10.11.7 Web Publishing ..................................................................................................................222
10.11.8 Channel Guides for Broadcatching ....................................................................................223
10.11.9 Printer Sharing ...................................................................................................................224
10.11.10 Copying Files ...................................................................................................................224
10.11.11 Synchronizing Files ..........................................................................................................225

Chapter 11
Package Management ......................................................................................................................229
11.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................229
11.2 What You Can Do ..........................................................................................................................229
11.3 What You Need to Know ...............................................................................................................229
11.4 Package Management Screen .....................................................................................................230
11.4.1 Displaying the Package Information ...................................................................................232

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11.5 eMule Screens

...........................................................................................................................233

11.5.1 eMule Server Screen ..........................................................................................................233
11.5.2 Add Server ..........................................................................................................................234
11.5.3 Edit Server ..........................................................................................................................235
11.5.4 My Info ................................................................................................................................235
11.5.5 eMule Task Screen

............................................................................................................236

11.5.6 Add Task .............................................................................................................................238
11.5.7 Preferences .........................................................................................................................240
11.5.8 Edit IP Filter ........................................................................................................................243
11.5.9 Share Browsing ...................................................................................................................243
11.5.10 Task Info ............................................................................................................................245
11.5.11 eMule Search Screen .......................................................................................................246
11.6 DyDNS Screen ............................................................................................................................247
11.7 NFS Screen .................................................................................................................................248
11.7.1 Add/Edit NFS Share ............................................................................................................250
11.7.2 NFS Session .......................................................................................................................251
11.8 SMART Screen

...........................................................................................................................251

11.8.1 SMART Brief Summary .......................................................................................................253
11.8.2 SMART Full Summary ........................................................................................................254
11.9 Protect Screens ...........................................................................................................................255
11.10 Backup Screens .........................................................................................................................255
11.10.1 Backup: Step 1 ..................................................................................................................256
11.10.2 Backup: Step 2 ..................................................................................................................258
11.10.3 Backup: Step 3 ..................................................................................................................260
11.10.4 Backup: Step 4 ..................................................................................................................261
11.10.5 Edit Job Screen ..................................................................................................................262
11.10.6 Edit Job: Step 1 .................................................................................................................263
11.10.7 Edit Job: Step 2 .................................................................................................................264
11.10.8 Restore Archive Screen .....................................................................................................265
11.10.9 Restore Archive: Step 1

................................................................................................265

11.10.10 Restore Archive: Step 2 ..................................................................................................266
11.10.11 Restore Archive: Step 3 ..................................................................................................267
11.11 Restore Screen ...........................................................................................................................267
11.11.1 Restore: Step 1 .................................................................................................................268
11.11.2 Restore: Step 2 .................................................................................................................269
11.11.3 Restore: Step 3 .................................................................................................................270
11.11.4 Restore: Step 4 .................................................................................................................271
11.12 Polkast Setup ..............................................................................................................................271
11.13 Technical Reference ....................................................................................................................275
11.13.1 S.M.A.R.T Attributes ..........................................................................................................275

Chapter 12
Auto Upload ......................................................................................................................................279

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12.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................279
12.2 What You Can Do .........................................................................................................................279
12.3 What You Need to Know ...............................................................................................................279
12.4 The Flickr/YouTube Screen ..........................................................................................................279
12.4.1 Configuring the Flickr Settings ............................................................................................280
12.4.2 Configuring the YouTube Settings ......................................................................................285
12.5 The FTP Uploadr Screen .............................................................................................................288
12.5.1 Adding or Editing an FTP Server Entry ..............................................................................289
12.5.2 The FTP Uploadr Preferences Screen ...............................................................................290

Chapter 13
Dropbox .............................................................................................................................................293
13.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................293
13.2 Dropbox Screen ............................................................................................................................293
13.3 How to Use Dropbox with the NSA ...............................................................................................295

Chapter 14
Using Time Machine with the NSA ..................................................................................................297
14.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................297
14.2 Time Machine Screen ...................................................................................................................297
14.3 Using Time Machine .....................................................................................................................297

Chapter 15
Users..................................................................................................................................................301
15.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................301
15.2 What You Can Do .........................................................................................................................301
15.3 The Users Screen ........................................................................................................................301
15.3.1 User Icons ...........................................................................................................................303
15.3.2 Adding or Editing an Account .............................................................................................303
15.3.3 Usernames ..........................................................................................................................305
15.4 Displaying User Info ......................................................................................................................305

Chapter 16
Groups ...............................................................................................................................................307
16.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................307
16.2 What You Can Do .........................................................................................................................307
16.3 The Groups Screen ......................................................................................................................307
16.3.1 Adding or Editing a Group ...................................................................................................308
16.3.2 Group Names ......................................................................................................................309

Chapter 17
Shares................................................................................................................................................ 311
17.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 311

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17.2 What You Can Do ......................................................................................................................... 311
17.3 The Shares Screen ...................................................................................................................... 311
17.3.1 Adding or Editing Share ......................................................................................................313
17.3.2 Configuring Advanced Share Access .................................................................................314
17.3.3 Public and ANONYMOUS Share Access Rights .................................................................315
17.4 The Recycle Bin Configuration Screen ........................................................................................315
17.4.1 Recycle Bins ........................................................................................................................315
17.4.2 Configuring Recycle Bins ....................................................................................................316
17.5 The Share Browser Screen ..........................................................................................................316
17.5.1 Moving or Copying Files .....................................................................................................318

Chapter 18
Maintenance Screens .......................................................................................................................319
18.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................319
18.2 What You Can Do .........................................................................................................................319
18.3 The Power Screen .......................................................................................................................319
18.3.1 Notes on NSA-310 ...............................................................................................................319
18.3.2 Editing the Power Control Schedule Screen ......................................................................322
18.4 The Log Screen ............................................................................................................................323
18.4.1 Report Config Screen ..........................................................................................................324
18.4.2 Email Setting ......................................................................................................................325
18.4.3 Report Setting .....................................................................................................................326
18.4.4 Syslog Server Setting .........................................................................................................326
18.5 The Configuration Screen ............................................................................................................327
18.6 SSL Certification ..........................................................................................................................328
18.6.1 Modifying or Creating a Certificate .....................................................................................329
18.7 The Firmware Upgrade Screen .....................................................................................................330
18.8 The Shutdown Screen ..................................................................................................................331
18.9 Technical Reference ......................................................................................................................332
18.9.1 Log Classes .........................................................................................................................332
18.9.2 Log Severity Levels .............................................................................................................333
18.9.3 Log Messages .....................................................................................................................333

Chapter 19
Protecting Your Data ........................................................................................................................341
19.1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................341
19.2 Protection Methods .......................................................................................................................341
19.3 Configuration File Backup and Restoration ...................................................................................341

Chapter 20
Troubleshooting................................................................................................................................343
20.1 Troubleshooting Overview ............................................................................................................343
20.2 Power, Hardware, Connections, and LEDs ...................................................................................343

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20.3 NAS Starter Utility .........................................................................................................................345
20.4 NSA Login and Access .................................................................................................................346
20.4.1 Enabling Scripting of Safe ActiveX Controls ........................................................................348
20.5 I Cannot Access The NSA ............................................................................................................350
20.6 Users Cannot Access the NSA .....................................................................................................350
20.7 External USB Drives .....................................................................................................................352
20.8 Firmware .......................................................................................................................................352
20.9 File Transfer ..................................................................................................................................352
20.10 Networking ..................................................................................................................................353
20.11 Some Features’ Screens Do Not Display ....................................................................................353
20.12 Media Server Functions ..............................................................................................................354
20.13 Download Service and Broadcatching Functions ........................................................................356
20.14 Web Publishing ...........................................................................................................................357
20.15 Auto Upload ................................................................................................................................358
20.16 Package Management ................................................................................................................358
20.17 Backups ......................................................................................................................................359

Chapter 21
Product Specifications .....................................................................................................................361
21.1 LEDs .............................................................................................................................................361
21.2 Supported Media Server Content Formats ...................................................................................362
21.3 Supported iTunes Server Content Formats ...................................................................................363

Appendix A Setting Up Your Computer’s IP Address ......................................................................365
Appendix B Pop-up Windows, JavaScripts and Java Permissions..................................................393
Appendix C Common Services........................................................................................................403
Appendix D Importing Certificates ...................................................................................................407
Appendix E Open Source Licences .................................................................................................433
Appendix F Legal Information..........................................................................................................565
Index ..................................................................................................................................................569

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Getting to Know Your NSA
1.1 Overview
This chapter covers the main features and applications of the NSA.
Use the NSA to do the following.
• Share files between computers on your network.
• Back up files from your computers to the NSA.
• Use the COPY/SYNC button to copy or synchronize files between the NSA and USB devices like
card readers, MP3 players, mass storage devices, and digital cameras without using a computer.
• Have the NSA handle large file downloads.
• Automatically download files from website feeds for convenient viewing.
• Play the NSA’s video, music and photo files on your computers using the included media client
software.
• Play the NSA’s video, music and photo files on hardware-based media clients like the DMA-2501.
• Use the NSA’s website to share files with remote users.
• Use iTunes on your computer to play video and music files stored on the NSA.
• Share printers.
• Automatically upload photo and video files to your FTP server, Flickr and YouTube accounts.
Figure 1 Example of the NSA in a Home Network

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Above is the NSA in a home network. Users back up and share data on the NSA. The DMA-2501
plays the NSA’s media files on the TV. A USB hard drive provides extra storage space and files are
copied directly from the USB mass storage device to the NSA.
Place the NSA behind a firewall and/or IDP (Intrusion Detection and Prevention) device to protect it
from attacks from the Internet.

Note: See Chapter 21 on page 361 for a more detailed list of NSA features.
Refer to the Quick Start Guide for hardware connections and how to install and remove hard drives
from the disk trays.

Note: Turn off and disconnect the NSA before you install or remove the internal hard disk
or disks.
• The NSA320, NSA325, and NSA221 are 2-bay models.
• The NSA310 and NSA210 are 1-bay models.

1.1.1 Hard Disks for 2-Bay Models
The 2-bay NSA models have two internal hard disk bays. Install one or two SATA (Serial Advanced
Technology Attachment) hard disks. Note that both SATA hard disks are treated as internal or SATA
volumes in the Storage > Volume screen (Section 8.3 on page 165). Any hard disk connected to
the USB port(s) is considered an external or USB volume.

1.1.2 Hard Disks for 1-Bay Models
The 1-bay NSA models have one internal hard disk bay and one external SATA (eSATA) port. This
allows you to connect one internal SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard disk and
one eSATA hard disk (optional).
Initializing the internal hard disk configures it as a JBOD volume by default. JBOD stands for Just a
Bunch Of Disk and in this storage method, all disk space is used for your data - none is used for
backup. If you are not using an eSATA hard disk, JBOD is the only storage method you can use.
If you attach an eSATA (external SATA) hard disk, you can create a RAID 1 volume. RAID 1 allows
data recovery in case your hard disk fails. To create a RAID 1 volume on the NSA, you must delete
the JBOD volume created by the firmware. Refer to Section 8.3 on page 165 for the Storage screen
where you can create the RAID 1 volume.
The eSATA hard disk can also be configured as a JBOD or a PC Compatible Volume. See Section
8.1.1 on page 161 for more information on these storage methods.
Note that both SATA and eSATA hard disks are treated as internal or SATA volumes in the Storage
screen (Section 8.3 on page 165). Any hard disk connected to the USB port(s) is considered an
external or USB volume.

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1.1.2.1 NSA210 Firmware
Before you can start using your NSA210, you have to install the firmware on the hard disk. Use the
NAS Starter Utility to do this. See Chapter 3 on page 31 for more information on the NAS Starter
Utility.
Figure 2 NSA210 Hard Disk Partition

Hard disk

FW
Your NSA210’s
firmware is
installed in the
hard disk.

1.1.3 COPY/SYNC Button
Use the COPY/SYNC button on the front panel to copy or synchronize files between a connected
USB device and the NSA. See Section 10.10 on page 215 for more details on how to configure the
copy/sync settings.

1.1.4 RESET Button
Use the RESET button on the rear panel to restore the NSA’s default settings.
Figure 3 The RESET Button

Press

1 Beep

2 Beeps
5 more seconds

Release to Reset
IP Address
Password

Release to
Clear All Settings

• Press the RESET button until you hear one beep (after about two seconds), then release it. You
will hear one more beep after you release the button.
This resets the NSA’s IP address and password to the default values.
• Press the RESET button until you hear two beeps. After the second beep, continue pressing the
button for five more seconds, then release it. You will hear three quick beeps after you release
the button.
This resets the NSA to the factory default configuration. All settings you have configured on the
NSA, including IP address, password, user accounts, groups, and so on will be reset to the
factory defaults.
The reset process does NOT affect the volume settings, nor data stored on the NSA.
You should periodically back up your configuration file to your computer (see Section 18.5 on page
327 for details about managing the NSA’s configuration file). You could then restore your
configuration in the event that you or someone else reset the NSA to the factory defaults.

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Note: You should keep the NSA in a secure location in order to prevent unauthorized reset
of the device.
You may need to close and re-open the NAS Starter Utility to discover the NSA. This is because the
NSA automatically re-acquires IP address information, so its IP address may change. If no IP
address information is assigned, the NSA uses Auto-IP to assign itself an IP address and subnet
mask. For example, you could connect the NSA directly to your computer. If the computer is also
set to get an IP address automatically, the computer and the NSA will choose addresses for
themselves and be able to communicate.

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NSA320, and NSA325
Note: This NAS Starter Utility is for NSA221, NSA310, NSA320, and NSA325. Installing
this version of the NAS Starter Utility will uninstall previous versions.

2.1 Overview
This chapter describes the NAS Starter Utility for NSA310, NSA320, NSA325, and NSA221. Use the
NAS Starter Utility to find, set up, and manage the NSA as well as copy files to it and access the
files on it.

Make sure you have a backup of any existing data in the hard disk before
installing it in the NSA. Using the initialization wizard formats the hard
disk and deletes all data in the process.
There is a NAS Starter Utility available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7. Click Help to
open a web help page about the NAS Starter Utility screens. NAS Starter Utility screens are shown
here as they display with the Windows platform.

Note: Refer to the Quick Start Guide for your NSA’s hardware connections and the steps
for installing the NAS Starter Utility.

2.2 Starting the NAS Starter Utility
• The NAS Starter Utility broadcasts a request packet when you first run it. Each NSA has an NAS
Starter Utility Agent that always listens and responds to requests from the NAS Starter Utility.
The NAS Starter Utility receives the response packet that contains information, such as host
name, IP, and so on.
• If you plan to use more than one NSA in your network, configure them with unique server
names. This enables you to identify each NSA in the NAS Starter Utility screens.

2.3 NAS Seeker Screen
Use this screen to view the NSAs in your network. The NSA’s Server Name. The default is ‘nsa’
followed by the number of your model (‘nsa320’ for example). See Section 2.9 on page 29 for how
to change it to a more recognizable one in your network.

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Start the NAS Starter Utility (click the icon in your Desktop or in Start > Programs > ZyXEL >
NAS Starter Utility). The first time you open the NAS Starter Utility the discovery screen appears
as follows.
Figure 4 NAS Seeker

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 1 NAS Seeker

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Connect

Select a NSA and click this to connect to it.

Refresh

Click this to refresh the screen. The NAS Starter Utility does not automatically refresh.

Status

This shows whether the NSA is Online, Unreachable, Configuring, or Config Failed.

Server Name

This is the server name you configured for the NSA. If you have more than one NSA in
your network, it is recommended that you give each one a unique name for identification
purposes.

IP Address

This is the current IP address of the NSA.

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2.4 Main NAS Starter Utility Screen
The main NAS Starter Utility screen displays after you select an NSA in the NSA Seeker screen.
Figure 5 NAS Starter Utility Main Screen

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 2 NAS Starter Utility Main Screen
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Click this to display the utility help.

Configuration

Click this to run the initialization wizard (see the utility help for details), configure system
settings (see Section 2.9 on page 29), or go to the NSA’s Web Configurator login screen
(see Section 4.3 on page 49).

NAS Seeker

Click this to use the NSA Seeker screen (Section 2.3 on page 21) to find and connect to a
different NSA on your network.

Server Name

This is the server name you configured for the NSA. If you have more than one NSA in
your network, it is recommended that you give each one a unique name for identification
purposes.

IP Address

This is the current IP address of the NSA.

MAC Address

This is the NSA’s unique physical hardware address (MAC).

Firmware Version

This shows the version of firmware the NSA is currently using.

Status

This shows whether the NSA is Online, Uninitialized, Unreachable, Configuring, or
Config Failed.

Run Initialization
Wizard

This button displays if the NSA detects an installed hard disk that the NSA has not yet
configured. Click the button to run the initialization wizard (see the utility help for
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Table 2 NAS Starter Utility Main Screen
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Capacity

This shows the NSA’s total, in-use, and remaining storage capacity.

Media Player

Click this to go to the Home screens where you can play media files. See Section 4.4 on
page 50 for details on the Home screen.

zPilot

Click this to launch the zPilot to drag and drop files onto the NSA.

Network Drive

Click this to add the NSA as a network drive in your computer’s Windows Explorer.

Shared Folder

Click this to log into the NSA’s file directory in Windows Explorer.

P2P Download

Click this to use the NSA to manage file downloads, including P2P downloads.

Dropbox

Click this to use your Dropbox account to move files to the NSA and have the NSA
download *.torrent files.

Time Machine

Click this to use the Time Machine backup system for Mac OS X.

SMART

This displays when the NSA has the SMART package installed. Click this to view hard disk
health and performance details.

WordPress

This displays when the NSA has the WordPress package installed. Click this to create and
manage a blog or website. Use the NSA administrator credentials to log in. The
administrator can then create accounts for other users.

eMule

This displays when the NSA has the eMule package installed. Click this to use the NSA’s
eMule peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing console to download and share files from the
Internet. See Section 11.5 on page 233 for details.

Gallery

This displays when the NSA has the Gallery package installed. Click this to use your NSA
to host pictures. You can upload images in your local computer or shares to this
application. Use the NSA administrator account to log in to the Gallery console.

pyLoad

This displays when the NSA has the pyLoad package installed. Click this to use pyLoad to
have the NSA manage your downloads, including those from one-click hosting sites.

2.5 Initialization Wizard
Use these screens to set up the NSA for the first time. The wizard will configure the NSA’s basic
settings.
You must log in using an admin account. The default administrator username is ‘admin’ and the
default password is ‘1234’ and click Login.
Choose Default Configuration (recommended) or manual configuration. Use the manual option if
you need to name the NSA to configure specific network settings. Click Next.

2.5.1 Default Configuration

The NAS Starter Utility checks the Internet connection.

Type a new administrator password (and retype it to confirm). If you do not want to change the
administrator password, you can leave the fields blank and just click Next.

Specify usernames and passwords for the individuals you want to be able to access the NSA.

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Check your settings. If they are OK, click Next. Otherwise click Back. If you want to change
anything other than the user accounts, keep clicking Back until you can change the wizard type to
manual.

Wait while the NAS Starter Utility configures the NSA.
After the NAS Starter Utility finishes configuring the NSA, you can select Run zPilot to launch the
zPilot to drag and drop files onto the NSA (see Section 2.6 on page 27) after clicking Finish or just
click Finish to return to the main NAS Starter Utility screen (see Section 2.4 on page 23).

2.5.2 Manual Configuration
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Set up the NSA’s basic network configuration first.

Table 3 NAS Starter Utility > Config
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Get IP
automatically from
DHCP server

Select this if the NSA is automatically assigned an IP address from the ISP or a DHCP
server in your network.

Assign IP Manually

Select this if you want to assign the NSA a fixed IP address, subnet mask and default
gateway.

Note: Do not configure an IP address that is already in use in your network. This results to
a network IP address conflict and makes the NSA inaccessible.
Use DNS server
from DHCP server

Domain Name System (DNS) is for mapping a domain name to its corresponding IP
address and vice versa. Select this if the NSA is automatically given DNS information
from the ISP or a DHCP server in your network.

Assign DNS server
manually

If you were given specific IP address(es) of the DNS server(s), select this and enter the
primary and secondary DNS in the corresponding fields.

If your Internet connection requires you to enter a user name and password to connect to the
Internet, enter them here and click Next. If you do not need to enter a user name and password to
connect to the Internet, click Skip.

The NAS Starter Utility checks the Internet connection.

Type a new administrator password (and retype it to confirm) and click Next. If you do not want to
change the administrator password, you can leave the fields blank and just click Next.

Specify a name to uniquely identify the NSA on your network. Choose the time zone of your
location. This sets the time difference between your time zone and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Select how to configure the hard disks.
With only one hard disk installed, just click Next. If you have two hard disks installed choose one
of the following:
• RAID 1: Use this to mirror all data on one disk to the other disk to protect against data loss.
• Individual Disks: Use this if you want maximum storage capacity and/or you have other means
of protecting your data. This creates two JBOD volumes (with one disk in each), a failure of
one disk (volume) should not affect the other volume (disk).

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• JBOD: Use this if you want maximum storage capacity and/or you have other means of
protecting your data. This combines the two physical disks into a single virtual one, so they
appear as a single large disk.
• RAID 0: Use this if you want maximum speed for your disks, and/or you have other means of
protecting your data. RAID 0 has the fastest read and write performance but if one disk fails
you lose all your data from both disks.
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This screen lists the shares the NAS Starter Utility creates on the NSA by default. Select the ones
you want to use as network drives in Windows Explorer.

Specify usernames and passwords for the individuals you want to be able to access the NSA and
click Next.

If the settings are OK, click Next. Otherwise click Back. If you want to change anything other than
the user accounts, keep clicking Back until you can change the wizard type to manual.

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After the NAS Starter Utility finishes configuring the NSA, you can click Show the directory of the
NAS to see the NSA’s shares (see Section 2.5.3 on page 26) or click Finish to return to the main
NAS Starter Utility screen (see Section 2.4 on page 23).

2.5.3 Directory of the NAS
Click Shared Folder to log into the NSA’s file directory in Windows Explorer. Enter the
administrator user name and password and click Login.
Figure 6 Login

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The utility opens the NSA’s directory in Windows Explorer.
Figure 7 Directory

2.6 Import Files or Folders with zPilot
In the main NAS Starter Utility screen click zPilot to be able to drag and drop files from your
computer to the NSA.
Enter the administrator user name and password and click Login.
Figure 8 Login

The zPilot icon displays.
Figure 9 zPilot

Drag files onto the zPilot icon to move them to the NSA. zPilot automatically sorts music, photo, and
video files into the Music, Photo, and Video folders. zPilot automatically sorts the types of media
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folder. For folders of files you are prompted to choose the target destination. The zPilot icon shows
the transfer rate.
Figure 10 zPilot Showing Transfer Rate

Double-click the zPilot icon to display status details about the file transfers. Select an entry and
click Pause, Resume, or Remove to control the transfer. After the transfer finishes you can select
the entry and click Open Destination Folder to see the file on the NSA. Click Clear Completed to
clear completed transfers from the list.
Figure 11 zPilot Transfer Details

2.7 Network Drive
In the main NAS Starter Utility screen click Network Drive to add the NSA as a network drive in
your computer’s Windows Explorer.
Enter your user name and password and click Login to be able to add the NSA’s shares to which
you have access as network drives. Otherwise select Guest and click Login to be able to add the
NSA’s public shares as network drives.
Figure 12 Login

Select a share on the NSA and the drive letter on your computer to which you want to map it. The
shares that each user can select to map depends on the user’s permissions. For example, if share1
is private to user1, then only user1 is allowed to map share1. The table displays the NSA shares
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new drive in Windows Explorer (My Computer) where you can access and use it like your
computer’s other drives.
Figure 13 Network Drive

2.8 Manage the Device
In the main NAS Starter Utility screen click Configuration > Manage the Device to log into the
NSA’s administration screens where you can manage the NSA.
Enter the administrator user name and password and click Login.
Figure 14 Login

See Section 4.5 on page 62 for more on the administration screens.

2.9 Configure System Settings
Use these screens to be able to change the NSA’s server name, time zone, PPPoE, IP address,
subnet mask, default gateway, or DNS settings.

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Click Configuration > System Setting in the main utility screen to display the following screen.
Figure 15 NAS Starter Utility > Configuration > System Setting

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 4 NAS Starter Utility > Configuration > System Setting
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Server Name

Specify a name to uniquely identify the NSA on your network. You can enter up to 15
alphanumeric characters with minus signs allowed but not as the last character. The
name must begin with an alphabetic character (a-z) and is case sensitive.

Time Zone

Choose the time zone of your location. This will set the time difference between your
time zone and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Enable PPPoE
Connection

Click this if your Internet connection requires you to enter a user name and password to
connect to the Internet. Enter your user name and password

Automatically get
IP address

Select this if the NSA is automatically assigned an IP address from the ISP or a DHCP
server in your network.

Manually assign IP
address

Select this if you want to assign the NSA a fixed IP address, subnet mask and default
gateway.

Note: Do not configure an IP address that is already in use in your network. This results to
a network IP address conflict and makes the NSA inaccessible.
Use from DHCP
server

DNS

Domain Name System (DNS) is for mapping a domain name to its corresponding IP
address and vice versa.
Select Use from DHCP server if the NSA is automatically given DNS information from
the ISP or a DHCP server in your network.
Select Manually assign DNS server if you were given specific IP address(es) of the
DNS server(s). Enter the primary and secondary DNS in the corresponding fields.

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3.1 Overview
This chapter describes the NAS Starter Utility for NSA210. Use the NAS Starter Utility to find, set
up, and manage the NSA as well as copy files to it and access the files on it.

Note: Refer to the Quick Start Guide for your NSA’s hardware connections and the steps
for installing the NAS Starter Utility. The NAS Starter Utility software version
number is 2.02.
Note: If you have a NSA221, NSA310, NSA320 or NSA325, it is recommended to use the
latest version of the NAS Starter Utility (see Chapter 2 on page 21). Installing the
latest version of the utility will uninstall previous versions.
Note: If the NSA210 will be used on the same network as the NSA221, NSA310, NSA320,
or NSA325, utility version 2.02 must first be used to install firmware on the
NSA210. You can then install the latest version of the utility for NSA221, NSA310,
NSA320, or NSA325 on your computer (see Chapter 2 on page 21). The NSA210
can be configured by Web Configurator by entering its IP address or server name
(see the NAS Seeker on Section 2.3 on page 21) into your web browser (see
Section 4.2.2 on page 48).

3.2 Starting the NAS Starter Utility
• The NAS Starter Utility broadcasts a request packet when you first run it. Each NSA has an NAS
Starter Utility Agent that always listens and responds to requests from the NAS Starter Utility.
The NAS Starter Utility receives the response packet that contains information, such as host
name, IP, and so on.
• If you plan to use more than one NSA in your network, configure them with unique server
names. This enables you to identify each NSA in the NAS Starter Utility screens.

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3.3 NAS Discovery Screen
Use this screen to view the NSAs in your network. The NSA’s Server Name. The default is ‘nsa’
followed by the number of your model (‘nsa210’ for example). See Section 3.9 on page 45 for how
to change it to a more recognizable one in your network.
Start the NAS Starter Utility (click the icon in your Desktop or in Start > Programs > ZyXEL >
NAS Starter Utility). The first time you open the NAS Starter Utility the discovery screen appears
as follows.
Figure 16 NAS Discovery

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 5 NAS Discovery
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Refresh

Click this to refresh the screen. The NAS Starter Utility does not automatically refresh.

Hostname

This is the server name you configured for the NSA. If you have more than one NSA in
your network, it is recommended that you give each one a unique name for identification
purposes.
If you have several NSAs connected to your computer/network, hover your mouse over
the host name to view the details of each device. A box pops up containing details about
the NSA.
Hostname shows the NSA’s configured server name.
IP shows the NSA’s current IP address.
Model ID shows the NSA’s model name.
Firmware Version shows the version of firmware the NSA is currently using.
Status shows whether the NSA is Online, Unreachable, Configuring, or Config
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3.4 Main NAS Starter Utility Screen
The main NAS Starter Utility screen displays after you select a NSA in the NSA Discovery screen.
Figure 17 NAS Starter Utility Main Screen

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 6 NAS Starter Utility Main Screen
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Discovery

Click this to use the NSA Discovery screen (Section 3.3 on page 32) to find and select the
NSA on your network to which you want to connect.

bar

The bar shows the NSA’s in-use and remaining storage capacity.

Name

This is the server name you configured for the NSA. If you have more than one NSA in
your network, it is recommended that you give each one a unique name for identification
purposes.

Firmware

This shows the version of firmware the NSA is currently using.

IP address

This is the current IP address of the NSA.

Status

This shows whether the NSA is Online, Unreachable, Configuring, or Config Failed.

NAS Discovery

Click this to use the NSA Discovery screen (Section 3.3 on page 32) to find and select the
NSA on your network to which you want to connect.

Import files or
folders with zPilot

Click this to launch zPilot to drag and drop files onto the NSA.

Add a network
drive to My
Computer

Click this to add the NSA as a network drive in your computer’s Windows Explorer.

Manage the device

Click this to log into the advanced administration screens. See Section 4.5 on page 62 for
details on the administration screens.

Play Media Files
from Home Screen

Click this to enjoy your media files though your web browser. See Section 4.4 on page 50
for details on the Home screen.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Show the directory
of the NSA

Click this to open the NSA’s file directory in Windows Explorer. See Section 3.5.3 on page
42 for details.

Run the
Initialization
Wizard

Click this to set up the NSA for the first time. See Section 3.5 on page 34 for details.

Configure network
setting

Click this to change the NSA network settings such as the NSA’s name, IP address,
subnet mask, default gateway, DNS, or PPPoE. See Section 3.9 on page 45 for details.

3.5 Initialization Wizard
Use these screens to set up the NSA for the first time. The wizard will configure the NSA’s basic
settings. It also installs the firmware on the hard disk.
Click Run the Initialization Wizard in the main utility screen to display the following screen.
You must log in using an admin account. The default administrator username is ‘admin’ and the
default password is ‘1234’ and click Next.
Figure 18 Initialization Wizard Welcome

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Choose Default Configuration (recommended) or manual configuration. Use the manual option if
you need to name the NSA to configure specific network settings. Click Next.
Figure 19 Initialization Wizard: Wizard Type

3.5.1 Default Configuration
1

The NAS Starter Utility checks the Internet connection.
Figure 20 Check Network Connection

Type a new administrator password (and retype it to confirm). If you do not want to change the
administrator password, you can leave the fields blank and just click Next.
Figure 21 Change Admin Password

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Specify usernames and passwords for the individuals you want to be able to access the NSA.
Figure 22 Create User Accounts

Check your settings. If they are OK, click Next. Otherwise click Back. If you want to change
anything other than the user accounts, keep clicking Back until you can change the wizard type to
manual.
Figure 23 Confirm Settings

Wait while the NAS Starter Utility configures the NSA.
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After the NAS Starter Utility finishes configuring the NSA, you can click Show the directory of the
NAS to see the NSA’s shares (see Section 3.5.3 on page 42) or click Finish to return to the main
NAS Starter Utility screen (see Section 3.4 on page 33).
Figure 25 Setting the NAS

3.5.2 Manual Configuration
1

Set up the NSA’s basic network configuration first.
Figure 26 Setup Network

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 7 NAS Starter Utility > Config
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Get IP
automatically from
DHCP server

Select this if the NSA is automatically assigned an IP address from the ISP or a DHCP
server in your network.

Assign IP Manually

Select this if you want to assign the NSA a fixed IP address, subnet mask and default
gateway.

Note: Do not configure an IP address that is already in use in your network. This results to
a network IP address conflict and makes the NSA inaccessible.

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Table 7 NAS Starter Utility > Config

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Use DNS server
from DHCP server

Assign DNS server
manually

If you were given specific IP address(es) of the DNS server(s), select this and enter the
primary and secondary DNS in the corresponding fields.

The NAS Starter Utility checks the Internet connection.
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Type a new administrator password (and retype it to confirm) and click Next. If you do not want to
change the administrator password, you can leave the fields blank and just click Next.
Figure 29 Change Admin Password

Specify a name to uniquely identify the NSA on your network. Choose the time zone of your
location. This sets the time difference between your time zone and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
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Select how to configure the hard disks.
Figure 31 Choose HDD Configuration

With only one hard disk installed, just click Next. If you have two hard disks installed choose one
of the following:
• RAID 1: Use this to mirror all data on one disk to the other disk to protect against data loss.
• Individual Disks: Use this if you want maximum storage capacity and/or you have other means
of protecting your data. This creates two JBOD volumes (with one disk in each), a failure of
one disk (volume) should not affect the other volume (disk).
• JBOD: Use this if you want maximum storage capacity and/or you have other means of
protecting your data. This combines the two physical disks into a single virtual one, so they
appear as a single large disk.
• RAID 0: Use this if you want maximum speed for your disks, and/or you have other means of
protecting your data. RAID 0 has the fastest read and write performance but if one disk fails
you lose all your data from both disks.
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This screen lists the shares the NAS Starter Utility creates on the NSA by default. Select the ones
you want to use as network drives in Windows Explorer.
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Specify usernames and passwords for the individuals you want to be able to access the NSA and
click Next.
Figure 33 Create User Accounts

If the settings are OK, click Next. Otherwise click Back. If you want to change anything other than
the user accounts, keep clicking Back until you can change the wizard type to manual.
Figure 34 Confirm Settings

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3.5.3 Directory of the NAS
Enter the administrator user name and password and click Login.
Figure 37 Login

The utility opens the NSA’s directory in Windows Explorer.
Figure 38 Directory

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3.6 Import Files or Folders with zPilot
In the main NAS Starter Utility screen click Import files or folders with zPilot to be able to drag
and drop files from your computer to the NSA.
Enter the administrator user name and password and click Login.
Figure 39 Login

The zPilot icon displays.
Figure 40 zPilot

Drag files onto the zPilot icon to move them to the NSA. zPilot automatically sorts music, photo, and
video files into the Music, Photo, and Video folders. zPilot can automatically sort the types of
media files listed in Table 128 on page 362 (except for the subtitles). Other types of files go to the
Public folder. For folders of files you are prompted to choose the target destination. The zPilot icon
shows the transfer rate.
Figure 41 zPilot Showing Transfer Rate

Double-click the zPilot icon to display the NAS Starter Utility screen with status details about the file
transfers. Click the “x” button next to a file entry to stop transferring the file. Click Clean Up to
clear completed transfers from the list.
Figure 42 zPilot Showing Transfer Rate

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3.7 Add a Network Drive to My Computer
In the main NAS Starter Utility screen click Add a network drive to My Computer to add the NSA
as a network drive in your computer’s Windows Explorer.
Enter your user name and password and click Login to be able to add the NSA’s shares to which
you have access as network drives. Otherwise select Guest and click Login to be able to add the
NSA’s public shares as network drives.
Figure 43 Login

3.8 Manage the Device
In the main NAS Starter Utility screen click Manage the Device to log into the NSA’s
administration screens where you can manage the NSA.

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Enter the administrator user name and password and click Login.
Figure 45 Login

See Section 4.5 on page 62 for more on the administration screens.

3.9 Configure Network Setting
Use these screens to change the NSA network settings such as the NSA’s name, IP address, subnet
mask, default gateway, DNS, or PPPoE.
Click Configure network setting in the main utility screen to display the following screen.
Figure 46 NAS Starter Utility > Configure network setting

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 8 NAS Starter Utility > Configure network setting
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

NAS Name

Get IP
automatically from
DHCP server

Select this if the NSA is automatically assigned an IP address from the ISP or a DHCP
server in your network.

Assign IP Manually

Select this if you want to assign the NSA a fixed IP address, subnet mask and default
gateway.

Note: Do not configure an IP address that is already in use in your network. This results to
a network IP address conflict and makes the NSA inaccessible.

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Table 8 NAS Starter Utility > Configure network setting
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Use DNS server
from DHCP server

Assign DNS server
manually

If you were given specific IP address(es) of the DNS server(s), select this and enter the
primary and secondary DNS in the corresponding fields.

PPPoE

Click this if your Internet connection requires you to enter a user name and password to
connect to the Internet.

If your Internet connection requires you to enter a user name and password to connect to the
Internet, select Enable PPPoE Connection and enter your user name and password.
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4.1 Overview
This chapter describes how to access the NSA web configurator and provides an overview of its
screens.
The web configurator is an HTML-based management interface that allows easy NSA setup and
management using an Internet browser.
Use Internet Explorer 7.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Safari 5, Google Chrome 10, or later versions of
these browsers. The recommended screen resolution is 1024 by 768 pixels or higher.
In order to use the web configurator you need to allow:
• Web browser pop-up windows from your device. Web pop-up blocking is enabled by default in
Windows XP SP (Service Pack) 2.
• JavaScript (enabled by default).

4.2 Accessing the NSA Web Configurator
Make sure your NSA is properly connected and that your computer is in the same subnet as the
NSA (refer to the Quick Start Guide or the appendices).

4.2.1 Access the NSA Via NAS Starter Utility
If you don’t know the IP address of the NSA, then use the NAS Starter Utility to find it. Refer to the
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more information on the NAS Starter Utility for NSA310, NSA320, NSA325, and NSA221 and
Chapter 3 on page 31 for more information on the NAS Starter Utility for NSA210.
Figure 48 NAS Starter Utility Main Screen for NSA310, NSA320, NSA325, and NSA221

4.2.2 Web Browser Access
Configure the server name of your NSA using the Network Configuration screen (Section 3.9 on
page 45) of the NAS Starter Utility. Open your browser and type in the server name of the NSA. The
default is ‘nsa’ followed by the number of your model (‘nsa320’ for example).
Figure 49 NSA URL

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4.3 Login
The default username and password are ‘admin’ and ‘1234’ respectively. Enter your username and
password. See Chapter 15 on page 301 for how to create other user accounts. If you use the option
to stay logged in for two weeks (assuming you do not log out), make sure you keep your computer
secure from unauthorized access. Click User Login to go to the Home screens where you can play
media files. Click Administrator Login to go to the advanced administration screens.
Figure 50 NSA Login Screen

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If you have not done so yet, you should see a screen asking you to change your password (highly
recommended) as shown next. Type a new password (and retype it to confirm) and click Apply or
click Ignore.
Figure 51 Change Password Screen

4.4 Home Screens
The Home screen after you log in using User Login.
Figure 52 Home

Note: If you did not select the option to stay logged in for two weeks when you logged in,
the web configurator management session automatically times out if it is left idle
for 15 minutes. Simply log back into the NSA if this happens to you.

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The main Home screen displays icons for the various features you can access.
Table 9 Main Home Screen Icons
ICON

DESCRIPTION
Use Music, Photo, and Video to play and organize your music, picture, and video files.

Use Favorite to create and edit playlists.

Use File Browser to see your files in a tree-folder structure.

Administrators can use Application Zone to install, access, and manage the NSA’s
applications.

Use System to edit general system settings or log into the administrator advanced
configuration screens.

Note: Your browser may need Windows Media Player and VLC plugins installed to play
music and video files. To get the VLC plugins, you have to download and install VLC
(use the .exe file). To install a VLC plugin for Firefox, when you install VLC, you
have to select the Mozilla plugin option. To display your photos as a 3-D wall for
quick browsing, install the CoolIris plugin.
Current VLC plugins may not support srt file format subtitles when playing videos.
The icons at the top-right of the screen are visible from most screens. Use them to navigate
between the screens and menus. The following table describes the icons.
Table 10 Global Home Labels and Icons
LABEL/ICON

DESCRIPTION

Home

Click this to return to the Home screen.

Help

Click this to open a web help page specific to the screen you are currently configuring.

Logout

Click this at any time to exit the web configurator.

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Here are some Home screen descriptions. A music screen is shown here as an example. Other
screens work in a similar way.
Figure 53 Music Screen

D
This table describes common labels in the Home media screens. Not every item displays in every
screen.
Table 11 Home Media Screens
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Click a letter to go to the first item starting with that letter.

View files. Double-click an item to play it.

Shows which page is displaying and the total number of pages of entries. Click an arrow or
type a number to go to another page of entries.

Select the sorting criteria:
Artist - Sort music by artist.
All - All of the menu’s files display here.
Genre - Sort music by category.
Folder - List the folders containing music files.
Album - List the identified music albums.
Current Playlist - Show the playing and queued songs.
The NSA categorizes files into genres and albums according to the information stored in
your files. Files may not appear in the proper folders if they have missing, incorrect or
incomplete information.

Thumbnail

Click this to view the files as thumbnails.

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Table 11 Home Media Screens
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

List

Click this to view the files as a list.

Play

Click this to play the currently selected file. You can also double-click a file to play it.

Delete

Select an item and click Delete to remove it.

Rename

Select an item and click Rename to change its name.

Note: When you change a file name, make sure you keep the file extension unchanged.
Add to Current
Playlist

Click this to add the selected music file to the currently playing playlist.

Add to Playlist

Click this to add the selected music file to a playlist.

Click this to look for a file or folder by name.

Refresh

Click this to update the display in the screen.

Now Playing

This link is available when a song is playing. Click it to see details about the song that is
currently playing.

4.4.1 Now Playing (Music)
A Now Playing link displays when a song is playing. Click it to display a panel like the following.
This screen displays the name of the current song and it’s play progress and lets you control the
playback.
Figure 54 Now Playing

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4.4.2 Exif and Google Maps (Photos)
Click a photo’s EXIF button to display or hide the photo’s Exchangeable image file format (Exif)
data.
Figure 55 Exif Information

If a photo’s Exif data includes GPS location data, click the latitude or longitude link to display the
location in Google Maps. Click Clear to delete the markers of other photos and only display the
current photo’s marker.
Figure 56 Google Maps

4.4.3 Slideshow and CoolIris (Photos)
In a Photo menu click the SlideShow button to display the menu’s files as a slideshow. Move your
cursor over the slideshow’s screen to display full screen, previous, pause, and next buttons for
controlling the slideshow.

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Note: Your browser must have the Flash Player plug-in installed to view slideshows.
Figure 57 Slideshow

When the CoolIris plugin is installed in your browser, click the Launch CoolIris button to display
your photos as a 3-D wall for quick browsing.

4.4.4 Favorite
Use the Favorite menu to manage your playlists.

4.4.4.1 Shared Playlist
Use Favorite > Shared Playlist to view and play playlists that you created externally (in iTunes,
Windows Media Player, VLC media player, or Winamp for example) and saved to the NSA. When
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4.4.4.2 My Favorite
Use Favorite > My Favorite to create, edit, and play playlists. These playlists are specific to the
NSA and cannot be used in external music players.
Figure 58 Favorite > My Favorite

This table describes labels in this menu.
Table 12 Favorite > My Favorite
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

New

Click this to create a new playlist.

Edit

Double-click a playlist or select it and click Edit to go to a screen where you can remove
songs from the playlist.

Delete All

Within a playlist click Delete All to remove all of the playlist’s songs.

4.4.5 File Browser
Click File Browser to open the following screen. Use the file browsing screens to play, open,
upload, and download files. A share is a set of user access permissions for a specific folder on a
volume (gives someone access to a folder). It is equivalent to the Windows concept of a shared
folder, but the access rights are independent of the folder (you configure the share and the folder
separately). You can map a share to a network drive for easy and familiar file transfer for Windows
users.
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• The administrator owns and manages the public shares.
• Double-click a media file to open it. Double-click other types of files to be able to save them.
• Click to the right of a file or folder name to select it.
• Use the [SHIFT] key to select a range of entries. Hold down the [CTRL] key to select multiple
individual entries.
• Drag and drop files to open a screen that lets you choose whether to copy or move them.
• You can upload files of up to 2 GB in size.
• You can download individual files of up to 4 GB in size with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 7
and later or up to 2 GB in size with Internet Explorer 6.
Figure 59 File Browser

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 13 File Browser
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Click this to go to the next higher layer in the share’s folder tree.

Name

This column identifies the names of folders and files in the share. Click a file’s file name to
open the file or save it to your computer. Click a folder’s name to display the folder’s contents.

Size

This column displays a file’s size in bytes.

Last Modified

This column displays the last time the file or folder was changed (in year-month-day
hour:minute:second format).

Create New
Folder

Click this to open the following screen where you can create a new folder within the share.

Specify a name to identify the folder. See Section 4.4.6 on page 59 for more information on
folder names. Click Apply to create a folder or click Cancel to exit this screen.

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Table 13 File Browser (continued)
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Configure
Share

Select a share and click this link to open a screen where you can see and configure share
management details.

Upload

Click this to open the following screen where you can add files to the share.

Use the Browse button to locate your file/s and click Apply to upload the file. Click Cancel to
close this screen.

Note: Do not refresh the screen while an upload is going on.
Download

Select a file and click this to save the file to your computer.

Note: Do not refresh the screen while a download is going on.
Restore

When you are in a recycle bin folder, select a folder or file and click this to restore it.

4.4.5.1 Configure Share Screen
In the File Browser screen, select a share and click Configure Share to open the following screen
where you can see and configure share management details.
Figure 60 File Browser > Configure Share

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The following table describes the labels in the this screen.
Table 14 File Browser > Configure Share
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Share Name

Configure a name to identify this share. Type a share name from 1 to 239 single-byte (no
Chinese characters allowed for example) ASCII characters. The name cannot be the
same as another existing local share. See Section 4.4.6 on page 59 for more information
on share names. This is not configurable for the NSA’s default admin, music, photo,
public, and video shares.

Volume

This shows the volume the share is on. It is read-only.

Make this share
owned by

Select the administrator or user account that is to own (manage) this share. The share
owner controls access rights to the share. This is not configurable for the NSA’s default
admin and public shares.

Enable This Share

Select this option to allow users to access this share. When this option is not selected,
you cannot see and access this share.

Enable Recycle Bin

Select this option to keep deleted items in a recycle bin. When you delete an item, a
recycle folder is created within the share, and the deleted item is stored in the recycle
bin. Later if you want to retrieve a deleted item, you can select the item from the recycle
folder and move/copy the item to another share.

Publish this share
to Media Server

Select this option to make the share’s files available to media clients.

Publish this share
to Web

Select this option to let people use a web browser to access this share’s files without
logging into the Home screens.

Share Access

Select who can access the files in the share and how much access they are to be given. If
you publish the share to the media server or the web, all users will have at least readonly access to the share, regardless of what you configure here.
Select Keep it private to owner to allow only the share owner to read files in the share,
delete files in the share and save files to the share.
Select Make it public to allow anyone (with or without a user account on the NSA) to
read files in the share, delete files in the share and save files to the share.
Select Advanced to select which individual users can read the share’s files, which users
can delete the share’s files, and which users are blocked from doing either.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

4.4.6 Share and Folder Names
The name can only contain the following characters:
• Alphanumeric (A-z, 0-9) and Unicode.
The NSA allows FTP access to shares, folders or files with names encoded in the UTF-8 (8-bit
UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) format. So your FTP client must support UTF-8 in order to
access shares, folders or files on the NSA with Unicode names.
• Spaces
• _ [underscores]
• . [periods]
• - [dashes]
Other limitations include:
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• Multiple spaces within names are converted to a single space.
• Share names must be unique (they cannot be the same as other share names).
• The NSA creates automatic volume names for external (USB) disk volumes. These are a type of
share, so the share name you configure cannot conflict with the external (USB) disk volume
names. “ExtVol1” or “ExtVol2” are examples of external (USB) disk volume names.
• Folder names must be unique (they cannot be the same as other folder names).
• The minimum character length of a name is one character, that is a name cannot be blank.
• The maximum character length of share name is 239 characters.
• Unicode is supported for share names, although your FTP client must support UTF-8. Full support
should be available in all Windows versions after Windows 2000.

4.4.7 Application Zone
Administrators can click Application Zone to go to a screen where you can enable or disable
various applications for file sharing and downloading.
Figure 61 Application Zone

The following table describes the labels in the this screen.
Table 15 Application Zone

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Name

This is the name of the application.

Description

This is a brief description of the application. See Chapter 10 on page 185 for more
information.

Management
Page

Click this link to go the application’s management page where you can configure settings for
it. See Chapter 10 on page 185 for more information.

Enable

Select a disabled application and click this to turn on the application. Some applications are
always enabled and cannot be disabled.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Disable

Select an enabled application and click this to turn off the application. Select the Flickr or
Youtube Uploadr entry and click this to cancel all uploading. Some applications are always
enabled and cannot be disabled.

Pause

Select the Flickr or Youtube Uploadr entry and click this to pause current uploading. Resume
will resume current uploading.

Resume

Select the Flickr or Youtube Uploadr entry and click this to resume current uploading.

4.4.8 System Settings
Click System > Settings to open the following screen. Use this screen to change general settings
and an account password.
Figure 62 System > Settings

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 16 System > Settings
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Double Click Behavior
Setting

Select Replace current playlist and start to play to have double clicking a song
cause the NSA to immediately stop any currently playing song and start playing the
double-clicked song.
Select Append to current playlist to have double clicking a song add a song to the
end of the current playlist.

Slide Effect

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slideshows. Disable it to display photos in slideshows normally.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Slide Interval

Select how long to display each image in a slideshow before changing to the next.

Video Playback

Select Play Next to play the rest of the video files in a folder. So for example, a folder
has video files 1~10 and you play video 3. When video 3 finishes the device continues
playing the rest of the videos in the folder (4~10). It does not loop back and play
videos 1 and 2.

Account Name

Type the user name of the account for which you want to change the password.

Old Password

Type the user’s current password.

New Password

Create a new password for the user. You can type from one to 14 single-byte (no
Chinese characters allowed for example) ASCII characters.

Password (Confirm)

You must type the exact same password that you just typed in the above field.

Language

Select the web configurator language from the drop-down list box.

Go to system
administration page

This link appears when you are logged in as the administrator. Click it to open the
advanced administration screens. See Section 4.5 on page 62 for more on the
advanced administration screens.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to refresh the screen.

Cancel

Click this to exit the screen without saving your changes.

4.5 Administration Screens
The System > Administration link displays when you log in as the administrator. Click System >
Administration in the Home screen to open the advanced administration screens.
The Status screen is the first advanced administration screen that displays.
Figure 63 Status
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4.5.1 Global Administration Icons
The icons and language label at the top-right of the screen ( 1 ) are visible from most of the
administration screens. The following table describes the ‘global’ icons and labels.
Table 17 Global Labels and Icons
LABEL/ICON

DESCRIPTION

Language

Select the web configurator language from the drop-down list box.

Help

Click this to open web help specific to the screen you are in.

About

Click this to view the model name, firmware version and copyright.

Home

Click this to return to the Home screens.

Logout

Click this at any time to exit the web configurator. This is the same as clicking the Logout link
at the bottom of the navigation panel.

4.5.2 Navigation Panel
The navigation panel on the left of the Web Configurator screen ( 2 ) contains screen links. Click a
link to display sub-links. There are no sub-links for the Status screen. Certain screens also contain
hyper links that allow you to jump to another screen.
The following table describes the navigation panel screens.
Table 18 Screens Summary
LINK

SCREEN

Status

FUNCTION
This screen shows system information, the status of the volumes, and the
users who are currently using the NSA.

System
Setting

Server Name

Specify the NSA’s server name and workgroup name.

Date & Time

Chose a time zone and/or allow the NSA to synchronize with a time server.

Storage

Volume

View volume and disk information and create and edit volumes. A volume is a
storage area that can span one or more internal disks or a single external
(USB) disk.

Network

TCP/IP

Assign the NSA a dynamic or static IP address and DNS information.

UPnP Port
Mapping

Configure your Internet gateway to allow access from the WAN (Internet) to
services on the NSA.

PPPoE

Configure PPPoE settings for a direct Internet connection.

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LINK

SCREEN

FUNCTION

Applications

FTP Server

Enable FTP file transfer to/from the NSA, set the number of FTP connections
allowed, an FTP idle timeout, and the character set.

Media Server

Enable or disable the sharing of media files and select which shares to share.

Download
Service

Have the NSA handle large file downloads.

Web
Publishing

Let people use a web browser to access files in shares without logging into the
Home screens.

Broadcatching

Subscribe the NSA to feeds to download frequently updated digital content like
TV programs, radio talk shows, Podcasts (audio files), YouTube videos, or even
P2P downloads.

Print Server

View and manage the NSA’s list of printers and print jobs.

Copy/Sync
Button

Copy or synchronize files between a USB device and the NSA.

Package

Set up more useful applications in your NSA. The NSA can download multiple
packages/files at once and automatically goes through all the installation
steps.

Auto Upload Flickr/YouTube

Upload files in selected shares to your Flickr and/or YouTube accounts.

Auto Upload FTP Uploadr

Upload files in selected shares to FTP servers.

Users

View, create and edit administrator and user accounts to let people use the
NSA.

Groups

View, create and edit groups. Groups allow you to organize users into specific
groups. You can create shares accessible only by the group members.

View, create and edit shares. Shares are shared folders to which you can allow
specific users read/write access rights.

Power

Configure power saving settings for the NSA and have the NSA turn itself off
and on or reboot according to the schedules you configure.

Log

View the NSA’s logs and configure how you want to receive the log reports.

Configuration

Back up and/or restore the NSA configuration file.

SSL

Configure HTTPS and the NSA’s SSL certificate.

FW Upgrade

Upload/upgrade new firmware to your NSA.

Shutdown

Restart the NSA or shut it down.

Sharing

Maintenance

Logout

Click this to exit the web configurator. This is recommended to prevent
unauthorized administrator access to the NSA.

4.5.3 Main Window
The main window ( 3
rest of this document.

) shows the screen you select in the navigation panel. It is discussed in the

The Status screen is the first administration screen to display. See Chapter 6 on page 153 for more
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4.5.4 Status Messages
The message text box at the bottom of the screen ( 4
the NSA.

)

displays status messages as you configure

4.5.5 Common Screen Icons
The following table explains some icons that appear in several configuration screens.
Table 19 Common Configuration Screen Icons
ICON

DESCRIPTION
Edit
Click this to go to a screen where you can change the configuration settings of an entry.
Delete
Click this to delete an entry from the list.
Edit
Click this to jump to related item’s configuration screen.
Refresh
Click this to refresh the data for the field or value with which it is associated.
User
See the chapter on user accounts for detailed information on variants of this icon.
Share
See the chapter on shares for detailed information on variants of this icon.
Healthy
This represents a healthy volume.
Degraded
This represents a degraded RAID 1 volume. Replace the faulty disk. If the replacement disk
does not contain any partition, the NSA automatically restores the volume. If the replacement
disk already contains a volume, you need to delete the volume and then click the Repair icon
to fix the degraded RAID volume.
Down
This represents a down volume.
Scan Disk
Click this to scan a hard disk for file system errors.
Eject
Click this before you remove an external hard drive so that you do not lose data that is being
transferred to or from that hard drive.
Locate
Click this to cause the LED on the external storage device to blink.
Repair
If you replace a faulty disk with a disk that contains a volume, you need to delete the volume
and then click this to fix the degraded RAID volume.

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4.5.6 Session Example (Windows)
Open Windows Explorer and type two back slashes followed by the NSA name or IP address.
Initially you can only read and write to the Public, Video, Music, and Photo folders until you
create other shares on the NSA. This session is then displayed as shown in the following figure.
Session Example (Windows)

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Tutorials
5.1 Overview
This chapter provides tutorials that show how to use the NSA.
• Windows 7 Network, see page 67
• Windows 7 Network Map, see page 71
• Playing Media Files in Windows 7, see page 74
• Windows 7 Devices and Printers, see page 74
• Creating a Volume in a 2-Bay NSA, see page 77
• Creating a Volume in a 1-Bay NSA, see page 79
• Deleting a Volume, see page 86
• File Sharing Tutorials, see page 87
• Download Service Tutorial, see page 96
• Broadcatching Tutorial, see page 111
• Copy and Flickr Auto Upload Tutorial, see page 117
• FTP Uploadr Tutorial, see page 118
• Web Configurator’s Security Sessions, see page 121
• Using FTPES to Connect to the NSA, see page 134
• Using a Mac to Access the NSA, see page 135
• How to Use the BackupPlanner, see page 138

5.2 Windows 7 Network
To see your NSA in a Windows 7 home or work network:

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Click Start > Control Panel. Set View by to Category and click Network and Internet.

Click View network computers and devices.

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The NSA icon displays twice because the NSA is both a media server and a storage device. Doubleclick either NSA icon to open the Web Configurator login screen.

5.2.1 If the NSA Icon Does Not Display
The network containing the NSA must be set as a home or work network in order for the NSA icons
to display. If the network containing the NSA displays as “Public”:
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Use the Set Network Location screen to set the network’s location to home or work.

5.2.2 NSA Icon Right-click Options
Right-click the NSA’s icon to see these options:

• Install/Uninstall: Click Install to add the NSA as a device in your computer. After you install
the NSA you can see it in the computer’s list of devices (see Section 5.5 on page 74. Click
Uninstall to remove the NSA from the list of devices installed in your computer.
• View device web page opens the Web Configurator login screen.
• Create shortcut adds a desktop shortcut to the Web Configurator login screen.

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• Properties opens a window of NSA details and troubleshooting information.

• Manufacturer identifies the company that produced the NSA.
• Model identifies the NSA model.
•

Model number identifies the NSA model number.

• Device webpage shows the IP address for accessing the Web Configurator.
• Serial number is unavailable because the NSA does not have one.
• MAC address is the NSA’s unique physical hardware address (MAC). You need the MAC
address to register the product at myZyXEL.com. Customer support may also request it for
troubleshooting purposes.
• Unique identifier is a unique UPnP ID that the NSA generated.
• IP address is the NSA’s IP address. It is also the IP address for accessing the Web
Configurator.

5.3 Windows 7 Network Map
To see your NSA in a Windows 7 home or work network map:

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Click Start > Control Panel > View network status and tasks (or Network and Sharing
Center if you view the Control Panel by icons).

Click See full map (1 in the figure).
The network containing the NSA must be set as a home or work network in order to use the full
map feature. If the network containing the NSA displays as “Public”, click the network’s link (2 in
the figure, although it is already set to home here) and use the Set Network Location screen to
set the network’s location to home or work (see page 70).

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Double-click the NSA’s icon to open the Web Configurator login screen. See Section 5.2.2 on page
70 for the NSA icon’s right-click options.

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5.4 Playing Media Files in Windows 7
In Windows 7, the NSA automatically displays as a library in Windows Media Player.
Figure 64 NSA in Windows Media Player

5.5 Windows 7 Devices and Printers
After you use the NSA’s network icon’s install option you can manage the NSA from the Windows 7
Devices and Printers folder.

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Click Start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers. Select the NSA
icon to display information about the NSA. Double-click the NSA icon to open a properties window
(see page 71). Right-click the icon to display these options:

• Download NAS Starter Utility downloads the NSA’s Starter Utility. It lets you find, set up, and
manage the NSA as well as copy files to it and access the files on it. See Chapter 3 on page 31 for
details.
• Create shortcut has Windows make a desktop shortcut to this screen.
• Troubleshoot opens Windows’ device troubleshooting wizard.
• Remove device removes the NSA from the Windows 7 Devices and Printers folder.
• Properties opens a window of NSA details and troubleshooting information (see page 71).

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5.5.1 Windows 7 Desktop Shortcut
This is the NSA’s desktop shortcut. Double-click it to open a properties window (see page 71).

Right-click the NSA’s desktop shortcut icon to see these options:

• Open file location takes you to the Windows 7 Devices and Printers folder.
• Download NAS Starter Utility downloads the NSA’s Starter Utility. It lets you find, set up, and
manage the NSA as well as copy files to it and access the files on it. See Chapter 3 on page 31 for
details.
• Restore previous versions is the Windows 7 option for restoring a file or folder. It does not
apply to this shortcut.
• Send to give you options for copying the shortcut to another location.
• Cut removes this shortcut so you can paste it somewhere else.
• Copy copies the shortcut so you can paste it somewhere else.
• Create shortcut has Windows make a desktop shortcut to this icon.

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• Delete sends the shortcut to the recycle bin.
• Rename lets you change the name of the shortcut.
• Troubleshoot opens Windows’ device troubleshooting wizard.
• Remove device removes the NSA from the Windows 7 Devices and Printers folder.
• Properties opens a window of details about the shortcut.

5.6 Creating a Volume in a 2-Bay NSA
This section shows you how to create a volume in your 2-bay NSA.

Creating a volume deletes all existing data in the hard disk. Make sure
you have a backup of your existing data before following the steps in this
section.
Your NSA has two bays for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disks. The JBOD
storage method is used if you are using a single hard disk for your NSA.
This JBOD volume shows up in the Storage > Volume screen (Section 8.3 on page 165) as
follows.

5.6.1 Creating a RAID 1 Volume
This storage method allows recovery of data if your hard disk fails. To create a RAID 1 volume, you
must install two SATA hard disks in your NSA. There are two ways to create a RAID 1 volume:
• Click the Migrate button - If you already have a SATA hard disk with a volume and you later
install a second SATA hard disk in your NSA, use the Migrate button to convert the existing JBOD
volume to a RAID 1 volume.
• Click the Create an internal volume button - Use this if there are no existing volumes in your
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Do the following steps to create a RAID 1 volume.
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Once you install a second SATA hard disk in the NSA, the Storage > Volume screen shows the
Migrate button.

Click the Migrate button and you can see the following progress bar. Wait for the RAID 1 volume to
be created. This may take quite a while depending on how much data you have in the original
volume.

5.6.3 Create an Internal Volume Button
If you do not have an existing volume in the Storage > Volume screen, do the following steps to
create a RAID 1 volume.
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In the Disk Configuration screen, you can select the storage method.
• Type in the Volume Name for your RAID 1 volume. The volume name can be 1 to 31 characters
(a-z, 0-9, " " [spaces], "_", and ".").
• Choose RAID 1 and click Apply.

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This deletes all existing data in the SATA hard disk. Make sure you have
a backup of any existing data in the hard disk.

The NSA starts creating the volume and you can see the following progress bar. Wait for the RAID 1
volume to be created.

The Storage > Volume screen displays with your RAID 1 volume.

5.7 Creating a Volume in a 1-Bay NSA
This section shows you how to create a volume on your 1-bay NSA.

Creating a volume deletes all existing data in the SATA or eSATA hard
disk. Make sure you have a backup of your existing data before following
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Your NSA has a single bay for a SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard disk. The
firmware installed during hard disk initialization (Chapter 3 on page 31) automatically creates a
JBOD volume on your SATA hard disk. JBOD is the default storage method if you are using a single
hard disk for your NSA.
This JBOD volume shows up in the Storage > Volume screen (Section 8.2 on page 162) as
follows.

When you attach an eSATA hard disk to your NSA, you can configure this volume as: 1) a backup to
your SATA hard disk (RAID 1); or 2) as a separate storage drive (either another JBOD or a PC
Compatible Volume).

5.7.1 Creating a RAID 1 Volume
This storage method allows recovery of data if your hard disk fails. To create a RAID 1 volume, you
must connect an eSATA hard disk to your NSA. There are two ways to create a RAID 1 volume:
• Click the Migrate button - This is a quick way to create a RAID 1 volume. Use this to
automatically synchronize data in the internal hard disk to the eSATA hard disk.
• Click the Create a SATA volume button - Use this if there are no existing volumes in your NSA.

5.7.2 Migrate Button
Do the following steps to create a RAID 1 volume.
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Click the Migrate button and you can see the following progress bar. Wait for up to 10 minutes for
the RAID 1 volume to be created.

5.7.3 Create a SATA Volume Button
If you do not have an existing volume in the Storage > Volume screen, do the following steps to
create a RAID 1 volume.
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This deletes all existing data in the eSATA hard disk. Make sure you have
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The NSA starts creating the volume and you can see the following progress bar. Wait for 2 minutes
for the RAID 1 volume to be created.

The Storage > Volume screen displays with your RAID 1 volume.

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5.7.4 Creating a PC Compatible Volume
You can use your eSATA hard disk as a separate storage volume. The following section shows you
how to create a PC Compatible Volume. Use this storage method if you have an eSATA hard disk
that will be connected to a Windows computer when it is not connected to the NSA. However, the
computer’s platform (for example, Windows XP SP2) should support the file system you selected for
the eSATA hard disk.
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Connect the eSATA hard disk to your NSA and go to the Storage > Volume screen. Click Create a
SATA Volume.

In the Disk Configuration screen, you can select the storage method.
• Type in the Volume Name for your PC Compatible volume. The volume name can be 1 to 31
characters (a-z, 0-9, " " [spaces], "_", and ".").
• Choose PC Compatible Volume.
• Select the File System you want to use (NTFS in this example). Make sure this file system is
supported by the Windows platform you are using in your computer. Refer to Table 28 on page
169 for file systems supported by your NSA. Click Apply.

This deletes all existing data in the eSATA hard disk. Make sure you have
a backup of any existing data in the hard disk.

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The NSA starts creating the volume and you can see the following progress bar. Wait for 2 minutes
for the volume to be created.

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5.7.4.1 Checking Your PC Compatible Volume
The files in the eSATA hard disk that you configured as a PC Compatible Volume should be
accessible when you connect the eSATA hard disk to your computer.
You can configure the features of your NSA to save files to your eSATA hard disk. For example, you
can refer to Section 5.11 on page 111 to use the Broadcatching feature of your NSA to download
files to your eSATA disk.
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When asked for the Location of Downloaded Files, make sure you save the completed files to
the eSATA hard disk (Volume 2 in this example).

The files downloaded by the NSA should be in the Volume 2 folder. You can check this when you
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Disconnect the eSATA hard disk from the NSA. Connect the eSATA hard disk to your computer. On
some systems, you can see the following notification.

The computer assigns a letter to the eSATA hard disk (drive F in this example) that is accessible
from the My Computer screen. Double click the eSATA drive and check your files. They should be
the same files that are in the My NSA > Share Browser screen.

5.8 Deleting a Volume
Delete an existing volume in your NSA by doing the following steps.

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In the Storage > Volume screen, select the volume you want to delete and click the delete icon.

A confirmation window appears as follows. Click Yes.

This deletes all existing data in the volume. Make sure you have a
backup of any existing data in the hard disk.

5.9 File Sharing Tutorials
The following sections cover using the NSA for file sharing. This chapter assumes you have already
followed the Quick Start Guide instructions to perform initial setup and configuration (so you have a
working volume). See the rest of this User’s Guide for details on configuring the NSA’s various
screens.

5.9.1 Creating a User Account
Bob wants to create accounts for his sons Jimmy and Kevin. This is how he would do it.

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At the NSA web configurator login screen enter the administrator account and password and click
Administrator Login to go to the advanced administration screens.

Click Sharing > Users to open the Users screen. Then click Add User.

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Configure the screen as follows and write down the username and password to give to Jimmy. If the
username and password are the same as Jimmy’s Windows login, Jimmy will not need to enter a
username and password when he logs into his share from his computer. Set the Account Type to
User so Jimmy doesn’t get to configure the whole NSA. Click Apply to create the account.

The account now displays in the Users screen.

Now that Bob has created Jimmy’s account, he can go through the steps again to create another
account for Kevin. After both accounts are created, he can go to Section 5.9.2 on page 89 to create
shares for Jimmy and Kevin.

5.9.2 Creating a Share
Suppose Bob has already created separate accounts for his sons Jimmy and Kevin. Now Bob wants
to create a share for each son. He also wants to make sure that each son can only access his own
share (to keep them from deleting each other’s files). This is how he would do it.

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In the NSA’s administration web configurator screens, click Shares > Add Share. Click Add Share
to create a new share.

Specify a name for the share and select which volume it should be on. Configure the screen as
follows. Then click Edit.

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Configure the screen as follows to give Jimmy full access right to the share. Then click Apply to
create the share.

Now that Bob has created Jimmy’s share, he can go through the steps again to create another
share for Kevin.

5.9.3 Creating a Group
After creating user accounts for Jimmy and Kevin, Bob wants to create a group for his sons and
another one for the parents. Bob can assign access rights to his sons’ group for certain shares such
as a cartoons share and allow only the parents’ group to access the scary movie share. This is how
he would create the group.
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Specify a name for the group. Select the user(s) you want to add to the group from the Available
User(s) list and click Add Selected User(s). Configure the screen as follows. Then click Apply to
create the group.

Now that Bob has created a group for Jimmy and Kevin, he can go through the steps again to
create another group for the parents. Then he can see the rest of the tutorials for how to use the
groups in assigning access rights to shares.

5.9.4 Accessing a Share From Windows Explorer
If you map a NSA share (where data is stored) to a Windows network drive, you can use Windows
Explorer to transfer files to and from the NSA as if it was another folder on your computer. Here he
maps Jimmy’s share to Jimmy’s computer.

Start Windows Explorer and go to the NSA’s server name. The default is ‘nsa’ followed by the
number of your model (‘nsa320’ for example).

Click Tools > Map Network Drive.

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Select the network drive that you want to map the NSA to from the Drive list box. This example
uses I. Then browse to and select the share on the NSA. Click Finish.

Enter the username and password for Jimmy’s account and click OK. You do not need to do this if
the username and password are the same as Jimmy’s Windows login.

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After the mapping is done, you can then simply copy and paste or drag and drop files from/to your
local computer’s drives to or from this network folder. Just like the NSA’s share was another folder
on your computer.

Now that Bob has mapped Jimmy’s share to Jimmy’s computer, he can go through the steps again
to map Kevin’s share to Kevin’s computer.

5.9.5 Accessing a Share Using FTP
You can also use FTP to access the NSA. Suppose Jimmy is temporarily using a different computer
and wants to access his share without mapping it to the computer. This is how he would do it.
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Enter your password and click Login.

Now you can access files and copy files from/to your local computer’s drives to or from this network
folder.

5.9.6 Accessing a Share Through the Web Configurator
You can browse and access files through the web configurator.

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Log into the NSA web configurator (see Section 4.3 on page 49) using the appropriate user name
and password (this example uses Jimmy’s) and click File Browser. Click a share (the Jimmy share
in this example) to see the top level of the share’s contents.

Click a folder’s file name to browse the folder. You can open files or copy them to your computer.
You can also create new folders and upload additional files to the share.

Click the logout icon when your are done.

5.10 Download Service Tutorial
This tutorial covers using the NSA to download a file from the Internet. Use this same procedure for
P2P downloads as well as regular HTTP (web) and FTP downloads. See Section 10.11.2 on page 217
for more on the download service.

5.10.1 Copying/Pasting a Download Link
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Find a download link for the file you want. In this example, www.zyxel.com has a Download Now
link for downloading a datasheet for ZyXEL’s GS-2024 (a device for making phone calls over the
Internet).

Note: Make sure the link opens either the file you want or a pop-up window about how to
handle the file.
Note: It is also OK for the link to open a .torrent file. If you are redirected to a screen that
says the download should start in a few seconds, there may be a link to click if the
download does not start automatically. See if that link opens the file or the pop-up
window.
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Right-click the download link and select Copy Shortcut in Internet Explorer (or Copy Link
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Log into the NSA web configurator (see Section 4.3 on page 49) using the administrator account
and click Application Zone and the Application Zone > Download Service link.

Click Add.

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Right-click the URL field and select Paste.

The URL displays in the URL field. Click Apply.

After a few moments, the download task appears in the Download Service screen’s Active tab.
The download appears in the Completed tab when it is done. By default the NSA stores all
downloads in the admin share’s download folder. See Section 5.9.4 on page 92, Section 5.9.5 on
page 94, or Section 5.9.6 on page 95 for how to access a share.

5.10.2 Installing the Link Capture Browser Plugin
In addition to copying and pasting a download link to the Download Service screen, you can also
install a link capture browser plugin in your web browser. Use the plugin to easily add a download
link to the NSA’s download service. See Section 10.11.3 on page 218 for more on the link capture
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Note: At the time of writing the plugin supports Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0 and Mozilla
Firefox 2.0/3.0; it does not support Windows 7.

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Open the folder containing the link capture browser plugin.

Double-click on the plugin to display the following screen. Click I Agree to begin installation.

Select a location to save the plugin and click Install. Close the screen once the installation is
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Open Internet Explorer and locate a download link. In this example, www.zyxel.com has a
Download Now link for downloading a user’s guide for ZyXEL’s NBG410W3G (a 3G wireless
router). Right-click on the download link and select NSA Setting.

Enter the NSA’s web address. The default is ‘nsa’ followed by the number of your model (‘nsa320’
for example). Then click Apply. A warning message displays asking for confirmation. Click OK to
apply the setting.

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Open the folder containing the link capture browser plugin.

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To install the plugin, drag and drop the plugin to Firefox.

The following screen displays. Click Install Now.

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You need to restart Firefox after the installation.

When Firefox restarts, a message displays to show the installation succeeded. The plugin is
installed as an extension in Add-ons. Click Options to configure the NSA’s web address.

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Enter the NSA’s web address. The default is ‘nsa’ followed by the number of your model (‘nsa320’
for example). Then click OK.

5.10.3 Using the Link Capture Browser Plugin
Once you install the plugin, you may begin sending download links to the NSA from your web
browser. This example shows how to send a download link to the NSA’s download service using the
link capture browser plugin.

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Open your Internet browser (this example uses Firefox).

Find a download link for the file you want. In this example, www.zyxel.com has a Download Now
link for downloading a user’s guide for ZyXEL’s P-660W-T1 (an ADSL router).

Right-click on the download link and select Send to NSA.

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The login screen shows up. Enter your NSA’s login information and click Login to send the link to
the download service. A confirmation message displays.

Log into the NSA web configurator (see Section 4.3 on page 49) using the administrator account
and click Application Zone and the Application Zone > Download Service link.

The download task appears in the Download Service screen’s Active or Queue tab. It may
appear in the Completed tab if the NSA already finished downloading the file or it may appear in
the Error tab if the NSA failed to download the file.

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By default the NSA stores all downloads in the admin share’s download folder. See Section 5.9.4
on page 92, Section 5.9.5 on page 94, or Section 5.9.6 on page 95 for how to access a share.

5.10.4 Configuring the Download Service Preferences
Once you added a list of download tasks to the NSA (see Section 5.10.1 on page 96 and Section
5.10.3 on page 104), you can have the NSA download files during a specific time period of the day.
You can also configure the P2P download settings to control bandwidth and optimize download
efficiency.
Say you have the NSA turned on all the time, but you only want the NSA download files at night.
Here is how you use the download period control feature to set the time range.
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Click Applications > Download Service > Preferences to open the General Settings screen.

Select Enable Download Period Control and use the arrows to adjust the time period from 23:30
to 09:00. Click Apply to save your changes. The NSA only downloads files within this 9.5-hour
period every day.

Note: If you configure the Power On/Off Schedule feature in the Power Management
screen, make sure your active download period does not conflict with the power-off
period.
Note: If power failure occurs during the active download period, the NSA will verify
whether the downloaded files were damaged. If a file is corrupted, the NSA will
download the file again. If the file is intact but not completely downloaded, the NSA
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When it is not the download time, you see a message in the Download Service screen, indicating
the active download period.

Click Applications > Download Service > Preferences > P2P download to open the following
screen. Enter the information below and then click Apply.

Here is a list of P2P download settings you want to configure for your NSA:
• Limit the maximum upload rate to 20 KB/s.
Enter this value in the Max. upload rate field.
• Actively download three torrent files but only upload one at a time.
Enter 3 in the Maximum Number of Active Torrents field and enter 1 in the Maximum
Number of Seeding Jobs field.
• Keep sharing until the NSA has shared equal or greater amount of the downloaded files.
Select the check box and enter 100 in the Upload/Download Ratio field.

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• Click Edit IP Filter. Use an online IP filter table from http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz
for example to protect P2P downloads.
Enter the URL in the Update IP Filter from the Internet Every Week field.

5.10.5 Using Download Service Notification
Use an RSS feed reader on your computer to keep track of files the NSA has downloaded. The
following examples show how to subscribe to the NSA’s download service notifications. See Section
10.11.4 on page 218 for more on download service notifications.
Some RSS readers may not support the NSA’s download service notifications. For example, Google
Reader cannot support this feature if the NSA has a private IP address.

Note: It is recommended to subscribe to the download service notifications using the
built-in reader in Internet Explorer 7 or higher, or Firefox.
You have to activate this feature in the Download Service screen. Click Applications >
Download Service to open the following screen. Select Enable Download Notify and click
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After you activate download service notification, click the RSS feed icon.

The following screen displays. Select Subscribe to this feed.

The following screen displays. Click Subscribe.

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Click the Favorite icon on your browser and select the Feeds tab to check the updates of your
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After you activate download service notification, click the RSS feed icon.

The following screen displays. Select Live Bookmarks from the drop-down list and click
Subscribe Now.

The following screen displays. Select Bookmarks Menu and click Add.

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From the Firefox’s Bookmarks Menu, select Download Notify to check the updates of your NSA’s
download list.

5.11 Broadcatching Tutorial
Use broadcatching to have the NSA download frequently updated digital content like TV programs,
radio talk shows, Podcasts (audio files), and blogs. This example shows how to subscribe the NSA
to the CNET TV Internet television channel. See Section 10.8 on page 207 for more on the
broadcatching service.
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Find the link for the RSS feed containing the channel you want to add. In this example, http://
reviews.cnet.com/4520-11455_7-6333605-1.html has an RSS link for subscribing to the CNET Live
podcast. However this is not the link for the actual RSS feed. Click the link to go to another screen
that has RSS feed links.

Note: Make sure the link goes to the actual RSS feed instead of to another list of links or
information about the channel.
One way to test this is by clicking the link. Clicking an actual RSS feed link opens a screen of XML
code (in browsers without an RSS feed aggregator) or a window where you can add the RSS feed
(in browsers with an RSS feed aggregator).

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Right-click the download link and select Copy Link Location in Firefox (or Copy Shortcut in
Internet Explorer).

Log into the NSA web configurator (see Section 4.3 on page 49) using the administrator account
and click Administration > Applications > Broadcatching.

Click Add Channel.

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Right-click the URL field and select Paste.

The URL displays in the URL field.

Select a policy for what items to download. This example uses Manually Choose Items for
Download so you will be able to select individual items to download later.

Select a policy for what items to delete. This example keeps the most recent 10 items.

10 Click Apply.

11 After a few moments, the channel appears in the Broadcatching screen where you can select
items you want to download. The NSA saves the items you download in a folder named after the
channel. By default, the channel folders are created in the admin share’s download folder. The
NSA’s media server feature makes it easy for users on your network to play the broadcatching files
you download. See Section 10.11.1 on page 216 for more on the media server.

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5.12 Printer Server Tutorial
Do the following to have the NSA let computers on your network share a printer. See
www.zyxel.com for a list of compatible printers.
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Make sure the NSA is on and the SYS light is on steady (not blinking).

Use a USB cable to connect the printer’s USB port to one of the NSA’s USB ports. Make sure the
printer is also connected to an appropriate power source.

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Turn on the printer.

The NSA detects the printer after a few moments.

On your computer, open your CIFS file sharing program (Windows Explorer for example) and
browse to the NSA. Double-click the printer’s icon.

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If you get a warning screen, click the option that lets you continue (Yes in this example).

If your computer does not already have the printer’s driver installed, you will need to install it. In
this example, click OK.

Use the wizard screens to install the printer driver on the computer. You may need to get the file
from the printer’s CD or the printer manufacturer’s website (the driver is not installed on the NSA).

Note: You must install the printer driver on each computer that will use the printer.

After the driver installation finishes, the computer is ready to use the printer. Select the printer in
an application to use it to print. Browse to the NSA using a CIFS program (like Windows Explorer)
and double-click the printer’s icon to open the printer’s queue of print jobs.

Note: Repeat steps 5 to 8 on your other computers so they can also use the printer.

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5.13 Copy and Flickr Auto Upload Tutorial
Amy received some photos taken during her best friend’s wedding and saved the files on a USB
disk. She wants to save a copy of the photos in the NSA and upload the photos to her Flickr
account.
Amy has to activate the NSA’s auto upload feature. See Section 12.4 on page 279 for more details
on setting up a Flickr account for auto upload. In this example Amy select the NSA’s photo share for
auto upload.
This is how Amy would transfer the files from her USB disk to the NSA.
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Click Applications > Copy/Sync Button in the navigation panel to open the screen.

Configure the copy settings as shown and click Apply.

Press and release the COPY/SYNC button on the NSA’s front panel to start copying files.

The copied files can be found in a new folder in the photo share. The name of this folder is the date
(yyyy-mm-dd) and time (hh-mm-ss) when the folder is created.

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The NSA also automatically uploads the copied files to Flickr.
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5.14 FTP Uploadr Tutorial
FTP Uploadr can automatically upload files saved on the NSA to a remote FTP server. Amy wants to
share files on her NSA with Susan. They each have an NSA at home, so Susan has to set her NSA as
an FTP server for Amy to automatically send files using FTP Uploadr.
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To set the NSA as an FTP server, click Applications > FTP to open the FTP screen. Select Enable
FTP and click Apply.

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Susan also has to create a user account and share on her NSA for Amy to upload files. The share is
used for files uploaded from Amy’s NSA. Amy will then use the following information to configure
FTP Uploadr on her NSA.
Table 20 FTP Uploadr Tutorial: FTP Server Information
FTP Domain Name or IP Address

example2.com

FTP User Name

Amy

FTP Password

xxxxx

Share (Remote Path)

Amy

This is how Amy would set up the NSA’s FTP Uploadr.
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Click Applications > Auto Upload > FTP Uploadr to open the FTP Uploadr screen. Select
Enable FTP Uploadr and click Apply to turn on FTP Uploadr.

Click Add Server.

Enter the information as describe in Table 20 on page 119. Click Apply to add the server.

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In the FTP Uploadr screen, click Preferences to configure the auto upload settings.

Amy wants to share video files with Susan. In the Preferences screen, click the Add button and
select video from the Shares drop-down list box, enter a forward slash in the Path field and click
Apply to add the share to the Folder Watch List.
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Amy also set the Bandwidth Limit to 20KB/s so that the upload doesn’t slow down her Internet
connection.

Now Amy has set up FTP Uploadr to send files to Susan’s NSA. Every time Amy adds new files or
renames files in the video share, these new or modified files will be uploaded automatically to the
Amy share on Susan’s NSA.
Similarly, Susan can go through the steps described above to configure FTP Uploadr on her NSA.
Once Susan completes the setup, Amy can also receive files from Susan’s NSA.

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5.15 Web Configurator’s Security Sessions
These tutorials show you how to configure security for the NSA’s Web Configurator sessions. You
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5.15.1 Customizing the NSA’s Certificate

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Click Maintenance > SSL and then select Edit a self-signed CA certificate and click Edit.

Next, let’s modify the certificate by changing the Common Name to this NSA’s host name of “nsa”,
the Organization to “ZyXEL” and the Key Length to 2048.

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The NSA restarts its network services and returns you to the login screen.

5.15.2 Downloading and Installing Customized Certificate
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Save the file to your computer.

Find the certificate file on your computer and double-click it.

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Install the certificate. The rest of the steps in this section are an example of installing a certificate
in Windows. See Appendix D on page 407 for other examples. In the Certificate dialog box, click
Install Certificate.

In the Certificate Import Wizard, click Next.

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Leave Automatically select certificate store based on the type of certificate selected and
click Next.

In the Completing the Certificate Import Wizard screen, click Finish.

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If you are presented with another Security Warning, click Yes.

Finally, click OK when presented with the successful certificate installation message.

5.15.3 Turn on the NSA’s Web Security
Now that you have customized the NSA’s certificate and installed it in your computer, you can turn
on security for your Web Configurator sessions. This example uses Firefox 3.0. See Appendix D on
page 407 for more information on browsers and certificates.

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Close your web browser and open it again to reset its session with the NSA. Log in and click
Maintenance > SSL. Select Force HTTPS and click Apply.

A warning screen pops up if applying your change may disconnect some users. Click Apply to
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The NSA logs you out and automatically redirects your formerly non-secure (HTTP) connection to a
secure (HTTPS) connection. Your browser may give you a warning about the device’s public key
certificate. Add an exception to allow your browser to bypass the warning.

Click Add Exception.

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Before you add an exception, verify that the device to which you are trying to connect is providing
the correct certificate. Click View.

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The SHA1 fingerprint must match the NSA’s certificate you downloaded from the NSA to your
computer. (Double-click the NSA’s certificate file and then click Details and look at the
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If the certificate fingerprints match, click Confirm Security Exception, otherwise click Cancel.

The login screen displays.

Now, anyone who connects to the NSA’s Web Configurator screens will automatically do so by
HTTPs. Use a secure method to let your users know the correct fingerprint for the NSA’s certificate
so they can check it before adding a security exception (as in steps 6 to 7 on pages 131 to 132).
See the next section for how to use FTPES with the NSA for secure FTP transfers.

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5.16 Using FTPES to Connect to the NSA
This section covers how to use FTP over Explicit TLS/SSL with the NSA for secure FTP transfers.
Before you go through this section, read Section 5.15 on page 121 to configure HTTPS. This
example uses FileZilla.
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Open FileZilla and click File > Site Manager > New Site.
• Configure the Host field with the NSA’s address.
• Set the Servertype to FTPES - FTP over explicit TLS/SSL.
• Configure the account name and password.
• Click Connect.

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A security warning screen displays. The SHA1 fingerprint must match the NSA’s certificate you
downloaded from the NSA to your computer. (Double-click the NSA’s certificate file and then click
Details and look at the Thumbprint). If they match, click OK.

The shares and folders to which Gonzo has access display. Now you can use FTP to securely transfer
files to or from the NSA. Use a secure method to let your users know the correct fingerprint for the
NSA’s certificate so they can check it before adding a security exception.

5.17 Using a Mac to Access the NSA
This tutorial shows you how to find the NSA on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
You can access the NSA in two ways:
• Use the Finder to browse for the NSA, or
• Use the Finder > Go option to connect to the NSA.

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Open a new Finder window.

Select All under the SHARED sidebar. Look for the NSA from the Network list.

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Expand the NSA to display the shares you may access.

5.17.2 Go Menu
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When the Connect to Server dialog box opens, enter smb:// and the NSA’s IP address in the
Server Address field. You may also click Browse to have the Mac search for the NSA. Click
Connect.

Once you establish the connection, you can access the NSA from the Finder or directly from the
desktop.

5.18 How to Use the BackupPlanner
Note: The screens and links in this section appear only after you have installed and
enabled BackupPlanner. BackupPlanner is an application that you can install using
Package Management (see Chapter 11 on page 229.)
Use the NSA’s BackupPlanner to have a backup of your files and folders.
Schedule backups for times when the network is not busy (like at night or on weekends). For
example, you might do daily backups of important individual files or folders and a weekly general
archive. You can save backups to another location so your files can survive even if the original RAID
or NSA fails.

5.18.1 Creating an Archive Backup
To backup the NSA every week to a remote NSA:

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Click Protect > Backup > Add Job.
Figure 65 Protect > Backup

Identify the backup job and select Archive.
New files are often added to the shares that you need to back up and existing files are not
frequently changed so select Incremental. The NSA does a full backup first and later only copies
source files that are new and/or modified since the last backup. This example sets the NSA to do
another full backup after every four incremental backups.
Figure 66 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 1

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Select the volume1 check box to select all the folders and files.
Select Remote and enter the other NSA’s address, username, password, and share name.
If you want to make sure the remote NSA is reachable, click Test Connection.
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In this example, the target NSA is on the LAN so leave the compression off.
Security is already configured on the target NSA so you can leave the encryption off, too.
Have the NSA keep 3 backups.
Figure 68 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 3

Set the frequency to Weekly. Schedule the backup for 5:00 every Saturday morning.
Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 4

5.18.2 Creating a Synchronization Backup
To create a synchronization backup:

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Click Protect > Backup > Add Job.
Figure 69 Protect > Backup

Name the backup job and select Synchronization.
You want only your current set of files in the remote NSA’s folder, so you select Mirror to make the
target folder identical to the source folder. The NSA deletes any other files in the target folder.
Figure 70 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 1

Select the folder that needs to be mirrored (your Private folder in this example) and Remote.
• Enter the other NSA’s address and administrator password.
• Click Show target content to display the remote NSA’s contents.
• Select the destination on the remote NSA (Backups in this example).

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• Click Next.
Figure 71 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 2

Click OK in the warning dialog box.
Figure 72 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 3

For this example, assume the connection to the German branch office is a good one and not many
files need to be backed up so leave the compression off.
• Turn on the encryption to protect these sensitive files during the transfer. The final files stored
on the remote NSA will be unencrypted (usable).
• Restrict the bandwidth usage to 256 KB/s to stop the archives from using all of your network
connection’s available bandwidth.
• You don’t have to configure a purge policy for a synchronization backup.

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• Click Next.
Figure 73 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 3

Schedule the backup to occur every morning at 3:00 and click Done.
Figure 74 Protect > Backup > Add Job: Step 4

You do not need to use a special restore process to use the files a synchronization backup creates.
The copy of files that the NSA creates on the other NSA’s Backups share can be used directly by
anyone with access to that share.

5.18.3 Restoring Archived Files by Backup Job
If you have backup jobs for which the NSA has already performed backups, you can restore the files
based on the backup job. Do the following:

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Click Protect > Backup screen, select a backup job and click Restore Archive.
Figure 75 Protect > Backup

Select which backup to use and click Next.
Figure 76 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Step 1

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Select the files and folders you want to restore and click Next.
Figure 77 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Step 2

Select the original location and click Done.
Figure 78 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Step 3

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The NSA restores the files into the share. When it finishes you can access the files.
Figure 79 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Progress

5.18.4 Restoring by Backup Files
If you deleted an archive backup job or the NSA or the RAID array containing the backup job failed
you cannot restore archived files by the backup job. In this example, the NSA’s RAID array failed.
You’ve replaced the hard drives and re-configured the RAID. To restore by backup files:
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Click Protect > Restore. Specify where the archive files are located. In this example, enter
“192.168.3.2” as the IP address, “admin” as the account name, “1234” as the password, and
“Backups” as the share name. Click Test Connection. Click Next.
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Select the backup job and backup time and click Next.
Figure 81 Protect > Restore: Step 2

Select everything in the share except the recycle folder. Click Next.
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Browse to the folder where you want to put the files. Click Done.
Figure 83 Protect > Restore: Step 4

The NSA restores the files and you can use them again.

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6.1 Overview
This chapter describes the Status screen, which is the first advanced administration screen that
displays.

6.2 The Status Screen
Click Administration in the Home screens (Section 4.5 on page 62) to open the Web Configurator.
You can also view the status screen, by clicking Status on the top-left of the navigation panel.
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 21 Status
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Status

Click this to refresh the status screen statistics.

System Information
Server Name

This displays the name which helps you find the NSA on the network. Click the
Edit icon to go to the screen where you can configure this.

Model Name

This displays which model this NSA device is.

Firmware Version

This is the NSA firmware version. Click the Edit icon to go to the Maintenance >
FW Upgrade screen from which you can upload/upgrade new firmware.

MAC Address

This displays the NSA’s unique physical hardware address (MAC). You need the
MAC address to register the product at myZyXEL.com. Customer support may also
request it for troubleshooting purposes.

Media Server Status

This shows whether the media server function is enabled or disabled. It must be
enabled for media clients to play content files stored on the NSA. Click the Edit
icon to go to the screen where you can configure this.

FTP Server Status

This shows whether the FTP server function is enabled or disabled. It must be
enabled to use FTP file transfer to/from the NSA. Click the edit icon to go to the
screen where you can configure this.

Web Publishing Status

This shows whether the Web server function is enabled or disabled. It must be
enabled to use HTTP to access shares on the NSA. Click the Edit icon to go to the
screen where you can configure this.

UPS

This shows the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) capacity. Click the Edit icon to
go to the screen where you can configure this.

CPU Usage

This displays a summary of CPU usage by all current processes.
Click the Refresh icon to update this display. It also automatically updates itself
every 10 seconds.

Note: If too many users are using the NSA then the NSA may appear sluggish.
CPU Temperature

This displays the current temperature near the NSA’s CPU. The NSA generates an
emergency log if the temperature goes out of the normal operating range. If the
temperature goes even higher, the NSA shuts down automatically to avoid
damage from overheating. If the NSA overheats, make sure the fans are working
and it is in a well ventilated place.
Click the Refresh icon to update this display. It also automatically updates itself
every 60 seconds.

Fan Speed

This is the RPM (Rotations Per Minute) of the NSA’s fans.
Click the Refresh icon to update this display. It also automatically updates itself
every 60 seconds.

Memory Usage

This shows how much of the NSA's total memory is being used.
Click the Refresh icon to update this display. It also automatically updates itself
every 10 seconds.

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Volume Status

A volume is a storage area on a single disk or spread across a number of disks
within a single file system.

Internal Volume (or SATA
Volume)

This displays the volumes created on the hard drives installed in the NSA.
Click the Edit icon to open the Storage screen. You can create and edit the NSA’s
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

External Volume (or USB
Volume)

This displays the volumes created on USB hard drives connected to the NSA. USB
disks are numbered in the order that you insert USB devices.
Click the Edit icon to open the Storage screen. You can create and edit the
external volume. See Chapter 8 on page 161 for more details.

Status

This icon indicates whether the volume is healthy, degraded, or down.

Name

This field shows the name for the volume.

Configuration

This field (also known as Type) shows what type of data storage system (a RAID
type or JBOD) an internal volume is using.

File System

This field shows what file system an external (USB) volume is using.

Disk(s)

For internal drives, this shows which hard drive bays are included in the volume.
For external drives, this field shows front USB for the front USB port and rear
USB1 and rear USB2 for the rear USB ports.

Disk Usage

This field shows total disk size, the percentage of the disk being used and the
percentage that is available.

Active Sessions

This shows how many users are currently connected to the NSA.

Type

This shows whether it’s a Windows/CIFS, web (web configurator), or FTP
connection to the NSA.

Share Name

This displays the shared folder name on the NSA that the user is connected to for
CIFS sessions and is blank for FTP and web sessions.

Username

This displays the name of the user connected to the NSA if one is defined.
ANONYMOUS FTP displays if a username is not defined for the user’s connection.

Connected At

This displays the date and time the user last connected to the NSA in year, month,
day, hour, minute, second format.

IP Address

This displays the IP address of the computer connected to the NSA.

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7.1 Overview
This chapter gives an overview of the various features included in the system setting screens. You
can identify your NSA on the network and set the time that the NSA follows for its scheduled tasks/
logs.

7.2 What You Can Do
• Use the Server Name screen (Section 7.4 on page 158) to specify the NSA’s server and
workgroup names.
• Use the Date/Time screen (Section 7.5 on page 158) to set up date/time and choose a time
zone for the NSA.

7.3 What You Need to Know
Windows/CIFS
Common Internet File System (CIFS) is a standard protocol supported by most operating systems
in order to share files across the network.
• CIFS is included by default in Windows operating systems.
• You can use Samba with Linux to use CIFS.
• CIFS transfers use security.

Time Lag
Time lag occurs when the time on the NSA falls behind the time on the time server. This may
happen if:
• the time server is no longer reachable
• if the NSA is shut down often (the NSA internal battery keeps time when the NSA is shut down
and this may cause possible variance)
• power surges occur.
The NSA gives no warning if time lag occurs. You should resynchronize the time after a power surge
or after you have shut down the NSA several times.

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7.4 The Server Name Screen
Click System Setting > Server Name to open the following screen. Use this screen to configure
your CIFS settings. In this screen you can set your server name and specify if your NSA is a part of
a workgroup.

Note: CIFS cannot be disabled on the NSA.
Figure 85 System Setting > Server Name

The following table describes the labels in these screens.
Table 22 System Setting > Server Name
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Server Name

Enter a name to identify your NSA on the network in this field.
You can enter up to 15 alphanumeric characters with minus signs allowed but not as the
last character. The name must begin with an alphabet (a-z) and is NOT case sensitive.

Description

Add text here to describe the NSA if the Server Name field is not enough. Use up to 61
characters. You can use all characters except the following: /\:|[]<>+;,?=*"~.

Workgroup Name

Type your workgroup name in this field. A workgroup is a group of computers on a
network that can share files.These user accounts are maintained on the NSA.
You can enter up to 15 alphanumeric characters with minus signs allowed but not as the
last character. The name must begin with an alphabet (a-z) and is NOT case sensitive.

Prevent NSA From
Being Master
Browser

Select this option if computers in your workgroup are named with non-English characters
(such as Chinese and Russian). When you perform a search in the workgroup, this option
allows you to locate computers named with non-English characters.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore previously saved settings.

7.5 The Date/Time Screen
Use this screen to select a time zone and a time server from which your NSA can get the time and
date. This time is then used in NSA logs and alerts.

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Click the System Setting link in the navigation panel and then click the Date/Time link to access
the Date/Time screen.
Figure 86 System Setting > Date/Time

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 23 System Setting > Date/Time
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Current System Date Time Setting
Current Time

This field displays the time used by your NSA for its logs and alerts.

Current Date

This field displays the date used by your NSA for its logs and alerts.

Date Time Setup
Manual

Select this radio button to enter the time and date manually.
When you enter the time settings manually, the NSA uses the new setting once you click
Apply.

Note: If you enter time settings manually, they revert to their defaults when power is lost.
New Date
(yyyy-mm-dd)

This field displays the last updated date from the time server or the last date configured
manually.
When you set Time and Date Setup to Manual, enter the new date in this field and
then click Apply.

New Time
(hh:mm:ss)

This field displays the last updated time from the time server or the last time configured
manually.
When you set Time and Date Setup to Manual, enter the new time in this field and
then click Apply.

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select in the Time Server Address field.
Select a time server from the drop-down list box or select Specify my own time server
and enter the time server you wish to use in the field below. Check with your ISP/network
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LABEL
Synchronize
Now

DESCRIPTION
Click this for the NSA to retrieve the correct time from the configured time server right
away.

Time Zone
Time Zone

Choose the time zone of your location. This will set the time difference between your time
zone and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Manual Daylight
Saving

Daylight saving is a period from late spring to fall when many countries set their clocks
ahead of normal local time by one hour to give more daytime light in the evening.
Select this option to manually enter Daylight Saving Time settings. Clear this option to
have the NSA automatically retrieve Daylight Saving Time settings from the Internet. The
NSA will download a new daylight saving resource file from the Internet every month.

Start Date

Configure the day and time when Daylight Saving Time starts if you selected Enable
Daylight Saving. The hour field uses the 24 hour format. Here are a couple of
examples:
Daylight Saving Time starts in most parts of the United States on the second Sunday of
March. Each time zone in the United States starts using Daylight Saving Time at 2 A.M.
local time. So in the United States you would use March, Second, Sunday, at 2:00.
Daylight Saving Time starts in the European Union on the last Sunday of March. All of the
time zones in the European Union start using Daylight Saving Time at the same moment
(1 A.M. GMT or UTC). So in the European Union you would select March, Last, Sunday.
The time you specify depends on your time zone. In Germany for instance, you would
type 2 because Germany's time zone is one hour ahead of GMT or UTC (GMT+1).

End Date

Configure the day and time when Daylight Saving Time ends if you selected Enable
Daylight Saving. The o'clock field uses the 24 hour format. Here are a couple of
examples:
Daylight Saving Time ends in the United States on the first Sunday of November. Each
time zone in the United States stops using Daylight Saving Time at 2 A.M. local time. So
in the United States you would select November, First, Sunday, at 2:00.
Daylight Saving Time ends in the European Union on the last Sunday of October. All of the
time zones in the European Union stop using Daylight Saving Time at the same moment
(1 A.M. GMT or UTC). So in the European Union you would select October, Last,
Sunday. The time you specify depends on your time zone. In Germany for instance, you
would type 2 because Germany's time zone is one hour ahead of GMT or UTC (GMT+1).

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Offset

Specify by how many hours to change the time for Daylight Saving Time.

Apply

Click this to save your changes. If you configured a new time and date, Time Zone and
Daylight Saving at the same time, all of the settings take affect.

Cancel

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8.1 Overview
Several NSA features require a valid internal volume. This chapter covers the management of
volumes and disks (both internal and external).
Use the Storage screen (Section 8.2 on page 162) to display information on all volumes, create
internal and external volumes, and configure the volume’s properties.

8.1.1 What You Need to Know About Storage
Disk
The NSA210 requires an initialized SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard disk to
function. Refer to the Quick Start Guide for steps on how to initialize the hard disk.
SATA or Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is a computer bus technology that allows
high-speed data transfer to and from hard disks.
1-bay NSA models include an eSATA port. An eSATA (external SATA) hard disk has the same
specifications as a SATA hard disk but is attached to the NSA using a cable. It can be used either to
expand storage or backup data. The eSATA hard disk is optional. You can attach one SATA and one
eSATA to the NSA hard disk tray. Both SATA and eSATA hard disks are treated as internal disks/
volumes (refer to Section 8.3 on page 165).
USB-attached storage disks are treated as external disks/volumes.

Volume
A volume is a storage area on a disk or disks. You can create volumes on the internal disks and
external disks attached to the USB port(s). You can spread a volume across internal disks but not
between internal and external disks.

Storage Methods
The NSA uses the following storage methods:
• RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
• PC Compatible Volume (1-bay models)
• JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks)

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The storage method you use depends on how many disks you have and how many volumes you
want to create. It’s important that you consider this carefully as all data is deleted when you recreate a volume. See Figure 8.6.2 on page 170 for details on choosing a storage method.

Note: 1-bay models configure the internal hard disk (SATA) as JBOD by default. You can
modify it if you attach a second internal hard disk (an eSATA hard disk).

Finding Out More
See Section 8.6 on page 170 for more technical background information on storage.

8.2 The Storage Screen
The Storage screen allows you to create and edit volumes in the NSA.

8.2.1 Disk Replacement Restrictions
See the Quick Start Guide for information on replacing disks in the NSA. When replacing a disk in a
degraded or down RAID volume, the new disk must be at least the same size or bigger than the
other disks that are already in the RAID volume, so as all data in the volume can be restored.
For example, if you have RAID with 250 GB disks, you must put in a 250 GB or bigger disk as a
replacement in order to restore all original data in that volume. If the replacement disk is of a
higher capacity, the extra space on the disk will not be used except if it is for a RAID 1 volume and
you follow the Expanding a RAID 1 Volume procedure.

Note: The NSA automatically repairs a degraded RAID volume if you insert an empty disk
without an existing file system. Otherwise, when you replace a disk you must go to
the Storage > Internal Volume > RAID screen, select the degraded array, and
click Repair.

Resynchronizing or Recovering a RAID 1 Volume
Resynchronizing or recovering a RAID 1 volume that was down is done block-by-block, so the time
it takes depends more on the size of your hard drive(s) than the amount of data you have on them.

Note: Do not restart the NSA while the NSA is resynchronizing or recovering a volume as
this will cause the synchronization to begin again after the NSA fully reboots.
Note: You can access data on a RAID volume while it is resynchronizing or recovering, but
it is not recommended.

Expanding a RAID 1 Volume
Replace a RAID 1 volume’s hard disks with higher capacity hard disks to be able to increase the
RAID 1 volume’s capacity. For example, you have two 500 GB hard disks. You replace one 500 GB
hard disk with a 1 TB hard disk and repair the volume. After the NSA finishes resynchronizing the
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volume again. After the NSA finishes the second repair, use the Expand icon to have the RAID1
volume use the rest of the hard disk capacity.

8.2.2 Storage Screen
Click Storage > Volume in the navigation panel to display the following screen. Use this screen to
display internal and external volumes on the NSA.

Note: It is recommended to scan the volume every three months or 32 reboots.
Figure 87 Storage > Volume

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 24 Storage > Volume
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Internal/External
Volume

(2-bay models) These tables display information on all internal volumes (created on NSA
internal disk drives) and external volumes (created on external disk drives attached to
the NSA USB ports).

Create an Internal
Volume

(2-bay models) Click this to format internal hard drives and create a new volume. All
data on the disk(s) will be lost.

Create an External
Volume

(2-bay models) Click this to format an external hard drive and create a new volume. All
data on the disk will be lost.

SATA/USB Volume

(1-bay models) These tables display information on all internal SATA volumes (created
on NSA internal disk drives) and external volumes (created on external disk drives
attached to the NSA USB ports).

Create a SATA
Volume

(1-bay models) Click this to format internal hard drives and create a new volume. All
data on the disk(s) will be lost.

Create a USB
Volume

(1-bay models) Click this to format an external hard drive and create a new volume. All
data on the disk will be lost.

Status

This field shows whether the volume is Healthy, Resync, Recovering, Degraded, or
Down. See Section 8.4 on page 167 for details on a volume’s status.

Volume

The NSA creates the volume name automatically. You can edit it.

Disk Configuration

This field shows which disks and data storage system the volume is using.

File System

This field displays the file system that an external (USB) volume is using.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Disk(s)

Click or roll your mouse over a link in this column to display the following details about
the hard drive located in the corresponding hard drive bay.
Type: Whether it is an internal or external (USB) hard drive.
Model Name: This is the hard disk number that identifies the disk.
File System: The file system that an external volume is using
Capacity: The total storage space on the disk.

Capacity

This field shows total disk size, the percentage of the volume being used and the
percentage that is available.

Actions

This field displays icons allowing you to edit, scan, repair, expand, migrate, or delete a
volume. You can also locate or eject an external volume.

Note: If you delete a volume, all data in the volume disk(s) is erased.
You see a warning screen before you delete a volume.
Figure 88 Delete a Volume Warning Screen

8.2.3 Volume Status
You (the administrator) can see the status of a volume in the Status or Storage screens.
The NSA has the following classifications for the status of a volume:
• Healthy if all disks in the volume are OK and the file system is functioning properly.
• OK means the USB connected device is functioning properly.
• Resync when you create a RAID volume.
• Recovering appears when repairing a RAID 1 volume. (A RAID1 volume was once degraded, but
you have installed a new disk and the NSA is restoring the RAID1 volume to a healthy state.)
• Degraded when a volume is currently down, but can be fixed. Data access may be slower from a
degraded volume, so it’s recommended that you replace the faulty disk and repair the volume as
soon as you can.
• Inactive when a disk is missing from a RAID 0 volume or a two-disk JBOD volume. The volume
is unusable. If you removed one of the disks you should be able to re-install it and use the
volume again (as long as you did not change anything on the disk). If a disk has failed, you need
to replace it and re-create the whole volume. All data will be lost. See page 344 for how to install
or replace a hard drive.
• Down when a volume is down and can not be fixed.
A down RAID volume cannot be used until you repair or replace the faulty disk(s) in the volume.
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used. For a degraded volume, you should replace the faulty disk as soon as possible to obtain
previous performance. See your Quick Start Guide for more information on replacing a disk.
If it’s down, then the only indication is that you can no longer transfer files to/from the shares in
the down volume. If it’s degraded, then file transfer to/from the shares in the degraded volume will
be slower.

Note: There is no explicit message from CIFS that tells users their volume is degraded or
down.

8.3 Creating an Internal (SATA) Volume
In the Storage screen (Figure 87 on page 163), click the Create an Internal Volume or Create
a SATA Volume button (depending on your model) to open the following screen. Use this screen to
create a new NSA internal disk drive volume.

Note: Creating a volume formats the hard drive. All data on the disk will be lost.
Figure 89 Storage > Create an Internal Volume

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 25 Storage > Create an Internal Volume
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Volume Name

Type a volume name from 1 to 31 characters. To avoid confusion, it is highly recommended
that each volume use a unique name.
Acceptable characters are all alphanumeric characters, " " [spaces], "_" [underscores], and
"." [periods].
The first character must be alphanumeric (A-Z 0-9).
The last character cannot be a space " ".
For an external volume, type a volume name from 1 to 32 single-byte (no Chinese characters
allowed for example) ASCII characters. The name cannot be the same as another existing
external volume.

JBOD

Use this if you want maximum storage capacity and/or you have other means of protecting
your data. JBOD is the only option if you only have one disk installed. With two disks, you can
choose to create a JBOD volume on one of the disks or both.
Select which disks should make up this volume. A disk can only belong to one volume. You do
not need to select anything if only one hard disk is installed.
•
•

PC Compatible
Volume

Internal Disk - Is the hard disk inside a 1-bay NSA.
External Disk - Is the eSATA hard disk connected to a 1-bay NSA.

(1-bay models only)
This type is only available if you have attached an eSATA hard disk to your NSA.
A primary partition is created on the eSATA hard disk.
Use this to make your eSATA hard disk readable by other computer systems. However, the
computer’s platform (for example, Windows XP SP2) should support the file system you
selected for the eSATA hard disk.
•
•

External Disk - This is checked automatically. It refers to the eSATA hard disk that you
can attach as a second drive to your NSA.
File System - Select the file system you want the new volume to use.
Windows file systems include:
NTFS: Recommended for volumes greater than 40 GB.
FAT32: Newer, and more efficient than FAT16. Supports a volume size of up to 32 GB
(Giga Bytes) and individual file sizes of up to 4 GB.
FAT16: Compatible with older Windows operating systems. Supports volume and file
sizes of up to 2 GB.
Linux file systems include:
EXT2: Most commonly used on Linux platforms.
EXT3: The same as EXT2, but adds a journaled file system and is more robust.
ReiserFS: Offers better performance for small files.
XFS: Allows expansion for mounted volumes.

RAID 0

(2-bay models only)
Use this if you want maximum speed for your disks, and/or you have other means of
protecting your data. This is only available when you have two hard disks installed.

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RAID 1

Use this if you want to mirror all data on one disk to the other disk. This is only available
when you have two hard disks installed.

Volume will be
created on

This field lists all hard disks installed inside the NSA. Select which disks should make up this
volume. A disk can only belong to one volume. You do not need to select anything if only one
hard disk is installed.

Apply

Click this to save your changes and create the volume.

Cancel

Click this to exit this screen without saving your changes or creating a volume.

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Note: Once you create the first volume on the NSA, it is recommended to restart the NSA
for better performance.

8.4 Editing a Volume
Click an internal volume’s Edit icon in the Storage screen as shown in Figure 87 on page 163 to
open the following screen. Use this screen to change the volume’s name.
Figure 90 Storage > Edit

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 26 Storage > Edit
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Volume Name

For an internal volume, type a volume name from 1 to 31 characters. To avoid confusion, it is
highly recommended that each volume use a unique name.
Acceptable characters are all alphanumeric characters and " " [spaces], "_" [underscores],
and "." [periods].
The first character must be alphanumeric (A-Z 0-9).
The last character cannot be a space " ".
For an external volume, type a volume name from 1 to 32 single-byte (no Chinese
characters allowed for example) ASCII characters. The name cannot be the same as another
existing external volume.

Apply

Click this to save your changes and rename the volume.

Cancel

Click this to close this screen without saving your changes.

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8.4.1 Scanning a Volume
Select a volume in the Storage > Volume screen (Section 8.2 on page 162) and click Scan to
open the following screen. Use this screen to scan the volume for errors and select whether or not
to have the NSA automatically repair them.
Figure 91 Storage > Volume > Scan

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 27 Storage > Volume > Scan
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Auto File Repair

Select this to have the NSA automatically attempt to repair any errored files it detects
during the scan. This may also result in the NSA finding some files and placing them in the
Lost and Found share.
The rest of the screen shows which users are currently connected to the NSA. They will be
disconnected if you perform the scan.

Type

This shows whether it’s a Windows/CIFS, web (Web Configurator), or FTP connection to the
NSA.

Share Name

This displays the shared folder name on the NSA that the user is connected to for CIFS
sessions and is blank for FTP and web sessions.

Username

This displays the name of the user connected to the NSA if one is defined. ANONYMOUS
FTP displays if a username is not defined for the user’s connection.

IP Address

This displays the IP address of the computer connected to the NSA.

Apply

Click this to have the NSA scan the volume.

Cancel

Click this to close this screen without scanning the volume.

8.5 Creating an External (USB) Volume
Click the Create a New External Volume button (or the Create a USB Volume button
depending on your model) in the Storage screen as shown in Figure 87 on page 163 to open the
following screen. Use this screen to create a new NSA external disk drive volume.

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Note: Creating a volume formats the drive. All data on the disk will be lost.
Figure 92 Storage > Create an External Volume

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 28 Storage > Create an External Volume
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Volume Name

Type a volume name from 1 to 31 characters. The name cannot be the same as another
existing external volume.
Acceptable characters are all alphanumeric characters and " " [spaces], "_" [underscores],
and "." [periods].
The first character must be alphanumeric (A-Z 0-9).
The last character cannot be a space " ".

Available Disk(s)

Select the external (USB) device upon which you want to create the volume.

File System

Select the file system you want the new volume to use.
Windows file systems
NTFS: Recommended.
FAT32: Newer, and more efficient than FAT16. Supports a volume size of up to 2 TB
(Tera Bytes) and individual file sizes of up to 4 GB.
FAT16: Compatible with older Windows operating systems. Supports volume and file
sizes of up to 2 GB.
Linux file systems
EXT2: Older file system.
EXT3: The same as EXT2, but adds a journaled file system and is more robust.
ReiserFS: Offers better performance for small files.
XFS: Allows expansion for mounted volumes.

Apply

Click this to save your changes and create the volume.

Cancel

Click this to exit this screen without saving changes.

8.5.1 External Disks
You may connect USB storage devices that support the following file systems to the NSA.
• Windows File Systems: NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16.
• Linux File Systems: ReiserFS, EXT2, EXT3, and XFS.

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8.6 Storage Technical Reference
This section provides some background information about the topics covered in this chapter.

8.6.1 Volumes and RAID
A volume is a storage area on a disk or disks. You can create volumes on the internal disks and
external disks attached to the USB port(s). You can spread a volume across internal disks but not
between internal and external disks.
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) or JBOD is the storage method that the NSA uses.
The storage method you use depends on how many disks you have and how many volumes you
want to create. It’s important that you consider this carefully as all data is deleted when you recreate a volume.

Note: Back up your data before deleting or re-creating a volume!
Below is a table that summarizes some attributes of the various RAID levels as supported on the
NSA. For capacity and storage efficiency, “S” is the size of the smallest drive in the array, and “N” is
the number of drives in the array.
Storage efficiency assumes all drives are of identical size.
Performance rankings are approximations.
Table 29 RAID Quick Comparison
RAID Level
Number of Disks

S*N

S*N/2

Storage Efficiency

100%

50%

Fault Tolerance

None

YYYY

Capacity

Availability

YYYY

Read Performance

YYYY

YYY

Write Performance

YYYY

YYY

8.6.2 Choosing a Storage Method for a Volume
The following is a guide to help you choose a storage method for the various number of disks
supported on the NSA. See Section 8.6.3 on page 171 for theoretical background on JBOD and the
RAID levels used on the NSA. Typical applications for each method are also shown there.

One Disk
If you only have one disk, you must use JBOD. All disk space is used for your data - none is used for
backup. If the disk fails, then you lose all the data on that volume (disk). You can add another disk
to your one-disk JBOD volume later without having to re-create shares, access rights, and so on.
Alternatively, you could create a different JBOD volume if you install a second disk. (and create new
shares, access rights and so on).

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Two Disks:
You may choose JBOD, RAID 0 or RAID 1. With two disks you could create:
• up to two JBOD volumes
• one RAID 0 or RAID 1 volume
• Choose JBOD for flexibility and maximum usage of disk space for data.
• If you have a 2-bay model, you can choose RAID 0 if performance matters more than data
security. RAID 0 has the fastest read and write performance but if one disk fails you lose all
your data on the volume. It has fast performance as it can read and write to two disks
simultaneously. Performance may matter more than data security to gamers for example. This
method may also be acceptable for data that is already backed up somewhere else.
• Choose RAID 1 if data security is more important than performance. Since RAID 1 mirrors data
onto a second disk, you can recover all data even if one disk fails, but the performance is slower
than RAID 0.

8.6.3 Storage Methods
This section contains theoretical background on JBOD and the RAID levels used on the NSA.
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a method of storing data on multiple disks to
provide a combination of greater capacity, reliability, and/or speed. JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) is
not a RAID storage method but it is included in this discussion.
These are some terms that you need to know in order to understand storage systems.
• Mirroring
In a RAID system using mirroring, all data in the system is written simultaneously to two hard
disks instead of one. This provides 100% data redundancy as if one disk fails the other has the
duplicated data. Mirroring setups always require an even number of drives.
• Duplexing
Like in mirroring, all data is duplicated onto two distinct physical hard drives but in addition it
also duplicates the hardware that controls the two hard drives (one of the drives would be
connected to one adapter and the other to a second adapter).
• Striping
Striping is the breaking up of data and storing different data pieces on each of the drives in an
array. This allows faster reading and writing as it can be done simultaneously across disks.
Striping can be done at the byte level, or in blocks. Byte-level striping means that the first byte
of the file is sent to the first drive, then the second to the second drive, and so on. Block-level
striping means that each file is split into blocks of a certain size and those are distributed to the
various drives. The size of the blocks used is also called the stripe size (or block size).
• Parity
In mirroring 50% of the drives in the array are reserved for duplicate data. Parity is another way
to allow data recovery in the event of disk failure using calculations rather than duplicating the
data. If you have ‘n’ pieces of data, parity computes an extra piece of data. The’n+1’ pieces of
data are stored on ‘n+1’drives. If you lose any one of the ‘n+1’ pieces of data, you can recreate
it from the ‘n’ that remain, regardless of which piece is lost. Parity protection is used with
striping, and the “n” pieces of data are typically the blocks or bytes distributed across the drives
in the array. The parity information can either be stored on a separate, dedicated drive, or be
mixed with the data across all the drives in the array.

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Note: In the following figures, A1, A2, A3 and so on are blocks of data from the A file.
Similarly, B1, B2, B3 and C1, C2, C3 ar blocks of data from the B and C files.

JBOD
JBOD allows you to combine multiple physical disk drives into a single virtual one, so they appear
as a single large disk. JBOD can be used to turn multiple different-sized drives into one big drive.
For example, JBOD could convert 80 GB and 100 GB drives into one large logical drive of 180 GB. If
you have two JBOD volumes (with one disk in each), a failure of one disk (volume) should not affect
the other volume (disk). JBOD read performance is not as good as RAID as only one disk can be
read at a time and they must be read sequentially. The following figure shows disks in a single
JBOD volume. Data is not written across disks but written sequentially to each disk until it’s full.
Table 30 JBOD
A1

DISK 1

DISK 2

RAID 0
RAID 0 spreads data evenly across two or more disks (data striping) with no mirroring nor parity for
data redundancy, so if one disk fails the entire volume will be lost. The major benefit of RAID 0 is
performance. The following figure shows two disks in a single RAID 0 volume. Data can be written
and read across disks simultaneously for faster performance.
Table 31 RAID 0
A1

DISK 1

DISK 2

RAID 0 capacity is the size of the smallest disk multiplied by the number of disks you have
configured at RAID 0 on the NSA. For example, if you have two disks of sizes 100 GB and 200 GB
respectively in a RAID 0 volume, then the maximum capacity is 200 GB (2 * 100 GB, the smallest
disk size) and the remaining space (100 GB) is unused.
Typical applications for RAID 0 are non-critical data (or data that changes infrequently and is
backed up regularly) requiring high write speed such as audio, video, graphics, games and so on.

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RAID 1
RAID 1 creates an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data on another disk. This is useful when data
backup is more important than data capacity. The following figure shows two disks in a single RAID
1 volume with mirrored data. Data is duplicated across two disks, so if one disk fails, there is still a
copy of the data.
Table 32 RAID 1
A1

DISK 1

DISK 2

As RAID 1 uses mirroring and duplexing, a RAID 1 volume needs an even number of disks (two or
four for the NSA).
RAID 1 capacity is limited to the size of the smallest disk in the RAID array. For example, if you
have two disks of sizes 150 GB and 200 GB respectively in one RAID 1 volume, then the maximum
capacity is 150 GB and the remaining space (50 GB) is unused.
Typical applications for RAID 1 are those requiring high fault tolerance without need of large
amounts of storage capacity or top performance, for example, accounting and financial data, small
database systems, and enterprise servers.

RAID and Data Protection
If a hard disk fails and you’re using a RAID 1 volume, then your data will still be available (but at
degraded speeds until you replace the hard disk that failed and resynchronize the volume).
However, RAID cannot protect against file corruption, virus attacks, files incorrectly deleted or
modified, or the NSA malfunctioning. Here are some suggestions for helping to protect your data.
• Place the NSA behind a hardware-based firewall. It should have stateful packet inspection, IDP
(Intrusion Detection and Prevention), and anti-virus (like ZyXEL’s ZyWALL UTM products for
example).
• Use anti-virus software on your computer to scan files from others before saving the files on the
NSA.
• Keep another copy of important files (preferably in another location).

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Network
9.1 Overview
This chapter discusses the network configuration screens. The Network screens allow you to
configure TCP/IP and PPPoE settings for the NSA.

9.2 What You Can Do
• Use the TCP/IP screen (Section 9.4 on page 176) to assign the NSA a dynamic or static IP
address and DNS information.
• Use UPnP port mapping (Section 9.5 on page 178) to automatically configure your Internet
gateway’s firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT) to allow access to the NSA from the
Internet.
• Use the PPPoE screen (Section 9.6 on page 182) to configure PPPoE settings for a direct Internet
connection.

9.3 What You Need to Know
IP Address
The NSA needs an IP address to communicate with other devices on your network. The NSA can get
an IP address automatically if you have a device on your network that gives them out. Or you can
assign the NSA a static (fixed) IP address.

DNS Server Address
A DNS (Domain Name System) server maps domain names (like www.zyxel.com) to their
corresponding numerical IP addresses. This lets you use domain names to access web sites without
having to know their IP addresses. The NSA can receive the IP address of a DNS server
automatically (along with the NSA’s own IP address). You can also manually enter a DNS server IP
address in the NSA.

PPPoE
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) allows the NSA to establish a direct Internet
connection if you do not have a router. PPPoE is a dial-up connection. You need a username and
password from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to set up the connection.

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Jumbo Frames
Jumbo frames are Ethernet frames larger than 1500 bytes. They enable data transfer with less
overhead. The bigger the frame, the better the network performance. Your network equipment
such as computers, switches and routers must be capable of supporting jumbo frames. You also
need to enable jumbo frames in all related network devices.
To use jumbo frames, your LAN must support 1 Gbps transmissions (Gigabit Ethernet). All of your
network devices (computer Ethernet cards and switches, hubs, or routers) must also support the
same size of jumbo frames that you specify in the NSA.

Note: If you enable jumbo frames on the NSA in a network that does not support them,
you will lose access to the NSA. If this occurs, you will have to restore the factory
default configuration. Push the RESET button on the NSA’s rear panel and release it
after you hear a beep.
In the following example, the NSA has jumbo frames enabled and set to 8KB frames. This means
the computer, notebook computer, and switch must also have jumbo frames enabled and be
capable of supporting 8KB frames.
Figure 93 Jumbo Frames

9.4 The TCP/IP Screen
Use the TCP/IP screen to have the NSA use a dynamic or static IP address, subnet mask, default
gateway and DNS servers.
Click Network > TCP/IP in the navigation panel to open the following screen.

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Note: If you change the NSA’s IP address, you need to log in again after you apply
changes.
Figure 94 Network > TCP/IP

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 33 Network > TCP/IP
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

IP Address
Dynamic

Select this option to have the NSA get IP address information automatically.
If no IP address information is assigned, the NSA uses Auto-IP to assign itself an IP
address and subnet mask. For example, you could connect the NSA directly to your
computer. If the computer is also set to get an IP address automatically, the computer
and the NSA will choose addresses for themselves and be able to communicate.

Static

Select this option for the NSA to use fixed TCP/IP information. You must fill in the
following fields.

IP Address

Type an IP address in this field.

IP Subnet Mask

Type an IP subnet mask in this field.

Default Gateway

Type a default gateway address in this field.

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Table 33 Network > TCP/IP (continued)
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

DNS

DNS (Domain Name System) is for mapping a domain name to its corresponding IP
address and vice versa. If you have the IP address(es) of the DNS server(s), enter
them.

Dynamic

Select the option to have the NSA get a DNS server address automatically.

Static

Select this option to choose a static DNS server address. Type the DNS server IP
address(es) into the fields below.

Primary DNS
Server

Type a primary DNS server IP address.

Secondary DNS
Server

Type a secondary DNS server IP address.

HTTP (Web Configurator)
Enable Another Web
Configuration Port

Select this to configure an additional HTTP port for accessing the web configurator.
Specify a number in the Port Number field.

Jumbo Frames

Jumbo frames improve network performance. You must have a 1 Gbps (Gigabit
Ethernet) network that supports jumbo frames. Select the largest size of frame that all
of your network devices (including computer Ethernet cards and switches, hubs, or
routers) support.
When enabled, you can choose between 4 KB, 8 KB, and 9 KB frame sizes.

Use this section to test the network connection to a particular IP address or domain
name. Select an address or type it into the field. Then click Ping to have the NSA send
a packet to test the network connection.
•
•

Successfully pinged host - The NSA is able to “ping” the host, the network
connection is OK.
Unable to ping host - The NSA is able to “ping” the selected host.

Apply

Click this to save your TCP/IP configurations. After you click Apply, the NSA restarts.
Wait until you see the Login screen or until the NSA fully boots and then use the NAS
Starter Utility to rediscover it.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

9.5 UPnP Port Mapping Screen
Use UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) port mapping to allow access from the WAN to services you
select on the NSA. It is recommended that you place the NSA behind an Internet gateway firewall
device to protect the NSA from attacks from the Internet (see RAID and Data Protection on page
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network connectivity between devices. UPnP can automatically configure the Internet gateway’s
firewall and Network Address Translation (NAT) to allow access to the NSA from the Internet.
Figure 95 UPnP for FTP Access

192.168.1.20
a.b.c.d
TCP: 21

TCP: 21

In the above example, UPnP creates a firewall rule and NAT port forwarding mapping to send FTP
traffic (using TCP port number 21) from the public IP address a.b.c.d to the NSA’s private IP
address of 192.168.1.20.
Use the NSA’s UPnP Port Mapping screen to configure the UPnP settings your Internet gateway
uses to allow access from the WAN (Internet) to services you select on the NSA. You can also set
which port Internet users need to use in order to access a specific service on the NSA.

Note: To use UPnP port mapping, your Internet gateway must have UPnP enabled.
If your Internet gateway supports Port Address Translation (PAT is sometimes included with a port
forwarding feature), you can have the Internet users use a different TCP port number from the one
the NSA uses for the service.
Figure 96 UPnP Port Address Translation for FTP Example

192.168.1.20
a.b.c.d
TCP: 21

TCP: 2100

In the above example, the Internet gateway uses PAT to accept Internet user FTP sessions on port
2100, translate them to port 21, and forward them to the NSA.

9.5.1 UPnP and the NSA’s IP Address
It is recommended that the NSA use a static IP address (or a static DHCP IP address) if you will
allow access to the NSA from the Internet. The UPnP-created NAT mappings keep the IP address
the NSA had when you applied your settings in the UPnP Port Mapping screen. They do not
automatically update if the NSA’s IP address changes.

Note: WAN access stops working if the NSA’s IP address changes.
For example, if the NSA’s IP address was 192.168.1.33 when you applied the UPnP Port Mapping
screen’s settings and the NSA later gets a new IP address of 192.168.1.34 through DHCP, WAN
access stops working because the Internet gateway still tries to forward traffic to IP address
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the NSA from the LAN and re-apply your UPnP Port Mapping screen settings to update the
Internet gateway’s UPnP port mappings.
Figure 97 UPnP Using the Wrong IP Address

192.168.1.34
a.b.c.d

192.168.1.33

9.5.2 UPnP and Security
UPnP’s automated nature makes it easier to use than manually configuring firewall and NAT rules,
but it is also less secure. Using UPnP may make your network more susceptible to snooping and
hacking attacks.

9.5.3 The NSA’s Services and UPnP
This section introduces the NSA’s services which an Internet gateway can use UPnP to allow access
to from the Internet.

CIFS (Windows File Sharing)
Common Internet File System (CIFS) is a standard protocol supported by most operating systems
in order to share files across the network. Using UPnP port mapping for CIFS allows users to
connect from the Internet and use programs like Windows Explorer to access the NSA’s shares to
copy files from the NSA, delete files on the NSA, or upload files to the NSA from the Internet.
If you configure UPnP port mapping to allow CIFS access from the WAN but cannot get it to work,
you may also have to configure the Internet gateway to also allow NetBIOS traffic. See Section 7.3
on page 157 for more on CIFS.

FTP
File Transfer Protocol is a standard file transfer service used on the Internet. Using UPnP port
mapping for FTP allows remote users to use FTP from the Internet to access the NSA’s shares. A
user with read and write access to a share can copy files from the share, delete files from the share,
or upload files to the share. See Section 10.4 on page 188 for more on FTP. If you use UPnP to allow
FTP access from the WAN, you may want to use a different WAN port number (instead of the default
of port 21) to make it more secure. Remember to tell the remote users to use the custom port
number when using FTP to access the NSA.

HTTP (Web Configurator)
You can use UPnP port mapping to allow access to the NSA’s management screens. If you use UPnP
to allow web configurator access from the WAN, you may want to use a different WAN port number

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(instead of the default of port 80) to make it more secure. Remember to use the custom port
number when accessing the NSA’s web configurator from the Internet.

HTTP (Web Published Shares)
This is the NSA’s web publishing feature that lets people access files using a web browser without
having to log into the Home screens. Use UPnP port mapping to allow access to these files from the
Internet without having to enter a user name or password. See Section 10.7 on page 206 for more
on web publishing.

9.5.4 Configuring UPnP Port Mapping
Click Network > UPnP > Port Mapping to display the UPnP Port Mapping screen.
Use this screen to set how the Internet gateway’s UPnP feature configure’s the Internet gateway’s
NAT IP address mapping and port mapping settings. These settings allow Internet users connected
to the Internet gateway’s WAN interface to access services on the NSA. You can set which port
Internet users need to use to access a specific service on the NSA.

Note: Some Internet gateways will delete all UPnP mappings after reboot. So if the
Internet gateway reboots, you may need to use this screen again to re-apply the
UPnP port mapping.
Figure 98 Network > UPnP > Port Mapping

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 34 Network > UPnP > Port Mapping
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

LAN

Use these fields to specify what port the Internet gateway uses to connect from its LAN
port to the service on the NSA.

Service Name

This read-only field identifies a service on the NSA.

LAN Port

Specify the port number (1~65,536) the Internet gateway needs to use to connect from
its LAN port to the service on the NSA. This is the NSA’s internal port number for the
service. Changing a service’s port number in this screen also changes it in other NSA
screens that display it. Similarly, changing a service’s port number in another NSA screen
also changes it here.
The number below this icon is your Internet gateway’s WAN IP address (the IP address
your Internet gateway uses for connecting to the Internet).

WAN

Use these fields to specify what port Internet users must use to connect to the Internet
gateway’s WAN port in order to connect to the service on the NSA.

Service Name

This read-only field identifies a service on the NSA.

Enable WAN
Access

Select this check box to have UPnP configure your Internet gateway to allow access from
the Internet to the NSA’s service.
If you clear this check box, people will not be able to access the NSA’s service from the
Internet unless you manually configure the Internet gateway’s firewall and NAT rules to
allow access.

WAN Port

When you enable WAN access for one of the NSA’s services, specify the port number
(1~65,536) Internet uses need to use to connect to the Internet gateway’s WAN port in
order to access the service on the NSA. Whoever wants to access a service on the NSA
from the Internet must use this port number.
P2P download’s WAN port must be the same as the LAN port.
Make sure there is not another service using TCP protocol with the same port number. See
Appendix C on page 403 for a list of common services and their associated protocols and
port numbers.
If another device is using the same port (the Internet gateway has the same port number
mapped to another LAN IP address), the NSA overwrites it when you apply the setting and
WAN users can no longer access the other device.
This icon means the service’s LAN and WAN port numbers must be the same.
This icon means another service is using the same port number as this service. Change
the port number of one of the services so they use different port numbers.
This icon means another service is using the listed port, but the port the other service is
using will be replaced if you apply the setting. The other service will no longer be
accessible from the listed port.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the NSA.

Reset

Click Reset to begin configuring this screen afresh.

9.6 The PPPoE Screen
Use this screen to configure PPPoE settings for a direct Internet connection.

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Click Network > PPPoE in the navigation panel to open the following screen.
Figure 99 Network > PPPoE

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 35 Network > PPPoE
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Status
Status

This field displays the status of PPPoE connection.

IP Address

This field displays the IP address of your PPPoE connection.

IP Subnet Mask

This field displays the IP subnet mask of your PPPoE connection.

Configuration
Enable PPPoE
Connection

Select this option to establish a direct Internet connection for the NSA. You need to enter
the username and password as given by your ISP.

Username

Enter the username exactly as your ISP assigned. If assigned a name in the form
user@domain where domain identifies a service name, then enter both components
exactly as given.

Password

Enter the password associated with the username above.

Password
(Confirm)

Retype the password for confirmation.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore previously saved settings.

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Applications
10.1 Overview
This chapter discusses the features in the Application screens. The NSA contains various
applications for file sharing and downloading.

10.2 What You Can Do
• Use the FTP Server screen (Section 10.4 on page 188) to configure settings for FTP file transfers
to/from the NSA.
• Use the Media Server screen (Section 10.5 on page 189) to share files with media clients.
• Use the Download Service screen (Section 10.6 on page 194) to download files from the
Internet.
• Use the Web Publishing screen (Section 10.7 on page 206) to publish shares for people to
access files using a web browser.
• Use the Broadcatching screen (Section 10.8 on page 207) to download frequently updated
digital content like TV programs, radio talk shows, Podcasts (audio files), and blogs.
• Use the Print Server screen (Section 10.9 on page 213) to share a printer.
• Use the Copy/Sync Button screen (Section 10.10 on page 215) to transfer files between a USB
device and the NSA.
• Use the Package screen (Chapter 11 on page 229) to set up additional applications in your NSA.
The NSA can download multiple packages/files at once and automatically goes through all the
installation steps.
• Use the Auto Upload screens (Chapter 12 on page 279) to upload files in selected shares to
your Flickr and/or YouTube accounts.

10.3 What You Need to Know
FTP
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a file transfer service that operates on the Internet. A system running
the FTP server accepts commands from a system running an FTP client. FTP is not a secure
protocol. Your file transfers could be subject to snooping.

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FTPES (File Transfer Protocol over Explicit TLS/SSL)
File Transfer Protocol over Explicit TLS/SSL (FTPES) is a file transfer service that uses either TLS
(Transport Layer Security) or SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for secure transfers across the Internet.
It requests for a mutual method of encryption from the FTP server for its file transfer sessions. Your
FTP client must be set to use FTPES as in the following example.
Figure 100 FTP Client Example

Media Server
The media server feature lets anyone on your network play video, music, and photos from the NSA
(without having to copy them to another computer). The NSA can function as a DLNA-compliant
media server and/or an iTunes server. The NSA streams files to DLNA-compliant media clients or
computers using iTunes. The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a group of personal computer
and electronics companies that works to make products compatible in a home network.

iTunes Server
The NSA iTunes server feature lets you use Apple’s iTunes software on a computer to play music
and video files stored on the NSA. You can download iTunes from www.apple.com.

Download Service
The NSA’s download service downloads files from the Internet directly to the NSA. You do not have
to download to your computer and then copy to the NSA. This can free up your computer’s system
resources.
The NSA can download using these protocols.
• HTTP: The standard protocol for web pages.
• FTP: A standard Internet file transfer service.
• P2P download: Peer-to-peer files sharing protocol.

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Web Publishing
Web publishing lets you “publish” shares (containing folders and files) on the NSA so people can
access the files using a web browser without having to log into the Home screens. This way you can
share files with others without them having to know and enter a username and password.
For example, if you want to share photos in a FamilyPhotos share, you could “web publish” it and
others could use a web browser to access the photos at http://my-NSA’s-IP-Address/MyWeb/
FamilyPhotos.

Broadcatching
Broadcatching is the downloading of digital content from Internet feeds. Use broadcatching to have
the NSA download frequently updated digital content like TV programs, radio shows, podcasts
(audio files), and blogs.

RSS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for delivering frequently updated digital content. A
channel uses a feed to deliver its contents (items). Subscribe the NSA to a feed to be able to
download the contents.

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10.4 FTP Server
Use FTP or FTPES (FTP over Explicit TTL/SSL) to upload files to the NSA and download files from the
NSA. Click Applications > FTP to open the following screen.
Figure 101 Applications > FTP

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 36 Applications > FTP
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

FTP
Enable FTP
Connection Limit

Enter the maximum number of concurrent FTP connections allowed on the NSA in this
field. See your screen for your model’s connection limit.

Idle Timeout

Enter the length of time that an FTP connection can be idle before timing out. The
timeout limit is 300 minutes.

Port Number

This is the port number used by the NSA for FTP traffic.

Enable Anonymous
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You can use FTP to send files to the NSA or get files from the NSA. Select this check box
to allow users to connect to the NSA via FTP; otherwise clear the check box.

Select this check box to allow any user to log into the NSA using ‘FTP’ or ‘anonymous’
as a username and no password. Any other name is considered a username, so must be
valid and have a corresponding correct password.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Customize the port
range for data
transfer

Select this check box to assign a port range for FTP clients to use when downloading
files from the NSA using passive mode.
The connection limit is restricted to half of the port numbers within the range if this
value is smaller than the one configured in the Connection Limit field. For example,
you specified a port range from 1024 to 1029 and configured 10 in the Connection
Limit field. The FTP connection limit will only be 3 (6 ports in the range divided by 2)
because it is the smaller value.

Starting Port

Enter the first port number in the range. Choose from 1024 to 65535.

Ending Port

Enter the last port number in the range. Choose from 1024 to 65535.

Download/Upload
Rate For All Users
(include admin)

Select this if you want to limit the download/upload bandwidth for all users who are
logged into the NSA, including the administrator.
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Download/Upload
Rate For
Anonymous Users

Select this if you want to limit the download/upload bandwidth for users who log into
the NSA using ‘FTP’ or ‘anonymous’ as a username and no password.
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Character Set

Max. Download Rate - Enter the download speed (in kilobytes/s) that the NSA
allows for users who are logged into the NSA.
Max. Upload Rate - Enter the upload speed (in kilobytes/s) that the NSA allows for
users who are logged into the NSA.

The NSA uses UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) format for FTP by
default. If the NSA’s folders, or file names do not display correctly in your FTP client,
select the appropriate language encoding here.
This setting applies to all FTP client connections to the NSA. It does not affect your
Windows/CIFS connections (it will not correct the character display in Windows
Explorer).

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

10.5 The Media Server Screens
The media server application allows you to share media files with media clients.

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Click Applications > Media Server to open the following screen. Use this screen to view the
media server’s status and rebuild the media server database.
Figure 102 Applications > Media Server > Media Server

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 37 Applications > Media Server > Media Server
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Status

This shows the media server’s current state of activity.
Synchronizing displays while the NSA is building the media database.
Ready means the NSA has finished building the database.
Stopped displays when the media server is dead and for a short time while the media
server is restarted before rebuilding the database.

Number of Music
Tracks

This is how many music files the media server has to share out to media clients.

Number of Photos

This is how many photo files the media server has to share out to media clients.

Number of Videos

This is how many video files the media server has to share out to media clients.

Refresh

Click this to update the information in the Status field.

Enable Media Server

Select this to have the NSA share the media files in the shares selected in the Share
Publish tab. Clear it to stop the NSA from sharing media files through the Home
screens or media players.
Select Home Screen and DLNA/UPnP Media Players to let users use the NSA’s
Home screens and media players to play the published media files. Users can play the
published media files by logging into the NSA or by using a media player connected to
the network without logging in.
Select Home Screen Only to require users to use the NSA’s Home screens play the
published media files. This lets you require users to log in to play the published media
files.

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Table 37 Applications > Media Server > Media Server
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Auto Scan Published
Shares

The NSA has to scan the published shares and find the media files before the media
server can share them. Select this to automatically scan the published shares for media
files.
The auto-scan after adding a large number of files to your published shares could take
up enough of the NSA’s resources to slow other functions like file downloads or sharing.
Clear this option to stop the NSA from automatically scanning the published shares for
media files. With the auto-scan disabled, you can still click the Rescan Content button
to have the NSA scan for newly added media files.

Generate
Thumbnails

Select this to have the NSA create thumbnails for media files. Clear it to stop the NSA
from creating thumbnails for media files. If you enable this and click Apply, the NSA
rebuilds the media server database. This can take a long time if the published shares
contain many files.

Rebuild Database

Click this to have the NSA completely rebuild the media server database and scan all of
the published share contents for media files. This can take a long time if the published
shares contain many files. You may need to use this if the media clients cannot see the
files in the media server.

Rescan Content

Click this to have the NSA scan for newly added media files. This only checks the files
added to the published shares since the last scan and is faster than rebuilding the
database.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

10.5.1 The Media Server Share Publish Screen
Click Applications > Media Server > Share Publish to open the following screen. Use this
screen to select shares to publish (share with media clients like the DMA-2501 and iTunes).
Figure 103 Applications > Media Server > Share Publish

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 38 Applications > Media Server > Share Publish
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Publish

Select this to have the media server share a share’s media files with media clients.

Share Name

This column lists names of shares on the NSA.

Publish Music Tracks

Select this to give media clients access to the share’s music files.

Publish Photos

Select this to give media clients access to the share’s photo files.

Publish Videos

Select this to give media clients access to the share’s video files.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

10.5.2 The Media Server ID3 Tag Decoding Screen
Click Applications > Media Server > ID3 Tag Decoding to open the following screen. ID3 tags
store information about a media file such as the title, artist, album, and genre in the file itself. To
help the NSA find the correct character set to decode these tags, use this screen to select which
character sets the NSA attempts to use and the order the NSA tries them in.

Note: It may take some time for the media server to rebuild the database after you
change the ID3 tag character set settings. How long it takes depends on how many
media files you have. Some of the media files may not appear in the Home screens
until the rebuilding finishes.
Figure 104 Applications > Media Server > ID3 Tag Decoding

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 39 Applications > Media Server > ID3 Tag Decoding
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Media Server
Available Character
Sets

This list box displays the language character sets the NSA can perform.

Add Selected
Character Sets

Select types of character set in the Available Character Sets box and click this to add
them to the list of character sets that the NSA should attempt to use to decode ID3
tags in your media files. Use the [SHIFT] key to select a range of entries. Hold down
the [CTRL] key to select multiple individual entries.
If the NSA is not able to decode a file’s ID3 tags using the selected character sets, it
attempts to auto-detect their encoding type.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Selected Character
Sets

This list box displays the character sets the NSA can use to decode ID3 tags in your
media files. The NSA attempts to use them in the order listed so select character sets
and use the up or down arrow to change their order to match the types of files you
have. So if most of your files are German, move the French, German and Italian
(ISO-8859-15) selection to the top of the list.
If the NSA cannot find a match among your selected character sets (or you have not
selected any character sets) it tries to auto-detect which character set the tags are
encoded with.

Remove Selected
Character Sets

Select character sets in the Selected Character Sets box and click this to have the
NSA not attempt to use them to decode ID3 tags in your media files. Use the [SHIFT]
key to select a range of entries. Hold down the [CTRL] key to select multiple individual
entries.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

10.5.3 The Media Server iTunes Server Screen
Click Applications > Media Server > iTunes Server to open the following screen. Use this
screen to turn the iTunes server on or off.
Figure 105 Applications > Media Server > iTunes Server

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 40 Applications > Media Server > iTunes Server
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable iTunes
Server

Check this to let anyone on your network use iTunes to play music files in the published
shares.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

10.5.4 The Media Server SqueezeCenter Screen
SqueezeCenter enables you to manage a Logitech's Squeezebox device connected to the NSA.
Click Applications > Media Server > SqueezeCenter to open the following screen. This screen
is available when the SqueezeCenter application is installed using Package Management (see
Section 11.4 on page 230). Use this screen to turn the SqueezeCenter application on or off.
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 41 Applications > Media Server > SqueezeCenter
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable
SqueezeCenter

Check this to enable SqueezeCenter.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

10.6 The Download Service Screen
The Download Service screen allows you to download files from the Internet.
Click Applications > Download Service to open the following screen. Use this screen to manage
the NSA’s file downloads.

Note: By default, the NSA saves downloads in the admin share’s download folder.
Figure 107 Applications > Download Service

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 42 Applications > Download Service
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable Download
Service

Use this option (and click the Apply button) to turn the download service off or on. If you
turn off the service, all downloads are paused. Files currently downloading are queued.
Turning on the download service resumes downloads (or restarts them if they are not able
to resume).

Enable Download
Notify

Use this option (and click the Apply button) to turn the download service notification off
or on. See Section 10.11.4 on page 218 for more details about this feature.
At the time of writing, the NSA supports RSS 2.0 feeds.
Click this to get and subscribe to the NSA channel feed. This enables you to keep track and
download the NSA’s new contents (items).

Add

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After you find a file to download, copy the file’s URL. Then log into the NSA web
configurator and go to the Applications > Download Server screen and click this
button. A screen opens where you create a new download task. You can paste the file’s
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Preferences

Click this to open a screen where you can set the default location for saving downloads
and configure your P2P download settings.

Refresh

Click this to update the information displayed on the screen.

Select Files

A single P2P download torrent file is often for multiple files. If you do not need all of the
files the torrent file specifies, click this to select which files to download.

Delete

To delete download tasks (or manually clear out completed download tasks), select a
download task and click this to remove it from the list. A pop-up screen asks you to
confirm. Click Apply to delete or Cancel to quit. When you delete a download task, you
are given the option to delete the associated files. Selecting this option deletes a
downloaded file and in the case of a P2P download task, also deletes the related .torrent
file.
Use your keyboard’s [SHIFT] key to select a range of download tasks. Use the [CTRL] key
and click individual download tasks to select multiple individual download tasks.

Pause

Select a downloading item and click this to temporarily stop the download. Paused
downloads appear in the Download Service screen’s Inactive tab.
Use your keyboard’s [SHIFT] key to select a range of download tasks. Use the [CTRL] key
and click individual download tasks to select multiple individual download tasks.

Resume

Select a paused item and click this to continue downloading the file.
Select a completed item and click this to re-seed a P2P file or download a file again. If you
want to re-seed a P2P task, keep the P2P file and the completed file in their original
locations.

Task Info

Select an item on the list and click this to display information about the download task.
See Section 10.6.6 on page 205 for more details.

The table lists your downloads. Click a column’s heading to sort the entries by that criteria.
Active

Click this to see the list of files the NSA is currently downloading or sharing with other P2P
users. The NSA handles a maximum of 10 active tasks at a time (or fewer depending on
how much of the NSA’s system memory is available). If you add more, they appear in the
Inactive tab.
P2P downloads may appear in the Inactive tab for a while before showing in the
Downloading tab. The NSA automatically moves completed tasks to the Completed tab.

Inactive

Click this to see the list of files that are queued (waiting in line) for the NSA to download or
the downloads that have been manually paused.

Completed

Click this to see the list of files that the NSA has finished downloading.
The Location column shows where a downloaded file is saved on the NSA. Click on the
location link to open the share browser and access the file.

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Click this to see the list of files that the NSA was not able to download. The NSA
automatically retries unsuccessful download attempts. The download displays in the error
tab when the re-attempts are also unsuccessful and the NSA stops trying to download the
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LABEL
Status

DESCRIPTION
The following icons show the download’s status.

Completed: The NSA has downloaded the whole file.
Seeding: The download is finished and the NSA is allowing other P2P users to download
it.
Downloading: The NSA is getting the file.
Queued: The download is waiting in line for the NSA to download it.
Pause: The download has been manually stopped. Select it and click Resume to continue
it.
Error: The NSA was not able to complete the download. Select it and click Resume to
reattempt the download.
Name

This identifies the download file. A “...” indicates an abbreviated name. Hold your cursor
over the name to display the full name.

Complete
(%)

This is the percentage of the file that the NSA has downloaded.

Location

This appears in the Completed tab.
It displays the path for where the file is saved. Click on the location link to open the share
browser and access the file.

Seeds

Seeds apply to P2P downloads. This is the number of computers that are sharing the
complete file that you are downloading.
This value is in the format “Leeches(Seeds)” where Leeches refer to peers that do not
have a complete copy of the file yet and are still downloading; Seeds refer to peers that
have the complete file.

Peers

Peers apply to P2P downloads. This is the number of other computers that are also
downloading (and sharing) the file you are downloading.
This value is in the format “ConnectedPeers(AllPeers)[Health]” where Connected Peers is
the number of computers to which the NSA is connected in order to download the file;
AllPeers refer to the total number of computers to which the NSA can connect in order to
download the file; Health indicates the availability of the file.

Download
Speed

This is how fast the NSA is getting the file.

Upload Speed

This is how fast the NSA is sending the file to other P2P users.

Time Left

This is how much longer (in hours, minutes, and seconds) it should take to finish the
download at the current download speed.

Priority

This is the download’s priority on the NSA. You can set a currently downloading or queued
download to high or automatic priority. You can set a download to high priority to have the
NSA try to download it before the other files. However the actual download speed depends
more on factors like the speed of you Internet connection, the speed of the download
source’s Internet connection, how many others are trying to download at the same time,
the peers and seeds available and general network conditions.

Error Code

This appears in the Error tab.

It is normal for a P2P download to start out with a slow download speed since it has to set
up numerous connections. The speed should increase as the download progresses and
decrease near the end of the download.

This shows the tag for the error that occurred.
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10.6.1 Adding a Download Task
Click Applications > Download Service > Add to open the following screen. Use this screen to
specify a file for the NSA to download. Section 5.10 on page 96 provides a tutorial on adding a
download task.
Figure 108 Applications > Download Service > Add

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Source
URL

Paste the URL of the file you want to download into this field. The URL can be for an HTTP,
FTP, or P2P download.
For a P2P download, you can copy and paste the URL of the .torrent file. The NSA will
automatically download the .torrent file and use it. You do not have to manually download
the .torrent file or save it to your computer.

Note: Make sure the link opens either the file you want or a pop-up window about how to
handle the file.
It is also OK for the link to open a .torrent file. If you are redirected to a screen that says
the download should start in a few seconds, there may be a link to click if the download
does not start automatically. See if that link opens the file or the pop-up window.
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A “torrent” file has information the NSA uses to do a P2P download. A torrent file uses a
.torrent extension. If you already have a torrent file saved on your computer, select the
Torrent File option and specify its path or click Browse and look for its location.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Location of
Downloaded Files

This shows where the NSA stores new downloads (Put incomplete downloads in) and
where the NSA moves completed downloads (Move completed downloads to).
The Share column shows the name of the share where the file is downloaded.
The Path column points to the location in the share where the NSA will save the
downloaded files.
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•
•

Edit

P2P download jobs are stored in /*/incoming (where ‘*’ is a folder that you have set.)
HTTP/FTP jobs are stored in /* (where ‘*’ is a folder that you have set.)
All jobs triggered by RSS channels create the subfolder in /* using the channel name
where it store all files downloaded from that channel (where ‘*’ is a folder that you
have set.)

Click this to open the following screen where you can set the default folder location where
you “Put incomplete downloads in” and “Move complete downloads to”:.

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•

Share - Select the share from the list.
Path - Type the folder location in the share directly or click Browse to open the
following screen and navigate to the file’s location.

•
•
•
•

Current Location - This is the location of the selected folder.
Folder Name - Enter a new folder name and click
to create it.
Type - This identifies the item as a folder or file.
Name - This is the name of the folder/file.

Select a folder. If you don’t select a folder, a forward slash (/) displays in the Path field.
All contents within the specified share are automatically selected.
Click Apply to save your settings and Cancel to close the screen.

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Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

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10.6.2 Configuring General Settings
Click Applications > Download Service > Preferences to open the following screen. Use this
screen to set the default location for saving downloads and configure the download period.
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Location of
Downloaded Files

Edit

Click this to open the following screen where you can set the default folder location where
you “Put incomplete downloads in” and “Move complete downloads to”:.

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Share - Select the share from the list.
Path - Type the folder location in the share directly or click Browse to open the
following screen and navigate to the file’s location.

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•
•

Current Location - This is the location of the selected folder.
Folder Name - Enter a new folder name and click
to create it.
Type - This identifies the item as a file or folder.
Name - This is the name of the folder/file.

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Control

This feature sets the NSA to download files only within a specified time period.

Enable Download
Period Control

Use the check box to turn the download period control on or off.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Download Service
is active in the
time period
(hh:mm hh:mm)

Specify the time period for the NSA to download files.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

Note: If you also configured the Power On/Off Schedule feature in the Power
Management screen, make sure your active download period does not conflict with
the power-off period.

10.6.3 Configuring the P2P Download Settings
Click Applications > Download Service > Preferences > P2P download to open the following
screen. Use this screen to configure P2P download settings.
Figure 110 Applications > Download Service > Preferences > P2P download

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 45 Applications > Download Service > Preferences > P2P download
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Port Number

Assign a port number for P2P downloads. You can select a number from 2 to 65536. It
is recommended to use a port number greater than 1025.

DHT

Select Enable or Disable to use Distributed Hash Table (DHT) or not.

Note: When you use DHT, the NSA will also attempt to open a UDP port one number
smaller than the P2P download port number. So if the P2P download port number
is 9090, the NSA uses UDP port 9089.
Max. download rate

You may need to limit the bandwidth the NSA uses for P2P downloads if your network’s
other Internet applications are not getting enough downstream bandwidth. 0 has the
NSA impose no restriction.

Max. upload rate

You may need to limit the bandwidth the NSA uses to share files through P2P download
if your network’s other Internet applications are not getting enough upstream
bandwidth. 0 has the NSA impose no restriction.
If you do not allow any uploads, (for example, you set a limit of 1 KB/s) you will not
have a good standing in the P2P download community.

Note: The settings for maximum download/upload rates would not affect peers accessing
the NSA from the same LAN.
Maximum Number
of Active Torrents

Specify how many simultaneous P2P downloads are allowed on the NSA. You can enter
a number from 1 to 10.

Maximum Number
of Seeding Jobs

Specify how many simultaneous seeds are allowed on the NSA. Enter a number from 1
to 10. This value cannot exceed the one you configured in the Maximum Number of
Active Torrents field.

Maximum Number
of Active
Connections

Specify how many active connections are allowed on the NSA. Enter a number from 1 to
500. This specifies the number of computers that can connect to the NSA to download
files being shared by the NSA.

Keep Sharing While

With P2P download, the NSA starts sharing a file while you are downloading it. Set how
long to continue sharing a file after the NSA finishes the download.
Select Upload/Download Ratio to keep sharing a file until the NSA has uploaded a
specific percent compared to the download.
Select Seeding Time to keep sharing a file for a specific number of minutes after the
download finishes.
Continuing to share a file helps other P2P download users finish downloading it. Sharing
out at least as much as you download helps keep you in good standing in the P2P
download community.
Enter -1 to share a file indefinitely. Leave both check boxes blank to have the NSA stop
sharing the file as soon as the download finishes.
If you select both options, the NSA keeps sharing a file until both conditions exceed the
values you configure. For example, you entered 150% in the Upload/Download Ratio
field and 120 minutes in the Seeding Time field. The NSA keeps sharing a file until it
has shared 1.5 times the size of the file and has passed 120 minutes.

Email notifications

Select whether or not to send emails to the email address configured for emailing log
reports (see Section 18.4.2 on page 325) when the NSA starts downloading the file,
seeding the file, and/or finishes downloading the file.

Edit IP Filter

Click this to enable or disable IP filtering for P2P downloads.
Refer to Section 10.6.4 on page 203 for information about the fields in this screen.

Apply

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

10.6.4 Edit IP Filter
Use this screen to enable or disable IP filtering for P2P downloads. IP filtering blocks IP addresses
known to share fake files. You can either get an IP filter table from a website or use your own table.
Click Edit IP Filter in the Applications > Download Service > Preferences > P2P download
screen.
Figure 111 Applications > Download Service > Preferences > P2P download > Edit IP Filter

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 46 Applications > Download Service > Preferences > P2P download > Edit IP Filter
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable IP Filter

Click this to enable or disable IP filtering for P2P downloads.

Update IP Filter
Table File from
the Internet
Every Week

Select this option and enter a URL to use an online IP filter table. You can find an online
IP filter table in websites such as http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz.

Upload IP Filter
Table

Select this option to upload your own IP filter table. Use the Browse button to locate
the file and click Upload to save it on the NSA.

When you change the URL of the online IP filter table, the NSA also performs an update
after you click Apply.

The NSA supports .txt, .dat, .gz, .tgz, and .tar.gz file extensions. The NSA saves the IP
filter table as /admin/download/ipfilter.dat.
Download Current
IP Filter Table

Click this to save a copy of the IP filter table on your computer.

Apply

Click Apply to update the IP filter table from the specified URL.

Cancel

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10.6.5 Selecting Files to Download
Select an item in the Applications > Download Service screen’s list and click Select Files to
open the following screen. Use this screen to select which of the torrent’s files to download. Section
5.10 on page 96 provides a tutorial on adding a download task.
Figure 112 Applications > Download Service > Select Files

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 47 Applications > Download Service > Select Files
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Select Files

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File Name

This is the name of a file specified in the torrent file. Select the check boxes of the files you
want to download.

Size

This is the size of the file to be downloaded.

Click this to save your changes.

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10.6.6 Displaying the Task Information
Select an item on the list and click Task Info. Use this screen to check detailed information about
the task.
Figure 113 Applications > Download Service > Task Info

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 48 Applications > Download Service > Task Info
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Status

This is the current status of the task.

Name

This is the name of the task.

Size

This is the size of the file to be downloaded.

Uploaded/
Downloaded Ratio

This is the ratio of total uploaded data to downloaded data.

Complete(%)

This field displays how much has been downloaded to the NSA.

Seeds

This is the number of computers that are sharing the complete file that you are
downloading.

Peers

This is the number of other computers that are also downloading (and sharing) the file
you are downloading.

Download Speed

This field displays how fast the NSA downloads the file.

Upload Speed

This field displays how fast the NSA uploads the file.

Health

This field displays how many full copies of the file are available for this task. The NSA
can download a file with a higher health value more efficiently. If the health value is less
than 1 (0.65 for example), there is no full copy of the file, and the NSA may not be able
to complete downloading the file.

Time Left

This is the time remaining to complete the task.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Priority

Use this field to set the priority for downloading the task.
Select Auto to have the NSA automatically determine the task’s priority.
Select High to have the NSA download this file before the other files.

Comment

Enter a description for this task. Click Apply to save the description.

Start Time

This field displays when the NSA started to download files.

Completed on

This field displays when the file was successfully downloaded to the NSA.

Info-Hash

This information is used to verify the torrent file.

Tracker

This field displays the tracker that NSA is currently connected to. A tracker is a server
used for finding peers sharing the file.

Click this to close the screen.

10.7 The Web Publishing Screen
Use this screen to turn web publishing on or off and select shares to publish. Click Applications >
Web Publishing to open the following screen.
Figure 114 Applications > Web Publishing

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 49 Applications > Web Publishing
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Web Publishing

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Disable / Enable
Web Publishing

Turn on web publishing to let people access files in the published shares using a web
browser, without having to log into the Home screens.

Support HTTPS

Select this to allow users to use web browser security for connections to the webpublished shares. In order to use secured connections users must use “https://” in the
NSA’s web address and install the NSA’s public key certificate.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Port Number

Specify a port number for accessing the published share websites hosted on the NSA. If
you enter a number other than 80, make sure you include it when telling others how to
access the web-published share. For example, say you specified port 8080, the NSA’s IP
address is 192.168.1.23, and the name of the web-published share is FamilyPhotos. You
would have to enter “http://192.168.1.23:8080/MyWeb/FamilyPhotos/” in your
browser’s address bar to access the share’s web page.

Unpublished Shares

This list box displays the shares that the NSA does not publish for web browser access.

Publish Selected
Share(s)

Select shares in the Unpublished Shares box and click this to let people access files in
the published shares using a web browser, without logging into the Home screens. Use
the [SHIFT] key to select a range of entries. Hold down the [CTRL] key to select
multiple individual entries.

Published Shares

This list box displays the shares people can access using a web browser, without logging
into the Home screens.

Unpublish Selected
Share(s)

Select shares in the Published Shares box and click this to not let people access using
a web browser without logging into the Home screens. Use the [SHIFT] key to select a
range of entries. Hold down the [CTRL] key to select multiple individual entries.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

Note: If you installed php-MySQL-phpMyAdmin through the Package Management
screen (Section 11.4 on page 230) and enable it, you can use PHP and MySQL in
your published web page.

10.8 The Broadcatching Screen
This screen displays the NSA’s subscribed channels and the associated contents.
• The NSA saves a channel’s downloaded items in a folder named after the channel.
• The NSA creates the channel folders in the same destination as the download service. See
Section 10.6.2 on page 199 to change the destination for saving downloads.
• The NSA’s media server feature makes it easy for users on your network to play the
broadcatching files you download. See Section 10.11.1 on page 216 for more on the media
server.
• If you add a channel that contains a torrent file, the NSA downloads the torrent file (.torrent) and
transfers it to Download Service (Section 10.6 on page 194) and start the P2P download task
accordingly.

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Click Applications > Broadcatching to open the following screen.
Figure 115 Applications > Broadcatching

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 50 Applications > Broadcatching
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Add Channel

When you find a channel to subscribe to, copy the URL of the channel’s feed and click this
button. A screen opens for you to subscribe to the feed. When you are done, the feed’s
channel and contents display in the Applications > Broadcatching screen.

Delete Channel

Select a channel and click Delete Channel to remove the channel from the NSA. Any of
the channel’s items that you have already downloaded stay in the channel’s folder (in the
admin share’s download folder).

Refresh Channel

Select a channel and click Refresh Channel to check for new files.

Edit Channel

Select a channel and click Edit Channel to open a screen where you can set the
channel’s download and delete policies.
The table lists channels and their files. Click a column’s heading to sort the entries by that
criteria.

Channel Name

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This identifies the channel. A channel displays in red if there was an error the last time
the NSA attempted to connect to it. When this happens, you can select the channel and
click Refresh Channel to have the NSA reattempt to connect to it. Select a channel to
see its available files. A “...” indicates an abbreviated name. Hold your cursor over the
name to display the full name.

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LABEL
Item Name

DESCRIPTION
These are the downloadable files. The following icons show the file’s status in the NSA.

Completed: The NSA has downloaded the whole file. Double-click the item to go to the
Download Service screen where you can see the file’s name and location.
Seeding: The NSA downloaded the complete file and NSA is sharing it with other P2P
download users. Double-click the item to go to the Download Service screen.
Downloading: The NSA is downloading the file. Double-click the item to go to the
Download Service screen.
Queued: The file is waiting in line for the NSA to download it. Double-click the item to go
to the Download Service screen.
Pause: The download has been manually stopped. Double-click the item to go to the
Download Service screen.
Missing File: The NSA could not find the file.
Error: The NSA automatically retries unsuccessful download attempts. The status
displays as error when the re-attempts are also unsuccessful and the NSA stops trying to
download the file. To try the download again, use the Add button to create a new task.

Note: A ... indicates an abbreviated file name. Hold your cursor over the name to display
the full name.
Published Date

This is when the file was made available for download.

Description

This is the publishers introduction for the file.

Actions

Start Downloading: Click this to add the file to the NSA’s download queue or check the
file’s status in the NSA’s download service.
Click the Delete icon to remove the file from the channel’s list.

10.8.1 Adding a Broadcatching Channel
At the time of writing, the NSA supports RSS 2.0 feeds. Websites with a feed usually display a feed
icon (shown next). Copy and paste the feed’s URL into the Applications > Broadcatching > Add
Channel screen and you can download new files as they are added.
Figure 116 Feed Icon

A channel uses a feed to deliver its contents (items). Subscribe the NSA to a feed to be able to
download the contents.
Click Applications > Broadcatching > Add Channel to open the following screen. Use the Add
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select policies for downloading and deleting the channel’s items. Section 5.11 on page 111 provides
a tutorial on adding a broadcatching channel.
Figure 117 Applications > Broadcatching > Add Channel

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 51 Applications > Broadcatching > Add Channel
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Subscribe to
Channel Feed

Paste (or type) the URL of the feed for the channel to which you want to subscribe into this
field. This is read-only in the Preferences screen.

Note: Make sure the link goes to the actual RSS feed instead of to another list of links or
information about the channel.
One way to test this is by clicking the link. Clicking an actual RSS feed link opens a screen
of XML code (in browsers without an RSS feed aggregator) or a window where you can add
the RSS feed (in browsers with an RSS feed aggregator).
Download Policy

Set which of the channel’s items the NSA downloads.
Download All Items: Download every file in the feed.
Download Only New Items: Download new files from today on.
Manually Choose Items for Download: Only download individual files you select later
in the Broadcatching screen.

Delete Policy

Set how the NSA handles deleting the items downloaded from the channel.
Manual: Only delete individual files you select later in the Broadcatching screen.
Keep last N of items: Select this to set the NSA to only keep a number of the channel’s
most recent files. When this number has been reached, if the NSA downloads another file
from the channel, it deletes the oldest file from the NSA.

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Table 51 Applications > Broadcatching > Add Channel
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Location of
Downloaded
Files

Edit

Click this to open the following screen where you can set the default folder location where
you “Put incomplete downloads in” and “Move complete downloads to”:.

•
•

Share - Select the share from the list.
Path - Type the folder location in the share directly or click Browse to open the
following screen and navigate to the file’s location.

•
•
•
•

Select a folder. If you don’t select a folder, a forward slash (/) displays in the Path field. All
contents within the specified share are automatically selected.
Click Apply to save your settings and Cancel to close the screen.
Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

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10.8.2 Editing a Broadcatching Channel
Click Applications > Broadcatching, then select a channel and click Edit Channel to open a
similar Edit screen. Use the Edit Channel screen to change the download or delete policies.
Figure 118 Applications > Broadcatching > Edit Channel

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 52 Applications > Broadcatching > Edit Channel
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Channel Name

This is the name of the feed for the channel to which you want to subscribe into this field.
This is read-only.

URL

This is the address of the channel.

Download Policy

Delete Policy

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Table 52 Applications > Broadcatching > Edit Channel
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Location of
Downloaded Files

Edit

Click this to open the following screen where you can set the default folder location where
you “Put incomplete downloads in” and “Move complete downloads to”:.

•
•

Share - Select the share from the list.
Path - Type the folder location in the share directly or click Browse to open the
following screen and navigate to the file’s location.

•
•
•
•

Select a folder. If you don’t select a folder, a forward slash (/) displays in the Path field. All
contents within the specified share are automatically selected.
Click Apply to save your settings and Cancel to close the screen.
Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

10.9 The Print Server Screen
Use the Print Server screen to view and manage the NSA’s list of printers and print jobs.

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Click Applications > Print Server to open the following screen.
Figure 119 Applications > Print Server

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 53 Applications > Print Server
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Refresh

Click this to update the list of printers and print jobs.
The table lists printers and their queued print jobs. Click a column’s heading to sort the entries
by that criteria.

Status

This fields shows whether the printer is connected and turned on (on-line) or not (off-line).

Name

This identifies the printer. Each printer connected to the NSA must use a unique name.

Actions

Rename: Click this to change the name the NSA uses for the printer.
Cancel Job: Click this to remove all print jobs from the NSA queue for a particular printer.
However, since the NSA sends print jobs to the printer as soon as it can, this button may only
have an effect if there are very large or many print jobs in the queue. To stop a print job that
has already started, you may have to turn off the printer.
Delete: Click this to remove a printer from the NSA’s printer list. To add the printer back into
the list, disconnect the printer from the NSA’s USB port and reconnect it. If that does not work,
disconnect the USB port and turn off the printer’s power. Then reconnect the printer and turn it
back on.

10.9.1 Print Server Rename
Click Applications > Print Server and a printer’s Rename icon to open the following screen. Use
this screen to change the name the NSA uses for the printer.
Figure 120 Applications > Print Server > Rename

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Name

Type a new name to identify the printer. The name must be unique from all the other names of
printers connected to the NSA.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

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10.10 The Copy/Sync Button Screen
The Copy/Sync button on the front panel allows you to copy or synchronize files between a
connected USB device and the NSA.
Click Applications > Copy/Sync Button to open the following screen.
Figure 121 Applications > Copy/Sync Button

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 55 Applications > Copy/Sync Button
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Copy Settings
NSA Copy Target

Select the NSA share to use with the copy function.

USB Volume

If your USB device has multiple partitions, select which partition to use with the copy
function.

Copy Direction

Select USB -> NSA to copy files from your USB device to the NSA.

Create a New Folder
for Copied Files

Select this option to place the copied files in a new folder.

Backup Files to be
Replaced

This option is only available if you do not select Create a New Folder for Copied
Files. Select this option to save the files that will be replaced by the source files.

Select NSA -> USB to copy files from the NSA to your USB device.

Backup Target

The name of the folder created for the copied files consists of the date and time of the
copy in year_month_day_hour_minute_second format.

Select a share in which to save the backup files.

Note: The NSA will not create a new folder to store the backup files. It is recommended to
create a specific share (such as “backup”) for backup purposes.
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

USB Volume

If your USB device has multiple partitions, select which partition to use with the
synchronization function.

Sync Direction

Select USB -> NSA to synchronize files from your USB device to the NSA.
Select NSA -> USB to synchronize files from the NSA to your USB device.
Select NSA <-> USB to synchronize files in both directions simultaneously.

Backup Files to be
Replaced or
Removed
Backup Target

Select this option to save the files that will be replaced by the source files.

Select a share in which to save the backup files.

Note: The NSA will not create a new folder to store the backup files. It is recommended to
create a specific share (such as “backup”) for backup purposes.
Apply

Click this to save your changes.
The configuration file is saved on the USB device.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

10.11 Technical Reference
This section provides technical background information on the topics discussed in this chapter.

10.11.1 Sharing Media Files on Your Network
The media server feature lets anyone on your network play video, music, and photos from the NSA
(without having to copy them to another computer). The NSA can function as a DLNA-compliant
media server and/or an iTunes server. The NSA streams files to DLNA-compliant media clients or
computers using iTunes. The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a group of personal computer
and electronics companies that works to make products compatible in a home network.
• Publish shares to let others play the contained media files.
• The media server is a convenient way to share files you download using the broadcatching
service (see Section 10.8 on page 207).
• Hardware-based media clients like the DMA-2501 can also play the files. See Section 21.2 on
page 362 for the supported multimedia file formats.

Note: Anyone on your network can play the media files in the published shares. No user
name and password or other form of security is used. The media server is enabled
by default with the video, photo, and music shares published.

Songs from the iTunes Store
After using iTunes on your computer to download songs from Apple’s iTunes Store, you can copy
them to the NSA. Many of these songs have DRM (Digital Rights Management). At the time of
writing, you can use your Apple account ID and password to authorize up to a total of five
computers to play the files. To authorize a computer, open iTunes and click Store > Authorize
Computer.

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A link for the NSA in iTunes under SHARED. Click it to display the NSA’s published media files as
shown next.
Figure 122 NSA link in iTunes

10.11.2 Download Service
The NSA’s download service downloads files from the Internet directly to the NSA. You do not have
to download to your computer and then copy to the NSA. This can free up your computer’s system
resources. The download service also handles your broadcatching downloads. See Section 10.8 on
page 207 for information on broadcatching.
The NSA can download using these protocols.
• HTTP: The standard protocol for web pages.
• FTP: A standard Internet file transfer service.
• P2P download: Peer-to-peer files sharing protocol.

Note: Do not use the NSA for illegal purposes. Illegal downloading or sharing of files can
result in severe civil and criminal penalties. You are subject to the restrictions of
copyright laws and any other applicable laws and will bear the consequences of any
infringements thereof. ZyXEL bears NO responsibility or liability for your use of the
download service feature.

Torrent Files
The NSA needs a “.torrent” file for P2P download to download a file. The torrent file gives the NSA
information about the file to be downloaded (and shared) and the tracker(s) (computers) that
coordinates the distribution of the file.
When you add a P2P download task in the NSA’s web configurator screens, you can copy and paste
the URL of the torrent file. The NSA automatically downloads the torrent file and saves it in a
torrent folder within the folder where the NSA stores downloaded files (the admin share’s
download folder by default).

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If you already have the torrent file saved on your computer, you can just specify its location when
adding a download task through the web configurator. Another method is to use FTP or a CIFS
program (Windows Explorer for example) to copy the torrent file into the torrent folder. The NSA
automatically uses the torrent file.
After your P2P download and sharing are finished, you can go to the incoming folder within the
destination share or folder and delete the .torrent file if you need to free up hard disk space.

10.11.3 Link Capture Browser Plugin
The link capture browser plugin is an add-on feature for your web browser. Use the plugin to
directly add a file’s URL to the NSA’s download service.

Note: The link capture browser plugin is located in the included CD.
The following screen displays how the plugin works.
Figure 123 Link Capture Browser Plugin

Instead of copying and pasting a file’s URL to the NSA’s download service, you can right-click on the
URL in the web browser and select Send to NSA. The URL is then added to the NSA’s download
service list.
See Section 5.10.2 on page 99 and Section 5.10.3 on page 104 for tutorials about installing and
using the link capture browser plugin.

Note: At the time of writing the plugin supports Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0/8.0 and Mozilla
Firefox 2.0/3.0.

10.11.4 Download Service Notification
Use the download service notification to keep track of downloaded files on the NSA. You can
subscribe to the NSA’s download list on your computer. When the NSA finishes downloading new
files, your RSS reader displays the information and links for the files. You can also download the
files from the RSS reader to your computer.
See Section 5.10.5 on page 108 for a tutorial about using the download service notification.
In the Download Service screen, select Enable Download Notify and click Apply. An RSS feed
icon appears. Click the icon to subscribe to the NSA’s download list.

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Note: The download service notification only keeps track of files downloaded via P2P
download.
Figure 124 Download Service Notification

10.11.5 P2P Download Security
When you download using P2P, you reveal your IP address. This increases the risk of hacking
attacks, which can be protected against by a good firewall.

Use a Hardware-based Firewall
Place a hardware-based firewall between your network and the Internet (a software-based firewall
on your computer would just protect the computer itself, not the NSA since your computer is not
between your NSA and the Internet).
Figure 125 Firewall

Ideally your firewall should have the following:
• Stateful packet inspection to control access between the Internet and your network and protect
your NSA (and computers) from hacking attacks.
• IDP (Intrusion Detection and Prevention) to detect malicious packets within normal network
traffic and take immediate action against them.

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• Anti-virus to check files you download for computer viruses.

P2P Download and Your Firewall
The anti-virus feature on a firewall probably cannot check P2P downloads for viruses, so use antivirus software on your computer to scan the NSA for viruses.
When you download using P2P download, many other P2P download users are also trying to
download the file from you. The firewall slows this down because by default, it only allows traffic
from the Internet in response to a request that originated on the LAN (it lets you get files from the
Internet and blocks those on the Internet from getting files from you).
Figure 126 Firewall Blocking Incoming P2P Download Requests

To speed up P2P download file transfers, configure your firewall’s port forwarding to send incoming
TCP port 9090 and UDP port 9089 connections to the NSA. You probably need to use your firewall’s

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HTML (web-based) configuration interface to set this up (see the firewall’s manual for details). You
may also have to configure a corresponding firewall rule.
Figure 127 Firewall Configured to Allow Incoming P2P Download Requests

10.11.6 Web Publishing Example
This example covers how to configure the Web Publishing screen to let people use a web browser
to access a share named FamilyPhotos without logging into the Home screens and shows how to
access the share through the Internet.
1

Click Applications > Web Publishing and configure the screen as shown (enable the web
publishing and move FamilyPhotos over to Published Shares) and click Apply.
Figure 128 Applications > Web Publishing (Example)

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Now open your web browser and type in the address of the NSA’s FamilyPhotos web page. In this
example, the NSA’s IP address is 192.168.1.33, and the name of the web-published share is
FamilyPhotos. So you would enter “http://192.168.1.33/MyWeb/FamilyPhotos/” in your browser’s
address bar. Then press [ENTER] or click Go. A screen displays listing the share’s files.
Figure 129 Browsing to an NSA Share Example

• Click a file’s link to open the file.
• Right-click a file’s link and select Save Target As.. (in Internet Explorer) to save a copy of the
file.
• Click a label in the heading row to sort the files by that criteria.
• To customize how the page looks and works, create an index.html or index.htm file and store it in
the share.

10.11.7 Web Publishing
Web publishing lets you “publish” shares (containing folders and files) on the NSA so people can
access the files using a web browser without having to log into the Home screens. This way you
can share files with others without them having to know and enter a user name and password.
For example, if you want to share photos in a FamilyPhotos share, you could “web publish” it and
others could use a web browser to access the photos at http://my-NSA’s-IP-Address/MyWeb/
FamilyPhotos.

Note: The NSA does not use any security for the files in the published folders. It is not
recommended to publish shares if you do not have the NSA behind a good
hardware-based firewall. See page 219 for more on firewalls.
Additionally, you can use HTML editing software (not included) to create an index.html or index.htm
file to define and customize how your website works and looks.

Accessing Web-published Shares from the Internet
You need to use a public address to access the NSA’s web-published shares from the Internet. If
your NSA uses a private IP address, you may need to use the public IP address of your Internet
gateway and configure NAT or port forwarding on your Internet gateway and possibly firewall rules
in order to let people access the NSA’s web-published shares from the Internet.

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Web Publishing Port Number
If the web-published shares use a port number other than 80 (the normal port for web traffic),
users must include it after the NSA’s IP address in order to access the NSA’s web-published shares.
For example, say you specified port 8080, the NSA’s IP address is 192.168.1.23, and the name of
the web-published share is FamilyPhotos. You would have to enter “http://192.168.1.23:8080/
MyWeb/FamilyPhotos/” in your browser’s address bar to access the share’s web page.
The NSA’s web configurator uses port 80. To make the web configurator more secure, you can have
the web-published shares use another port number. Then you can configure one set of firewall rules
and NAT or port forwarding settings on your Internet gateway specifically for allowing access to the
web-published shares and another separate set of rules for accessing the NSA’s web configurator.

10.11.8 Channel Guides for Broadcatching
Here are some popular broadcatching channel guide web sites.

Note: ZyXEL does not endorse these web sites and is not responsible for any of their
contents. Use these or any other web sites at your own risk and discretion.
• http://www.zencast.com/
• http://www.miroguide.com/
• http://www.vuze.com/
• http://www.mefeedia.com/
• http://www.vodstock.com/
• http://www.mininova.org
In the following example, the Internet gateway’s firewall is configured to allow anyone to access the
NSA’s web-published screens using port 8080. Web configurator access (port 80) however, is only
allowed from IP address a.b.c.d.
Figure 130 Web Publishing Port Number Example

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10.11.9 Printer Sharing
The NSA can act as a print server. A print server lets multiple computers share a printer. Connect a
printer to the NSA’s USB port to let multiple computers on your network use it. See www.zyxel.com
for a list of compatible printers.
Figure 131 Printer Sharing

10.11.10 Copying Files
You can copy files from a USB device to the NSA or from the NSA to a USB device. Simply press and
release the COPY/SYNC button to start copying files. See Section 10.10 on page 215 for details
about configuring the copy settings.

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The following figure illustrates how copying files works when you copy files from a USB device to
the NSA. The same concept applies when you copy files from the NSA to a USB device.
Figure 132 Copying Files Example

Before Copy
NSA

USB

After Copy
NSA

USB

Both storage devices contain file A.
• A copy of files A and B from the USB device is transferred to the NSA.
• File A from the USB device replaces file A on the NSA.

10.11.11 Synchronizing Files
Synchronization makes the contents on the target device identical to the ones on the source device.
You can synchronize files from a USB device to the NSA or from the NSA to a USB device. In
addition, you may also synchronize files in both directions simultaneously.
Press and hold the COPY/SYNC button until you hear a beep to synchronize files. See Section
10.10 on page 215 for details about configuring the synchronization settings.

USB -> NSA or USB <- NSA
When you synchronize files in one direction, contents on the source device replace the files on the
target device.

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The following figure illustrates how synchronization works when you synchronize files from a USB
device to the NSA. The same concept applies when you synchronize files from the NSA to a USB
device.
Figure 133 Synchronizing Files Example 1

Before Sync
NSA

USB

After Sync
NSA

USB

Both storage devices contain A.
• A copy of files A and B from the USB device is transferred to the NSA.
• File A from the USB device replaces file A on the NSA.
• File C on the NSA is deleted.

USB <-> NSA
When you synchronize files in both directions simultaneously, both storage devices transfer unique
files to one another. Files with the same file name are synchronized according to their modification
date/time. The difference in modification time between the two files has to be greater than five
minutes. More recently modified files overwrite the older ones during synchronization.

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The following figure illustrates how synchronization works when you synchronize files in both
directions simultaneously.
Figure 134 Synchronizing Files Example 2

Before Sync
NSA

USB

(new)

After Sync
NSA

USB

(new) (new)

A on the USB device and B on the NSA are modified more recently.
• File A from the USB device replaces file A on the NSA.
• File B from the NSA replaces file B on the USB device.
• A copy of file C from the USB device is transferred to the NSA.
• A copy of file D from the NSA is transferred to the USB device.

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Package Management
11.1 Overview
Package Management can be used to set up more useful applications in your NSA. The NSA can
download multiple packages/files at once and automatically goes through all the installation steps.

11.2 What You Can Do
• Use the Package Management screen (Section 11.4 on page 230) to download and install
applications from the web.
• Use the eMule screens (Section 11.5 on page 233) to configure the server, task and search
settings for the eMule application.
• Use the DyDNS screen (Section 11.6 on page 247) to configure the domain name settings of
your NSA.
• Use the NFS screen (Section 11.7 on page 248) to configure the Network File System (NFS)
settings of your NSA.
• Use the SMART screens (Section 11.8 on page 251) to view your NSA hard disk(s) statistics and
monitor their performance.
• Use the Protect screens (Section 11.9 on page 255) to configure and schedule the backup and
restore jobs of your NSA.

11.3 What You Need to Know
This feature enables you to use the following applications:
• eMule - eMule is an open-source peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing application similar to eDonkey,
which can be used to download files from the Internet. It uses the Kad protocol.
• DyDNS - This gives your NSA a domain name with a dynamic IP address. At the time of writing,
this package supports accounts from the following service providers: DynDNS, NoIP, 3322,
ZoneEdit, and DHS.
• Gallery - This web-based application allows your NSA to host pictures. You can upload images in
your local computer or shares to this application. Use the administrator account of your NSA to
log in to the Gallery console. The administrator can then create accounts for other users.
• NFS - NFS (Network File System) is a file-sharing protocol most commonly implemented on
Unix-like systems.
• PHP-MySQL-phpMyAdmin - This tool can be used to manage MySQL through the web. Enter
'root' as the username and '1234' as the password to log in. This includes MySQL 5.1.30, PHP
5.2.8 and phpMyAdmin 3.1.1.

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• SMART - Use S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) to monitor hard
disks. It detects and reports the reliability of hard disks using standard indicators, enabling
administrators to anticipate possible disk failures.
• SqueezeCenter - This enables you to manage a Logitech's Squeezebox device connected to the
NSA.
• Wordpress - This allows you to create and manage a blog. Use the NSA administrator
credentials to log in. The administrator can then create accounts for other users.
• BackupPlanner - Use this to schedule and run backup jobs for files stored in your NSA to an
internal drive, external storage device or to another NSA in the network.
The following applications come with their own web configurator and documentation:
• Gallery
• PHP-MySQL-phpMyAdmin
• SqueezeCenter
• WordPress

11.4 Package Management Screen
Use this screen to download and install applications from the web.
Click Applications > Package Management to open the following screen.
Figure 135 Applications > Package Management

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 56 Applications > Package Management
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Package Management
Retrieve List From
Internet

Click this to retrieve a list of available packages from the ZyXEL website.

Install/Upgrade

Choose the item(s) on the list and click this to install the selected application(s) on your
system or upgrade to the latest version if you have previously installed the application.

Uninstall/Cancel
Installation

Choose the item(s) on the list and click this to uninstall the selected application(s) from
your system or cancel their active download(s) or install process/es.
This is only available if you have previously installed the package.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable

This option is only for non built-in packages.
Choose the item(s) on the list and click this to enable the application(s) on your
system.
This is only available if you have previously installed the package.

Disable

This option is only for non built-in packages.
Choose the item(s) on the list and click this to disable the application on your system.
You have to enable the application again in order to use it.
This is only available if you have previously installed the package.

Package Info
Status

Select an item on the list and click this to display information about the package. See
Section 11.4.1 on page 232 for more details.
This is the current status of the application. It shows:
•
•
•
•
•
•

Not Installed - This displays for applications that have not been installed by the
NSA.
Installing (%) - This displays when the application is being installed. It also shows
the percent of the package already installed.
Built-in - This displays for applications installed by the NSA that you can configure
in the NSA Web Configurator.
Enabled - This displays for applications installed and enabled by the NSA that
have their own web configurators.
Disabled - This displays for applications installed and disabled by the NSA that
have their own web configurators.
Unknown - It is possible to get this status if the web location for the application is
unavailable.

Package Name

This is the name of the application.

Requires

This shows the other packages required in order to run this application.

Note: A package would be disabled/enabled simultaneously if its prerequisite package(s)
has been disabled/enabled. For example, when you enable WordPress, this also
enables PHP-MySQL-phpMyAdmin automatically. However when you enable
PHP-MySQL-phpMyAdmin, this does not automatically enable WordPress.
Version

This is the version number of the item.
The
icon indicates that the application has a newer version available. Move your
mouse over this icon to see the latest version number. Choose this item and click
Install/Upgrade.

Description

This shows a brief description of the application.

Management
Page

This shows the location of the screens or web configurator where you can manage the
application (after the package has been installed on the system).

Note: Once you install an application and enable it, additional links show up in the
navigation panel. This applies to eMule, DyDNS, NFS, SMART and
BackupPlanner. For Gallery, PHP-MySQL-phpMyAdmin, SqueezeCenter and
WordPress, you can access the applications’ web configurators through the
Package Management screen.

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11.4.1 Displaying the Package Information
Select an item on the list and click Package Info. Use this screen to check detailed information
about the task.
Figure 136 Applications > Package Management > Package Info

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 57 Applications > Package Management > Package Info
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Status

This is the current status of the application. It shows:
•
•
•
•
•

Name

232

Not Installed - This displays for applications that have not been installed by the NSA.
Installing (%) - This displays when the application is being installed. It also shows
the percent of the package already installed.
Built-in - This displays for applications installed by the NSA that you can configure in
the NSA Web Configurator.
Enabled - This displays for applications installed and enabled by the NSA that have
their own web configurators.
Disabled - This displays for applications installed and disabled by the NSA that have
their own web configurators.

This is the name of the application.

Size

This is the size of the application at initial download.

Needed Space

This is the needed space to complete the installation of the application.

Version

This is the version number of the application.

Requires

This shows other package/s required to run this application.

Required By

This shows which other packages require this application in order to be usable.

Management Page

This shows the location of the screens, console or web configurator where you can
manage the application (after the package has been installed on the system).

Source

This shows the location of the installed files of the application.

Description

This shows a brief description of the item.

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11.5 eMule Screens
Use these screens to manage the eMule application in your NSA. eMule is a peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing console that lets you download files from the Internet. It works with eDonkey and Kad
networks.

11.5.1 eMule Server Screen
Use this screen to configure the eMule server.
Click Applications > eMule > Server to open the following screen.
Figure 137 Applications > eMule > Server

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 58 Applications > eMule > Server
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Server - You can add multiple servers in this screen. However, the NSA can only connect to one eMule server
at a time.
Enable eMule

Check this and click Apply to enable the eMule application.

Add Server

Click this to add an eMule server. A server provides a list of available files for download,
users sharing them and other information.
Refer to Section 11.5.2 on page 234 for the Add Server screen.

My Info

Select a server from the list and click this to view the details and connection status of the
server.

Connect

Click this to connect to the selected server or a random server if no server is selected.

Disconnect

Select a server from the list and click this to disconnect from the server.

Edit Server

Select a server from the list and click this to edit the server’s information, including the
server name and IP address.

Refer to Section 11.5.4 on page 235 for the My Info screen.

Refer to Section 11.5.3 on page 235 for the Edit Server screen.
Delete Selected
Server(s)

Select the server(s) from the list and click this to delete the server(s) from the list.

The table lists your servers. Click a column’s heading to sort the entries by that criteria.

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Table 58 Applications > eMule > Server
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Status

This shows the status of the NSA’s connection to the server: Connected, Connecting or
Not Connected.

IP Address

This shows the IP address of the server.

Port Number

This shows the port number used by the server for file-sharing.

Name

This shows the name of the server.

Response

This shows the length of time (in milliseconds) that the server took to reply to the NSA.

Number of
Current Users

This shows the number of users currently connected to the server.

Max. User
Number

This shows the total number of users that can connect to the server at the same time.

Number of Files

This shows the number of files available for download in the server.

You see a warning screen before you delete a server.
Figure 138 Delete a Server

11.5.2 Add Server
Use this screen to add a server for the eMule application.
Click Add in the Applications > eMule > Server screen to add a server.
Figure 139 Applications > eMule > Server: Add

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 59 Applications > eMule > Server: Add

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Server IP

Select this if you know the server name, IP address and port number of the eMule server
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Server Name

Enter the server name.

IP Address

Enter the IP address of the server.

Port Number

Enter the port number used by the server for file-sharing.

ED2K Link

Select this and enter the ED2K link for the eMule server you want to add.
The ED2K link is used within the eMule network and contains information about the
server.

Insert server.met
from URL

Select this and enter the URL from which you want to download the server list that you
want the NSA to use.

Apply

Click this to apply your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

11.5.3 Edit Server
Use this screen to edit a server for the eMule application.
Click Edit in the Applications > eMule > Server screen to edit a server.
Figure 140 Applications > eMule > Server: Edit

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 60 Applications > eMule > Server: Edit
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Server Name

Enter the server name.

IP Address

Enter the IP address of the server.

Port Number

Enter the port number of the server.

Apply

Click this to apply your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

11.5.4 My Info
Use this screen to view the server details, including the status, IP address and download/upload
speeds.

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Click MyInfo in the Applications > eMule > Server screen to view the server details.
Figure 141 Applications > eMule > Server: MyInfo

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 61 Applications > eMule > Server: MyInfo
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

ED2k Status

This shows the status of the NSA’s connection to the server: Connected, Connecting
or Not Connected.

ED2k ID

This is the identification given to the NSA by the eMule server. The ID comes in two
types:
•
•

High ID - The NSA connects to the server directly.
Low ID - The NSA connects to the server from behind a firewall.

ED2k IP

This is the IP address of the eMule server to which the NSA is connected.

ED2k Port

This is the port number of the eMule server to which the NSA is connected.

Kad

This shows the status of the NSA’s connection to the Kad network: Connected or Not
Connected.
Kad is a shortcut for Kademlia network, which does not use servers to store files or user
information in order to run a peer-to-peer network. Instead it employs peers/clients as
small “servers” and runs queries through these peers.

Download Speed

This shows the current download speed of the eMule client.

Upload Speed

This shows the current upload speed of the eMule client.

Client in Queue

This shows the number of peers waiting to connect to the NSA to download its file (s).

Sources

This shows the total number of peers that can share the required files to the NSA eMule
client.

Click this to exit the screen.

11.5.5 eMule Task Screen
Use this screen to view tasks, including completed, downloading, uploading and shared tasks, that
are being handled by the NSA.

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Click Applications > eMule > Task screen to view the task details.
Figure 142 Applications > eMule > Task

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 62 Applications > eMule > Task
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Task
Enable eMule

Check this and click Apply to enable the eMule application.

Add

Click this to add a download task (ED2K link) to the list.
Refer to Section 11.5.6 on page 238 for the Add Task screen.

Preferences

Click this to open a screen where you can set the default location for saving downloaded
files. You can also configure your eMule download settings.
Refer to Section 11.5.7 on page 240 for the Preferences screen.

Browse Incomplete
Downloads

Click this to open a screen where you can see a list of *.part.met files that the NSA is
still in the process of downloading.
Refer to Section 11.5.9 on page 243 for the Share Browsing screen.

Clear All Completed

Click this to remove all completed downloads from the task list. This only removes the
newly completed task(s) in this session.

Refresh

Click this to refresh the task screen.

Delete

Select an item from the list and click this to delete the task.

Pause

Select an item from the list and click this to pause the task.

Resume

Select a paused item from the list and click this to resume the task.

Task Info

Select an item from the list and click this to view the details and status of the task.

The table lists your tasks. Click a column’s heading to sort the entries by that criteria.
Downloading

This table shows a list of download tasks that are still in progress.

Newly Completed

This table shows a list of tasks that have been completed but have not been cleared
from the list.

Uploading

This table shows a list of upload tasks that are still in progress.

Shared Files

This table shows a list of files on the NSA that are available for download by other peers
in the network.

Status

This shows the current status of the task: Waiting or Downloading.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Name/File Name

This shows the name of the file(s) associated to the task.

File Size/Size

This shows the size of the file(s) associated in the task.

Complete (%)

This shows the percentage of the file that has been downloaded by the NSA. It also
indicates what percent of the file still needs to be downloaded.

Source

This shows the total number of peers that can share the required files to the NSA eMule
client.

Download Speed

This shows the download speed of the NSA for the task.

Time Left

This shows how much more time the NSA needs to complete the file’s download.

Priority

Use this field to set the priority for the task. Choose from Auto, Low, Normal or High.
Select Auto to have the NSA automatically determine the task’s priority.
Select High to have the NSA complete this task before the others.

Transferred

This shows what percent of the file the NSA has uploaded to other peers.

Upload Speed

This shows the upload speed of the NSA.

This column is available in the Uploading tab.

This column is available in the Uploading tab.
Requests

This shows the number of requests for a shared file.

Accepted Requests

This shows the number of file requests granted by the NSA.

This column is available in the Shared Files tab.

Note: Download tasks initially appear in the Downloading tab of the eMule Task screen.
Depending on its status, it can eventually show up in the other tabs (Newly
Completed, Uploading or Shared Files tabs).
You see a warning screen before you delete a task.
Figure 143 Delete a Task

11.5.6 Add Task
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Click Add in the Applications > eMule > Task screen to add a task.
Figure 144 Applications > eMule > Task: Add

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 63 Applications > eMule > Task: Add
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Source
ED2K Link

Paste the ED2K link of the file you want to download into this field.
The ED2K link identifies files in the eMule network. It starts with ed2k:// and may contain
the name and size of the file you want to download.

Location of
Downloaded Files

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Edit

Click this to open the following screen where you can set the default folder location where
you “Put incomplete downloads in” and “Move complete downloads to”:.

•
•

Share - Select the destination share from the drop-down list.
Path - This field displays the share folder’s path. You can use Browse to find or create
a folder on the NSA or type the location of the folder using forward slashes as branch
separators.

•
•
•
•

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

11.5.7 Preferences
Use this screen to configure your eMule settings, such as port numbers to use, its download/upload
rates and the maximum number of peers allowed to connect to the NSA.

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Click Applications > eMule > Task > Preferences to open the following screen.
Figure 145 Applications > eMule > Task > Preferences

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 64 Applications > eMule > Task > Preferences
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Username
Username

Enter your user name that identifies the NSA in the eMule network.

Location of
Downloaded Files

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Edit

Click this to open the following screen where you can set the default folder location
where you “Put incomplete downloads in” and “Move complete downloads to”:.

•
•

Share - Select the destination share from the drop-down list.
Path - This field displays the share folder’s path. You can use Browse to find or
create a folder on the NSA or type the location of the folder using forward slashes as
branch separators.

•
•
•
•

Enter the UDP port number you want to use for file transfers.

TCP Port

Enter the TCP port number you want to use for file transfers.

Upload and Download Rate
Max. download rate

Enter the maximum download rate for download tasks.

Max. upload rate

Enter the maximum upload rate for upload tasks.

Connection
Maximum Number
of Active
Connections

Enter the maximum number of eMule peer-to-peer connections.

IP Filter
Edit IP Filter

Click this to edit the IP Filter.
IP filtering prevents your NSA from accessing certain networks and IP addresses that
may be hosting malicious programs.
Refer to Section 11.5.8 on page 243 to view and configure the Edit IP Filter screen.

Apply

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Reset

Click this to clear the fields.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

11.5.8 Edit IP Filter
Use this screen to enable IP filtering which prevents your NSA from accessing certain networks and
IP addresses that may be hosting malicious programs.
Figure 146 Applications > eMule > Task > Preferences: Edit IP Filter

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 65 Applications > eMule > Task > Preferences: Edit IP Filter
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable IP Filter

Click this to enable IP filtering. This prevents your NSA from accessing certain networks
and IP addresses that may be hosting malicious programs.
Select Update IP Filter Table File from the Internet Every Week if you know the web
location of the IP filter table you want to use. Enter the link where your NSA can acquire
the list of networks and IP addresses. The NSA checks this link every week and uses the
latest IP filter table available.
Select Upload IP Filter Table if you want to use an IP filter table from your local
computer.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

11.5.9 Share Browsing
Use this screen to view a list of files that are still being downloaded by the NSA. The files are
located in the eMule\Temp folder in the Admin share by default.

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Click Applications > eMule > Task > Browse Incomplete Downloads to open the following
screen.
Figure 147 Applications > eMule > Task > Browse Incomplete Downloads

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 66 Sharing > Shares > Share Browser
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Create Folder

Type a folder name and click Apply to make a new folder. The name can be 1 to 239 singlebyte (no Chinese characters allowed for example) ASCII characters. The name cannot be the
same as another existing folder in the same path. See Section 4.4.6 on page 59 for more
information on folder names.

Upload

Click this to add files to the share. Use Browse to locate a file and click Apply to upload the
file. Note that the size of each file should be less than 2 GB.

Rename

Select a folder or file and click this to open a screen. Enter the name you want and click OK
to make the changes.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Delete

Select a file/folder from the list and click this to open a warning screen. Click Yes to delete
the file/folder, or click No to close the screen.

Move

Select a file/folder from the list and click this to relocate the file/folder to another share.

Copy

Select a file/folder from the list and click this to make a duplicate of the file/folder to another
share.

Current
location

This is the name of the share and folder path that you are in.

Type

The icon in this column identifies the entry as a folder or a file.
The folder with an arrow pointing up is for the link that takes you to the next higher layer in
the share’s folder tree.

Name

This section lists the share’s existing folders or files. Click to the right of the file/folder name
to select the file/folder. You can also click the folder’s name to navigate to a sub-folder
within the folder.

Size

This field displays size of the file.

Modified Date

This field displays a file’s latest modification date.

Click this to close the screen.

11.5.10 Task Info
Use this screen to view eMule task details, such as status, file name, file size and its download
progress.
Click Task Info in Applications > eMule > Task screen to open the following.
Figure 148 Applications > eMule > Task: Task Info

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 67 Applications > eMule > Task: Task Info
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Status

This shows the current status of the task - Waiting or Downloading.

Name

This shows the file name of the file associated with the task.

part.met File

This shows the temporary file name for an incomplete file.

You can change this file name by entering the new name and clicking Apply.

Files in peer-to-peer networks can be divided into several parts for easier download. Once
all the parts have been downloaded, you can run one part and the file automatically
rebuilds itself. If the download of the file(s) is not completed, the file parts cannot open
on their own.
Hash

This shows the hash value of the download file.
This is a text string that can be interpreted by eMule to check the downloaded file’s
integrity.

ED2K Link

This shows the ED2K link for this file.
The ED2K link identifies files in the eMule network. It starts with ed2k:// and may contain
the name and size of the file you want to download.

Size

This shows the size of the file associated with the task.

Done Size

This shows the size of the file that has been downloaded so far.

Complete (%)

This shows what percent of the file has been downloaded so far.

Source

This shows the total number of peers that can share the required files to the NSA eMule
client.

Download Speed

This shows the download speed for the task.

Time Left

This shows how much time is needed to complete the task.

Priority

This shows the priority of this task.
You can set this in Section 11.5.5 on page 236.

Seen Complete

This shows the last time a source with the complete file was online.

Click this to exit the screen.

11.5.11 eMule Search Screen
Use this screen to search for files available in an eMule server using keywords and other
parameters, such as file type, file size and extension names.

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Click Applications > eMule > Search to open the following screen.
Figure 149 Applications > eMule > Search

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 68 Applications > eMule > Search
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Search
Enable eMule

Check this and click Apply to enable the eMule application.

Keyword(s)

Enter words that are related to the file you want to download.

File Type

Select the file type that you want to download.

Method

Select the search method you want eMule to employ.

Min Size

Enter the minimum file size you want included in the search results.

Max Size

Enter the maximum file size you want included in the search results.

Min Sources

Enter the minimum number of peers sharing the file you want to download.

Extension

Enter the file extensions separated by commas of files you want included in the search
results.

Click this to have the NSA search the eMule network for files that match the criteria you have
set.

Clear

Click this to clear the fields.

Download

Select a file from the results and click this to start downloading the file.

This table shows the results of the search.
File Name

This shows the name of the file(s) that match the criteria you have set.

File Size

This shows the size of the file(s) that match the criteria you have set.

Source

This shows how many peers are currently available to share this file so that the NSA can
download it.

11.6 DyDNS Screen
Use this to enable and configure DyDNS.
Dynamic DNS allows you to update your current dynamic IP address with a dynamic DNS service so
that anyone can contact you (such as through NetMeeting or CUSeeMe). You can also access your

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FTP server or Web site on your own computer using a domain name (for instance myhost.dhs.org,
where myhost is a name of your choice) that will never change instead of using an IP address that
changes each time you reconnect. Your friends or relatives will always be able to call you even if
they don't know your IP address.
Click Network > DyDNS to open the following screen.
Figure 150 Network > DyDNS

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 69 Network > DyDNS
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Gateway Information
Internal Address

This shows the IP address assigned to the NSA by the gateway in your local network.

External Address

This shows the IP address of the NSA that can be accessed in the Wide Area Network
(WAN). Note that this is not assigned by the DyDNS server.

Configuration
Enable DyDNS

Select this to use dynamic DNS.
You need to have registered a dynamic DNS account with a service provider such as
www.dyndns.org. The Dynamic DNS service provider will give you a password or key.

Service Provider

Select your Dynamic DNS service provider.

Hostname

Enter your host name provided by the Dynamic DNS service.

Username

Enter your user name for your DNS account.

Password

Enter the password assigned to your DNS account.

Password (Confirm)

Confirm the password you entered.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to clear the fields.

11.7 NFS Screen
Use this screen to enable and configure Network File System (NFS) settings on your NSA.

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NFS is a client/server distributed file service that provides transparent file sharing for network
environments. This allows shared folders in your NSA to be accessible like a local folder in a user’s
computer.
Click Network > NFS to open the following screen.
Figure 151 Network > NFS

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 70 Network > NFS
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

NFS Service
Enable NFS Server

Click this to employ NFS in your NSA.

Disable NFS Server

Click this to stop using NFS.
This makes all NFS shares unavailable.

Add NFS Share

Click this to add an NFS share.
Refer to Section 11.7.1 on page 250 for the Add NFS Share screen.

NFS Session

Click this to view active NFS sessions. You can see the list of users who have access to
the NFS shares.
Refer to Section 11.7.2 on page 251 for the NFS Session screen.

Edit NFS Share

Select an NFS share from the list and click this to edit it.
Refer to Section 11.7.1 on page 250 for the Edit NFS Share screen.

Delete NFS Share
(s)

Select an NFS share from the list and click this to delete it.

The table lists your NFS shares. Click a column’s heading to sort the entries by that criteria.
Status

This shows whether the share is active or not.

NFS Share Path

This shows the location of the share in the NSA.

Volume Name

This shows the volume where the NFS share is located.

DN/IP Filter

This shows which domain name(s) or IP address(es) have read/write access to the NFS
shares.
Refer to Section 11.7.1 on page 250 for the screen where you can configure this.

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You see a warning screen before you delete a volume.
Figure 152 Delete an NFS Share

11.7.1 Add/Edit NFS Share
Use this screen to add or edit an NFS share.

Note: Some attributes of the NFS share cannot be edited.
Click Add or Edit in the Network > NFS screen to open the following:
Figure 153 Network > NFS: Add/Edit

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 71 Network > NFS: Add/Edit
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Volume Name

Select the volume where the folder you want to add as an NFS share is located.

NFS Share Name

Enter the name you want to give to the NFS share.

Full Path

This shows the location of the NFS share in the NSA.
The NFS server assigns this path to the share folder you input.

Comment

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

DN/IP Filter

Enter the domain name(s) or IP address(es) that can have access to the NFS share.
Enter ‘*’ to make the share available to all users in the network. You can also enter a
wildcard, such as ‘*.domain.com’ to indicate that all users within that network have
access to the share.
Select the access rights you want to grant to each domain name or IP address you
enter and click Add.
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Read Only - Users with this access right can only view and copy files in the NFS
share but cannot modify or delete them.
Read/Write - Users with this access right can view, edit or delete files in the NFS
share.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

11.7.2 NFS Session
Use this screen to view a list of active NFS sessions. You can see which users are connected the NFS
shares.
Click NFS Session in the Network > NFS screen to open the following.
Figure 154 Network > NFS: NFS Session

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 72 Network > NFS: NFS Session
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Type

This shows if the NFS share is active or not.

NFS Share Path

This shows the location of the share in the NSA.

Username

This shows the username of the active user connected to the NFS share.

Connected At

This displays the date and time the user last connected to the NSA in year, month, day,
hour, minute, second format.

IP Address

This shows the IP address of the user accessing the NFS share.

Click this to close the window.

11.8 SMART Screen
Use this screen to view indicators of your NSA’s hard disk(s) health.

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Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) detects and reports the reliability
of hard disks using standard indicators (called “attributes”), to help you anticipate possible disk
failures.

Note: The fields included the screens may vary depending on the hard disk that you use.
Click Storage > S.M.A.R.T to open the following screen.
Figure 155 Storage > S.M.A.R.T

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 73 Storage > S.M.A.R.T
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

S.M.A.R.T. Information
Brief Summary

Select a hard disk volume from the list and click this to display information about the
volume, such as the hard disk vendor, specific model, hard disk capacity and so on.

Full Summary

Select a volume and click this to display more detailed information about the volume.

See Section 11.8.1 on page 253 to view the Brief Summary screen.

See Section 11.8.1 on page 253 to view the Full Summary screen.
The table lists your hard disks. Click a column’s heading to sort the entries by that criteria.
Status

This shows the condition of the hard disk volume. Go to Section 8.4 on page 167 for
more information.

Name

This shows the name assigned to the hard disk.

Temperature

This shows the temperature of the hard disk in degrees celsius.

Performance

This shows your hard disk’s performance. Refer to Section 11.8.2 on page 254 for more
information on how S.M.A.R.T determines your hard disk’s condition. This displays:
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Type

Good - This shows when you compare each Value with the Threshold Value and
all the Value is greater than the Threshold Value.
Bad - This shows when you compare each Value with the Threshold Value and at
least one Value is less than or equal to the Threshold Value.

This shows volume type or file system that the hard disk is using, such as JBOD, PC
Compatible Volume and RAID or FAT32, FAT16 and NTFS.
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This shows the name of the hard disk volume.

Model Name

This shows the factory model of the hard disk.

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11.8.1 SMART Brief Summary
Use this screen to display information about the volume, such as the hard disk vendor, specific
model, hard disk capacity and so on.
Click Brief Summary in the Storage > S.M.A.R.T screen to display the following.
Figure 156 Storage > S.M.A.R.T: Brief Summary

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 74 Storage > S.M.A.R.T: Brief Summary
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Brief Summary
Temperature

This shows the current temperature of the hard disk in degrees celsius.

Health

This describes the overall health of the volume based on S.M.A.R.T diagnostics.

Performance

This shows your hard disk’s performance. Refer to Section 11.8.2 on page 254 for more
information on how S.M.A.R.T determines your hard disk’s condition. This displays:
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Detailed Information
Model Family

This shows the vendor and product family of the hard disk.

Device Model

This shows the factory model of the hard disk.

Serial Number

This shows the serial number of the hard disk.

Firmware Version

This shows the firmware version installed in the hard disk.

User Capacity

This shows the total hard disk space of the hard disk volume.

ATA Version

This shows the ATA version of the hard disk, which refers to an industry standard
category for storage devices and connectors used.

ATA Standard

This field displays the Advanced Technology Attachment standard the hard drive
supports.

Local Time

This field displays the local time that the hard drive is using.

SMART support

This field displays whether or not the hard drive is SMART-capable.

SMART support

This field displays whether or not the hard drive has SMART monitoring turned on.

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11.8.2 SMART Full Summary
Use this screen to display more details information about the volume.
Click Full Summary in the Storage > S.M.A.R.T screen to display the following.
Figure 157 Storage > S.M.A.R.T: Full Summary

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 75 Storage > S.M.A.R.T: Full Summary
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

This is the identification number used to tag a hard disk attribute.
This is standard across all S.M.A.R.T-enabled storage devices. However it depends on the
storage vendor which attributes it will allow S.M.A.R.T to diagnose.

Attribute Name

This refers to an attribute of the hard disk that S.M.A.R.T can assess. Attributes describe
the hard disk’s physical state, performance, wear-and-tear, and so on.

Flag

This shows a code that S.M.A.R.T uses to determine the current state of the hard disk.

Value

This is a value that corresponds to the Raw Value. Compare this with the Threshold
Value.
S.M.A.R.T compresses the raw value(s) into a digit from 1 to 253, where 1 indicates the
worst scenario while 253 indicates the best scenario.
The values 100 or 200 usually represent the mean or normal value.

Worst

This is the lowest value attained by the hard disk since S.M.A.R.T started its assessment of
the hard disk.

Threshold

This is the attribute’s threshold value. If the attribute’s current normalized value is less
than or equal to the threshold, the attribute has failed. An attribute value close to or below
the threshold indicates the hard drive is no longer reliable.

Type

This shows S.M.A.R.T’s assessment of the hard disk.
Old_age indicates end-of-product life from old-age (normal wearing out) if the attribute
value is less than or equal to the threshold.
Pre-fail indicate imminent hard drive failure if the attribute value is less than or equal to
the threshold.
Note that just because an attribute is of the Pre-fail type does not mean your hard drive is
ready to fail. It only means this if the current normalized value of the attribute is less than
or equal to the threshold.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Updated

This indicates when the hard drive updates the value for this attribute.
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When Failed

Always means the hard drive updates this attribute during normal operation and
during offline activities.
Offline means the hard drive only updates this attribute when no one is accessing the
hard drive.

This column indicates when (if ever) the attribute failed. An attribute has failed if the
normalized value is less than or equal to the threshold.
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•

-: This displays if the attribute is not failing now and has never failed in the past.
FAILING_NOW: This displays if the attribute’s current normalized value is less than or
equal to the threshold.
In_the_past: This displays if the attribute’s current normalized value is greater than
the threshold but the worst recorded value is less than or equal to the threshold.

Raw Value

This is the attribute’s unprocessed raw data. These values show exact amounts of time or
numbers of attempts or errors. The meaning to the raw values is specific to the hard drive
manufacturer. Table 42 on page 156 has some information about whether a higher or lower
individual raw S.M.A.R.T. attribute value is better.

Click this to close this window.

11.9 Protect Screens
The Protect screens include:
• Backup screens - These include steps to create and customize backup jobs.
• Restore screens - These include steps to restore previous backups made with the NSA.

11.10 Backup Screens
Use this screen to create and customize scheduled backup jobs for your files.
You can have several backup jobs for specific folders and time periods.
Click Protect > Backup to open the following screen.
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 76 Protect > Backup
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Backup
Add Job

Click this to create and customize a backup job.

Edit Job

Select a backup job in the list and click this to make some changes to it.

Delete Selected
Job(s)

Select a backup job in the list and click this to delete it.

Execute Job Now

Select a backup job in the list and click this to run the backup job immediately.

Restore Archive

Select a backup job in the list and click this to restore the file(s) included in that backup
job to the NSA.
This applies to Archive backups only. Refer to Section 11.10.8 on page 265 to see the
screens.

Abort Job

Select a backup job in the list and click this to stop the process if the backup job is
currently active.

Status

This shows the current state of the backup job.
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•

Waiting means the backup job is not active but is scheduled to run at some time.
Running indicates that the NSA is currently doing the backup job. When the backup
job is running, you can also see a progress bar.

Job Name

This identifies the backup job.

Job Description

This is a short description of the backup job.

Backup Info

This lists down the backup job details: type, source and target. Refer to Section 11.10.1
on page 256 and Section 11.10.2 on page 258.

Scheduler Info

This shows the backup schedule, including the frequency, the time it was last run in
(and whether or not it succeeded), and when it is scheduled to run again. The times use
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format.
Refer to Section 11.10.4 on page 261.

11.10.1 Backup: Step 1
Use this screen to specify the job information and back up type.

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Click Add Job in the Protect > Backup screen to open the following:
Figure 159 Protect > Backup: Step 1

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 77 Protect > Backup: Step 1
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Job Information
Job Name

Enter a name to identify the backup job.

Job Description

Enter a short description (up to 100 keyboard characters) for the backup job.

Backup Type

Choose the backup type that you want the NSA to implement for the backup job.
Archive - This is a backup of the source folder in an archive format. Once you backup your
files in the target folder, you cannot access the files individually unless you have the
extracting tool used by the NSA. If there are existing files in the target folder prior to the
NSA’s backup job, the files remain undisturbed. You can also choose between the following
types of archive:
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Full - The NSA does a fresh backup each time. This provides the most protection but
also requires the most storage space.
Incremental - The NSA backs up new or modified files from the source folder since the
last backup. The first backup is a full backup. You can also do a full backup after several
incremental backups. Enter how many incremental backups the NSA runs before it
performs a full backup of the source folder. You must keep the latest full backup to be
able to restore the files later.

Synchronization - This does a backup of individual files. If you use this type, you cannot
use the Restore feature of the NSA. You can also choose between the following types of
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Mirror - The NSA deletes all data in the target folder before running the backup. It
makes the target folder identical to the source folder.
Publish- The NSA does a backup of individual files to the target folder without
overwriting existing files in that folder. It makes a copy of the source files.

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11.10.2 Backup: Step 2
Use this screen to specify where the files you want to backup are located and set where you want
the backup to be stored.
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 78 Protect > Backup: Step 2
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Backup Source

Select an (internal) volume and the folders and files to back up using this tree interface.
Click

to browse through folders, sub-folders and files.

Click
to close a folder in the tree. This is useful if there are many folders or files that
you wish to hide from view.
Click

to select a folder or file to back up. This also selects all sub-folders and files.

Click

to deselect the folder or file. This also deselects all sub-folders and files.

and
appear when there are too many folders/files to display. Click the
arrows to scroll up or down through the folders/files.
for a folder means all sub-folders and files and new folders/files added later will be
backed up.
for a file means the file will be backed up.
(a grayed out check box) for a folder means that only some sub-folders and files under
the folder will be backed up. Newly added folders/files will NOT be backed up.
means the file structure is still loading. Please wait for the folders/files to display.

Note: If you select to back up an entire folder and then de-select a sub-folder or file within
that folder, the main folder icon will turn and any new sub-folders and files added
to this main folder after the initial backup configuration will NOT be backed up.
A list of your select folders and files displays below the selection fields.
Selected Source
Folders

This shows the path of the backup source folder you selected.

Backup Target

Select the target folder where you want to place your backup.

Remote

Select this to back up to another device.
For Archives:
The remote device can be another NSA in the network. Fill in the following fields in order
to be able to access it.
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Remote NSA Address
Username
Password
Share Name

Click Test Connection to see if your NSA can communicate with the remote device.
For Synchronization:
The remote device must be another NSA compatible with the NSA’s synchronization
feature. Fill in the following fields in order to be able to access it.
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Remote NSA Address
Username (always “admin”)
Remote Admin’s Password

Click Show target content to connect to the remote NSA so you can select the target
share for the backup.
Local

Select this if you want to place your backup in another volume in the NSA. Select the
folder where you want to place the backup.

External

Select this if you have a USB hard disk connected to the NSA that you want to use for
your backup. Select the folder where you want to place the backup.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Click this to go back to the previous screen.

Click this to go to the next screen.

11.10.3 Backup: Step 3
Use this screen to specify compression, encryption and purge policies for the backup job. This step
is only available if you are doing an archive backup or a synchronization backup to a remote target.
Figure 161 Protect > Backup: Step 3

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 79 Protect > Backup: Step 3
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Compression

Select Yes if you want NSA to compress the files for your backup. Otherwise, choose No.
In an Archive backup, compression is a method of packing computing files in a way that
saves hard disk space.
For a Synchronization backup (to a remote target), the source data will be compressed
before the transmission to reduce the transmission time. It is used in slow networks only.

Encryption

Select Yes if you want NSA to encrypt the files for your backup. Otherwise, choose No.
In an Archive backup, this means using a password to secure files.
For a Synchronization backup (to a remote target), this means securing the file transfer
session. However the final file stored on the remote NSA is unencrypted. This takes a long
time. Make sure you really need this feature before enabling it.

Bandwidth

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network connection’s available bandwidth. This is more important when backing up to a
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Purge Policy

The NSA maintains the files that have been included in your backups. However to save hard
disk space, you can choose to delete files that have been included in previous backups.
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•

Select Keep All Old Backup files to store all files that have been included in previous
backups.
If you want to store a certain number of backup files, select Keep Only the last n
backup files (1-30). Enter a value (n) from 1 to 30 to specify how many backups the
NSA stores. All backup files older than the last one are deleted. You will not be able to
recover files that existed (only) in those previous backups. Select this if backup space is
limited and recovery of old files is not important.
If you want to store all backups for a certain time period, select Keep Backups for n
day(s)(1-3650). Enter a value (n) from 1 to 3650 to specify how many days the NSA
stores all backup files. After this day has expired, all backup files will be deleted.

Click this to go back to the previous screen.

Click this to go to the next screen.

11.10.4 Backup: Step 4
Click this to specify the schedule for the backup job. The backup job automatically runs according
to the schedule that you set in this screen.
Figure 162 Protect > Backup: Step 4

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 80 Protect > Backup: Step 4
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Scheduler
Backup Frequency

Select from Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly backup intervals. The screen changes
depending on the item you select.

Every how many
hours?

This is only available if you selected Hourly as your backup frequency.

On which minute of
the hour?

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Start Time
(hh:mm)

This is available if you selected Daily, Weekly or Monthly as your backup frequency.
Select the time in hour:minute format when you want the NSA to perform the backup
job.

Every how many
days?

This is only available if you selected Daily as your backup frequency.

Every how many
weeks?

This is only available if you selected Weekly as your backup frequency.

Step 1: Please
select the month(s)
of a year

This is only available if you selected Monthly as your backup frequency.

Step 2: Please
select the day of
the month

This is only available if you selected Monthly as your backup frequency.

Click this to go back to the previous screen.

Done

Click this to close the screen.

Enter the interval between days when the NSA performs the backup job.

Enter the interval between weeks when NSA performs the backup job.

Select the month(s) when you want the NSA to perform the backup job.

Select the day in a month when you want the NSA to perform the backup job.

11.10.5 Edit Job Screen
Use this screen to edit an existing backup job. Some attributes of the backup job cannot be
changed, such as the name, backup type, source folder and so on.

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11.10.6 Edit Job: Step 1
Click Protect > Backup. Select a backup job from the list and click Edit Job to open the following.
Figure 163 Protect > Backup > Edit: Step 1

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 81 Protect > Backup > Edit: Step 1
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Job Settings
Job Name

This field is read-only and shows the name of the backup job.

Job Description

Enter a short description for the backup job.

Backup Type

This field is read-only and shows the backup type.

Source folder(s)/
file(s)

This is read-only and shows the path of the source folder for backup.

Backup Target

This field is read-only and shows on which volume (whether internal or external) the
backup files are stored. If the target location is a remote NSA, this shows the remote IP
address.

Target Path

This field is read-only and shows the target folder for the backup files.

Compression

This field is read-only and shows whether the backup employs compression.
Compression reduces the size of the file that you want to back up. Backup is then faster,
but restoring may be slower, so if backup space is not a concern and recovery speed is,
then turn off compression.

Encryption

This field is read-only and shows whether the backup employs encryption.
You can have the NSA use a password to encrypt the backup files.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Bandwidth

For backups to a remote NSA, you can restrict the bandwidth to help prevent the
backups from using all of your network connection’s available bandwidth. This is more
important when backing up to a remote NSA or computer through the Internet.

Purge Policy

The NSA maintains the files that have been included in your backups. However to save
hard disk space, you can choose to delete files that have been included in previous
backups.
•
•

•

Select Keep All Old Backup files to store all files that have been included in
previous backups.
If you want to store a certain number of backup files, select Keep Only the last n
backup files (1-30). Enter a value (n) from 1 to 30 to specify how many backups
the NSA stores. All backup files older than the last one are deleted. You will not be
able to recover files that existed (only) in those previous backups. Select this if
backup space is limited and recovery of old files is not important.
If you want to store all backups for a certain time period, select Keep Backups for
n day(s)(1-3650). Enter a value (n) from 1 to 3650 to specify how many days the
NSA stores all backup files. After this day has expired, all backup files will be
deleted.

Click this to go to the next screen.

11.10.7 Edit Job: Step 2
Use this screen to edit the schedule for the backup job.
Figure 164 Protect > Backup > Edit: Step 2

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 82 Protect > Backup > Edit: Step 2
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Scheduler Settings

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Backup Frequency

Edit this by selecting from Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly backup intervals. The
screen changes depending on the item you select.

Every how many
hours?

This is only available if you selected Hourly as your backup frequency.

On which minute of
the hour?

This is only available if you selected Hourly as your backup frequency.

Select every how many hours the NSA performs the backup job.

Select the minute (from 0 to 59) in an hour when the NSA performs the backup job.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Start Time (hh:mm)

This is available if you selected Daily, Weekly or Monthly as your backup frequency.
Select the time in hour:minute format when you want the NSA to perform the backup
job.

Every how many
days?

This is only available if you selected Daily as your backup frequency.

Every how many
weeks?

This is only available if you selected Weekly as your backup frequency.

Step 1: Please
select the month(s)
of a year

This is only available if you selected Monthly as your backup frequency.

Enter the interval between days when the NSA performs the backup job.

Enter the interval between weeks when NSA performs the backup job.

Select the month(s) when you want the NSA to perform the backup job.

Step 2: Please
select the day of the
month

This is only available if you selected Monthly as your backup frequency.

Click this to go back to the previous screen.

Done

Click this to close the screen.

Select the day in a month when you want the NSA to perform the backup job.

11.10.8 Restore Archive Screen
Use this screen to restore previous backups made with the NSA.

11.10.9 Restore Archive: Step 1
Click Protect > Backup screen (Section 11.10 on page 255). You can restore a previous backup
job by selecting a backup job from the list and clicking Restore Archive.
Figure 165 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Step 1

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 83 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Step 1
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Step 1. Select
Restore Source

Select a previous archive backup that you want to restore to the NSA.

Job Information
Job Name

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Job Description

This is a short description (up to 100 keyboard characters) for the backup job.

Backup Type

This is the type of backup implemented for the backup job.

Scheduler
Information

This field displays the backup’s frequency.

Restored Time

Select a previous backup in the list that you want to restore to your NSA.

Click this to go to the next screen.

11.10.10 Restore Archive: Step 2
Use this screen to select the folder where the archive you want to restore is located.

Figure 166 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Step 2

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 84 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Step 2
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Step 2. Please select which file(s)/folder(s) to restore.

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Folder Chooser

Select the folder where the backup you want to restore is located.

Selected Folder

This shows the path of the folder you selected.

Click this to go back to the previous screen.

Click this to go to the next screen.

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Use this screen to select the location in the NSA where you want to restore your backup.
Figure 167 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Step 3

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 85 Protect > Backup > Restore Archive: Step 3
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Step 3. Set a restore target and start restoring
Original Location

Select this to restore the files to their original location in the NSA.

Other Location

Click this to select a folder where you want to place the restored files. Click Browse to
open the following screen.

•
•
•
•

Volume - Select a volume from the list.
Current Location - This is the location of the selected folder.
Type - This identifies the item as a file or folder.
Name - This is the name of the folder/file.

Click Apply to save your settings and Cancel to close the screen.
Previous

Click this to go back to the previous screen.

Done

Click this to run the restore process and go back to the Backup screen.

11.11 Restore Screen
Use this screen to restore previous backups made with the NSA, including archives and folders from
internal, external or remote NSAs to the NSA.

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11.11.1 Restore: Step 1
You can access this screen by clicking Protect > Restore.
Figure 168 Protect > Restore: Step 1

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 86 Protect > Restore: Step 1
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Step 1. Select
Restore Source

Select a previous archive backup that you want to restore to the NSA.
Select Remote NSA if the file is in another NSA in the network that you used for your
backup. Fill in the fields below when you choose this option.
Select Internal or External Volume if you want to use another volume in the NSA or an
attached USB hard disk for your backup. Click Browse to select the backup file.

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IP Address

Enter the address of the NSA you want to use.

User

Enter the username you use to access the NSA.

Password

Enter the password of your NSA account.

Share Name

Enter the name of the share you want to use.

Test Connection

Click this to test your connection to the remote NSA that you have specified in the fields
above.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Browse

Click this to select where the previous backup that you want to restore is located.

•
•
•
•

Click Apply to save your settings and Cancel to close the screen.
Next

Click this to go to the next screen.

11.11.2 Restore: Step 2
Select a previous archive backup that you want to restore to the NSA.

Figure 169 Protect > Restore: Step 2

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 87 Protect > Restore: Step 2
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Step 2. Select
Restore Point

If you selected Remote NSA for the backup you want to restore, you can see a list of all the
backups you performed in the Job Name table.
If you selected Internal or External Volume for the backup you want to restore, you can
see a list of restore times for the backups you performed in the Restored Time table.

Job Name

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Select a previous backup job in the list that you want to restore to your NSA. Once you
choose a job name, all available restore times for that backup job shows in the Restored
Time table.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Restored Time

Select a previous backup job in the list that you want to restore to your NSA.

Click this to go back to the previous screen.

Click this to go to the next screen.

11.11.3 Restore: Step 3
Use this screen to select the folder where the archive you want to restore is located.
Figure 170 Protect > Restore: Step 3

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 88 Protect > Restore: Step 3
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Step 3. Please select which file(s)/folder(s) to restore.

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Folder Chooser

Select the folder where the backup you want to restore is located.

Selected Folder

This shows the path of the folder you selected.

Click this to go back to the previous screen.

Click this to go to the next screen.

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11.11.4 Restore: Step 4
Use this screen to select the location in the NSA where you want to restore your backup.
Figure 171 Protect > Restore: Step 4

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 89 Protect > Restore: Step 4
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Step 3. Set a restore target and start restoring
Browse

Click this to select a folder where you want to place the restored files.

•
•
•
•

Click Apply to save your settings and Cancel to close the screen.
Previous

Click this to go back to the previous screen.

Done

Click this to run the restore process and go back to the Backup screen.

11.12 Polkast Setup
Use the Package Management screen to install the Polkast package. Use Polkast for fast, secure,
direct access to your Media Server from your iPad, iPhone or Android device. Use the following
procedure to install the Polkast package.

Note: Polkast is supported in the NSA310, NSA320, and NSA325 models.

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Click Applications > Package and select Polkast. Then select the Install/Upgrade icon.

Note: If Polkast does not appear, click the Retrieve List from Internet icon to update
the list.
Figure 172 Polkast Installation Step 1

The following confirmation screen appears. Click Apply. The NSA must have a connection to the
Internet to download the Polkast package.
Figure 173 Polkast Installation Step 2

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The installation progress appears in the Polkast row.
Figure 174 Polkast Installation Step 3

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A link appears in the Management Page column after installation finishes. Click this link.
Figure 175 Polkast Installation Step 4

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The Polkast login screen appears. Click the link to create a new account or enter your login
information for an existing account.
Figure 176 Polkast Login

Note: For more information on using Polkast, visit www.polkast.com. Get free Polkast
mobile apps from the Apple App Store, Amazon AppStore, and Android Market. For
Polkast Pro users the NSA does not count as a second homebase for pricing
purposes.

11.13 Technical Reference
This section provides technical background information on the topics discussed in this chapter.

11.13.1 S.M.A.R.T Attributes
The following table describes some common S.M.A.R.T. attributes. If a higher or lower raw attribute
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definitions vary by manufacturer, refer to the hard drive manufacturer for details about the
attributes your hard drive supports.
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ATTRIBUTE
NAME

BETTER DESCRIPTION

Read Error Rate

Low

Shows the rate of hardware read errors. If this is not zero, there is a
problem with the disk surface or the read/write heads.

Throughput
Performance

High

This is the hard drive’s general (overall) throughput performance. A
decreasing value indicates a problem.

Spin-Up Time

Low

This is the average number of milliseconds the hard drive took for spindle
spin up (from zero RPM to fully operational).

Start/Stop Count

Reallocated
Sectors Count

Read Channel
Margin

Seek Error Rate

Low

This is the rate of the magnetic heads’ seek errors. A failure in the
mechanical positioning system, such as servo damage or a thermal
widening of the disk, results in seek errors. An increasing number of seek
errors indicate the condition of the disk surface and the mechanical
subsystem are worsening.

Seek Time
Performance

High

This is an average performance indicator for the seek operations of the
magnetic heads. Mechanical subsystem problems cause this value to
decrease.

Power-On Hours
(POH)

Low

This is how many hours the hard drive has been in a power-on state. The
raw value lists the total number of hours (or minutes, or seconds
depending on the manufacturer).

Spin Retry Count

Low

This is the total number of spin start retry attempts. This is the number of
attempts to spin up to fully operational speed the hard drive has made
when the first attempt did not succeed. An increase in this value is an
indicator of hard disk mechanical subsystem problems.

Recalibration
Retries

High

This is the number of times recalibration was requested when the first
attempt did not succeed. A decrease in this value is an indicator of hard
disk mechanical subsystem problems.

Device Power
Cycle Count

Soft Read Error
Rate

Low

This is the number of uncorrected read errors the hard drive has
reported. If this is not zero, back up your data.

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Airflow
Temperature

Low

This indicates the temperature of the airflow measured by a Western
Digital hard drive.

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Temperature
Difference from
100

High

This indicates the value of 100 - the temperature in degrees Celsius.
Manufacturers can set a minimum threshold that corresponds to a
maximum temperature.

191

G-sense error
rate

Low

This is the number of mistakes caused by impact loads.

192

Power-off Retract
Count

Low

This is how many times the heads are loaded off the media.

193

Load/Unload
Cycle

Low

This is the number of load and unload cycles into head landing zone
position.

The total number of spindle start and stop cycles.
Low

Total number of reallocated sectors on the hard drive. When the hard
drive detects a read/write/verification error, it marks the sector as
“reallocated” and transfers the data to a specially reserved (spare) area.
The process is also known as remapping with “reallocated” sectors known
as remaps. The more sectors the hard drive has to reallocate, the slower
read and write speeds become.
This is the margin of a channel when it reads data.

This is the number of times the hard drive has gone through a full power
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ID

ATTRIBUTE
NAME

BETTER DESCRIPTION

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Temperature

Low

This is the hard drive’s internal temperature.

195

Hardware ECC
Recovered

High

This is the time between ECC (Error Correction Code)-corrected errors.

196

Reallocation
Event Count

Low

This is the total number of reallocation (remap) operations. The raw value
is the total attempts to move data from reallocated sectors to a spare
area. Successful and unsuccessful attempts are both included.

197

Current Pending
Sector Count

Low

This is the number of unstable sectors awaiting reallocation. If the sector
is later successfully written or read, this value decreases and reallocation
is not performed. Only failed write attempts cause a reallocation, not read
errors. This can be difficult to test since only direct I/O writes to the disk
cause reallocations, not cached writes.

198

Uncorrectable
Sector Count

Low

This is the number of errors reading or writing a sector that were not
correctable. An increase in this value is an indicator of disk surface
defects or mechanical subsystem problems.

199

UltraDMA CRC
Error Count

Low

This is the number of data transfer errors through the interface cable
according to the ICRC (Interface Cyclic Redundancy Check).

200

Write Error Rate
/ Multi-Zone
Error Rate

Low

This is the total number of errors in writing sectors.

201

Soft Read Error
Rate

Low

This is the number of read/write head off-track errors. If the value is not
zero, make a backup.

202

Data Address
Mark Errors

Low

This is the number of data address mark errors. This could also be a
different, manufacturer-specific attribute.

203

Run Out Cancel

Low

This is the number of ECC (Error Correction Code) errors.

204

Soft ECC
Correction

Low

This is the number of errors corrected by software ECC (Error Correction
Code).

205

Thermal Asperity
Rate (TAR)

Low

This is the number of thermal asperity errors. Thermal asperity is a read
signal spike caused by sensor temperature rise due to touching the disk
surface or contaminant particles.

206

Flying Height

This is the height of the hard drive’s read/write heads above the disk
surface.

207

Spin High
Current

This is the quantity of high current used to spin up the drive.

208

Spin Buzz

This is the number of buzz routines to spin up the drive. When the arm
holding the read/write heads is stuck, the motor driving it tries to oscillate
the arm to free it. This causes an audible vibration.

209

Offline Seek
Performance

This is the hard drive’s seek performance during offline operations. Offline
operations are tests the drive does itself as opposed to those that an
external diagnostic tool has it do. Seek performance is how quickly the
drive moves from track to track.

220

Disk Shift

Low

This is how far the disk has moved relative to the spindle (this kind of
shift is usually due to shock).

221

G-Sense Error
Rate

Low

This is the number of errors that have resulted from external vibration
and shock.

222

Loaded Hours

This is how long the hard drive has operated under data load (this
requires movement of the magnetic head armature).

223

Load/Unload
Retry Count

This is how many time the magnetic head has changed position.

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ID

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ATTRIBUTE
NAME

BETTER DESCRIPTION

225

Load/Unload
Cycle Count

Low

This is the total number of load cycles.

226

Load 'In'-time

227

Torque
Amplification
Count

Low

This is the number of attempts to compensate for variations in platter
speed.

228

Power-Off
Retract Cycle

Low

This is how many times the magnetic armature was automatically
retracted because the power was cut.

230

GMR Head
Amplitude

231

Temperature

240

Head Flying
Hours

250

Read Error Retry
Rate

This is the total time that the magnetic heads actuator has had a load
(not been in the parking area).

This is the amplitude of thrashing (or the distance of repetitive forward
and reverse head motion).
Low

This is the hard drive’s temperature.
This is the total time that the head has been positioning.

Low

This is the number of errors in reading from the disk.

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Auto Upload
12.1 Overview
This chapter discusses the features in the Auto Upload screens.
The auto upload feature uploads media files stored in the NSA to the Flickr and/or YouTube sharing
websites. Besides web publishing and media server, auto upload is another convenient way to share
media files with your friends and family. You can link the NSA to your Flickr and/or YouTube account
and select shares for the NSA to upload. The NSA uploads the media files stored in the specified
shares to your Flickr and/or YouTube account. When you add new files to the specified shares, the
NSA also automatically uploads the new files to your Flickr and/or YouTube account.

12.2 What You Can Do
• Use the Flickr/YouTube screen (Section 12.4 on page 279) to upload photos and videos to your
Flickr and YouTube accounts.
• Use the FTP Uploadr screen (Section 12.5 on page 288) to upload files to FTP servers.

12.3 What You Need to Know
FTP
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a file transfer service that operates on the Internet. A system running
the FTP server accepts commands from a system running an FTP client. FTP is not a secure
protocol. Your file transfers could be subject to snooping.

FTPES (File Transfer Protocol over Explicit TLS/SSL)
File Transfer Protocol over Explicit TLS/SSL (FTPES) is a file transfer service that uses TLS
(Transport Layer Security) or Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for secure transfers across the Internet.

12.4 The Flickr/YouTube Screen
Use this screen to upload photos and videos to your Flickr and YouTube accounts.

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Click Applications > Auto Upload > Flickr/YouTube to open the following screen.
Figure 177 Applications > Auto Upload > Flickr/YouTube

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 91 Applications > Auto Upload > Flickr/YouTube
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Flickr/YouTube
Disable/Enable

Select a service from the list and click this to turn the service on or off.
If you disable the service and add more files to the watch folder(s), the NSA will not
auto upload these files. However, the NSA still uploads any files added before you
turned off the service.

Pause/Resume

Select a service from the list and click this to pause or resume the auto upload feature.

Config

Select a service from the list and click this to manage the service’s settings.

Status

This field displays the service’s status.
The service may be Enabled, Disabled, Uploading or Paused.

Service Name

This field displays the name of a sharing website to which the NSA can automatically
upload files.

Account
Information

This field displays the username and related information of the account to use with the
auto upload feature.

12.4.1 Configuring the Flickr Settings
In the Applications > Auto Upload > Flickr/YouTube screen, select Flickr from the list and then click
the Config button.
The following screen displays if you have not authorized the NSA to use a Flickr account. Click OK
to continue the authorization process.
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The web browser opens the Yahoo! Flickr login page. Enter your Yahoo account’s information and
click Sign In.
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The following page displays asking for your authorization. Click OK, I’LL ALLOW IT to establish a
link between the NSA and your Flickr account.
Figure 180 Flickr Authorization

A confirmation page displays indicating successful authorization. Return to the NSA web
configurator. Click Get Ready in the following screen to complete the authorization process.
Figure 181 Confirming Flickr Authorization

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Once the NSA is associated with your Flickr account, you can configure auto upload settings in the
following screen.
Figure 182 Applications > Auto Upload > Flickr/YouTube > Config (Flickr)

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 92 Applications > Auto Upload > Flickr/YouTube > Config (Flickr)
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Flickr Account Configuration
Username

This field displays the Flickr account authorized for the auto upload feature.

Photo Space Usage

This shows how much storage space for photos (in size and percentage) you have
used and how much space is still available on your Flickr account.

Video Files Usage

This shows how many videos you have uploaded and how many videos you can still
upload to your Flickr account.

Switch User

Click this to use a different Flickr account for the auto upload feature.

Folder Selection
Folder Watch List
Status

This table displays a list of shares and folders selected for auto upload. Files stored in
these locations are uploaded to your Flickr account.
This indicates whether the folder or share is available.
represents a valid folder. The folder is available for auto upload.
represents a missing folder. The share may be deleted from the NSA, or the hard
disk was removed from the NSA.

Share Name

This is the share selected for auto upload.

Path

This is the path of a folder selected for auto upload. The NSA only uploads files stored
in the specified share or folder to your Flickr account.

Action

Use the Remove icon to remove a folder from the Folder Watch List.

Add

Click this to open the following screen where you can set a folder that contains files you
want the NSA to automatically upload.

•
•

Share - Select the share from the list.
Path - Type the folder location in the share directly or click Browse to open the
following screen and navigate to the folder’s location.

•
•
•
•

Current Location - This is the location of the selected folder.
Folder Name - Enter a new folder name and click
to create it.
Type - This is the type of the folder/file.
Name - This is the name of the folder/file.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Grace Period N
minutes

Specify how long the NSA should wait when you add a new file for auto upload. For
example, if you set the grace period to 5 minutes, the NSA uploads a new file after it
has been in a watched folder for 5 minutes. You can choose from a range of 1 to 10080
minutes (up to one week).

Default Privacy
Who can see your
media files on
Flickr?

Determine who has the right to see files uploaded to your Flickr account.
Select Only You if you do not want anyone else to see your files. You may also restrict
the access to Your friends and/or Your family. You can set up a friend/family list in
your Flickr account.
Select Anyone to allow everyone to see your files.

Hide from public site
area

Check this option to prevent others from finding your files when they perform a search
in the Flickr website.

Default Safety Level

Assign a safety level to your files.
Select Safe if the contents of your files are suitable for the general public.
Select Moderate if the contents of your files may be offensive to some people.
Select Restricted if the contents of your files are not suitable for certain people, such
as children or your colleagues.

Default Content
Type

Select a content type for your files. You can choose Photo/Video, Screenshots/
Screencasts, or Illustration/Art/Animation/CGI.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore previously saved settings.

12.4.2 Configuring the YouTube Settings
In the Applications > Auto Upload > Flickr/YouTube screen, select YouTube from the list and
then click the Config button.

Note: Your YouTube account must be associated with a Google account.
Get a Google account and use it to log into YouTube. You can then merge the existing YouTube
account to your Google account.
If you have not authorized a YouTube account on the NSA, the following screen displays. Enter your
Google account’s e-mail address and password in the fields and click OK to authorize the service.
Figure 183 YouTube Account Settings

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Once the NSA is associated with your YouTube account, you can configure auto upload settings in
the following screen.
Figure 184 Applications > Auto Upload > Flickr/YouTube > Config (YouTube)

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 93 Applications > Auto Upload > Config (YouTube)
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Youtube Account Configuration
Username

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LABEL
Switch User

DESCRIPTION
Click this to use a different YouTube account for the auto upload feature.

Folder Selection
Folder Watch List

This table displays a list of shares and folders selected for auto upload. Files stored in
these locations are uploaded to your YouTube account.

Status

This field indicates whether the share or folder is available.
represents a valid folder. The folder is available for auto upload.
represents a missing folder. The share may be deleted from the NSA, or the hard
disk was removed from the NSA.

Share Name

This field displays the share selected for auto upload.

Path

This field displays the path of a folder selected for auto upload. The NSA only uploads
the files stored in the specified share or folder to your YouTube account.

Action

Use the Remove icon to delete a folder from the Folder Watch List.

Add

Click this to open the following screen where you can set a folder that contains files you
want the NSA to automatically upload.

•
•

Share - Select the share from the list.
Path - Type the folder location in the share directly or click Browse to open the
following screen and navigate to the folder’s location.

•
•
•
•

Select a folder. If you don’t select a folder, a forward slash (/) displays in the Path
field. All contents within the specified share are automatically selected.
Click Apply to save your settings and Cancel to close the screen.
Grace Period
Grace Period N
minutes

Video Category

Select the category that best describes the media files you want to upload.

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Table 93 Applications > Auto Upload > Config (YouTube) (continued)
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Who can see your
media files on
YouTube?

Determine who has the right to see files uploaded to your YouTube account.
Select Only You if you do not want anyone else to see your files.
Select Anyone to allow everyone to see your files.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore your previously stored settings.

12.5 The FTP Uploadr Screen
The FTP Uploadr feature uploads files stored in the NSA to FTP servers. Besides web publishing and
media server, auto upload is another convenient way to share media files with your friends and
family. You can link the NSA to the FTP server or the FTP server on another NSA and select shares
or folders for the NSA to upload. The NSA uploads the files stored in the specified shares to the FTP
server. When you add new files to the specified shares, the NSA also automatically uploads the new
files to the FTP server.
Use this screen to configure the FTP Uploadr.
Click Applications > Auto Upload > FTP Uploadr to open the screen shown next.
Figure 185 Applications > Auto Upload > FTP Uploadr

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 94 Applications > Auto Upload > FTP Uploadr
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable FTP Uploadr

Use the check box to enable or disable the FTP Uploadr. Click Apply to save your
changes.
When you disable the FTP Uploadr, a screen opens requesting confirmation. Select the
check box to stop any current or queued uploads. If you do not select the check box,
the FTP Uploadr will finish uploading the files that are already in the queue list. Clicking
Yes will disable the FTP Uploadr.

Add Server

Click this to add a target FTP server entry. See Section 12.5.1 on page 289 for more
details.

Preferences

Click this to manage the settings of the FTP Uploadr.

Edit Server

Select a server from the list and click this to edit the FTP server entry.

Delete Selected
Server(s)

Select a server from the list and click this to remove the FTP server entry.

Server Information

Select a server from the list and click this to display the status and settings about the
FTP server.

Domain Name/IP
Address

This is the domain name or IP address of the FTP server.

Port Number

This is the port number used by the FTP server.

Remote Path

The NSA automatically uploads files to this location of the FTP server.

Account Name

This is the login account for the FTP server.

Description

This is the information related to the FTP server.

12.5.1 Adding or Editing an FTP Server Entry
Use this screen to add or edit an FTP server entry for auto upload.

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In the FTP Uploadr screen, click the Add Server or Edit Server button to open the following
screen.
Figure 186 Applications > Auto Upload > FTP Uploadr > Add or Edit a Server

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 95 Applications > Auto Upload > FTP Uploadr > Add or Edit a Server
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Domain Name/IP
Address

Enter the domain name or IP address of the FTP server.

Account Name

Enter the account name used to access the FTP server.

Password

Enter the password associated with the account name.

Port Number

Enter the port number for the FTP server.

Remote Path

Enter the path of the FTP server where the NSA automatically uploads files.

Description

Enter additional information about this FTP server.

Test Connection

Click this to test your settings and check whether you can use the settings to connect to
the FTP server.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

12.5.2 The FTP Uploadr Preferences Screen
Use this screen to configure the general settings for the FTP Uploadr.

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In the FTP Uploadr screen, click the Preferences icon to open the following screen.
Figure 187 Applications > Auto Upload > FTP Uploadr > Preferences

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 96 Applications > Auto Upload > FTP Uploadr > Preferences
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Folder Watch List
Status

Share Name

This is the share selected for auto upload.

Path

This is the path of a folder selected for auto upload. The NSA only uploads files stored in
the specified share or folder to your FTP server.

Action

Use the Remove icon to delete a folder from the Folder Watch List.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Add

Click this to open the following screen where you can set a folder that contains files you
want the NSA to automatically upload.

•
•

Share - Select the share from the list.
Path - Type the folder location in the share directly or click Browse to open the
following screen and navigate to the folder’s location.

•
•
•
•

Bandwidth Limit

Enter the maximum upload rate for auto upload. You can choose from a range of 0 to
100,000 KB/s. Enter 0 if you do not want to set any limit.
Use this to leave bandwidth on your network connection for other traffic, especially if
your Internet connection has restricted upload speed.

Apply

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Reset

Click this to restore previously saved settings.

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

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13.1 Overview
The Dropbox Web-based file hosting service uses cloud computing to let you use file
synchronization to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet. Use your
Dropbox account to easily move files to your NSA and have the NSA download *.torrent files.

13.2 Dropbox Screen
Use the Dropbox screen to log the NSA into your Dropbox account. This creates Drop2NAS and
zDownload folders in your Dropbox account. See Section 13.3 on page 295 for how to use the
folders to move files to your NSA and have the NSA download *.torrent files. The NSA checks the
Dropbox account’s Drop2NAS and zDownload folders every three minutes.
Click Applications > Dropbox to open the following screen.
Figure 188 Applications > Dropbox

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 97 Applications > Dropbox
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Status

This shows the status of the NSA Dropbox application’s interaction with the Dropbox
server.
Disable: The NSA Dropbox application is turned off.
Ready: The NSA Dropbox application has authenticated with the Dropbox server and is
ready to use.
Authenticating with Dropbox. Please wait.: The NSA Dropbox application is logging
into the Dropbox server.
Failed to negotiate link with Dropbox. Please contact your vendor.: The NSA
cannot find the Dropbox server at the normal address.
Receiving file/folder from Dropbox tunnel.: The NSA is getting a file from your
Dropbox account.
Dropbox account has been already used on other NAS.: One Dropbox account can
only work with one NSA at a time. Log the other NSA out of your Dropbox account to be
able to use the account with this NSA.

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Name

This is the owner of the Dropbox account the NSA is configured to use.

This is the e-mail address of the owner of the Dropbox account the NSA is configured to
use.

Logout

This displays after the NSA connects to Dropbox. Click Logout to stop syncing your
files with Dropbox and have the NSA log out from your Dropbox account. Use this to be
able to use the NSA with another Dropbox account. If you only want to stop syncing
your files with Dropbox, you can just clear the Enable Dropbox option and click
Apply.

Capacity

This shows how much total storage space is available on the NSA to use for Dropbox as
well as the amounts already in use and still available.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable Dropbox

Select this to synchronize and back up your Dropbox account. The first time you do this
a Dropbox screen prompts you to log into your Dropbox account.

Then a NSA pop-up opens. Click Get Ready.

Click Allow when the Dropbox screen notifies you of the NSA’s DropNAS application
trying to connect to your Dropbox account.

After the NSA connects to Dropbox, clear the Enable Dropbox option and click Apply
to stop syncing your files with Dropbox without logging out from your Dropbox account.
Click Logout instead to be able to use the NSA with another Dropbox account.
Apply

Click this to save your changes.

13.3 How to Use Dropbox with the NSA
Here is how to use the Drop2NAS and zDownload folders the NSA creates in your Dropbox account.

Using the Drop2NAS Folder
The NSA connects to Dropbox and copies files in the Drop2NAS folder to the NSA’s
admin\Dropbox\FromDropbox folder and empties the Drop2NAS folder. The NSA initiates
connections to the Dropbox server so you do not need to configure rules on a firewall in front of the
NSA to allow access to the NSA. Dropbox is not connecting to the NSA. When you upload files of the
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admin\Dropbox\FromDropbox folder in the format of “filename(n).extension”. Here is an example
of the Drop2NAS folder.

Note: Do not delete the NAStoken file as it is needed for your NSA to work with the
Dropbox account.
Figure 189 Dropbox\Drop2NAS

Using the zDownload Folder
The NSA copies *.torrent files in the zDownload folder to the NSA’s admin\download\torrents folder
and automatically starts downloading them. The NSA adds a suffix to the name of each torrent file
in the Dropbox account’s zDownload folder and keeps updating it to show the job’s state
(downloading, queued, paused, canceled, uploading, finished, error, or retrying). The NSA does not
take any action for folders nor other types of files in the zDownload folder. Here is an example of
torrent files in the zDownload folder.
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14.1 Overview
Time Machine is a backup system provided by Mac OS X. It automatically backs up everything on
your Mac, including pictures, music, videos, documents, applications, and settings. This chapter
helps you to enable Time Machine in OS X to use your NSA as a backup volume.

14.2 Time Machine Screen
Use the Time Machine screen to turn Time Machine support on or off, and designate the share for
Time Machine backups.
Click Applications > Time Machine to open the following screen.
Figure 191 Applications > Time Machine

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 98 Applications > Time Machine
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable Time
Machine

Select this to allow Macs to use Time Machine to back up to the NSA. Clear it to turn off
Time Machine support.

Select the share the NSA uses to store Time Machine backups.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore the screen’s last-saved settings.

14.3 Using Time Machine
After enabling Time Machine on the NSA, follow the steps below to set up Time Machine on your
Mac to use your NSA for backup.

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Click Apple > System Preferences. Then go to System and select Time Machine.

Turn Time Machine ON. Then click Change Disk.

Select share01 as the backup disk. Then click Use for Backup.

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When prompted for the username and password of share01, enter the login information for an
existing user account with write access permission on share01 (for information on configuring user
accounts and shares see Section 5.9 on page 87). In this example user1/12345 is used. Then
click Connect.

Time Machine starts backing up files to share01 after 120 seconds. If you want to backup
immediately, click Time Machine icon and select Back Up Now.

The screen shows the status of the backup once the process begins.

To stop the backup process, click the Time Machine icon and select Stop Backing Up. Then turn
Time Machine OFF.

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Users

15.1 Overview
This chapter introduces the Users screens of the NSA. Use the Users screens to create and
manage administrator and user accounts.
Administrators can:
• Configure and manage the NSA.
• Create volumes, shares, and user accounts.
• Assign individual users specific access rights for specific shares.
Users are people who have access rights to the NSA and can store files there for later retrieval. A
user can:
• Manage shares that he owns.
• Change his own password.
• Access the contents of other shares to which he is given access rights.

15.2 What You Can Do
• Use the main Users screen (Section 15.3 on page 301) to display a list of user accounts created
on the NSA.
• Use the Add User screen (Section 15.3.2 on page 303) to create new user accounts.
• Use the Edit User screen (Section 15.3.2 on page 303) to edit the properties of an existing
account.
• Use the User Info screen (Section 15.4 on page 305) to display the amount of volume space
used by a selected account and the account’s membership in any groups.

15.3 The Users Screen
Click Sharing > Users to display the screen shown next.

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Use this screen to create and manage accounts for users who can store files on the NSA.
Figure 192 Sharing > Users

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 99 Sharing > Users
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Add User

Click this to open a screen where you can configure a new user account.
Refer to Section 15.3.2 on page 303 to see the screen.

Click this to display a search field. Type in the name of an account and then click
Search to look up the account you specified. Click Clear to close the search function.

Edit User

Select an account and click this to open a screen where you can edit the properties of
the account.
Refer to Section 15.3.2 on page 303 to see the screen.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Delete Selected
Users

Select an account and click this to open a screen where you can delete the user
account.

User Info

Select an account and click this to open a screen displaying the amount of storage space
used by the account. You can also check the account’s membership in any groups.
Refer to Section 15.4 on page 305 to see the screen.

Display Number

Click the drop-down menu to set how many accounts you want to display in one screen.

Go to Page

Click the drop-down menu to display and access more user accounts.

User Type

This field displays whether the account is an administrator account or a user account.

Username

This field displays the username of each account.

15.3.1 User Icons
The following table describes the user icons.
Table 100 User Icons
ICON

DESCRIPTION
The blue icon is for an administrator account.

The green icon is for a user account.

15.3.2 Adding or Editing an Account
Use this screen to create or edit a NSA user account with NSA access password.

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Click the Add User button in the Users screen to open the following screen. Click the Edit User
button in the screen shown previously to edit an existing account.
Figure 193 Sharing > Users > Add or Edit a User

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 101 Users > Add or Edit a User
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Username

Type a name from 1 to 32 single-byte (no Chinese characters allowed for example)
ASCII characters. See Section 15.3.3 on page 305 for more details on usernames.

New Password

Create a password associated with this user. You can type from one to 14 singlebyte (no Chinese characters allowed for example) ASCII characters.

Password (Confirm)

You must type the exact same password that you just typed in the above field.

Quota (per volume)

Select the volume in which you want the user’s files to be stored.
Enter how much space (in megabytes) you want to allow for the user to store files.

Account Type

Select Administrator to give the account full configuration and management
access to the NSA.
Select User to give the account basic access rights to the NSA and allow the user to
manage his own shares, change his own password, and access the contents of other
shares to which he is given access rights.

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Available Group(s)

This field lists the groups created on the NSA to which the selected account does not
belong.

Group Membership

This field lists the groups that the selected account belongs to.

Add Selected
Group(s)

Select a group from the Available Groups list and click this to add the account to
that group.

Remove Selected
Group(s)

Select a group from the Group Membership list and click this to remove the
account from that group.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

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15.3.3 Usernames
Enter a username from one to 32 characters. The first character must be alphabetical (case
insensitive, [A-Z a-z]); numeric characters are not allowed as the first character.
The username can only contain the following characters:
• Alphanumeric A-z 0-9. Unicode usernames are supported with CIFS logins, but not FTP or web
configurator logins.
• Spaces
• _ [underscores]
• . [periods]
• - [dashes]
Other limitations on usernames are:
• All leading and trailing spaces are removed automatically.
• Multiple spaces within names are converted to a single space.
• Usernames are case insensitive. The username cannot be the same (no matter the letter case) as
an existing user. For example, if a user exists with the name 'BOB', you cannot create a user
named 'bob'. If you enter a user 'bob' but use 'BOB' when connecting via CIFS or FTP, it will use
the account settings used for 'bob'.
• The username cannot be the same as a system username such as ANONYMOUS-FTP nor be the
same as an existing user. Other reserved usernames that are not allowed are:
• bin
• daemon
• ftp
• anonymous-ftp
• anonymous
• nobody
• root
• pc-guest
• admin
• password

15.4 Displaying User Info
Use this screen to display a user’s information.

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In the Users screen, select an account and click User Info to open the following screen.
Figure 194 Sharing > Users > User Info

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 102 Sharing > Users > User Info
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Username

This field displays the selected username.

Space Usage

Click this to display the amount of volume space used by the selected account.

Group List

Click this to display the selected user’s group membership.

Volume Name

This field displays the volume(s) created on the NSA.

Used Space

This field displays how much storage space the selected account is currently using. This only
applies for files that the user saved onto the NSA while logged in with that username.

Group Name

This shows when you click the Group List tab.
This displays the list of groups to which the selected user belongs.

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Groups

16.1 Overview
This chapter introduces the Groups screens. Use the Groups screens to create and manage
groups. You can assign users to groups and grant individual groups access rights to specific shares.

16.2 What You Can Do
• Use the main Groups screen (Section 16.3 on page 307) to display and manage a list of groups
created on the NSA.
• Use the Add Group screen (Section 16.3.1 on page 308) to create new groups.
• Use the Edit Group screen (Section 16.3.1 on page 308) to edit the properties of an existing
group.

16.3 The Groups Screen
Use this screen to create and manage groups.
Click Sharing > Groups to display the screen shown next.
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Table 103 Sharing > Groups
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Add Group

Click this to open a screen where you can configure a new group.

Click this to display a search field. Type the name of a group and then click
Search to look up the group you specified. Click Clear to close the search
function.

Edit Group

Select a group and click this to open a screen where you can edit the properties of
the selected group.

Delete Selected Group(s)

Select a group and click this to open a screen where you can delete the group.

Display Number

Click the drop-down menu to set how many groups you want to display in one
screen.

Go to Page

Click the drop-down menu to select a page number. Jump to a different page to
display and access more groups.

Status
Group Name

This field displays the group icon.
This field displays the group names created on the NSA.

16.3.1 Adding or Editing a Group
Use this screen to create or edit a NSA group.

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Click the Add Group button in the Groups screen to open the following screen. Click the Edit
Group button in the screen shown previously to edit an existing group.
Figure 196 Sharing > Groups > Add or Edit a Group

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 104 Sharing > Groups > Add or Edit a Group
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Group Name

Type a name from 1 to 32 single-byte (no Chinese characters allowed for
example) ASCII characters. See Section 16.3.2 on page 309 for more details on
group names.

Group Membership

Use this field to assign group membership to individual users.

Available User(s)

This field lists the user accounts created on the NSA that are not members of the
current group.

Group Membership

This field lists the user accounts added to the group.

Add Selected User(s)

Select a user account from the Available Users list and click this to add the
account to the group.

Remove Selected
User(s)

Select a user account from the Group Membership list and click this to remove
the account from the group.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

16.3.2 Group Names
Enter a group name from 1 to 32 characters. The first character must be alphabetical (case
insensitive, [A-Z a-z]); numeric characters are not allowed as the first character.
The group name can only contain the following characters:
• Alphanumeric A-z 0-9. Unicode usernames are supported with CIFS logins, but not FTP or web
configurator logins.
• Spaces
• _ [underscores]
• . [periods]
• - [dashes]
Other limitations on group names are:
• All leading and trailing spaces are removed automatically.

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• Multiple spaces within names are converted to a single space.
• Group names are case insensitive. The group name cannot be the same (no matter the letter
case) as an existing group. For example, if a group exists with the name 'FAMILY', you cannot
create a group named 'family'.
• The group name cannot be the same as a system group name such as EVERYONE nor be the
same as an existing group. Other reserved groups names that are not allowed are:
• nobody
• root
• everyone

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Shares

17.1 Overview
A share is a set of access permissions mapped to a specific folder on a volume. It is equivalent to
the Windows concept of a shared folder. You can map a share to a network drive for easy and
familiar file transfer for Windows users.

17.2 What You Can Do
• Use the Shares screen (Section 17.3 on page 311) to navigate a list of shares created on the
NSA.
• Use the Add Shares screen (Section 17.3.1 on page 313) to create additional shares on the
NSA.
• Use the Recycle Bin screen (Section 17.4 on page 315) to configure and clean up the recycle
bins.
• Use the Edit Share screen (Section 17.3.1 on page 313) to edit a share’s properties.
• Use the Share Browser screen (Section 17.5 on page 316) to navigate, add and edit the
contents in a share.

17.3 The Shares Screen
Click Sharing > Shares in the navigation panel to open the following screen. This screen lists all
shares created on the NSA.
Figure 197 Sharing > Shares

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Table 105 Sharing > Shares
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Add Share

Click this to create a new share.

Recycle Bin

Click this to configure recycle bins.

Edit Share

Select a share and click this to edit the share.

Delete Share

Select a share and click this to remove or restrict access to the share.

Share Browser

Select a share and click this to browse the share’s contents.

Status

This field displays the share icons.
represents a Built-in share on a volume on the internal hard drives.
represents an Auto-SATA, Predefined, or User-Created share on a volume on
the internal hard drives.
represents an Auto or User-Created share on a volume on the external (USB)
devices.
represents a disabled share that no user can access.
represents a missing share. The NSA cannot find the hard disk associated with the
share (the disk may be removed from the NSA for example). You may install the disk
back to the NSA to recover the share, or you may delete the share from the NSA.

Share Type

The NSA automatically creates an Auto-SATA share for each internal SATA volume. The
auto-SATA share has the same name as the volume and is the volume’s root (or
“master”) share. It contains all of the volume’s shares. All new shares you create on the
volume are also automatically included in the auto-SATA share. You cannot delete, edit,
or use the share browser with the auto-SATA share.

Note: Use the admin account to map the auto SATA share to a Windows network drive.
This gives the administrator convenient access to all of the volume’s shares
through a single Windows network drive. External disk (volume) shares must still
be mapped individually.
This field displays Built-in for system shares. You cannot delete these shares. These
are the public and admin shares.
This field displays Predefined for default shares. You cannot delete these shares. These
are the video, music, and photo shares.
This field displays User-created for shares that an administrator has created. You can
delete these shares.
This field displays Auto for shares that are automatically created on an external (USB)
device when a user plugs in the device.
Share Name

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Share Path

This field displays the share’s file path, for example, volume1/music.

Share Owner

This is the name of the user account to which this share belongs.

Permission Type

This field displays the access permission of a share.
Everyone on the network can access a Public share.
Only the share owner can access a Private share.
An Advanced share allows you to assign specific access rights (read-only for example)
to individual users/groups.

17.3.1 Adding or Editing Share
Click Add Share to create a new share. In the Shares screen, select a share and click Edit Share
to open the following screen. Use this screen to create or edit a share.
Figure 198 Shares > Add Share (or Edit Share)

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 106 Shares > Add Share (or Edit Share)
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Share Name

Type a share name from 1 to 239 single-byte (no Chinese characters allowed for example)
ASCII characters. The name cannot be the same as another existing share. See Section
4.4.6 on page 59 for more information on share names.

Volume

You should have already created volumes (a single accessible storage area with a single
file system) on the NSA. Select the one that contains the folder that you want to share out.
You cannot modify this when editing a share.

Make this share
owned by

Select the administrator or user account that can own (manage) this share. The share
owner controls access rights to the share.

Enable this share

Click this to allow access to this share.

Enable Recycle
Bin

Click this to activate the recycle bin. When you delete a file from this share, a recycle
folder is created to store the deleted item.

Publish this share
to Media Server

This shows only when you enable the Media Server (Section

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Select this option to have the NSA share files in this folder with media clients. The media
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Publish this share
to Web

This shows only when you enable the Web Publish (Section

Share Access

Assign access rights (full, read only or deny) to users or groups. If you publish the share
to the media server or the web, all users will have at least read-only access to the share,
regardless of what you configure here.

10.7 on page 206).

Select this option to let people use a web browser to access this share’s files without
logging into the Home screens.

Keep it private to owner means only the share owner (selected above) can access the
share.
Make it Public means every user (including people who do not have accounts on the
NSA) can access the share.
Advanced allows you to assign specific access rights (full, read only or deny) to individual
users/groups.
Edit

This button is available only when you select Advanced share access. Click this to
configure advanced share access rights.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

17.3.2 Configuring Advanced Share Access
In the Sharing > Shares > Add Share or Edit Share screen, select Advanced from the Share
Access drop-down list. Click Edit to open the following screen. Use this screen to configure share
access rights for individual users and groups.
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Table 107 Sharing > Shares > Add Share (or Edit Share) > Advanced
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Available Users/Groups

This field lists the users/groups to which you can assign access rights.

Authority

Use this field to assign access rights to users/groups.
Full Control gives users/groups full access (read, write and execute) to all files
contained within this share.
Read-Only gives users/groups read-only access (they cannot modify nor
execute) to all files contained within this share.
Deny blocks access (users/groups cannot read, modify, nor execute) to all files
contained within this share.
Among all access rights, Deny has the highest priority. For example, User A
belongs to Group 1. You assign User A full access rights to the Music share but
deny access rights to Group 1. Then User A cannot access the Music share.

Note: If you deny access to all users, no-one can use the share, not even the
administrator.
Click an arrow button to move users/groups between the left and right fields. Use
the arrow buttons to assign access rights to users/groups.
Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

17.3.3 Public and ANONYMOUS Share Access Rights
If you make a share public, users do not need to log in.
With ANONYMOUS FTP, you must enter either 'anonymous' or 'ftp' as the username. Any other
name is considered a username, so must be valid and have a corresponding correct password.

17.4 The Recycle Bin Configuration Screen
Use this screen to periodically clean up items in all recycle bins.

17.4.1 Recycle Bins
Recycle bins in the NSA help users recover accidentally deleted files or folders in the shares. When
you delete an item, a recycle folder is created within the share to hold the deleted item.
Every share can have its own recycle folder. You must enable the recycle-bin function to recycle
deleted items. You can configure this setting when you add or edit a share. See Section 17.3.1 on
page 313 for details on activating the recycle bin in a share.
Later if you want to retrieve a deleted item, you can locate the item in the recycle folder. You may
move or copy the deleted item to another share.

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17.4.2 Configuring Recycle Bins
In the Sharing > Shares screen, click Recycle Bin to open the following screen.
Figure 200 Sharing > Shares > Recycle Bin

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 108 Sharing > Shares > Recycle Bin
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Clean Recycle Bin every N
days

Specify how often you want to clear the contents in all recycle bins. The specified
days correspond to how long a file has been stored in a recycle bin. For example,
if you set the interval to be 3 days, recycle bins will clean up items deleted or not
accessed for 3 days.

Note: Cleaning up recycle bins permanently removes the files from the NSA.
Clean all recycle bins now

Click this to immediately remove contents from all recycle bins.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

17.5 The Share Browser Screen
Use this screen to create folders, upload files, and edit files within the share.
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 109 Sharing > Shares > Share Browser
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Create Folder

Type a folder name and click Apply to make a new folder. The name can be 1 to 239 singlebyte (no Chinese characters allowed for example) ASCII characters. The name cannot be
the same as another existing folder in the same path. See Section 4.4.6 on page 59 for
more information on folder names.

Upload

Click this to add files to the share. Use Browse to locate a file and click Apply to upload the
file. Note that the size of each file should be less than 2 GB.

Rename

Select a folder or file and click this to open a screen. Enter the name you want and click OK
to make the changes.

Note: When you change a file name, make sure you keep the file extension

Delete

Select a file/folder from the list and click this to open a warning screen. Click Yes to delete
the file/folder, or click No to close the screen.

Move

Select a file/folder from the list and click this to relocate the file/folder to another share.

Copy

Select a file/folder from the list and click this to make a duplicate of the file/folder to
another share.

Current
location

This is the name of the share and folder path that you are in.

Type

The icon in this column identifies the entry as a folder or a file. Click a music or video file’s
play icon to play the file.
The folder with an arrow pointing up is for the link that takes you to the next higher layer in
the share’s folder tree.

Name

Size

This field displays size of the file.

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Modified Date

This field displays a file’s latest modification date.

Click this to close the screen.

17.5.1 Moving or Copying Files
Use this screen to move or copy files to another share.
In the Share Browser screen, select a file or folder and click Move or Copy to open the following
screen.
Figure 202 Sharing > Shares > Share Browser > Move (or Copy)

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 110 Sharing > Shares > Share Browser > Move (or Copy)
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Select the destination share from the drop-down list.

Path

This field displays the share folder’s path. You can use Browse to find or create a folder on
the NSA or type the location of the folder using forward slashes as branch separators.

Browse

Click this to open the following screen and navigate to the location of the file/folder.

•
•
•
•

Select a folder. If you don’t select a folder, a forward slash (/) displays in the Path field. All
contents within the specified share are automatically selected.
Click Apply to save your settings and Cancel to close the screen.

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Yes

Click this to move or copy the file/folder to the designated share.

Click this to return to the Share Browser screen.

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Maintenance Screens
18.1 Overview
This chapter discusses the Maintenance screens. The Maintenance screens allow you to manage
system configurations.

18.2 What You Can Do
• Use the Power screen (Section 18.3 on page 319) to configure power settings for the NSA,
including power saving, UPS, power on/off after power failure, power on/off schedule, and Wake
on LAN.
• Use the Log screen (Section 18.4 on page 323) to check the system’s logs.
• Use the Configuration screen (Section 18.5 on page 327) to backup or restore the NSA
configuration file.
• Use the SSL screen (Section 18.6 on page 328) to configure HTTPS and the NSA’s SSL certificate.
• Use the Firmware Upgrade screen (Section 18.7 on page 330) to upload new firmware.
• Use the Shutdown screen (Section 18.8 on page 331) to restart or shut down your NSA.

18.3 The Power Screen
Use this screen to manage power settings for the NSA.

18.3.1 Notes on NSA-310
Note: The NSA-310 does not power on after power failure.
Note: You cannot configure a schedule to power on the NSA-310.

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Click Maintenance > Power to display the following screen.
Figure 203 Maintenance > Power

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 111 Maintenance > Power
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Power Management
Turn off hard
disk(s)

Enter the number of minutes the NSA will sit idle before spinning the hard disks down to
sleep. The default power-off time is 15 minutes.

Minimum UPS Capacity
Minimum UPS
Capacity

When you use an APC Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) with a USB connection to the
NSA, the NSA shuts itself down if the APC UPS’s battery charge gets down to the
percentage you specify in this field. This allows the NSA to shut down properly and avoid
data loss caused by a power failure when the UPS stops supplying power.
A setting around 50% is recommended. A setting close to 100% is not recommended since
it would cause the NSA to shut down whenever the UPS is charging. A setting close to 0 is
also not recommended since the UPS would not have enough power to allow the NSA to
shutdown properly.

Power On After
Power Failure

Select an option to set whether or not the NSA restarts when the power is restored after a
power failure.

Note: This feature is not supported on NSA310.
Keep Former
Status

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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Always
Power On

Select this option to keep the NSA operating as much of the time as possible. The NSA
restarts automatically even if it was turned off when the power failed.

Always
Power Off

Select this option to keep the NSA from automatically restarting when the power is
restored after a power failure. This is a computer’s “traditional” behavior. Select this if you
have other servers such as a domain controller or DNS server that you want to start or
check after a power failure before the NSA turns on.

Power On/Off Schedule
Enable Power
Control Schedule

Select this option to have the NSA turn itself off and on or reboot according to the
schedules you configured.
Click Edit to go to the screen where you can configure the power control schedules.
Refer to Section 18.3.2 on page 322 for this screen.

Note: This feature is not supported on NSA310.
Enable Wake On
LAN

Enable Wake On LAN to be able to turn on the NSA through its wired Ethernet connection.
You must have a computer or router on your LAN that supports sending Wake On LAN
“magic packets” to turn on the NSA.
To use Wake On LAN from a computer on your LAN, install a program such as Wake On LAN
EX or another Wake On LAN program that supports sending magic packets.
You can use Wake On LAN from a remote location if the router in front of the NSA supports
sending magic packets.
Use the NSA’s power button or the Web Configurator’s Maintenance > Shutdown menu
to turn off the NSA.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Reset

Click this to restore previously saved settings.

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18.3.2 Editing the Power Control Schedule Screen
Click Maintenance > Power Management > Edit to open this screen. Use this screen to
configure power control schedules to have the NSA turn on, turn off, or reboot at specified times.
Figure 204 Maintenance > Power Management > Edit

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 112 Maintenance > Power Management > Edit
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Power Control
Schedule List

This table lists the power on, power off, and reboot schedules. For example, you could
have one schedule to turn the NSA on every morning, at 8:00, another schedule to turn it
off every evening at 18:00, and a third schedule to have it reboot every Friday at 14:00.
Click a column’s heading cell to sort the schedules by that column’s criteria. Click the
heading cell again to reverse the sort order.

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Type

This field displays whether the power control schedule has the NSA turn on, turn off, or
reboot.

Frequency

This field shows how often (monthly, weekly, or daily) the NSA is to apply this power
control schedule.

Execute Time

This field shows when the NSA is to use this power control schedule (when the NSA is to
turn on, turn off, or reboot).

Actions

Click the Delete icon to remove a power control schedule from the list.

Add Power
Control Schedule

Use this part of the screen to configure power on, power off, and reboot times.

Type

Select whether this power control schedule has the NSA turn on, turn off, or reboot.

Frequency

Select whether the NSA is to apply this power control schedule entry on a monthly, weekly,
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LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Execute Time
(hh:mm)

Enter the time, day, and/or day of the month as appropriate for this power control
schedule entry. Leave more than 10 minutes between the execution times of the entries.
If the NSA turns off or restarts while a user is transferring files to or from the NSA, the
transfer fails. The user will need to restart the transfer.
The NSA skips a scheduled restart or power off if the execution time comes while the NSA
is doing any of the following:
•
•
•

Resynchronizing a RAID
Upgrading firmware
Replacing the configuration file

If the NSA is turned off at the time when a restart or power off is scheduled, the NSA does
not perform the restart or power off.
If the NSA is turned on at the time when a power on is scheduled, the NSA does not
perform the power on.
Use this part of the screen to configure power on, power off, and reboot times.
Please select the This is only available if you set the Frequency to Monthly.
day of the month
Choose the day of each month for the power control schedule entry.
Every how many
weeks?

This is only available if you set the Frequency to Weekly.

Every how many
days?

This is only available if you set the Frequency to Daily.

Add

Click this to add the power control schedule to the list.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

Enter the interval between weeks and choose the day of the week for the power control
schedule entry.

Enter the interval between days for the power control schedule entry.

18.4 The Log Screen
Click Maintenance > Log to open the following screen.

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Use this screen to display all NSA logs. There are at most 512 entries in the log. Older logs are
removed by the system. You cannot download the log file via FTP or CIFS.
Figure 205 Maintenance > Log

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 113 Maintenance > Log
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Refresh

Click this to update the log display.

Purge all Logs

Click this to erase all logs from the NSA.

Report Config

Click this to open a screen where you can configure email alerts for logs.

Display

The screen always shows all logs by default. Choose a specific log category to view logs for
just that category.

Refer to Section 18.4.1 on page 324 to see the screens for this.

This is the log entry’s number in the list according to the currently selected sort order.

Time

This shows the date and time the log was created. Click the top of the column to sort by
oldest or newest.

Class

This displays the log category; see Table 122 on page 332for details.

Severity

This displays how serious the log is rated by the NSA. See Table 123 on page 333for more
information.

Message

This displays a description of the log. Click the top of the column to sort by alphabetical or
reverse alphabetical order.

18.4.1 Report Config Screen
In the Log screen, click Report Config to do the following:
• Use the Email Setting screen (Section 18.4.2 on page 325) to enable and configure e-mail
alerts from the NSA.
• Use the Report Setting screen (Section 18.4.3 on page 326) to select the type of alerts you
want to receive through e-mail and schedule when the NSA e-mails the alerts.

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• Use the Syslog Server Setting screen (Section 18.4.4 on page 326) to enable the syslog server
and select the categories to include in the log report.

18.4.2 Email Setting
You can enable and configure e-mail alerts from the NSA. In the Report Config screen, click the
Email Setting tab to open the following screen.
Figure 206 Maintenance > Log > Report Config: Email Setting

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 114 Maintenance > Log > Report Config: Email Setting
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable Log Email

Click this to have the NSA e-mail log alerts to your e-mail account.

Email To

Enter the e-mail address where you want to receive the log alerts.

Email From

Enter the e-mail address the NSA uses in the From field of the e-mail header for its log
alerts.

Email Server

Enter the e-mail server address the NSA uses to send e-mail alerts,

Email Format

Select the e-mail format you want the NSA to use in its e-mail alerts.

Use SMTP
Authentication
User

Click this if the e-mail server you want the NSA to use for its e-mail alerts requires a
username and password.
Enter the username for the e-mail server.

Password

Enter the password for the e-mail server.

Password
(Confirm)

Re-enter the password to confirm it.

After apply settings,
send a test email

Click this to have the NSA send a test e-mail to the settings you have entered.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

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18.4.3 Report Setting
You can select the type of alerts you want to receive through e-mail and schedule when the NSA emails the alerts. In the Report Config screen, click the Report Setting tab to open the following
screen.
Figure 207 Maintenance > Log > Report Config: Report Setting

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 115 Maintenance > Log > Report Config: Report Setting
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Email Alert

Check the type of log alerts you want to receive in your e-mail.
Select All Log to include all types of log alerts.

Email Report

Check the type of log alerts you want to receive in your e-mail.
Select All Log to include all types of log alerts.

Report Time

Select how often (Weekly, Daily or Hourly), what day in the week (Monday to Sunday)
and which time (hour:minutes) the NSA delivers its e-mail alerts.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

18.4.4 Syslog Server Setting
You can enable the syslog server and select the categories to include in the log report. In the
Report Config screen, click the Syslog Server Setting tab to open the following screen.
Figure 208 Maintenance > Log > Report Config: Syslog Server Setting

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 116 Maintenance > Log > Report Config: Syslog Server Setting
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable Syslog
Server

Check this to enable syslog server.

Server Address

Enter the syslog server address you want the NSA to use for its log alerts.

In the table below, check the type of log alerts you want to receive in your e-mail. Select All Log to include all
types of log alerts.
Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to return to the previous screen without saving.

18.5 The Configuration Screen
Click Maintenance > Configuration to open the following screen. Use this screen to backup or
restore the NSA configuration settings.
Figure 209 Maintenance > Configuration

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 117 Maintenance > Configuration
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Backup Current Configuration Settings
Backup
Restore Configuration

Click this to save the current configuration of the NSA to your computer. A pop-up
screen appears asking you to confirm. Click OK to continue or Cancel to quit.
When you restore a file configuration, the NSA checks the volumes/share paths on
the NSA and the configuration file.
If the volume exists but the share path is missing in the NSA, the NSA automatically
creates this share path.
If the volume does not exist on the NSA, the Status of the share will show “missing
share icon” in Shares screen (see Table 105 on page 312).

Browse

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Table 117 Maintenance > Configuration
LABEL
Restore

DESCRIPTION
Click this to load the previously-saved configuration file to the NSA. This replaces
your current NSA configuration settings with the settings in the previously-saved
configuration file.
A pop-up screen appears asking you to confirm. Click OK to continue or Cancel to
quit.

Reset MySQL Database
Password

Click this to reset the password for your MySQL database.

18.6 SSL Certification
Click Maintenance > SSL to open this screen, where you can turn on HTTPS, create a public key
certificate, or upload a public key certificate that was issued by a known certificate authority.
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The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 118 Maintenance > SSL
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Force HTTPs

Select the Force HTTPs option to turn on the NSA’s web browser security.
Anyone who connects via HTTPS to the NSA must install the public key certificate
associated with it.

Note: The NSA will restart the web configurator after you click Apply.
The NSA displays a warning screen if applying your change may disconnect some
users. Click Apply if you want to continue.

Install System Default CA

Click Download button to save a copy of the NSA’s public key certificate to your
local computer. This is useful for installing the certificate without having to
connect to the NSA, or for sending by email to other users for them to install prior
to logging into the NSA for the first time. After saving the certificate to your
computer, double-click it to install it.

Note: Each web browser handles certificate installation differently. See Appendix D
on page 407 for more information.
Modify the Existing
Certificate

Select Edit a self-signed CA certificate, then follow the on-screen instructions
for creating a public key certificate signed by the NSA as the local certificate
authority.

Note: Use certificates created and signed by the NSA if the device is not open to
external access.
Select Create a certificate authorized by other CA, then follow the on-screen
instructions to install a certificate that has been authorized by a third-party
certificate authority.

Note: Use this method if the device is open to external access, such as allowing
users to connect through the Internet using FTP over TLS or HTTPs.

18.6.1 Modifying or Creating a Certificate
When you select the Edit a self-signed CA certificate option, then click the Edit button, a screen
opens to allow you to make adjustments to the NSA’s public key certificate.

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The screen is also the same for the Create a certificate authorized by other CA option.
Figure 211 Maintenance > SSL > Create or Edit a Certificate

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 119 Maintenance > SSL > Create or Edit a Certificate
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Common Name

This name describes the certificate’s origin, either in the form of an IP address or a
domain name.

Host IP Address

Select this option and enter the NSA’s IP address if you want to use this for the
common name.

Host Domain Name

Select this option and enter the NSA’s domain name if you want to use this for the
common name

Organizational Unit
(Optional)

Enter this name of the organizational unit which owns or maintains the NSA. This is
an optional field.

Organization (Optional)

Enter this name of the organization or company which owns or maintains the NSA.
This is an optional field.

Country (Optional)

Enter this name of the country in which the NSA is located. This is an optional field.

Key Type

Select the certificate’s key type, either RSA or DSA. RSA is a public-key encryption
and digital signature algorithm, while DSA is only a digital signature algorithm.

Key Length

Select the encryption key length. The longer the key, the better the encryption
security. The only drawback to having a long key is that the file encrypted with it
swells in size as well.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to discard changes and close the window.

18.7 The Firmware Upgrade Screen
Use this screen to upgrade the NSA firmware. You should first have downloaded the latest firmware
files from the ZyXEL website.

Do not turn off the NSA while it is upgrading the firmware or you may
render it unusable.

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Click Maintenance > FW Upgrade to open the following screen.
Figure 212 Maintenance > FW Upgrade

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 120 Maintenance > FW Upgrade
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Firmware File

Type the location of the firmware file you want to upload

Browse

Click this to find the file on your computer

Upload

Click this to upload the new firmware. The NSA automatically restarts after you
upgrade. Wait until the restart completes before accessing the NSA again. If you
interrupt the upgrade, then the NSA may become unusable. See Section 21.1 on page
361 for your model’s LED behavior during firmware upgrade.

Reset

Click this to refresh the screen.

Periodically Check for
Latest Firmware
Automatically

Select this to have the NSA regularly check ZyXEL’s server for updated firmware. The
NSA notifies you at login if a new firmware is available.

Check for Latest
Firmware Now

Click this to check ZyXEL’s server for updated firmware.

Click Apply to save this field’s setting.

18.8 The Shutdown Screen
Use this screen to turn off the NSA or perform a software restart. A software restart is faster than
turning the NSA off and then turning it on again. Before shutting down or restarting, check the
System Status > Active Sessions screen to make sure that no one is logged into the NSA or
transferring files to or from the NSA.

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Click Maintenance > Shutdown to open the following screen.
Figure 213 Maintenance > Shutdown

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 121 Maintenance > Shutdown
LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Restart

Click this to have the device perform a software restart.

Shutdown

Click this to shut down the system and restart it again later.

When you click the Restart button a pop-up screen will appear asking you to confirm. Click OK to
continue or Cancel to quit the restart.
Figure 214 Maintenance > Shutdown > Confirm Restart

When you click the Shutdown button a pop-up screen will appear asking you to confirm. Click OK
to continue or Cancel to quit the shutdown.
Figure 215 Maintenance > Shutdown > Confirm Shutdown

18.9 Technical Reference
This section provides technical background information on the topics discussed in this chapter.

18.9.1 Log Classes
The following table shows information on log classes.
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CATEGORY

DESCRIPTION

Users

This log class shows information on user access to the NSA.

This log class shows information on shares being created or deleted.

Services

This log class shows information on the operation of the NSA’s built-in services.

System

This log class shows all other system related messages.

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LOG
CATEGORY

DESCRIPTION

Network

This log class shows information on network configuration, setting changes and so on.

Storage

This log class shows information on the NSA’s internal and external storage activities.

Backup

This log class shows information on all backup-related activities.

Auto Upload

This log class shows information on automatic uploads done by the NSA.

18.9.2 Log Severity Levels
The following table shows information on log severity levels. Levels range from 0 to 6 with 0 being
the most severe level log and 6 being an informational log only. Log levels are not displayed in the
logs and are for your reference only.
Table 123 Log Severity Levels
LEVEL

DESCRIPTION

Emergency

Alert

Critical

Error

Warning

Notice

Info

18.9.3 Log Messages
Here are some example log messages.
Table 124 Log Messages
CLASS

SEVERITY MESSAGE

Auto upload

INFO

%s is queued.

Auto upload

INFO

%s uploaded (Flickr or YouTube Upload).

Auto upload

WARNING

error uploading "%s" (%s): %s

Auto upload

INFO

%s will not be uploaded to %s for there is already a duplicate file.

Auto upload

INFO

Failed to upload %s to %s (FTP Upload) : %s

Auto upload

INFO

Successfully upload %s to %s (FTP Upload)

Copy/Sync
Button

ERROR

[USB %s] Backup Folder Does Not Exist.

Copy/Sync
Button

ERROR

[USB %s] Target Folder Does Not Exist.

Copy/Sync
Button

ERROR

[USB Sync] Failed at %s: It is a Folder in Internal Volume. But It is not a Folder
in USB.

Copy/Sync
Button

ERROR

[USB Sync] Failed at %s: It is a Folder in USB. But It is not a Folder in Internal
Volume.

Copy/Sync
Button

ERROR

[USB Sync] Failed at File %s.

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CLASS

SEVERITY MESSAGE

Copy/Sync
Button

ERROR

[USB Sync] Sync Failed at Folder %s.

Copy/Sync
Button

ERROR

Modify COPY/SYNC Button Configuration: %s

Copy/Sync
Button

ERROR

Please Change Your Folder Name. Invalid Path: %s

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Copying %s from Internal Volume to Backup Folder.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Copying %s from Internal Volume to USB.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Copying %s from USB to Backup Folder.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Copying %s from USB to Internal Volume.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Deleting %s from Internal Volume.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Deleting %s from USB.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Deleting %s from USB Recursively.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Finished. Elapsed Time %s Seconds.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Moving %s from Internal Volume to Backup Folder.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Moving %s from USB to Backup Folder

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Skip %s: File not Exist

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Skip %s: Not a Regular File.

Copy/Sync
Button

INFO

[USB Sync] Start Pre-Processing: Generating File Lists.

Copy/Sync
Button

NOTICE

[USB Sync] Start Copying Files.

Download
Service

ERROR

Download service cannot find a volume

Download
Service

ERROR

Download service failed to find ipfilter.dat

Download
Service

INFO

Download service add a URL download job %s

Download
Service

INFO

Download service delete %s by user

Download
Service

INFO

Download service download %s error (0x%08x)

Download
Service

INFO

Download service download %s finished in %s

Download
Service

INFO

Download service found a new torrent file %s

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CLASS

SEVERITY MESSAGE

Download
Service

INFO

Download service initialized

Download
Service

INFO

Download service pause %s by user

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set %s to %s priority by user

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set default download location to %s

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set max P2P download rate to %d KB/s by user

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set max P2P upload rate to %d KB/s by user

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set max download slot to %d

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set seeding time to %d minutues

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set TCP port to %d and UDP port to %d

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set torrent monitor location to %s

Download
Service

INFO

Download service start to download %s

Download
Service

INFO

Download service stopped

Download
Service

INFO

Download service suspend %s because of no data income detected or to limit
max download slot

Download
Service

INFO

Download service add comment %s to %s by user

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set min upload/download ratio to %d%

Download
Service

INFO

Download service set max seed slot to %d

Download
Service

INFO

Download service start loading ipfilter.dat

Download
Service

INFO

Download service clear all ipfilter rules

Download
Service

INFO

Download service blocked peer removed from peer list

Download
Service

INFO

Download service disconnected blocked peer

Download
Service

INFO

Download service incoming connection blocked by IP filter

Download
Service

INFO

Download service peer from tracker blocked by IP filter

Download
Service

INFO

Download service abort loading ipfilter.dat

Download
Service

INFO

Download service will update ipfilter.dat from %s after %d day(s)

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Download
Service

INFO

Download service added %d rules from ipfilter.dat

Download
Service

INFO

Download service detected invalid ip range %s in ipfilter.dat

Download
Service

WARNING

Download service default location does not exist. Load default

Download
Service

WARNING

Download service default torrent location does not exist. Load default

Groups

NOTICE

Add new group %s.

Groups

NOTICE

Delete group %s.

Network

NOTICE

%s is active because of changing Port Group. Enable DHCP client.

Network

NOTICE

%s is inactive because of changing Port Group. Disable DHCP client.

Network

NOTICE

%s MTU > (%s MTU - 8), %s may not work correctly.

Network

NOTICE

(%s MTU - 8) < %s MTU, %s may not work correctly.

Network

NOTICE

Add interface %s.

Network

NOTICE

Because %s link down. Default route will not apply until %s link up.

Network

NOTICE

Because base interface %s will be disabled.Interface %s is disabled now.,
base_ud_iface

Network

NOTICE

Network Config setting is changed

Network

NOTICE

Interface %s was disabled.

Network

NOTICE

Interface %s was enabled.

Network

NOTICE

Port Group on %s is changed. Renew DHCP client.

Network

NOTICE

Account pppoe was changed

Network

NOTICE

Add account pppoe

Network

NOTICE

ADD interface ppp0

Network

NOTICE

Interface ppp0 will reapply because Device-Ha become active status.

Network

NOTICE

Interface ppp0 will reapply because Device-Ha is not running.

Network

NOTICE

Network port is disabled

Network

NOTICE

Network port is enabled

Services

INFO

HTTP management port has changed to %s

Services

INFO

Clock timezone is set to GMT%s

Services

INFO

Clock timezone is set to default

Services

INFO

Clock daylight saving is enabled

Services

INFO

Clock daylight saving is disabled

Services

INFO

Clock has disable daylight saving

Services

INFO

MyClock has enable daylight saving

Services

INFO

MyClock has set timezone to %s

Services

INFO

MyClock has set timezone to default

Services

INFO

The date and time are updated from NTP server.

Services

INFO

The date and time are updated manually.

Services

INFO

The time is updated manually.

Services

NOTICE

FTP server stops

Services

NOTICE

FTP server starts

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Services

NOTICE

MyClock has changed daylight saving interval

Services

NOTICE

MyClock has disabled daylight saving interval

Services

NOTICE

NTP server has set to '%s'

Services

NOTICE

NTP server has set to null

Services

NOTICE

The NTP service is disabled.

Services

NOTICE

The NTP service is enabled.

Services

WARNING

Reaching Maximum Allowed Rules

Services

WARNING

Rule is empty

Services

WARNING

The Rule Does Not Exist

INFO

Expire recycle-bin finish for share %s, process time: %s seconds, remove %s
file (%s bytes)

NOTICE

Add new disabled share %s for unshared folder: %s in volume: %s.

NOTICE

Add new share %s.

NOTICE

Delete share %s.

NOTICE

Purge all files in recycle-bin folder in share: %s.

NOTICE

Recycle-bin disabled. Remove recycle-bin folder in share: %s.

Storage

ERROR

Eject External Disk (%s): FAILED

Storage

INFO

Eject External Disk (%s): SUCCESS

Storage

ERROR

Relabel Raid to [%s]: FAILED

Storage

ERROR

Start Repairing Degraded Raid by disk%s: FAILED

Storage

INFO

Relabel Raid to [%s]: SUCCESS

Storage

INFO

Start Repairing Degraded Raid by disk%s: SUCCESS

Storage

NOTICE

Auto Repair Degraded RAID by disk%s.

Storage

NOTICE

There is a RAID Degraded.

Storage

ERROR

Cancel External Volume Scan: FAILED

Storage

ERROR

Cancel Internal Volume Scan: FAILED

Storage

ERROR

Cannot Unmount Volume and RAID. System Busy Using Volume and RAID:
Please Reboot and Try Again

Storage

ERROR

Create External Normal Volume [%s] (%s): FAILED

Storage

ERROR

Create Internal Volume [%s] (%s): FAILED

Storage

ERROR

Rename External Volume to [%s]: FAILED

Storage

ERROR

Scan External Volume: FAILED

Storage

ERROR

Scan Internal Volume (%s operation): FAILED

Storage

INFO

Cancel External Volume Scan: SUCCESS

Storage

INFO

Cancel Internal Volume Scan: SUCCESS

Storage

INFO

Create External Normal Volume [%s] (%s): SUCCESS

Storage

INFO

Create Internal Volume [%s] (%s): SUCCESS

Storage

INFO

Rename External Volume to [%s]: SUCCESS

Storage

INFO

Scan External Volume: SUCCESS

Storage

INFO

Scan Internal Volume (%s operation): SUCCESS

System

INFO

NTP update failed

System

INFO

NTP updates successfully from %s

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System

INFO

NTP fails to update from %s

System

INFO

Device is rebooted by administrator!

System

INFO

Device is shutdown by administrator!

System

NOTICE

DNS server is changed.

System

NOTICE

Hostname is cleared.

System

NOTICE

Hostname is set to '%s'.

System

NOTICE

System description is changed.

System

NOTICE

System description is empty now.

System

NOTICE

DNS server setting is changed

System

NOTICE

DNS server address is changed to be given from DHCP server

System

NOTICE

DNS server address is changed to be assigned by user

System

NOTICE

Name server is changed.

USB

NOTICE

An external APC UPS device is plugged/unplugged.

USB

NOTICE

An external Mass Storage device is plugged/unplugged.

USB

NOTICE

An external Printer device is plugged/unplugged.

USB

NOTICE

An external USB hub device is plugged/unplugged.

Users

ALERT

Failed %s login attempt (incorrect password or inexistent username)

Users

ALERT

Failed %s login attempt (incorrect password or inexistent username)

Users

INFO

User %s has logged in from %s!

Users

INFO

User %s has logged out from %s!

Users

INFO

User %s from %s has been logged out (re-auth timeout)!

Users

INFO

User %s from %s has been logged out (lease timeout)!

Users

NOTICE

Add new user %s by %s from %s.

Users

NOTICE

User %s password has been changed.

Users

NOTICE

Delete user %s by %s from %s.

Users

NOTICE

The user %s from %s has attempted to change the user %s password but old
password verification fail.

Users

NOTICE

User %s on %u.%u.%u.%u has been denied access from %s

Users

NOTICE

User %s password has been changed by %s from %s.

Backup/
Restore

ERROR

When query remote target [%s]: %s

Backup/
Restore

INFO

Backup job [%s] successfully

Backup/
Restore

ERROR

When backup [%s]: %s

Backup/
Restore

ERROR

When backup [%s], error happens: %s

Backup/
Restore

INFO

Start to restore backup job [%s].

Backup/
Restore

INFO

Restore backup job [%s] successfully.

Backup/
Restore

ERROR

Restore backup job [%s] failed: %s

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Backup/
Restore

INFO

Start to restore backup job [%s] from [%s].

Backup/
Restore

INFO

Restore from [%s] successfully.

Backup/
Restore

ERROR

Restore from [%s] failed: %s

Backup/
Restore

ERROR

When restore [%s]: %s

Backup/
Restore

ERROR

When restore job [%s], error happens: %s

Power
Management

INFO

Job [%s] is triggered by schedule

Power
Management

INFO

Job [%s] is triggered by user

Power
Management

ERROR

Job [%s] is resulted as failed

Power
Management

INFO

Job [%s] is finished successfully

Power
Management

INFO

Job [%s] is pending because other job is running

Power
Management

INFO

Job [%s] is canceled by user

Power
Management

INFO

Restore job [%s] is triggered by user

Power
Management

INFO

[Power On] schedule is triggered.

Power
Management

INFO

[Power Off] schedule is triggered.

Power
Management

INFO

[Reboot] schedule is triggered.

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Protecting Your Data
19.1 Overview
This chapter compares the different ways of protecting data on the NSA and explains how to use
backup management software included on the CD.

19.2 Protection Methods
There are a variety of ways to protect your data on the NSA. Below is a summary table of what can
be done in each situation.
Table 125 Overview of Protection Methods
SITUATION

ACTION

Unexpected NSA behavior after configuration
changes

Back up the NSA configuration file before you make
major configuration changes.

Need to transfer data from your computer to the
NSA after volume(s) have been created

Backup your data to a computer or other storage
devices.

Data infected by virus

Use anti-virus software on your computer to scan files
before saving them onto the NSA. Although this may be
slow so you may want to schedule it to occur while no
one is using the NSA.
Use a firewall with anti-virus capability on your network.

Hard drive malfunction.

Use RAID.

NSA malfunction

Back up data to another NSA or external USB hard
drive.

Network down
Natural disaster such as a fire or earthquake occurs
where your NSA is located

The following sections describe these methods in more detail. See Section 8.6.3 on page 171 for
more information on RAID.

19.3 Configuration File Backup and Restoration
Use the Maintenance > Configuration menus to create a file of your NSA configurations such as
passwords, shares and volumes created, network settings and so on. If you’re going to do some
major configuration changes, then it is advisable to create a configuration backup file. If things go
wrong after you make the configuration changes, you can always go back to the previous
configuration by restoring an earlier configuration file.

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If you forgot the NSA password, then use the RESET button (see Section 1.1.4 on page 19) to
return the NSA to the factory default configuration.

Note: Configuration File Backup and Restoration does not affect data (your files and
folders), volumes on the NSA.

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Troubleshooting
20.1 Troubleshooting Overview
This chapter offers some suggestions to solve problems you might encounter. The potential
problems are divided into the following categories.
• Power, Hardware, Connections, and LEDs
• NAS Starter Utility
• NSA Login and Access
• I Cannot Access The NSA
• Users Cannot Access the NSA
• External USB Drives
• Firmware
• File Transfer
• Networking
• Some Features’ Screens Do Not Display
• Media Server Functions
• Download Service and Broadcatching Functions
• Web Publishing
• Auto Upload
• Package Management
• Backups

20.2 Power, Hardware, Connections, and LEDs
The NSA PWR LED does not turn on (no LEDs are on).

• Make sure the NSA is turned on.
• Make sure you are using the power adaptor or cord included with the NSA.
• Make sure the power adaptor or cord is connected to the NSA and plugged in to an appropriate
power source. Make sure the power source is turned on.
• Turn the NSA off and on.
• If the problem continues, contact the vendor.

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An HDD LED is off.

The HDD LED is off when the NSA cannot detect a hard drive in the drive bay. Replace or install a
hard drive. See Installing or replacing a hard disk.

An HDD LED is red.

Red means that the NSA detected an error on the hard drive (like a bad sector for example). The
NSA automatically tries to recover a bad sector, but the LED stays red until the NSA restarts. Even
if the hard drive still functions, it is recommended that you replace it since errors are a sign that the
hard drive may fail soon. See Installing or replacing a hard disk.

Installing or replacing a hard disk.

Do not remove or install a hard disk while the NSA is turned on. The NSA
must be turned off before you remove or install the hard disk.
1

Turn the NSA off, remove the front panel and make sure:
• there is a SATA I or SATA II (3.0 Gbit/s) compatible hard disk installed.
• the hard disk is installed correctly in the disk bay. Push the disk back into the NSA disk bay
until the hard disk is fitted snugly inside the NSA (see the NSA Quick Start Guide and Section
8.2.1 on page 162).
• the hard disk could be faulty. Try a different hard drive or test the original hard disk in a
different NSA or computer.

If you had to replace the drive, turn on the NSA and go to the Storage screen.
• If you have a RAID I volume click the Repair icon next to the new drive.
• If you are using RAID 0 you will need to recreate the whole volume. All of your data is lost.
• If you are using a single-disk JBOD volume, you need to create a new volume on the new
drive.
• If you are using a two-disk JBOD volume, you need to create a whole new volume on both
drives.

The LAN LED (by the LAN port) is off.

• Make sure the Ethernet cable is connected properly to the NSA and connected to another
(Ethernet) device. Make sure the other device is turned on. If it’s connected directly to a
computer, make sure that the computer network card is working (ping 127.0.0.1 on the
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• Use another Ethernet cable. If you’re connecting to a Gigabit Ethernet, make sure you’re using
an 8-wire Ethernet cable.
• If the problem continues, contact the vendor.
See Section 21.1 on page 361 for a description of NSA LEDs.

The NSA turns off or reboots by itself.

Check the Power Management screen. This is where you configure power settings for the NSA,
including power saving, UPS, power on/off during power failure and power on/off schedule. The
NSA may be set to turn off under certain conditions.

A power failure occurred while the NSA is downloading files.

• If power failure occurs during the active download period, the NSA will verify whether the
downloaded files were damaged.
• If a file is corrupted, the NSA will download the file again.
•

If the file is intact but not completely downloaded, the NSA will resume the download task after
it restarts.

20.3 NAS Starter Utility
The NAS Starter Utility cannot discover my NSA.

• Close the NAS Starter Utility and reopen it.
• Check your hardware connections and make sure they are set up correctly.
• Only one instance of the NAS Starter Utility can run on your computer. Make sure you close any
duplicate windows for this application.
• Wait for the SYS LED to stop blinking before clicking Discover.
• Confirm that the computer running the NAS Starter Utility has a network connection. See the
section on the NSA’s LAN connection for related information.
• The computer running the NAS Starter Utility can only discover NSAs in the same subnet. NSAs
connected to the same switch or router as your NAS Starter Utility computer are usually in the
same subnet unless the router is doing subnetting or the switch is implementing VLAN.

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The NAS Starter Utility discovered my NSA but the status is always unreachable, even though
I can access it.

You may need to add the NAS Starter Utility to your software firewall’s allow list or lower your
software firewall or anti-virus scanner’s security level. Alternatively you may have to configure your
software firewall or other security software to allow UDP port 50127 traffic from the NSA. If there is
a hardware firewall between you and the NSA, configure it to allow UDP port 50127 traffic from the
NSA.

I was able to access the NSA on a previous attempt but I cannot access the NSA anymore.

If you enable jumbo frames on the NSA in a network that does not support them, you will lose
access to the NSA. If this occurs, you will have to restore the factory default configuration. The
reset process does NOT affect the volume settings, nor data stored on the NSA. Press the RESET
button until you hear two beeps. After the second beep, continue pressing the button for five more
seconds, then release it. You will hear three quick beeps after you release the button.

I have at least two NSAs in my network, how do I identify which one I want to configure in
the NAS Starter Utility screens.

If you have several NSAs connected to your computer/network, give each a unique name. You may
have to disconnect all but one and use the NAS Starter Utility to rename it. Then connect another
NSA and rename it and continue to connect and rename the NSAs one-by-one until they are all
connected and each has a unique name.
Alternatively, if you have a DHCP server on your network and you can access it’s list of assigned IP
addresses, you could see which IP address belongs to which NSA. You can check the MAC address
of your NSA by checking the attached sticker in the device housing.

20.4 NSA Login and Access
I forgot the server name of the NSA.

• The default server name is ‘nsa’ followed by the number of your model (‘nsa320’ for example).
• Use the NAS Starter Utility to discover your NSA. If you have admin privileges, you can directly
change the IP address of the NSA using the NAS Starter Utility.
• If the server name has changed and you don’t have the NAS Starter Utility, see Section 1.1.4 on
page 19 to use the RESET button to return to the default setting.

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I cannot get to the NSA login screen.

• Use the NAS Starter Utility to discover your NSA. If you have admin privileges, you can directly
change the IP address of the NSA using the NAS Starter Utility.
• Make sure you have used the NAS Starter Utility to initialize your NSA.
• If you used the RESET button, the NSA may have a new IP address. Close and reopen the NAS
Starter Utility to discover the NSA.
• Make sure the NSA is turned on.
• If you are trying to login directly by typing the server name into your web browser’s address
field, make sure you are using the correct server name as the web site address.
• The default server name is ‘nsa’ followed by the number of your model (‘nsa320’ for
example). If you have changed the server name, use the new one.
• If the server name has been changed and you do not know the new server name, see the
troubleshooting suggestions for I forgot the server name of the NSA.
• If it still doesn’t work, try using the NAS Starter Utility.
• Check the hardware connections, and make sure the LEDs are behaving as expected. See the
Quick Start Guide and Section 21.1 on page 361.
• By default, the NSA gets an IP address automatically. The NSA assigns itself an IP address if no
device assigns one. If your computer is also set to get an IP address automatically, the computer
and the NSA can both assign themselves IP addresses and communicate. See Section 9.4 on
page 176 if you need to configure the NSA with a static IP address.
• If you are connecting to the NSA by its IP address, make sure you use the correct one. If the NSA
has a wired Ethernet connection and a wireless connection through an attached USB wireless
dongle, the NSA has a different IP address for each connection. To connect through the wired
Ethernet connection, use the wired Ethernet connection’s IP address. To connect through the
wireless connection, use the wireless connection’s IP address.
• Make sure your computer’s IP address is in the same subnet as the NSA’s IP address. You can use
the NAS Starter Utility to find the NSA’s IP address. See Appendix A on page 365 for how to
change your computer’s IP address. Skip this if you know that there are routers between your
computer and the NSA.
• Ping the NSA from your computer. Make sure your computer’s Ethernet adapter is installed and
functioning properly. In a (Windows) computer, click Start, (All) Programs, Accessories and
then Command Prompt. In the Command Prompt window, type “ping” followed by the NSA’s
IP address (use the NAS Starter Utility to find the NSA’s IP address if you don’t know it) and then
press [ENTER].
• Make sure you are using Internet Explorer 6.0 (and later) or Firefox 1.07 (and later).
• Make sure your Internet browser does not block pop-up windows and has JavaScript and Java
enabled. See Appendix B on page 393. With Internet Explorer 6, you may also have to enable
scripting of safe ActiveX controls. See Section 20.4.1 on page 348.

I forgot the password.

• The default password is 1234.
• If you have changed the password and forgotten it, you will have to reset the NSA.

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20.4.1 Enabling Scripting of Safe ActiveX Controls
If pages of the web configurator do not display properly in Internet Explorer, check that scripting of
safe ActiveX controls is enabled.
1

In Internet Explorer, click Tools, Internet Options and then the Security tab.
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Under Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting, make sure that Enable is selected
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Figure 217 Security Settings - Script Safe ActiveX Controls

I can see the login screen, but I cannot log in to the NSA.

• Make sure you have entered the username and password correctly. The default username is
admin, and the default password is 1234. These fields are case-sensitive, so make sure [Caps
Lock] is not on.
• Turn the NSA off and on.
• If this does not work, see Section 1.1.4 on page 19 to reset the device.

I cannot see the multi-language web configurator screens while using Internet Explorer.

Use Section 20.4.1 on page 348 to enable the scripting of safe ActiveX controls.

The Web Configurator logs out by itself.

The web configurator management session automatically times out if it is left idle for 15 minutes.
Simply log back into the NSA if this happens to you.

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20.5 I Cannot Access The NSA
I cannot access a share.

• Check that the NSA is turned on and connected to the network. Try to ping the NSA or use the
NAS Starter Utility to discover it.
• Make sure you have used the NAS Starter Utility to initialize your NSA. See Chapter 3 on page 31
for more information.
• Check that you entered your login name and password correctly.
• Check that the share exists and check its access settings.
• Check if the shared folder is a subfolder of another (parent) share. Check that the parent share’s
access rights do not conflict with the subfolder share. It is recommended that you do not create
subfolder shares.
• Check if there are any existing mapped network drives to the NSA. You may need to disconnect
existing mapped network drives as a new mapped network drive connection may use (different)
previously-saved login information. To do this, open Windows Explorer and click Tools >
Disconnect Mapped Network Drives.
• Check that the volume in which the share resides, exists and is not down or degraded. If it is
down or degraded, see Section 20.2 on page 343.
• Make sure you have the client for Microsoft networks installed and enabled in your network
connection’s properties.
• In Windows XP or 2000, click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Network Connections
(Network and Dial-up Connections in Windows 2000/NT) > Local Area Connection >
Properties.
• Check that Client for Microsoft Networks is in the list of components and has its check box
selected.

20.6 Users Cannot Access the NSA
A local user cannot access a share

• Check that the NSA is turned on and connected to the network. The local user should try to ping
the NSA or use the NAS Starter Utility to discover it.
• The local user should check that he entered his login name and password correctly.
• Check if the share exists and has the correct access settings for this user.
• Check the Access Control List (ACL) of read/write permissions associated with specific files and/
or folders. Account names added to the list are linked to the files and folders that they are
allowed to access, along with what kinds of actions they are allowed to perform with those files
and folders (delete, move, rename, and so on).

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• The user’s computer may already be connected to another of the NSA’s shares using a different
user name and/or password. This can happen without the user realizing it if the user’s computer
automatically connects to a share at logon. Right-click any other connected shares and click
Disconnect. Then re-attempt to connect to the desired share.
• Check if the share has an ANONYMOUS or EVERYONE access right. If the user is already logged
into a share using her username and password, she will NOT be able to access a share that has
ANONYMOUS FTP only access rights (as these require ‘no login’). In this case she should log out
and try to access the share again without logging in. See Section 10.4 on page 188 for more
details.
• Check if the shared folder is a subfolder of another (parent) share. Check that the parent share’s
access rights do not conflict with the subfolder share. It is recommended that you do not create
subfolder shares.
• Check if the user belongs to a group with conflicting access rights. DENY always takes
precedence. If you allow a user FULL access to a share but set his group to DENY, then he will
NOT be able to access the share.
• The local user should check if there are any existing mapped network drives to the NSA. He may
need to disconnect existing CIFS connections as new CIFS connection may use previously-saved
login information that may be different to NSA login.
• Check that the array in which the share resides, exists and is not down or degraded. If the array
is down or degraded, see Section 20.2 on page 343.
• If the user is using DFS links, then he can only access the NSA using CIFS and not FTP.
• Check that the share has not been disabled.

I cannot import domain user or user group information even though testing of the connection
to the domain controller is OK.

• Check the NSA’s DNS setting. The DNS server the NSA is using must be able to resolve the
domain controller’s address. If the domain controller uses a private IP address, the NSA needs to
use a private DNS server. If the domain controller uses a public IP address, the NSA needs to use
a public DNS server.
• Leave the domain and re-join it.

A domain user can’t access a share.

In addition to the checks listed previously for local users, check that the domain controller is turned
on and connected to the network.

A user can access a share but cannot access individual folders or files within the share.

• Check the Access Control List (ACL) of read/write permissions associated with the share’s
specific files and/or folders. Account names added to the list are linked to the files and folders
that they are allowed to access, along with what kinds of actions they are allowed to perform
with those files and folders (delete, move, rename, and so on).

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20.7 External USB Drives
The COPY LED is red.

Copying files from a USB device failed. The USB device may not be compatible with the NSA. Try to
save the files onto a computer and then from the computer to the NSA (through the network
connection).

20.8 Firmware
I want to know the firmware version on the NSA.

Go to the Status screen. The Firmware field shows you the current firmware version running.

20.9 File Transfer
I want to transfer my file(s) from my local computer or storage device to the NSA.

• After you initialize your hard disk, you can directly access the folders in your NSA and transfer
files in the same way you transfer files in your local computer:
1

On your Windows computer, click Start > Run or open a web browser.

Enter \\nsa followed by the number of your model (320 for example) or the Server Name you
assigned the NSA. This shows you the folders in the NSA.

Use drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste to transfer files over to your NSA.
• Use the COPY/SYNC button to transfer files from an external (USB) storage device to the NSA.
• If the file you want to transfer is less than or equal to 2GB, you can use the NSA Starter Utility’s
zPilot screen (see Section 3.6 on page 43).

I want to transfer my file(s) from the NSA to my local computer or storage device.

• After you initialize your hard disk, you can directly access the folders in your NSA and transfer
files in the same way you transfer files in your local computer:

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On your Windows computer, click Start > Run or open a web browser.

Enter \\nsa followed by the number of your model (320 for example) or the Server Name you
assigned the NSA. This shows you the folders in the NSA.

Use drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste to transfer files from your NSA to your local computer’s folder
or your storage device.
• You can download the files from your NSA. Just click on the file(s) in the Share Browsing screen
(Section 4.4.5 on page 56). Your computer will prompt you for the location where you want to
save the file.

20.10 Networking
I want to control who can access my folder(s)/file(s).

• If you are an administrator, you can configure a user’s access rights. Use the Shares screen
(Section 17.3 on page 311) to do this.
• If you enabled Web Publishing for a folder, anyone on your network can play the media files in
the published shares. No user name and password or other form of security is used. The media
server is enabled by default with the video, photo, and music shares published.

One of the computers in my network cannot use the printer I connected to the NSA.

• You must install the printer driver on each computer that will use the printer.
• Check Section 20.4 on page 346 and check for related connectivity issues.

20.11 Some Features’ Screens Do Not Display
Many NSA features require a valid internal volume.

Features like the print server, download service, broadcatching, FTP and Windows/CIFS access will
not work without a valid internal volume. Make sure you have a volume on an internal disk and that
the volume is in the healthy state.
• Install an internal disk if one is not installed yet or has failed. See the Quick Start Guide for how
to install an internal disk.
• Create a new volume if you do not have one on the internal disk yet.
• Make sure the volume on the installed internal disk is in a healthy state.

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I cannot use some applications in the Web Configurator.

• The firmware installed in your NSA includes the features mentioned in Section 4.5.2 on page 63.
This does not include the applications you can install using the Package Management screen.
• You can use the Package Management screen (Chapter 11 on page 229) to install more
applications from a web location (specified in the firmware) to your NSA.
• If you have installed the application and can see the application’s configuration screen but still
cannot use it, check that you have Enabled the application.

20.12 Media Server Functions
I set the media server function to publish a folder, but some of the files in the folder do not
display in the list on the media client.

Files with formats that are not supported on the media server may not display in the list. See
Section 21.2 on page 362 for the file formats that the media server supports.

I published a folder with the media server function, but the media client does not play some
of the files (or does not play them properly).

Files with formats that are not supported on the media server may not display in the list. See
Section 21.2 on page 362 for the file formats that the media server supports.

If you are using media client software, you may need to install codecs on your computer. Since the
media client software uses your computer’s installed codecs, files do not play if the required codec
is not installed on your computer.

The media client may not support the file’s format.

iTunes does not display the names of all the music files I just put on the NSA.

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Make sure the files are a format supported by iTunes. See Section 21.3 on page 363.

Go to Applications > Media Server. Make sure the share containing the music files is published
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If an iTunes client is connected, the NSA’s iTunes server function scans the published media server
folders for files every three minutes. Leave iTunes connected to the NSA for three minutes. Then
use the NSA’s eject button (as shown next) to disconnect.
Figure 218 iTunes Eject Button

Then click the NSA’s link to reconnect.
Figure 219 iTunes Reconnected

Another way to get the NSA’s iTunes server function to scan the published media server folders for
files is to go to Applications > Media Server and disable and re-enable the iTunes server option.
If you uploaded many files, it may take awhile for the NSA to find and list all of them. Then try
reconnecting your iTunes client.

I cannot use iTunes to play files located on my NSA.

Make sure the files are a format supported by iTunes. See Section 21.3 on page 363.

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If you have files from the iTunes Store that use DRM, you need to use your Apple account ID and
password to authorize other computers to play the files. Apple permits you to authorize up to five
computers at a time. To authorize a computer, open iTunes and click Store > Authorize
Computer.

If you are connecting through a NAT router, make sure that TCP port 3689 and UDP port 5353 are
open for traffic on both the server and the client and all points in between (especially the NAT
router). If your router includes a firewall, make sure it also allows TCP port 3689 and UDP port
5353 traffic.

20.13 Download Service and Broadcatching Functions
The download list or broadcatching items are missing after I removed a hard drive.

The NSA’s download and broadcatching lists are stored on the system volume. If you have two
JBOD volumes, it is possible to remove one and still use the other. However if you remove the
system volume, you may lose the download and broadcasting lists. With two JBOD volumes, the
hard disk that was installed first is usually the system volume.

The channel I added in the Broadcatching screen is active but no files are downloaded to
the NSA.

Check the Download Policy for that channel (see Section 10.8.1 on page 209). It may be set to
manual download. You can configure your NSA to download all items or only new items
automatically once the channel is updated.

I cannot find the download files.

By default, the Download Service and Broadcatching features store downloaded files as follows:
• P2P download jobs are stored in /*/incoming (where ‘*’ is a folder that you have set.)
• HTTP/FTP jobs are stored in /* (where ‘*’ is a folder that you have set.)
• All jobs triggered by RSS channels create the subfolder in /* using the channel name where it
store all files downloaded from that channel (where ‘*’ is a folder that you have set.)
Check your Preferences in the Download Service (Section 10.6 on page 194) and
Broadcatching (Section 10.8 on page 207) screens to know or configure where downloaded files
are stored.

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20.14 Web Publishing
A web-published share cannot be accessed by web browser from the Internet.

• Make sure the person trying to access the share is using the correct web address (and port
number if the NSA’s web publishing feature is not using port 80). See page 223 for details.
• Make sure the publishing feature is turned on and the share is in the list of published shares.
• Make sure the person trying to access the share is using Internet Explorer 6.0 (and later) or
Firefox 1.07 (and later).
• You need to use a public address to access the NSA’s web-published shares from the Internet. If
your NSA uses a private IP address, use the public IP address of your Internet gateway (firewall)
and configure NAT or port forwarding on your Internet gateway and possibly firewall rules in
order to let people access the NSA’s web-published shares from the Internet.
• Make sure the firewall’s public IP address is static or that the firewall uses a Dynamic Domain
Name (DDNS).
• Web publishing uses TCP protocol and the port number you specify. Make sure there is not
another service using TCP protocol with the same port number. See Appendix C on page 403 for
a list of common services and their associated protocols and port numbers.
• If Firefox access to the share does not work, check that you did not set the Web publishing
feature to use one of the following ports. (Firefox blocks these ports by default.)
Table 126 Ports Blocked By Default in Firefox
PORT

SERVICE

PORT

SERVICE

PORT

SERVICE

tcpmux

supdup

513

echo

101

hostriame

514

shell

discard

102

iso-tsap

515

printer

systat

103

gppitnp

526

tempo

daytime

104

acr-nema

530

courier

netstat

109

POP2

531

chat

qotd

110

POP3

532

netnews

chargen

111

sunrpc

540

uucp

ftp data

113

auth

556

remotefs

ftp control

115

sftp

563

NNTP+SSL

ssh

117

uucp-path

587

submission

telnet

119

NNTP

601

syslog

smtp

123

NTP

636

LDAP+SSL

time

135

loc-srv epmap

993

IMAP+SSL

name

139

netbios

995

POP3+SSL

nicname

143

IMAP2

2049

nfs

domain

179

BGP

4045

lockd

priv-rjs

389

LDAP

6000

X11

finger

465

SMTP+SSL

ttylink

512

print exec

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• Make sure your ISP allows you to run a server and is not blocking the port number of the NSA’s
web publishing feature.

20.15 Auto Upload
The NSA does not automatically upload files to Flickr or YouTube.

Make sure the NSA is connected to the Internet. See Section 9.4 on page 176 for details about
testing network connections.

Click Maintenance > Log to check the NSA’s log for a message about the file.
2a

If the log message displays “no such file or directory”, the file may have been removed from
the NSA. Make sure the file still exists in the watch folder.

If the log message displays “filename is queued”, the file may still be waiting for auto upload.
Check the grace period setting in the service’s Configuration screen. You can set a smaller
grace period to shorten the queue time.

If you cannot find any log messages about the file:
• Make sure the Folder Watch List includes the folder containing the file. You can upload the
file to the watch folder again.
• Make sure the file’s format is supported by Flickr or YouTube. You can find the supported file
extensions in the Folder Watch List.

If the log message displays “not authorized yet”, check if you can enter the NSA’s
Configuration screen for the service. If you changed the password of your Flickr or YouTube
account, you cannot access the service’s Configuration screen, and the NSA cannot auto
upload files. Make sure you also update the account information in the NSA.

Make sure the file size does not exceed the limit imposed by the service. At the time of writing,
Flickr restricts the file size to 10 MB, and YouTube restricts the file size to 100 MB.

Make sure you did not exceed the service’s upload quota. Flickr and YouTube have different policies
about how much you can upload within a certain period, for example, 100 MB/week.

The NSA may have temporarily failed to connect to the service. You can upload the file to the watch
folder again.

20.16 Package Management
The NSA won’t install the package(s) I selected in the Package Management screen.

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• The web location of the package may be undergoing maintenance. Try again at a later time.
Upgrade the firmware of the NSA.
• If a new firmware is available, do an upgrade and try installing the package(s) again.

The eMule Search screen does not work.

You need to be connected to an eMule server before you can use the Search screen. Wait for the
NSA to connect to a server before configuring the Search screen.

I want to know how my hard disk is performing.

Use S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) to monitor hard disks. It
detects and reports the reliability of hard disks using standard indicators, enabling administrators to
anticipate possible disk failures. Go to the Package Management screen to install the S.M.A.R.T.
application.

20.17 Backups
I cannot make a backup.

• Check that enough space is available on the external disk. If there isn’t you may need to purge
older backups or delete other files on the backup USB disk or NSA (see Section 11.9 on page
255).
• If you are using BackupPlanner (Section 11.10 on page 255):
• You can look at the Backup screen’s Last Run Result display.
• If you’re backing up to another NSA, another NSA, or a computer, check that it allows the NSA
to write files to it. For a synchronization backup, the target must be another NSA or another
compatible model.
• Check that the NSA is not performing another backup job. Scheduler queues backups when a
different backup is already going on at the time a backup is scheduled.

The backup does not run at the time configured.

• Check that the correct time is configured on the NSA.
• Check that the NSA is able to access the time server from which it gets the time; see Section 7.5
on page 158.

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Product Specifications
See also Chapter 1 on page 17 for a general overview of the key features.

21.1 LEDs
This table describes the NSA’s LEDs.
Table 127 LEDs
LED

NAME

COLOR STATUS DESCRIPTION

POWER

Blue

SYSTEM

Green

The NSA is turned on and receiving power.

Off

The NSA is turned off.

The NSA has fully started and is operating normally.

Blinking

The NSA is starting up. For the NSA210 this LED blinks green slowly
while the NSA is upgrading the firmware.

Note: Do not turn off the NSA while it is upgrading the firmware or
you may render it unusable.
Orange

Blinking

The NSA is upgrading the firmware (NSA320, NSA325, NSA310,
and NSA221).

Note: Do not turn off the NSA while it is upgrading the firmware or
you may render it unusable.
HDD

Green

Red

USB

Green

Red

LAN

Green

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Blinking

The NSA is saving data to the hard disk drive.

The NSA detected an error on the hard disk drive (like a bad sector
for example). The NSA automatically tries to recover a bad sector,
but the LED stays red until the NSA restarts.

Off

The NSA cannot detect a hard disk in the disk bay.

The USB device is connected properly to the NSA.

Blinking

The NSA is saving data to the USB device.

The USB device has failed and the NSA can no longer detect it.

Off

No USB device connected to the USB port.

The NSA has a successful 10/100 Mbps Ethernet connection.

Blinking

The 100M LAN is sending or receiving packets.

Off

The NSA does not have a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet connection.

The NSA has a successful 1000 Mbps Ethernet connection.

Blinking

The 1000 M LAN is sending or receiving packets.

Off

The NSA does not have a 1000 Mbps Ethernet connection.

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LED

NAME

COLOR STATUS DESCRIPTION

COPY/
SYNC

Green

Red

A USB device is connected to the NSA.

Blinking

The NSA is copying or synchronizing files to or from the USB device.

Copying or synchronizing files to or from the USB device failed.

Off

No USB device is connected.

21.2 Supported Media Server Content Formats
The following describes the details about the files that the NSA media server can publish.
Table 128 Supported Media Server Content Formats

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CATEGORY

FILE TYPE

EXTENSION

Video

MPEG-1/MPEG-2

dat, dvr-ms, iso, m1v, m2p, m2t, m2v, mp2, mpe, mpeg, mpeg2,
mpg, mpg2, ts, vob, m2ts, tts

MPEG-4

m4v, mp4

AVI

avi

DivX

divx, avi

Motion JPEG

mjpeg, mjpg

Quick Time Video

mov, qt

RealMedia

rmvb, rm

Ogg

ogm

Matroska

mkv

ASF

asf

Windows Media Video

asf, wmv

ISO

iso

Flash Video

flv

Subtitle

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CATEGORY

FILE TYPE

EXTENSION

Music

MP3

mp3, mpa

Ogg Vorbis

ogg

RealMedia

ra, ram

WAVE

wav

Photo

Windows Media Audio

wma

Matroska

mka

Monkeys Audio

ape

MP1

mp1

MP4

mp4, m4a, m4p

PCM

pcm

LPCM

lpcm

DTS

dts

AC3

ac3

Free Lossless Audio
Codec

flac

AAC

aac

3GPP

3gp, 3g2

AIFF

aif, aiff

RIFF-based MIDI

rmi

Playlist

wpl, pls, asx, wax, m3u

Bitmap

bmp

JPEG

jpe, jpeg, jpg

PNG

png

A. Current VLC plugins may not support srt file format subtitles when playing videos.

Note: Not all published file types can be viewed by all client applications.

21.3 Supported iTunes Server Content Formats
At the time of writing, the NSA supports iTunes publishing audio files of the following formats: mp3,
m4a, m4p, wav, and mp4.

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Setting Up Your Computer’s IP Address
Note: Your specific NSA may not support all of the operating systems described in this
appendix. See the product specifications for more information about which
operating systems are supported.
This appendix shows you how to configure the IP settings on your computer in order for it to be
able to communicate with the other devices on your network. Windows Vista/XP/2000, Mac OS 9/
OS X, and all versions of UNIX/LINUX include the software components you need to use TCP/IP on
your computer.
If you manually assign IP information instead of using a dynamic IP, make sure that your network’s
computers have IP addresses that place them in the same subnet.
In this appendix, you can set up an IP address for:
• Windows XP/NT/2000 on page 365
• Windows Vista on page 369
• Windows 7 on page 373
• Mac OS X: 10.3 and 10.4 on page 377
• Mac OS X: 10.5 and 10.6 on page 380
• Linux: Ubuntu 8 (GNOME) on page 383
• Linux: openSUSE 10.3 (KDE) on page 387

Windows XP/NT/2000
The following example uses the default Windows XP display theme but can also apply to Windows
2000 and Windows NT.

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Click Start > Control Panel.

In the Control Panel, click the Network Connections icon.

Right-click Local Area Connection and then select Properties.

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On the General tab, select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and then click Properties.

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The Internet Protocol TCP/IP Properties window opens.

Select Obtain an IP address automatically if your network administrator or ISP assigns your IP
address dynamically.
Select Use the following IP Address and fill in the IP address, Subnet mask, and Default
gateway fields if you have a static IP address that was assigned to you by your network
administrator or ISP. You may also have to enter a Preferred DNS server and an Alternate DNS
server, if that information was provided.

Click OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window.

Click OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window.

Verifying Settings
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Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.

In the Command Prompt window, type "ipconfig" and then press [ENTER].
You can also go to Start > Control Panel > Network Connections, right-click a network
connection, click Status and then click the Support tab to view your IP address and connection
information.

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Windows Vista
This section shows screens from Windows Vista Professional.
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Click Start > Control Panel.

In the Control Panel, click the Network and Internet icon.

Click the Network and Sharing Center icon.

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Click Manage network connections.

Right-click Local Area Connection and then select Properties.

Note: During this procedure, click Continue whenever Windows displays a screen saying
that it needs your permission to continue.

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Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and then select Properties.

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The Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties window opens.

Click OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window.

10 Click OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window.

Verifying Settings
1

Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.

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Windows 7
This section shows screens from Windows 7 Enterprise.
1

Click Start > Control Panel.

In the Control Panel, click View network status and tasks under the Network and Internet
category.

Click Change adapter settings.

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Double click Local Area Connection and then select Properties.

Note: During this procedure, click Continue whenever Windows displays a screen saying
that it needs your permission to continue.

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Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and then select Properties.

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The Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties window opens.

Click OK to close the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties window.

Click OK to close the Local Area Connection Properties window.

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Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.

In the Command Prompt window, type "ipconfig" and then press [ENTER].

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The IP settings are displayed as follows.

Mac OS X: 10.3 and 10.4
The screens in this section are from Mac OS X 10.4 but can also apply to 10.3.
1

Click Apple > System Preferences.

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In the System Preferences window, click the Network icon.

When the Network preferences pane opens, select Built-in Ethernet from the network
connection type list, and then click Configure.

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For dynamically assigned settings, select Using DHCP from the Configure IPv4 list in the TCP/IP
tab.

For statically assigned settings, do the following:
• From the Configure IPv4 list, select Manually.
• In the IP Address field, type your IP address.
• In the Subnet Mask field, type your subnet mask.
• In the Router field, type the IP address of your device.

Click Apply Now and close the window.

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Verifying Settings
Check your TCP/IP properties by clicking Applications > Utilities > Network Utilities, and then
selecting the appropriate Network Interface from the Info tab.
Figure 220 Mac OS X 10.4: Network Utility

Mac OS X: 10.5 and 10.6
The screens in this section are from Mac OS X 10.5 but can also apply to 10.6.
1

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Click Apple > System Preferences.

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In System Preferences, click the Network icon.

When the Network preferences pane opens, select Ethernet from the list of available connection
types.

From the Configure list, select Using DHCP for dynamically assigned settings.

For statically assigned settings, do the following:

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• From the Configure list, select Manually.
• In the IP Address field, enter your IP address.
• In the Subnet Mask field, enter your subnet mask.
• In the Router field, enter the IP address of your NSA.

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Verifying Settings
Check your TCP/IP properties by clicking Applications > Utilities > Network Utilities, and then
selecting the appropriate Network interface from the Info tab.
Figure 221 Mac OS X 10.5: Network Utility

Linux: Ubuntu 8 (GNOME)
This section shows you how to configure your computer’s TCP/IP settings in the GNU Object Model
Environment (GNOME) using the Ubuntu 8 Linux distribution. The procedure, screens and file
locations may vary depending on your specific distribution, release version, and individual
configuration. The following screens use the default Ubuntu 8 installation.

Note: Make sure you are logged in as the root administrator.
Follow the steps below to configure your computer IP address in GNOME:
1

Click System > Administration > Network.

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When the Network Settings window opens, click Unlock to open the Authenticate window. (By
default, the Unlock button is greyed out until clicked.) You cannot make changes to your
configuration unless you first enter your admin password.

In the Authenticate window, enter your admin account name and password then click the
Authenticate button.

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In the Network Settings window, select the connection that you want to configure, then click
Properties.

The Properties dialog box opens.

• In the Configuration list, select Automatic Configuration (DHCP) if you have a dynamic IP
address.
• In the Configuration list, select Static IP address if you have a static IP address. Fill in the
IP address, Subnet mask, and Gateway address fields.
6

Click OK to save the changes and close the Properties dialog box and return to the Network
Settings screen.

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If you know your DNS server IP address(es), click the DNS tab in the Network Settings window
and then enter the DNS server information in the fields provided.

Click the Close button to apply the changes.

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Verifying Settings
Check your TCP/IP properties by clicking System > Administration > Network Tools, and then
selecting the appropriate Network device from the Devices tab. The Interface Statistics
column shows data if your connection is working properly.
Figure 222 Ubuntu 8: Network Tools

Linux: openSUSE 10.3 (KDE)
This section shows you how to configure your computer’s TCP/IP settings in the K Desktop
Environment (KDE) using the openSUSE 10.3 Linux distribution. The procedure, screens and file
locations may vary depending on your specific distribution, release version, and individual
configuration. The following screens use the default openSUSE 10.3 installation.

Note: Make sure you are logged in as the root administrator.
Follow the steps below to configure your computer IP address in the KDE:

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Click K Menu > Computer > Administrator Settings (YaST).

When the Run as Root - KDE su dialog opens, enter the admin password and click OK.

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When the YaST Control Center window opens, select Network Devices and then click the
Network Card icon.

When the Network Settings window opens, click the Overview tab, select the appropriate
connection Name from the list, and then click the Configure button.

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When the Network Card Setup window opens, click the Address tab
Figure 223 openSUSE 10.3: Network Card Setup

Select Dynamic Address (DHCP) if you have a dynamic IP address.
Select Statically assigned IP Address if you have a static IP address. Fill in the IP address,
Subnet mask, and Hostname fields.

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If you know your DNS server IP address(es), click the Hostname/DNS tab in Network Settings
and then enter the DNS server information in the fields provided.

Click Finish to save your settings and close the window.

Verifying Settings
Click the KNetwork Manager icon on the Task bar to check your TCP/IP properties. From the
Options sub-menu, select Show Connection Information.
Figure 224 openSUSE 10.3: KNetwork Manager

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When the Connection Status - KNetwork Manager window opens, click the Statistics tab to
see if your connection is working properly.
Figure 225 openSUSE: Connection Status - KNetwork Manager

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Pop-up Windows, JavaScripts and Java
Permissions
In order to use the web configurator you need to allow:
• Web browser pop-up windows from your device.
• JavaScripts (enabled by default).
• Java permissions (enabled by default).

Note: Internet Explorer 6 screens are used here. Screens for other Internet Explorer
versions may vary.

Internet Explorer Pop-up Blockers
You may have to disable pop-up blocking to log into your device.
Either disable pop-up blocking (enabled by default in Windows XP SP (Service Pack) 2) or allow
pop-up blocking and create an exception for your device’s IP address.

Disable Pop-up Blockers
1

In Internet Explorer, select Tools, Pop-up Blocker and then select Turn Off Pop-up Blocker.
Figure 226 Pop-up Blocker

You can also check if pop-up blocking is disabled in the Pop-up Blocker section in the Privacy tab.
1

In Internet Explorer, select Tools, Internet Options, Privacy.

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Clear the Block pop-ups check box in the Pop-up Blocker section of the screen. This disables any
web pop-up blockers you may have enabled.
Figure 227 Internet Options: Privacy

Click Apply to save this setting.

Enable Pop-up Blockers with Exceptions
Alternatively, if you only want to allow pop-up windows from your device, see the following steps.
1

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In Internet Explorer, select Tools, Internet Options and then the Privacy tab.

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Select Settings…to open the Pop-up Blocker Settings screen.
Figure 228 Internet Options: Privacy

Type the IP address of your device (the web page that you do not want to have blocked) with the
prefix “http://”. For example, http://192.168.167.1.

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Click Add to move the IP address to the list of Allowed sites.
Figure 229 Pop-up Blocker Settings

Click Close to return to the Privacy screen.

Click Apply to save this setting.

JavaScripts
If pages of the web configurator do not display properly in Internet Explorer, check that JavaScripts
are allowed.

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In Internet Explorer, click Tools, Internet Options and then the Security tab.
Figure 230 Internet Options: Security

Click the Custom Level... button.

Scroll down to Scripting.

Under Active scripting make sure that Enable is selected (the default).

Under Scripting of Java applets make sure that Enable is selected (the default).

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Click OK to close the window.
Figure 231 Security Settings - Java Scripting

Java Permissions

398

From Internet Explorer, click Tools, Internet Options and then the Security tab.

Click the Custom Level... button.

Scroll down to Microsoft VM.

Under Java permissions make sure that a safety level is selected.

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Click OK to close the window.
Figure 232 Security Settings - Java

JAVA (Sun)
1

From Internet Explorer, click Tools, Internet Options and then the Advanced tab.

Make sure that Use Java 2 for under Java (Sun) is selected.

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Click OK to close the window.
Figure 233 Java (Sun)

Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 screens are used here. Screens for other versions may vary.
You can enable Java, Javascripts and pop-ups in one screen. Click Tools, then click Options in the
screen that appears.
Figure 234 Mozilla Firefox: Tools > Options

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Click Content.to show the screen below. Select the check boxes as shown in the following screen.
Figure 235 Mozilla Firefox Content Security

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Common Services
The following table lists some commonly-used services and their associated protocols and port
numbers. For a comprehensive list of port numbers, ICMP type/code numbers and services, visit
the IANA (Internet Assigned Number Authority) web site.
• Name: This is a short, descriptive name for the service. You can use this one or create a
different one, if you like.
• Protocol: This is the type of IP protocol used by the service. If this is TCP/UDP, then the service
uses the same port number with TCP and UDP. If this is USER-DEFINED, the Port(s) is the IP
protocol number, not the port number.
• Port(s): This value depends on the Protocol. Please refer to RFC 1700 for further information
about port numbers.
• If the Protocol is TCP, UDP, or TCP/UDP, this is the IP port number.
• If the Protocol is USER, this is the IP protocol number.
• Description: This is a brief explanation of the applications that use this service or the situations
in which this service is used.
Table 129 Commonly Used Services
NAME

PROTOCOL

PORT(S)

DESCRIPTION

AH
(IPSEC_TUNNEL)

User-Defined

The IPSEC AH (Authentication Header) tunneling
protocol uses this service.

AIM/New-ICQ

TCP

5190

AOL’s Internet Messenger service. It is also used as a
listening port by ICQ.

AUTH

TCP

113

Authentication protocol used by some servers.

BGP

TCP

179

Border Gateway Protocol.

BOOTP_CLIENT

UDP

DHCP Client.

BOOTP_SERVER

UDP

DHCP Server.

CU-SEEME

TCP

7648

UDP

24032

A popular videoconferencing solution from White Pines
Software.

DNS

TCP/UDP

Domain Name Server, a service that matches web
names (for example www.zyxel.com) to IP numbers.

ESP
(IPSEC_TUNNEL)

User-Defined

The IPSEC ESP (Encapsulation Security Protocol)
tunneling protocol uses this service.

FINGER

TCP

Finger is a UNIX or Internet related command that can
be used to find out if a user is logged on.

FTP

TCP

File Transfer Program, a program to enable fast
transfer of files, including large files that may not be
possible by e-mail.

H.323

TCP

1720

NetMeeting uses this protocol.

HTTP

TCP

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol - a client/server protocol
for the world wide web.

HTTPS

TCP

443

HTTPS is a secured http session often used in ecommerce.

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NAME

PROTOCOL

PORT(S)

DESCRIPTION

ICMP

User-Defined

Internet Control Message Protocol is often used for
diagnostic or routing purposes.

ICQ

UDP

4000

This is a popular Internet chat program.

IGMP (MULTICAST)

User-Defined

Internet Group Management Protocol is used when
sending packets to a specific group of hosts.

IKE

UDP

500

The Internet Key Exchange algorithm is used for key
distribution and management.

IRC

TCP/UDP

6667

This is another popular Internet chat program.

MSN Messenger

TCP

1863

Microsoft Networks’ messenger service uses this
protocol.

NEW-ICQ

TCP

5190

An Internet chat program.

NEWS

TCP

144

A protocol for news groups.

NFS

UDP

2049

Network File System - NFS is a client/server
distributed file service that provides transparent file
sharing for network environments.

NNTP

TCP

119

Network News Transport Protocol is the delivery
mechanism for the USENET newsgroup service.

PING

User-Defined

Packet INternet Groper is a protocol that sends out
ICMP echo requests to test whether or not a remote
host is reachable.

POP3

TCP

110

Post Office Protocol version 3 lets a client computer
get e-mail from a POP3 server through a temporary
connection (TCP/IP or other).

PPTP

TCP

1723

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol enables secure
transfer of data over public networks. This is the
control channel.

PPTP_TUNNEL
(GRE)

User-Defined

PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) enables
secure transfer of data over public networks. This is
the data channel.

RCMD

TCP

512

Remote Command Service.

REAL_AUDIO

TCP

7070

A streaming audio service that enables real time
sound over the web.

REXEC

TCP

514

Remote Execution Daemon.

RLOGIN

TCP

513

Remote Login.

RTELNET

TCP

107

Remote Telnet.

RTSP

TCP/UDP

554

The Real Time Streaming (media control) Protocol
(RTSP) is a remote control for multimedia on the
Internet.

SFTP

TCP

115

Simple File Transfer Protocol.

SMTP

TCP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is the messageexchange standard for the Internet. SMTP enables you
to move messages from one e-mail server to another.

SNMP

TCP/UDP

161

Simple Network Management Protocol.

SNMP-TRAPS

TCP/UDP

162

Traps for use with the SNMP (RFC:1215).

SQL-NET

TCP

1521

Structured Query Language is an interface to access
data on many different types of database systems,
including mainframes, midrange systems, UNIX
systems and network servers.

SSH

TCP/UDP

Secure Shell Remote Login Program.

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Table 129 Commonly Used Services (continued)
NAME

PROTOCOL

PORT(S)

DESCRIPTION

STRM WORKS

UDP

1558

Stream Works Protocol.

SYSLOG

UDP

514

Syslog allows you to send system logs to a UNIX
server.

TACACS

UDP

TELNET

TCP

Telnet is the login and terminal emulation protocol
common on the Internet and in UNIX environments. It
operates over TCP/IP networks. Its primary function is
to allow users to log into remote host systems.

TFTP

UDP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol is an Internet file transfer
protocol similar to FTP, but uses the UDP (User
Datagram Protocol) rather than TCP (Transmission
Control Protocol).

VDOLIVE

TCP

7000

Another videoconferencing solution.

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A PPENDIX

Importing Certificates
This appendix shows you how to import public key certificates into your web browser.
Public key certificates are used by web browsers to ensure that a secure web site is legitimate.
When a certificate authority such as VeriSign, Comodo, or Network Solutions, to name a few,
receives a certificate request from a website operator, they confirm that the web domain and
contact information in the request match those on public record with a domain name registrar. If
they match, then the certificate is issued to the website operator, who then places it on the site to
be issued to all visiting web browsers to let them know that the site is legitimate.
Many ZyXEL products, such as the NSA-2401, issue their own public key certificates. These can be
used by web browsers on a LAN or WAN to verify that they are in fact connecting to the legitimate
device and not one masquerading as it. However, because the certificates were not issued by one of
the several organizations officially recognized by the most common web browsers, you will need to
import the ZyXEL-created certificate into your web browser and flag that certificate as a trusted
authority.

Note: You can see if you are browsing on a secure website if the URL in your web
browser’s address bar begins with https:// or there is a sealed padlock icon
(
) somewhere in the main browser window (not all browsers show the padlock
in the same location.)
In this appendix, you can import a public key certificate for:
• Internet Explorer on page 408
• Firefox on page 416
• Opera on page 421
• Konqueror on page 428

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Internet Explorer
The following example uses Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP Professional; however,
they can also apply to Internet Explorer on Windows Vista.
1

If your device’s Web Configurator is set to use SSL certification, then the first time you browse to it
you are presented with a certification error.
Figure 236 Internet Explorer 7: Certification Error

Click Continue to this website (not recommended).
Figure 237 Internet Explorer 7: Certification Error

In the Address Bar, click Certificate Error > View certificates.
Figure 238 Internet Explorer 7: Certificate Error

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In the Certificate dialog box, click Install Certificate.
Figure 239 Internet Explorer 7: Certificate

In the Certificate Import Wizard, click Next.
Figure 240 Internet Explorer 7: Certificate Import Wizard

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If you want Internet Explorer to Automatically select certificate store based on the type of
certificate, click Next again and then go to step 9.
Figure 241 Internet Explorer 7: Certificate Import Wizard

Otherwise, select Place all certificates in the following store and then click Browse.
Figure 242 Internet Explorer 7: Certificate Import Wizard

In the Select Certificate Store dialog box, choose a location in which to save the certificate and
then click OK.
Figure 243 Internet Explorer 7: Select Certificate Store

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In the Completing the Certificate Import Wizard screen, click Finish.
Figure 244 Internet Explorer 7: Certificate Import Wizard

10 If you are presented with another Security Warning, click Yes.
Figure 245 Internet Explorer 7: Security Warning

11 Finally, click OK when presented with the successful certificate installation message.
Figure 246 Internet Explorer 7: Certificate Import Wizard

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12 The next time you start Internet Explorer and go to a ZyXEL Web Configurator page, a sealed
padlock icon appears in the address bar. Click it to view the page’s Website Identification
information.
Figure 247 Internet Explorer 7: Website Identification

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Installing a Stand-Alone Certificate File in Internet Explorer
Rather than browsing to a ZyXEL Web Configurator and installing a public key certificate when
prompted, you can install a stand-alone certificate file if one has been issued to you.
1

Double-click the public key certificate file.
Figure 248 Internet Explorer 7: Public Key Certificate File

In the security warning dialog box, click Open.
Figure 249 Internet Explorer 7: Open File - Security Warning

Refer to steps 4-12 in the Internet Explorer procedure beginning on page 408 to complete the
installation process.

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Removing a Certificate in Internet Explorer
This section shows you how to remove a public key certificate in Internet Explorer 7.
1

Open Internet Explorer and click Tools > Internet Options.
Figure 250 Internet Explorer 7: Tools Menu

In the Internet Options dialog box, click Content > Certificates.
Figure 251 Internet Explorer 7: Internet Options

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In the Certificates dialog box, click the Trusted Root Certificates Authorities tab, select the
certificate that you want to delete, and then click Remove.
Figure 252 Internet Explorer 7: Certificates

In the Certificates confirmation, click Yes.
Figure 253 Internet Explorer 7: Certificates

In the Root Certificate Store dialog box, click Yes.
Figure 254 Internet Explorer 7: Root Certificate Store

The next time you go to the web site that issued the public key certificate you just removed, a
certification error appears.

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Firefox
The following example uses Mozilla Firefox 2 on Windows XP Professional; however, the screens can
also apply to Firefox 2 on all platforms.
1

If your device’s Web Configurator is set to use SSL certification, then the first time you browse to it
you are presented with a certification error.

Select Accept this certificate permanently and click OK.
Figure 255 Firefox 2: Website Certified by an Unknown Authority

The certificate is stored and you can now connect securely to the Web Configurator. A sealed
padlock appears in the address bar, which you can click to open the Page Info > Security window
to view the web page’s security information.
Figure 256 Firefox 2: Page Info

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Installing a Stand-Alone Certificate File in Firefox
Rather than browsing to a ZyXEL Web Configurator and installing a public key certificate when
prompted, you can install a stand-alone certificate file if one has been issued to you.
1

Open Firefox and click Tools > Options.
Figure 257 Firefox 2: Tools Menu

In the Options dialog box, click Advanced > Encryption > View Certificates.
Figure 258 Firefox 2: Options

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In the Certificate Manager dialog box, click Web Sites > Import.
Figure 259

Use the Select File dialog box to locate the certificate and then click Open.
Figure 260

418

Firefox 2: Certificate Manager

Firefox 2: Select File

The next time you visit the web site, click the padlock in the address bar to open the Page Info >
Security window to see the web page’s security information.

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Removing a Certificate in Firefox
This section shows you how to remove a public key certificate in Firefox 2.
1

Open Firefox and click Tools > Options.
Figure 261 Firefox 2: Tools Menu

In the Options dialog box, click Advanced > Encryption > View Certificates.
Figure 262 Firefox 2: Options

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In the Certificate Manager dialog box, select the Web Sites tab, select the certificate that you
want to remove, and then click Delete.
Figure 263

Firefox 2: Certificate Manager

In the Delete Web Site Certificates dialog box, click OK.
Figure 264 Firefox 2: Delete Web Site Certificates

420

The next time you go to the web site that issued the public key certificate you just removed, a
certification error appears.

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Opera
The following example uses Opera 9 on Windows XP Professional; however, the screens can apply
to Opera 9 on all platforms.
1

If your device’s Web Configurator is set to use SSL certification, then the first time you browse to it
you are presented with a certification error.

Click Install to accept the certificate.
Figure 265 Opera 9: Certificate signer not found

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The next time you visit the web site, click the padlock in the address bar to open the Security
information window to view the web page’s security details.
Figure 266 Opera 9: Security information

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Installing a Stand-Alone Certificate File in Opera
Rather than browsing to a ZyXEL Web Configurator and installing a public key certificate when
prompted, you can install a stand-alone certificate file if one has been issued to you.
1

Open Opera and click Tools > Preferences.
Figure 267 Opera 9: Tools Menu

In Preferences, click Advanced > Security > Manage certificates.
Figure 268 Opera 9: Preferences

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In the Certificates Manager, click Authorities > Import.
Figure 269

Use the Import certificate dialog box to locate the certificate and then click Open.
Figure 270

424

Opera 9: Certificate manager

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In the Install authority certificate dialog box, click Install.
Figure 271

Next, click OK.
Figure 272

Opera 9: Install authority certificate

The next time you visit the web site, click the padlock in the address bar to open the Security
information window to view the web page’s security details.

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Removing a Certificate in Opera
This section shows you how to remove a public key certificate in Opera 9.
1

Open Opera and click Tools > Preferences.
Figure 273 Opera 9: Tools Menu

In Preferences, Advanced > Security > Manage certificates.
Figure 274 Opera 9: Preferences

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In the Certificates manager, select the Authorities tab, select the certificate that you want to
remove, and then click Delete.
Figure 275

Opera 9: Certificate manager

The next time you go to the web site that issued the public key certificate you just removed, a
certification error appears.

Note: There is no confirmation when you delete a certificate authority, so be absolutely
certain that you want to go through with it before clicking the button.

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Konqueror
The following example uses Konqueror 3.5 on openSUSE 10.3, however the screens apply to
Konqueror 3.5 on all Linux KDE distributions.
1

If your device’s Web Configurator is set to use SSL certification, then the first time you browse to it
you are presented with a certification error.

Click Continue.
Figure 276 Konqueror 3.5: Server Authentication

Click Forever when prompted to accept the certificate.
Figure 277 Konqueror 3.5: Server Authentication

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Click the padlock in the address bar to open the KDE SSL Information window and view the web
page’s security details.
Figure 278 Konqueror 3.5: KDE SSL Information

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Installing a Stand-Alone Certificate File in Konqueror
Rather than browsing to a ZyXEL Web Configurator and installing a public key certificate when
prompted, you can install a stand-alone certificate file if one has been issued to you.
1

Double-click the public key certificate file.
Figure 279 Konqueror 3.5: Public Key Certificate File

In the Certificate Import Result - Kleopatra dialog box, click OK.
Figure 280 Konqueror 3.5: Certificate Import Result

The public key certificate appears in the KDE certificate manager, Kleopatra.
Figure 281 Konqueror 3.5: Kleopatra

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The next time you visit the web site, click the padlock in the address bar to open the KDE SSL
Information window to view the web page’s security details.

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Removing a Certificate in Konqueror
This section shows you how to remove a public key certificate in Konqueror 3.5.
1

Open Konqueror and click Settings > Configure Konqueror.
Figure 282 Konqueror 3.5: Settings Menu

In the Configure dialog box, select Crypto.

On the Peer SSL Certificates tab, select the certificate you want to delete and then click
Remove.
Figure 283 Konqueror 3.5: Configure

The next time you go to the web site that issued the public key certificate you just removed, a
certification error appears.

Note: There is no confirmation when you remove a certificate authority, so be absolutely
certain you want to go through with it before clicking the button.

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A PPENDIX

Open Source Licences
End-User License Agreement for "NSA210, NSA 221, NSA310, NSA320, and NSA325"

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PROCESS AS INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE WILL INDICATE YOUR ASSENT TO THEM. IF YOU DO
NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, THEN ZyXEL IS UNWILLING TO LICENSE THE SOFTWARE TO YOU,
IN WHICH EVENT YOU SHOULD RETURN THE UNINSTALLED SOFTWARE AND PACKAGING TO THE
PLACE FROM WHICH IT WAS ACQUIRED OR ZyXEL, AND YOUR MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED.
HOWEVER, CERTAIN ZYXEL'S PRODUCTS MAY CONTAIN-IN PART-SOME THIRD PARTY'S FREE AND
OPEN SOFTWARE PROGRAMS WHICH ALLOW YOU TO FREELY COPY, RUN, DISTRIBUTE, MODIFY
AND IMPROVE THE SOFTWARE UNDER THE APPLICABLE TERMS OF SUCH THRID PARTY'S
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NONE OF THE STATEMENTS OR DOCUMENTATION FROM ZYXEL INCLUDING ANY RESTRICTIONS OR
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The Software and Documentation contain material that is protected by international copyright law,
trade secret law, international treaty provisions, and the applicable national laws of each respective
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assets of one, or subdividing an organization, or merging organizations. If propagation of a covered
work results from an entity transaction, each party to that transaction who receives a copy of the
work also receives whatever licenses to the work the party's predecessor in interest had or could

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give under the previous paragraph, plus a right to possession of the Corresponding Source of the
work from the predecessor in interest, if the predecessor has it or can get it with reasonable efforts.
You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under
this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of
rights granted under this License, and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or
counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling,
offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it.
11. Patents.
A "contributor" is a copyright holder who authorizes use under this License of the Program or a
work on which the Program is based. The work thus licensed is called the contributor's "contributor
version".
A contributor's "essential patent claims" are all patent claims owned or controlled by the
contributor, whether already acquired or hereafter acquired, that would be infringed by some
manner, permitted by this License, of making, using, or selling its contributor version, but do not
include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of the
contributor version. For purposes of this definition, "control" includes the right to grant patent
sublicenses in a manner consistent with the requirements of this License.
Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the
contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run,
modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version.
In the following three paragraphs, a "patent license" is any express agreement or commitment,
however denominated, not to enforce a patent (such as an express permission to practice a patent
or covenant not to sue for patent infringement). To "grant" such a patent license to a party means
to make such an agreement or commitment not to enforce a patent against the party.
If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license, and the Corresponding Source
of the work is not available for anyone to copy, free of charge and under the terms of this License,
through a publicly available network server or other readily accessible means, then you must either
(1) cause the Corresponding Source to be so available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of the
benefit of the patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a manner consistent with the
requirements of this License, to extend the patent license to downstream recipients. "Knowingly
relying" means you have actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the
covered work in a country, or your recipient's use of the covered work in a country, would infringe
one or more identifiable patents in that country that you have reason to believe are valid.
If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or arrangement, you convey, or propagate
by procuring conveyance of, a covered work, and grant a patent license to some of the parties
receiving the covered work authorizing them to use, propagate, modify or convey a specific copy of
the covered work, then the patent license you grant is automatically extended to all recipients of
the covered work and works based on it.
A patent license is "discriminatory" if it does not include within the scope of its coverage, prohibits
the exercise of, or is conditioned on the non-exercise of one or more of the rights that are
specifically granted under this License. You may not convey a covered work if you are a party to an
arrangement with a third party that is in the business of distributing software, under which you
make payment to the third party based on the extent of your activity of conveying the work, and
under which the third party grants, to any of the parties who would receive the covered work from
you, a discriminatory patent license (a) in connection with copies of the covered work conveyed by
you (or copies made from those copies), or (b) primarily for and in connection with specific

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products or compilations that contain the covered work, unless you entered into that arrangement,
or that patent license was granted, prior to 28 March 2007.
Nothing in this License shall be construed as excluding or limiting any implied license or other
defenses to infringement that may otherwise be available to you under applicable patent law.
12. No Surrender of Others' Freedom.
If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict
the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you
cannot convey a covered work so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License
and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not convey it at all. For
example, if you agree to terms that obligate you to collect a royalty for further conveying from
those to whom you convey the Program, the only way you could satisfy both those terms and this
License would be to refrain entirely from conveying the Program.
13. Use with the GNU Affero General Public License.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any
covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License into a
single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to
apply to the part which is the covered work, but the special requirements of the GNU Affero General
Public License, section 13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the combination
as such.
14. Revised Versions of this License.
The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the GNU General Public
License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but
may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies that a certain
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the option of following the terms and conditions either of that numbered version or of any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version
number of the GNU General Public License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free
Software Foundation.
If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of the GNU General Public
License can be used, that proxy's public statement of acceptance of a version permanently
authorizes you to choose that version for the Program.
Later license versions may give you additional or different permissions. However, no additional
obligations are imposed on any author or copyright holder as a result of your choosing to follow a
later version.
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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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16. Limitation of Liability.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY
COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS
PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE
PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM
TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided above cannot be given local legal
effect according to their terms, reviewing courts shall apply local law that most closely
approximates an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the Program, unless a
warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a copy of the Program in return for a fee.
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the
best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change
under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to the start of each
source file to most effectively state the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the
"copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see .
Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an
interactive mode:
Copyright (C)
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of the
General Public License. Of course, your program's commands might be different; for a GUI
interface, you would use an "about box".
You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school, if any, to sign a
"copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary. For more information on this, and how to apply
and follow the GNU GPL, see .
The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary
programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking
proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
Public License instead of this License. But first, please read .

This Product includes dojo, openssl, sg3_utils, cherrypy and YAML-Syck software under BSD license

BSD

Copyright (c) [dates as appropriate to package]
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and
binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and
the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of the University nor of the Laboratory may be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOS E ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
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This Product includes flac software under FDL license
GNU Free Documentation License
Version 1.2, November 2002

Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but
changing it is not allowed.

0. PREAMBLE

The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document
"free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it,
with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily, this License
preserves for the author and publisher a way
to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by
others. This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative works of the document
must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License, which
is a copyleft license designed for free software.

We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software, because free
software needs free documentation: a free program should come with manuals providing the same
freedoms that the software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals; it can be used
for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book. We
recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.

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1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

This License applies to any manual or other work, in any medium, that contains a notice placed by
the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under the terms of this License. Such a notice
grants a world-wide, royalty-free license, unlimited in duration, to use that work under the
conditions stated herein. The "Document", below, refers to any such manual or work. Any member
of the public is a licensee, and is addressed as "you". You accept the license if you copy, modify or
distribute the work in a way requiring permission under copyright law.
A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the Document or a portion of it,
either copied verbatim, or with
modifications and/or translated into another language. A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix
or a front-matter section of
the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the publishers or authors of the
Document to the Document's overall subject (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could
fall directly within that overall subject. (Thus, if the Document is in part a textbook of
mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any mathematics.) The relationship could be a
matter of historical connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal, commercial,
philosophical, ethical or political position regarding them.

The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose titles are designated, as being those
of Invariant Sections, in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License. If a
section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not allowed to be designated as
Invariant. The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections. If the Document does not identify
any Invariant Sections then there are none. The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text
that are listed, as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that the Document
is released under this License. A Front-Cover Text may
be at most 5 words, and a Back-Cover Text may be at most 25 words.

A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy, represented in a format
whose specification is available to the general public, that is suitable for revising the document
straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of
pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available drawing editor, and that is
suitable for input to text or matters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for
input to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose markup, or
absence of markup, has been arranged to thwart or discourage subsequent modification by readers
is not Transparent. An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount of text. A
copy that is not "Transparent" is called "Opaque".

Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain ASCII without markup, Texinfo
input format, LaTeX input format, SGML or XML using a publicly available DTD, and standardconforming simple HTML, PostScript or PDF designed for human modification. Examples of
transparent image formats include PNG, XCF and JPG. Opaque formats include proprietary ormats

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that can be read and edited only by proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD
and/or processing tools are not generally available, and the machine-generated HTML, PostScript or
PDF produced by some word processors for output purposes only.
The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself, plus such following pages as are
needed to hold, legibly, the material this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in
formats which do not have any title page as such, "Title Page" means the text near the most
prominent appearance of the work's title, preceding the beginning of the body of the text. A section
"Entitled XYZ" means a named subunit of the Document whose title either is precisely XYZ or
contains XYZ in parentheses following text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ
stands for a specific section name mentioned below, such as "Acknowledgements", "Dedications",
"Endorsements", or "History".) To "Preserve the Title" of such a section when you modify the
Document means that it remains a section "Entitled XYZ" according to this definition.

The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which states that this License
applies to the Document. These Warranty Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in
this License, but only as regards disclaiming warranties: any other implication that these Warranty
Disclaimers may have is void and has no effect on the meaning of this License.

2. VERBATIM COPYING

You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or
noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying
this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use technical measures to obstruct or
control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may
accept compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough number of copies you
must also follow the conditions in section 3.

You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and you may publicly display
copies.

3. COPYING IN QUANTITY

If you publish printed copies (or copies in media that commonly have printed covers) of the
Document, numbering more than 100, and the Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you
must enclose the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover Texts: Front-Cover
Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on the back cover. Both covers must also clearly
and legibly identify you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present the full title
with all words of the title equally prominent and visible. You may add other material on the covers
in addition. Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve the title of the
Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated as verbatim copying in other respects.

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If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit legibly, you should put the first ones
listed (as many as fit reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent pages.

If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering more than 100, you must
either include a machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or
with each Opaque copy a computer-network location from which the general network-using public
has access to download using public-standard network protocols a complete Transparent copy of
the Document, free of added material. If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably
prudent steps, when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that this
Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location until at least one year after the
last time you distribute an Opaque copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that edition
to the public.

It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the Document well before
redistributing any large number of copies, to give them a chance to provide you with an updated
version of the Document.

4. MODIFICATIONS

You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under the conditions of sections 2
and 3 above, provided that you release the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the
Modified Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution and modification of the
Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy of it. In addition, you must do these things in the
Modified Version:

A. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct from that of the Document, and
from those of previous versions
(which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section of the Document). You may use
the same title as a previous version if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version, together with at least five
of the principal authors of the
Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they release you from this
requirement.
C. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the Modified Version, as the publisher.
D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.

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E. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications adjacent to the other copyright
notices.
F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice giving the public permission to
use the Modified Version under the terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum
below.
G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections and required Cover Texts given
in the Document's license notice.
H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
I. Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title, and add to it an item stating at least
the title, year, new authors, and
publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If there is no section Entitled
"History" in the Document, create one stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the
Document as given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated in
the previous sentence.
J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for public access to a Transparent
copy of the Document, and likewise the network locations given in the Document for previous
versions it was based on. These may be placed in the "History" section. You may omit a network
location for a work that was published at least four years before the Document itself, or if the
original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
K. For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications", Preserve the Title of the section,
and preserve in the section all
the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or dedications given
therein.
L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, unaltered in their text and in their titles.
Section numbers
or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
M. Delete any section Entitled "Endorsements". Such a section may not be included in the Modified
Version.
N. Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled "Endorsements" or to conflict in title with any
Invariant Section.
O. Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers.

If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or appendices that qualify as Secondary
Sections and contain no material
copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all of these sections as
invariant. To do this, add their titles to the list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license
notice.These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.

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You may add a section Entitled "Endorsements", provided it contains nothing but endorsements of
your Modified Version by various parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the text
has been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a standard.

You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a passage of up to 25 words
as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one
passage of Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or through
arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already includes a cover text for the same
cover, previously added by you or by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on
behalf of, you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit permission from
the previous publisher that added the old one.

The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their
names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version.

5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS

You may combine the Document with other documents released under this License, under the
terms defined in section 4 above for modified versions, provided that you include in the
combination all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and list them
all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license notice, and that you preserve all their
Warranty Disclaimers.
The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and multiple identical Invariant
Sections may be replaced with a single copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same
name but different contents, make the title of each such section unique by adding at the end of it,
in parentheses, the name of the original author or publisher of that section if known, or else a
unique number. Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of Invariant Sections in
the license notice of the combined work.
In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled "History" in the various original
documents, forming one section Entitled "History"; likewise combine any sections Entitled
"Acknowledgements", and any sections Entitled "Dedications". You must delete all sections Entitled
"Endorsements".

6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS

You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents released under this
License, and replace the individual copies of this License in the various documents with a single
copy that is included in the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for verbatim
copying of each of the documents in all other respects.

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You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute it individually under this
License, provided you insert a copy of this License into the extracted document, and follow this
License in all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.

7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS

A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and independent documents or
works, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the
copyright resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights of the compilation's
users beyond what the individual works permit. When the Document is included in an aggregate,
this License does not apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves derivative
works of the Document.

If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these copies of the Document, then if the
Document is less than one half of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed
on covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate, or the
electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form. Otherwise they must appear
on printed covers that bracket the whole aggregate.

8. TRANSLATION

Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may distribute translations of the Document
under the terms of section 4.
Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special permission from their copyright
holders, but you may include
translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the original versions of these Invariant
Sections. You may include a
translation of this License, and all the license notices in the Document, and any Warranty
Disclaimers, provided that you also include the original English version of this License and the
original versions of those notices and disclaimers. In case of a disagreement between the
translation and the original version of this License or a notice or disclaimer, the original version will
prevail.

If a section in the Document is Entitled "Acknowledgements", "Dedications", or "History", the
requirement (section 4) to Preserve
its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the actual title.

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9. TERMINATION

You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except as expressly provided for
under this License. Any other attempt to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document 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.

10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE

The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions of the GNU Free Documentation
License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but
may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.

Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number. If the Document specifies that
a particular numbered version of this License "or any later version" applies to it, you have the
option of following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or of any later version
that has been published (not as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. If the Document does
not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not as a
draft) by the Free Software Foundation.

ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of the License in the document
and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page:

Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of
the license is included in the section entitled "GNU

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Free Documentation License".

If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, replace the "with...Texts."
line with this:
with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and
with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST.

If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts, or some other combination of the three, merge
those two alternatives to suit the
situation. If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we recommend releasing
these examples in parallel under your choice of free software license, such as the GNU General
Public License, to permit their use in free software.

This Product includes Encode-Detect software under MPL 1.1 license

MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 1.1

1. Definitions.

1.0.1. "Commercial Use" means distribution or otherwise making the
Covered Code available to a third party.

1.1. "Contributor" means each entity that creates or contributes to
the creation of Modifications.

1.2. "Contributor Version" means the combination of the Original
Code, prior Modifications used by a Contributor, and the Modifications
made by that particular Contributor.

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1.3. "Covered Code" means the Original Code or Modifications or the
combination of the Original Code and Modifications, in each case
including portions thereof.

1.4. "Electronic Distribution Mechanism" means a mechanism generally
accepted in the software development community for the electronic
transfer of data.

1.5. "Executable" means Covered Code in any form other than Source
Code.

1.6. "Initial Developer" means the individual or entity identified
as the Initial Developer in the Source Code notice required by Exhibit
A.

1.7. "Larger Work" means a work which combines Covered Code or
portions thereof with code not governed by the terms of this License.

1.8. "License" means this document.

1.8.1. "Licensable" means having the right to grant, to the maximum
extent possible, whether at the time of the initial grant or
subsequently acquired, any and all of the rights conveyed herein.

1.9. "Modifications" means any addition to or deletion from the
substance or structure of either the Original Code or any previous
Modifications. When Covered Code is released as a series of files, a
Modification is:

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A. Any addition to or deletion from the contents of a file
containing Original Code or previous Modifications.

B. Any new file that contains any part of the Original Code or
previous Modifications.

1.10. "Original Code" means Source Code of computer software code
which is described in the Source Code notice required by Exhibit A as
Original Code, and which, at the time of its release under this
License is not already Covered Code governed by this License.

1.10.1. "Patent Claims" means any patent claim(s), now owned or
hereafter acquired, including without limitation, method, process,
and apparatus claims, in any patent Licensable by grantor.

1.11. "Source Code" means the preferred form of the Covered Code for
making modifications to it, including all modules it contains, plus
any associated interface definition files, scripts used to control
compilation and installation of an Executable, or source code
differential comparisons against either the Original Code or another
well known, available Covered Code of the Contributor's choice. The
Source Code can be in a compressed or archival form, provided the
appropriate decompression or de-archiving software is widely available
for no charge.

1.12. "You" (or "Your") means an individual or a legal entity
exercising rights under, and complying with all of the terms of, this
License or a future version of this License issued under Section 6.1.

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For legal entities, "You" includes any entity which controls, is
controlled by, or is under common control with You. For purposes of
this definition, "control" means (a) the power, direct or indirect,
to cause the direction or management of such entity, whether by
contract or otherwise, or (b) ownership of more than fifty percent
(50%) of the outstanding shares or beneficial ownership of such
entity.

2. Source Code License.

2.1. The Initial Developer Grant.
The Initial Developer hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free,
non-exclusive license, subject to third party intellectual property
claims:
(a) under intellectual property rights (other than patent or
trademark) Licensable by Initial Developer to use, reproduce,
modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute the Original
Code (or portions thereof) with or without Modifications, and/or
as part of a Larger Work; and

(b) under Patents Claims infringed by the making, using or
selling of Original Code, to make, have made, use, practice,
sell, and offer for sale, and/or otherwise dispose of the
Original Code (or portions thereof).

(c) the licenses granted in this Section 2.1(a) and (b) are
effective on the date Initial Developer first distributes
Original Code under the terms of this License.

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(d) Notwithstanding Section 2.1(b) above, no patent license is
granted: 1) for code that You delete from the Original Code; 2)
separate from the Original Code; or 3) for infringements caused
by: i) the modification of the Original Code or ii) the
combination of the Original Code with other software or devices.

2.2. Contributor Grant.
Subject to third party intellectual property claims, each Contributor
hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license

(a) under intellectual property rights (other than patent or
trademark) Licensable by Contributor, to use, reproduce, modify,
display, perform, sublicense and distribute the Modifications
created by such Contributor (or portions thereof) either on an
unmodified basis, with other Modifications, as Covered Code
and/or as part of a Larger Work; and

(b) under Patent Claims infringed by the making, using, or
selling of Modifications made by that Contributor either alone
and/or in combination with its Contributor Version (or portions
of such combination), to make, use, sell, offer for sale, have
made, and/or otherwise dispose of: 1) Modifications made by that
Contributor (or portions thereof); and 2) the combination of
Modifications made by that Contributor with its Contributor
Version (or portions of such combination).

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effective on the date Contributor first makes Commercial Use of
the Covered Code.

(d)

Notwithstanding Section 2.2(b) above, no patent license is

granted: 1) for any code that Contributor has deleted from the
Contributor Version; 2) separate from the Contributor Version;
3) for infringements caused by: i) third party modifications of
Contributor Version or ii) the combination of Modifications made
by that Contributor with other software (except as part of the
Contributor Version) or other devices; or 4) under Patent Claims
infringed by Covered Code in the absence of Modifications made by
that Contributor.

3. Distribution Obligations.

3.1. Application of License.
The Modifications which You create or to which You contribute are
governed by the terms of this License, including without limitation
Section 2.2. The Source Code version of Covered Code may be
distributed only under the terms of this License or a future version
of this License released under Section 6.1, and You must include a
copy of this License with every copy of the Source Code You
distribute. You may not offer or impose any terms on any Source Code
version that alters or restricts the applicable version of this
License or the recipients' rights hereunder. However, You may include
an additional document offering the additional rights described in
Section 3.5.

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3.2. Availability of Source Code.
Any Modification which You create or to which You contribute must be
made available in Source Code form under the terms of this License
either on the same media as an Executable version or via an accepted
Electronic Distribution Mechanism to anyone to whom you made an
Executable version available; and if made available via Electronic
Distribution Mechanism, must remain available for at least twelve (12)
months after the date it initially became available, or at least six
(6) months after a subsequent version of that particular Modification
has been made available to such recipients. You are responsible for
ensuring that the Source Code version remains available even if the
Electronic Distribution Mechanism is maintained by a third party.

3.3. Description of Modifications.
You must cause all Covered Code to which You contribute to contain a
file documenting the changes You made to create that Covered Code and
the date of any change. You must include a prominent statement that
the Modification is derived, directly or indirectly, from Original
Code provided by the Initial Developer and including the name of the
Initial Developer in (a) the Source Code, and (b) in any notice in an
Executable version or related documentation in which You describe the
origin or ownership of the Covered Code.

3.4. Intellectual Property Matters
(a) Third Party Claims.
If Contributor has knowledge that a license under a third party's
intellectual property rights is required to exercise the rights
granted by such Contributor under Sections 2.1 or 2.2,

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Contributor must include a text file with the Source Code
distribution titled "LEGAL" which describes the claim and the
party making the claim in sufficient detail that a recipient will
know whom to contact. If Contributor obtains such knowledge after
the Modification is made available as described in Section 3.2,
Contributor shall promptly modify the LEGAL file in all copies
Contributor makes available thereafter and shall take other steps
(such as notifying appropriate mailing lists or newsgroups)
reasonably calculated to inform those who received the Covered
Code that new knowledge has been obtained.

(b) Contributor APIs.
If Contributor's Modifications include an application programming
interface and Contributor has knowledge of patent licenses which
are reasonably necessary to implement that API, Contributor must
also include this information in the LEGAL file.

(c)

Representations.

Contributor represents that, except as disclosed pursuant to
Section 3.4(a) above, Contributor believes that Contributor's
Modifications are Contributor's original creation(s) and/or
Contributor has sufficient rights to grant the rights conveyed by
this License.

3.5. Required Notices.
You must duplicate the notice in Exhibit A in each file of the Source
Code. If it is not possible to put such notice in a particular Source
Code file due to its structure, then You must include such notice in a

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location (such as a relevant directory) where a user would be likely
to look for such a notice. If You created one or more Modification(s)
You may add your name as a Contributor to the notice described in
Exhibit A. You must also duplicate this License in any documentation
for the Source Code where You describe recipients' rights or ownership
rights relating to Covered Code. You may choose to offer, and to
charge a fee for, warranty, support, indemnity or liability
obligations to one or more recipients of Covered Code. However, You
may do so only on Your own behalf, and not on behalf of the Initial
Developer or any Contributor. You must make it absolutely clear than
any such warranty, support, indemnity or liability obligation is
offered by You alone, and You hereby agree to indemnify the Initial
Developer and every Contributor for any liability incurred by the
Initial Developer or such Contributor as a result of warranty,
support, indemnity or liability terms You offer.

3.6. Distribution of Executable Versions.
You may distribute Covered Code in Executable form only if the
requirements of Section 3.1-3.5 have been met for that Covered Code,
and if You include a notice stating that the Source Code version of
the Covered Code is available under the terms of this License,
including a description of how and where You have fulfilled the
obligations of Section 3.2. The notice must be conspicuously included
in any notice in an Executable version, related documentation or
collateral in which You describe recipients' rights relating to the
Covered Code. You may distribute the Executable version of Covered
Code or ownership rights under a license of Your choice, which may
contain terms different from this License, provided that You are in

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compliance with the terms of this License and that the license for the
Executable version does not attempt to limit or alter the recipient's
rights in the Source Code version from the rights set forth in this
License. If You distribute the Executable version under a different
license You must make it absolutely clear that any terms which differ
from this License are offered by You alone, not by the Initial
Developer or any Contributor. You hereby agree to indemnify the
Initial Developer and every Contributor for any liability incurred by
the Initial Developer or such Contributor as a result of any such
terms You offer.

3.7. Larger Works.
You may create a Larger Work by combining Covered Code with other code
not governed by the terms of this License and distribute the Larger
Work as a single product. In such a case, You must make sure the
requirements of this License are fulfilled for the Covered Code.

4. Inability to Comply Due to Statute or Regulation.

If it is impossible for You to comply with any of the terms of this
License with respect to some or all of the Covered Code due to
statute, judicial order, or regulation then You must: (a) comply with
the terms of this License to the maximum extent possible; and (b)
describe the limitations and the code they affect. Such description
must be included in the LEGAL file described in Section 3.4 and must
be included with all distributions of the Source Code. Except to the
extent prohibited by statute or regulation, such description must be
sufficiently detailed for a recipient of ordinary skill to be able to

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understand it.

5. Application of this License.

This License applies to code to which the Initial Developer has
attached the notice in Exhibit A and to related Covered Code.

6. Versions of the License.

6.1. New Versions.
Netscape Communications Corporation ("Netscape") may publish revised
and/or new versions of the License from time to time. Each version
will be given a distinguishing version number.

6.2. Effect of New Versions.
Once Covered Code has been published under a particular version of the
License, You may always continue to use it under the terms of that
version. You may also choose to use such Covered Code under the terms
of any subsequent version of the License published by Netscape. No one
other than Netscape has the right to modify the terms applicable to
Covered Code created under this License.

6.3. Derivative Works.
If You create or use a modified version of this License (which you may
only do in order to apply it to code which is not already Covered Code
governed by this License), You must (a) rename Your license so that
the phrases "Mozilla", "MOZILLAPL", "MOZPL", "Netscape",
"MPL", "NPL" or any confusingly similar phrase do not appear in your

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license (except to note that your license differs from this License)
and (b) otherwise make it clear that Your version of the license
contains terms which differ from the Mozilla Public License and
Netscape Public License. (Filling in the name of the Initial
Developer, Original Code or Contributor in the notice described in
Exhibit A shall not of themselves be deemed to be modifications of
this License.)

7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY.

COVERED CODE IS PROVIDED UNDER THIS LICENSE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES THAT THE COVERED CODE IS FREE OF
DEFECTS, MERCHANTABLE, FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGING.
THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE COVERED CODE
IS WITH YOU. SHOULD ANY COVERED CODE PROVE DEFECTIVE IN ANY RESPECT,
YOU (NOT THE INITIAL DEVELOPER OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTOR) ASSUME THE
COST OF ANY NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. THIS DISCLAIMER
OF WARRANTY CONSTITUTES AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS LICENSE. NO USE OF
ANY COVERED CODE IS AUTHORIZED HEREUNDER EXCEPT UNDER THIS DISCLAIMER.

8. TERMINATION.

8.1. This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate
automatically if You fail to comply with terms herein and fail to cure
such breach within 30 days of becoming aware of the breach. All
sublicenses to the Covered Code which are properly granted shall
survive any termination of this License. Provisions which, by their

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nature, must remain in effect beyond the termination of this License
shall survive.

8.2. If You initiate litigation by asserting a patent infringement
claim (excluding declatory judgment actions) against Initial Developer
or a Contributor (the Initial Developer or Contributor against whom
You file such action is referred to as "Participant") alleging that:

(a) such Participant's Contributor Version directly or indirectly
infringes any patent, then any and all rights granted by such
Participant to You under Sections 2.1 and/or 2.2 of this License
shall, upon 60 days notice from Participant terminate prospectively,
unless if within 60 days after receipt of notice You either: (i)
agree in writing to pay Participant a mutually agreeable reasonable
royalty for Your past and future use of Modifications made by such
Participant, or (ii) withdraw Your litigation claim with respect to
the Contributor Version against such Participant. If within 60 days
of notice, a reasonable royalty and payment arrangement are not
mutually agreed upon in writing by the parties or the litigation claim
is not withdrawn, the rights granted by Participant to You under
Sections 2.1 and/or 2.2 automatically terminate at the expiration of
the 60 day notice period specified above.

(b) any software, hardware, or device, other than such Participant's
Contributor Version, directly or indirectly infringes any patent, then
any rights granted to You by such Participant under Sections 2.1(b)
and 2.2(b) are revoked effective as of the date You first made, used,
sold, distributed, or had made, Modifications made by that

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Participant.

8.3. If You assert a patent infringement claim against Participant
alleging that such Participant's Contributor Version directly or
indirectly infringes any patent where such claim is resolved (such as
by license or settlement) prior to the initiation of patent
infringement litigation, then the reasonable value of the licenses
granted by such Participant under Sections 2.1 or 2.2 shall be taken
into account in determining the amount or value of any payment or
license.

8.4. In the event of termination under Sections 8.1 or 8.2 above,
all end user license agreements (excluding distributors and resellers)
which have been validly granted by You or any distributor hereunder
prior to termination shall survive termination.

9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL YOU, THE INITIAL
DEVELOPER, ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTOR, OR ANY DISTRIBUTOR OF COVERED CODE,
OR ANY SUPPLIER OF ANY OF SUCH PARTIES, BE LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR
ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY
CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL,
WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER
COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, EVEN IF SUCH PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN
INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY SHALL NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY

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RESULTING FROM SUCH PARTY'S NEGLIGENCE TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE LAW
PROHIBITS SUCH LIMITATION. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE
EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO
THIS EXCLUSION AND LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

10. U.S. GOVERNMENT END USERS.

The Covered Code is a "commercial item," as that term is defined in
48 C.F.R. 2.101 (Oct. 1995), consisting of "commercial computer
software" and "commercial computer software documentation," as such
terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 (Sept. 1995). Consistent with 48
C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4 (June 1995),
all U.S. Government End Users acquire Covered Code with only those
rights set forth herein.

11. MISCELLANEOUS.

This License represents the complete agreement concerning subject
matter hereof. If any provision of this License is held to be
unenforceable, such provision shall be reformed only to the extent
necessary to make it enforceable. This License shall be governed by
California law provisions (except to the extent applicable law, if
any, provides otherwise), excluding its conflict-of-law provisions.
With respect to disputes in which at least one party is a citizen of,
or an entity chartered or registered to do business in the United
States of America, any litigation relating to this License shall be
subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts of the Northern
District of California, with venue lying in Santa Clara County,

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California, with the losing party responsible for costs, including
without limitation, court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees and
expenses. The application of the United Nations Convention on
Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is expressly excluded.
Any law or regulation which provides that the language of a contract
shall be construed against the drafter shall not apply to this
License.

12. RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLAIMS.

As between Initial Developer and the Contributors, each party is
responsible for claims and damages arising, directly or indirectly,
out of its utilization of rights under this License and You agree to
work with Initial Developer and Contributors to distribute such
responsibility on an equitable basis. Nothing herein is intended or
shall be deemed to constitute any admission of liability.

13. MULTIPLE-LICENSED CODE.

Initial Developer may designate portions of the Covered Code as
"Multiple-Licensed". "Multiple-Licensed" means that the Initial
Developer permits you to utilize portions of the Covered Code under
Your choice of the NPL or the alternative licenses, if any, specified
by the Initial Developer in the file described in Exhibit A.

EXHIBIT A -Mozilla Public License.

``The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License

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Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/

Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
under the License.

The Original Code is ______________________________________.

Contributor(s): ______________________________________.

Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms
of the _____ license (the "[___] License"), in which case the
provisions of [______] License are applicable instead of those
above. If you wish to allow use of your version of this file only
under the terms of the [____] License and not to allow others to use
your version of this file under the MPL, indicate your decision by
deleting the provisions above and replace them with the notice and
other provisions required by the [___] License. If you do not delete
the provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file
under either the MPL or the [___] License."

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[NOTE: The text of this Exhibit A may differ slightly from the text of
the notices in the Source Code files of the Original Code. You should
use the text of this Exhibit A rather than the text found in the
Original Code Source Code for Your Modifications.]

Rudolf Lippan

Copyright (c) 1997-2003 Jochen Wiedmann
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.

This Product includes sg3_utils software under below license

Upstream Authors: Douglas Gilbert ,
Bruce Allen ,
Peter Allworth ,
James Bottomley ,
Lars Marowsky-Bree ,
Kurt Garloff ,
Grant Grundler ,
Christophe Varoqui ,
Michael Weller ,
Eric Youngdale

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You are free to distribute this software under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL file.

many parts of this package are covered by the BSD license.
These include central error processing code (sg_lib.[hc]),
common command code (sg_cmds_basic.[hc] and sg_cmds_extra.[hc])
and later utilities. They are Copyright: Douglas Gilbert.
The author's intention is that the BSD licensed code can be used
freely by others. On Debian systems, the complete text of the
BSD License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD'.

This Product includes DBI software under below license

You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.

This Product includes flac software under below license
This is the Win32 binary release for the FLAC project.

All programs and plugins are released under the GPL (see COPYING.GPL)
except the Winamp 2 plugin which is LGPL (see COPYING.LGPL).

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The documentation is released under the FDL (see COPYING.FDL).

This Product includes boost software under below license

BOOST SOFTWARE LICENSE
oLicense text
oIntroduction
oHistory
oRationale
oFAQ
oTransition
oAcknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
The Boost Software License specifies the terms and conditions of use for those Boost libraries that it
covers.
Currently, some Boost libraries have their own licenses. The hope is that eventually all Boost
libraries will be covered by the Boost Software License. In the meantime, all libraries comply with
the Boost License requirements.
HISTORY
As Boost grew, it became unmanageable for each Boost file to have its own license. Users
complained that each license needed to be reviewed, and that reviews were difficult or impossible if
Boost libraries contained many different licenses. Boost moderators and maintainers spent
excessive time dealing with license issues. Boost developers often copied existing licenses without
actually knowing if the license wording met legal needs.
To clarify these licensing issues, the Boost moderators asked for help from the Berkman Center for
Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It was requested that a
single Boost license be developed that met the traditional requirements that Boost licenses,
particularly:
oMust be simple to read and understand.
oMust grant permission without fee to copy, use and modify the software for any use (commercial
and non-commercial).
oMust require that the license appear with all copies [including redistributions] of the software
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oMust not require that the license appear with executables or other binary uses of the library.
oMust not require that the source code be available for execution or other binary uses of the library.
Additionally, other common open source licenses were studied to see what additional issues were
being treated, and additions representing good legal practice were also requested. The result is the
Boost Software License:
Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
do so, all subject to the following:

The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
a source language processor.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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RATIONALE
The following rationale was provided by Devin Smith, the lawyer who wrote the Boost Software
License. It has been edited slightly for brevity. Editorial additions are shown in square brackets.
BENEFIT OF COMMON SOFTWARE LICENSE
If one of Boost's goals is to ease use and adoption of the various libraries made available by Boost,
it does make sense to try to standardize the licenses under which the libraries are made available to
users. (I make some recommendations about a possible short-form license below.)
[Standardizing the license will not] necessarily address the issue of satisfying corporate licensees.
Each corporation will have its own concerns, based on their own experiences with software licensing
and distribution and, if they're careful, will want to carefully review each license, even if they've
been told that they're all standard. I would expect that, unless we're remarkably brilliant (or lucky)
in drafting the standard Boost license, the standard license won't satisfy the legal departments of
all corporations. I imagine that some will, for instance, absolutely insist that licensors provide a
warranty of title and provide indemnification for third-party intellectual property infringement
claims. Others may want functional warranties. (If I were advising the corporations, I would point
out that they're not paying anything for the code and getting such warranties from individual
programmers, who probably do not have deep pockets, is not that valuable anyway, but other
lawyers may disagree.)
But this can be addressed, not by trying to craft the perfect standard license, but by informing the
corporations that they can, if they don't like the standard license, approach the authors to negotiate
a different, perhaps even paid, license.
One other benefit of adopting a standard license is to help ensure that the license accomplishes,
from a legal perspective, what the authors intend. For instance, many of the [original] licenses for
the libraries available on boost.org do not disclaim the warranty of title, meaning that the authors
could, arguably, be sued by a user if the code infringes the rights of a third party and the user is
sued by that third party. I think the authors probably want to disclaim this kind of liability.
SHORT-FORM LICENSE
Without in anyway detracting from the draft license that's been circulated [to Boost moderators],
I'd like to propose an alternative "short-form" license that Boost could have the library authors
adopt. David [Abrahams] has expressed a desire to keep things as simple as possible, and to try to
move away from past practice as little as possible, and this is my attempt at a draft.
This license, which is very similar to the BSD license and the MIT license, should satisfy the Open
Source Initiative's Open Source Definition: (i) the license permits free redistribution, (ii) the
distributed code includes source code, (iii) the license permits the creation of derivative works, (iv)
the license does not discriminate against persons or groups, (v) the license does not discriminate
against fields of endeavor, (vi) the rights apply to all to whom the program is redistributed, (vii) the
license is not specific to a product, and (viii) the license is technologically neutral (i.e., it does not
[require] an explicit gesture of assent in order to establish a contract between licensor and
licensee).
This license grants all rights under the owner's copyrights (as well as an implied patent license),
disclaims all liability for use of the code (including intellectual property infringement liability), and
requires that all subsequent copies of the code [except machine-executable object code], including
partial copies and derivative works, include the license.
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How should Boost programmers apply the license to source and header files? Add a comment based
on the following template, substituting appropriate text for the italicized portion:
//

// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
//
//

(See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Please leave an empty line before and after the above comment block. It is fine if the copyright and
license messages are not on different lines; in no case there should be other intervening text. Do
not include "All rights reserved" anywhere.
Other ways of licensing source files have been considered, but some of them turned out to
unintentionally nullify legal elements of the license. Having fixed language for referring to the
license helps corporate legal departments evaluate the boost distribution. Creativity in license
reference language is strongly discouraged, but judicious changes in the use of whitespace are fine.
How should the license be applied to documentation files, instead? Very similarly to the way it is
applied to source files: the user should see the very same text indicated in the template above,
with the only difference that both the local and the web copy of LICENSE_1_0.txt should be linked
to. Refer to the HTML source code of this page in case of doubt.
Note that the location of the local LICENSE_1_0.txt needs to be indicated relatively to the position
of your documentation file (../LICENSE_1_0.txt, ../../LICENSE_1_0.txt etc.)
How is the Boost license different from the GNU General Public License (GPL)? The Boost license
permits the creation of derivative works for commercial or non-commercial use with no legal
requirement to release your source code. Other differences include Boost not requiring reproduction
of copyright messages for object code redistribution, and the fact that the Boost license is not
"viral": if you distribute your own code along with some Boost code, the Boost license applies only
to the Boost code (and modified versions thereof); you are free to license your own code under any
terms you like. The GPL is also much longer, and thus may be harder to understand.
Why the phrase "machine-executable object code generated by a source language processor"? To
distinguish cases where we do not require reproduction of the copyrights and license, such as
object libraries, shared libraries, and final program executables, from cases where reproduction is
still required, such as distribution of self-extracting archives of source code or precompiled header
files. More detailed wording was rejected as not being legally necessary, and reducing readability.
Why is the "disclaimer" paragraph of the license entirely in uppercase? Capitalization of these
particular provisions is a US legal mandate for consumer protection. (Diane Cabell)
Does the copyright and license cover interfaces too? The conceptual interface to a library isn't
covered. The particular representation expressed in the header is covered, as is the documentation,
examples, test programs, and all the other material that goes with the library. A different
implementation is free to use the same logical interface, however. Interface issues have been
fought out in court several times; ask a lawyer for details.
Why doesn't the license prohibit the copyright holder from patenting the covered software? No one
who distributes their code under the terms of this license could turn around and sue a user for
patent infringement. (Devin Smith)

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Boost's lawyers were well aware of patent provisions in licenses like the GPL and CPL, and would
have included such provisions in the Boost license if they were believed to be legally useful.
Why doesn't the copyright message say "All rights reserved"? Devin Smith says "I don't think it
belongs in the copyright notice for anything (software, electronic documentation, etc.) that is being
licensed. It belongs in books that are sold where, in fact, all rights (e.g., to reproduce the book,
etc.) are being reserved in the publisher or author. I think it shouldn't be in the BSD license."
Do I have to copyright/license trivial files? Even a test file that just contains an empty main()
should have a copyright. Files without copyrights make corporate lawyers nervous, and that's a
barrier to adoption. The more of Boost is uniformly copyrighted and licensed, the less problem
people will have with mounting a Boost release CD on a corporate server.
Can I use the Boost license for my own projects outside Boost? Sure; there are no restrictions on
the use of the license itself.
Is the Boost license "Open Source"? Yes. The Open Source Initiative certified the Boost Software
License 1.0 in early 2008.

TRANSITION
To ease the transition of the code base towards the new common license, several people decided to
give a blanket permission for all their contributions to use the new license. This hopefully helps
maintainers to switch to the new license once the list contains enough names without asking over
and over again for each change. Please consider adding your name to the list.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dave Abrahams led the Boost effort to develop better licensing. The legal team was led by Diane
Cabell, Director, Clinical Programs, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School.
Devin Smith, attorney, Nixon Peabody LLP, wrote the Boost License. Eva Chan, Harvard Law School,
contributed analysis of Boost issues and drafts of various legal documents. Boost members
reviewed drafts of the license. Beman Dawes wrote this web page.
Revised $Date: 2009-06-07 07:14:52 -0400 (Sun, 07 Jun 2009) $
Copyright Beman Dawes, Daniel Frey, David Abrahams, 2003-2004.
Copyright Rene Rivera 2004-2005.
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.

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This Product includes curl software under below license

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose
with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. IN
NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE
OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Except as contained in this notice, the name of a copyright holder shall not
be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings
in this Software without prior written authorization of the copyright holder.

License Issues
Curl and libcurl are released under a MIT/X derivate license. The license is

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very liberal and should not impose a problem for your project. This section
is just a brief summary for the cases we get the most questions. (Parts of
this section was much enhanced by Bjorn Reese.)

We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. You should probably consult
one if you want true and accurate legal insights without our prejudice.
6.1 I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library?
Yes!

Since libcurl may be distributed under the MIT/X derivate license, it can be
used together with GPL in any software.
6.2 I have a closed-source program, can I use the libcurl library?
Yes!

libcurl does not put any restrictions on the program that uses the library.
6.3 I have a BSD licensed program, can I use the libcurl library?
Yes!

libcurl does not put any restrictions on the program that uses the library.
6.4 I have a program that uses LGPL libraries, can I use libcurl?
Yes!

The LGPL license doesn't clash with other licenses.
6.5 Can I modify curl/libcurl for my program and keep the changes secret?
Yes!

The MIT/X derivate license practically allows you to do almost anything with
the sources, on the condition that the copyright texts in the sources are

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left intact.
6.6 Can you please change the curl/libcurl license to XXXX?
No.

We have carefully picked this license after years of development and
discussions and a large amount of people have contributed with source code
knowing that this is the license we use. This license puts the restrictions
we want on curl/libcurl and it does not spread to other programs or
libraries that use it. It should be possible for everyone to use libcurl or
curl in their projects, no matter what license they already have in use.
6.7 What are my obligations when using libcurl in my commercial apps?
Next to none. All you need to adhere to is the MIT-style license (stated in
the COPYING file) which basically says you have to include the copyright
notice in "all copies" and that you may not use the copyright holder's name
when promoting your software.

You do not have to release any of your source code.

You do not have to reveal or make public any changes to the libcurl source
code.

You do not have to reveal or make public that you are using libcurl within
your app.

As can be seen here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/companies.html and
elsewhere, more and more companies are discovering the power
of libcurl and take advantage of it even in commercial environments.

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This Product includes httpd software under below license

This product includes software developed at
The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

Portions of this software were developed at the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security
Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various
modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).

Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package,
which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright
by the University of Cambridge, England. The original software is
available from
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/

Apache License
Version 2.0, January 2004
http://www.apache.org/licenses/

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limitations under the License.

APACHE HTTP SERVER SUBCOMPONENTS:

The Apache HTTP Server includes a number of subcomponents with
separate copyright notices and license terms. Your use of the source
code for the these subcomponents is subject to the terms and
conditions of the following licenses.

For the mod_mime_magic component:

/*
* mod_mime_magic: MIME type lookup via file magic numbers
* Copyright (c) 1996-1997 Cisco Systems, Inc.
*
* This software was submitted by Cisco Systems to the Apache Group in July
* 1997. Future revisions and derivatives of this source code must
* acknowledge Cisco Systems as the original contributor of this module.
* All other licensing and usage conditions are those of the Apache Group.
*
* Some of this code is derived from the free version of the file command
* originally posted to comp.sources.unix. Copyright info for that program
* is included below as required.
* --------------------------------------------------------------------------* - Copyright (c) Ian F. Darwin, 1987. Written by Ian F. Darwin.
*

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* This software is not subject to any license of the American Telephone and
* Telegraph Company or of the Regents of the University of California.
*
* Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on any
* computer system, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to
* the following restrictions:
*
* 1. The author is not responsible for the consequences of use of this
* software, no matter how awful, even if they arise from flaws in it.
*
* 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either by
* explicit claim or by omission. Since few users ever read sources, credits
* must appear in the documentation.
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* misrepresented as being the original software. Since few users ever read
* sources, credits must appear in the documentation.
*
* 4. This notice may not be removed or altered.
* ------------------------------------------------------------------------*
*/

For the modules\mappers\mod_imagemap.c component:

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For the server\util_md5.c component:

/************************************************************************
* NCSA HTTPd Server
* Software Development Group
* National Center for Supercomputing Applications
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* 605 E. Springfield, Champaign, IL 61820
* httpd@ncsa.uiuc.edu
*
* Copyright (C) 1995, Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
*
************************************************************************
*
* md5.c: NCSA HTTPd code which uses the md5c.c RSA Code
*
* Original Code Copyright (C) 1994, Jeff Hostetler, Spyglass, Inc.
* Portions of Content-MD5 code Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 by Carnegie Mellon
*

University (see Copyright below).

Research, Inc. (Bellcore) (see Copyright below).

* Portions extracted from mpack, John G. Myers - jgm+@cmu.edu
* Content-MD5 Code contributed by Martin Hamilton (martin@net.lut.ac.uk)
*
*/

/* these portions extracted from mpack, John G. Myers - jgm+@cmu.edu */

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/* (C) Copyright 1993,1994 by Carnegie Mellon University
* All Rights Reserved.
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software
* and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without
* fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies
* and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice
* appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Carnegie
* Mellon University not be used in advertising or publicity
* pertaining to distribution of the software without specific,
* written prior permission. Carnegie Mellon University makes no
* representations about the suitability of this software for any
* purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied
* warranty.
*
* CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO
* THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
* AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE
* FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
* WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN
* AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING
* OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS
* SOFTWARE.
*/

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* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material
* for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
* that the above copyright notice and this permission notice
* appear in all copies, and that the name of Bellcore not be
* used in advertising or publicity pertaining to this
* material without the specific, prior written permission
* of an authorized representative of Bellcore. BELLCORE
* MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR SUITABILITY
* OF THIS MATERIAL FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS",
* WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES.
*/

For the srclib\apr\include\apr_md5.h component:
/*
* This is work is derived from material Copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
*
* The RSA copyright statement and Licence for that original material is
* included below. This is followed by the Apache copyright statement and
* licence for the modifications made to that material.
*/

License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it
is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest
Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this software
or this function.

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License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided
that such works are identified as "derived from the RSA Data
Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material
mentioning or referencing the derived work.

RSA Data Security, Inc. makes no representations concerning either
the merchantability of this software or the suitability of this
software for any particular purpose. It is provided "as is"
without express or implied warranty of any kind.

These notices must be retained in any copies of any part of this
documentation and/or software.
*/

For the srclib\apr\passwd\apr_md5.c component:

/*
* This is work is derived from material Copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
*
* The RSA copyright statement and Licence for that original material is
* included below. This is followed by the Apache copyright statement and
* licence for the modifications made to that material.
*/

/* MD5C.C - RSA Data Security, Inc., MD5 message-digest algorithm
*/

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These notices must be retained in any copies of any part of this
documentation and/or software.
*/
/*
* The apr_md5_encode() routine uses much code obtained from the FreeBSD 3.0
* MD5 crypt() function, which is licenced as follows:
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------* "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
* wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
* can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think

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* this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

For the srclib\apr-util\crypto\apr_md4.c component:

* This is derived from material copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
* Their notice is reproduced below in its entirety.
*
* Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1991. All
* rights reserved.
*
* License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it
* is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD4 Message-Digest
* Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this software
* or this function.
*
* License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided
* that such works are identified as "derived from the RSA Data
* Security, Inc. MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material
* mentioning or referencing the derived work.
*
* RSA Data Security, Inc. makes no representations concerning either
* the merchantability of this software or the suitability of this
* software for any particular purpose. It is provided "as is"
* without express or implied warranty of any kind.
*
* These notices must be retained in any copies of any part of this

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* documentation and/or software.
*/

For the srclib\apr-util\include\apr_md4.h component:

*
* This is derived from material copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
* Their notice is reproduced below in its entirety.
*
* Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1991. All
* rights reserved.
*
* License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it
* is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD4 Message-Digest
* Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this software
* or this function.
*
* License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided
* that such works are identified as "derived from the RSA Data
* Security, Inc. MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material
* mentioning or referencing the derived work.
*
* RSA Data Security, Inc. makes no representations concerning either
* the merchantability of this software or the suitability of this
* software for any particular purpose. It is provided "as is"
* without express or implied warranty of any kind.
*
* These notices must be retained in any copies of any part of this

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* documentation and/or software.
*/

For the srclib\apr-util\test\testmd4.c component:

*
* This is derived from material copyright RSA Data Security, Inc.
* Their notice is reproduced below in its entirety.
*
* Copyright (C) 1990-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1990. All
* rights reserved.
*
* RSA Data Security, Inc. makes no representations concerning either
* the merchantability of this software or the suitability of this
* software for any particular purpose. It is provided "as is"
* without express or implied warranty of any kind.
*
* These notices must be retained in any copies of any part of this
* documentation and/or software.
*/

For the srclib\apr-util\xml\expat\conftools\install-sh component:

#
# install - install a program, script, or datafile
# This comes from X11R5 (mit/util/scripts/install.sh).
#

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# Copyright 1991 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
#
# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
# the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
# documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or
# publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific,
# written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the
# suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
# without express or implied warranty.
#

For the srclib\pcre\install-sh component:

#
# Copyright 1991 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
#
# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
# the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
# documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or
# publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific,
# written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the
# suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
# without express or implied warranty.

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For the pcre component:

PCRE LICENCE
------------

PCRE is a library of functions to support regular expressions whose syntax
and semantics are as close as possible to those of the Perl 5 language.

Release 5 of PCRE is distributed under the terms of the "BSD" licence, as
specified below. The documentation for PCRE, supplied in the "doc"
directory, is distributed under the same terms as the software itself.

Written by: Philip Hazel

University of Cambridge Computing Service,
Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

* Neither the name of the University of Cambridge nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
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AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
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End PCRE LICENCE

For the test\zb.c component:

ZeusBench V1.01
===============

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This program may be used and copied freely providing this copyright notice
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This software is provided "as is" and any express or implied waranties,
including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and
fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall
Zeus Technology Ltd. be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special,
exemplary, or consequential damaged (including, but not limited to,
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or business interruption) however caused and on theory of liability. Whether
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arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the
possibility of such damage.

Written by Adam Twiss (adam@zeus.co.uk). March 1996

Thanks to the following people for their input:
Mike Belshe (mbelshe@netscape.com)
Michael Campanella (campanella@stevms.enet.dec.com)

For the expat xml parser component:

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a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
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=============================================================
=======

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
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"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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* Neither the name of Rasterbar Software nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
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This Product includes libupnp software under below license

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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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Except where otherwise noted in the source code (e.g. the files hash.c,
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Copyright (c) University of Delaware 1992-2010
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose
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and that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation,
and that the name University of Delaware not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to
distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. The University of Delaware
makes no representations about the suitability this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
without express or implied warranty.

The following individuals contributed in part to the Network Time Protocol Distribution Version 4 and
are acknowledged as authors of this work.
1.Mark Andrews Leitch atomic clock controller
2.Bernd Altmeier hopf Elektronik serial line and PCI-bus devices
3.Viraj Bais and Clayton Kirkwood
port to WindowsNT 3.5
4.Michael Barone GPSVME fixes
5.Jean-Francois Boudreault IPv6 support
6.Karl Berry syslog to file option
7.Greg Brackley Major rework of WINNT port. Clean up recvbuf and
iosignal code into separate modules.
8.Marc Brett Magnavox GPS clock driver
9.Piete Brooks MSF clock driver, Trimble PARSE support
10.Reg Clemens Oncore driver (Current maintainer)
11.Steve Clift OMEGA clock driver
12.Casey Crellin vxWorks (Tornado) port and help with target configuration
13.Sven Dietrich Palisade reference clock driver, NT adj. residuals,
integrated Greg's Winnt port.
14.John A. Dundas III Apple A/UX port
15.Torsten Duwe Linux port
16.Dennis Ferguson foundation code for NTP Version 2 as specified in
RFC-1119
17.John Hay IPv6 support and testing

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18.Dave Hart General maintenance, Windows port interpolation
rewrite.
19.Claas Hilbrecht NeoClock4X clock driver
20.Glenn Hollinger GOES clock driver
21.Mike Iglesias DEC Alpha port
22.Jim Jagielski A/UX port
23.Jeff Johnson massive prototyping overhaul
24.Hans Lambermont or
ntpsweep
25.Poul-Henning Kamp Oncore driver (Original author)
26.Frank Kardel PARSE driver (>14 reference clocks),
STREAMS modules for PARSE, support scripts, syslog cleanup, dynamic interface handling
27.William L. Jones RS/6000 AIX modifications, HPUX
modifications
28.Dave Katz RS/6000 AIX port
29.Craig Leres 4.4BSD port, ppsclock, Magnavox GPS clock driver
30.George Lindholm SunOS 5.1 port
31.Louis A. Mamakos MD5-based authentication
32.Lars H. Mathiesen adaptation of foundation code for Version 3 as specified
in RFC-1305
33.Danny Mayer Network I/O, Windows Port, Code Maintenance
34.David L. Mills Version 4 foundation: clock discipline, authentication, precision
kernel; clock drivers: Spectracom, Austron, Arbiter, Heath, ATOM, ACTS, KSI/Odetics; audio clock
drivers: CHU, WWV/H, IRIG
35.Wolfgang Moeller VMS port
36.Jeffrey Mogul ntptrace utility
37.Tom Moore i386 svr4 port
38.Kamal A Mostafa SCO OpenServer port
39.Derek Mulcahy and Damon Hart-Davis ARCRON
MSF clock driver
40.Rob Neal Bancomm refclock and config/parse code maintenance
41.Rainer Pruy monitoring/trap scripts, statistics file
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42.Dirce Richards Digital UNIX V4.0 port
43.Wilfredo Sánchez added support for NetInfo
44.Nick Sayer SunOS streams modules
45.Jack Sasportas Saved a Lot of space on the stuff in the html/
pic/ subdirectory
46.Ray Schnitzler Unixware1 port
47.Michael Shields USNO clock driver
48.Jeff Steinman Datum PTS clock driver
49.Harlan Stenn GNU automake/autoconfigure makeover, various other bits
(see the ChangeLog)
50.Kenneth Stone HP-UX port
51.Ajit Thyagarajan IP multicast/anycast support
52.Tomoaki TSURUOKA TRAK clock driver
53.Paul A Vixie TrueTime GPS driver, generic TrueTime clock driver
54.Ulrich Windl corrected and validated HTML documents
according to the HTML DTD

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3. The name of any author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
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/*
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* Frank Denis with the help of all Pure-FTPd contributors.
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
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*
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This Product includes setsystz software under below license

/* setsystz: set the Linux kernel's idea of the time zone */
/* Copyright (c) 2007 David A. Madore, Public Domain */

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All of the deliverable code in SQLite has been written from scratch. No code has been taken from
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concerns only changes and enhancements to SQLite that are intentionally and deliberately
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This Product includes tz32 software under below license

=== asctime.c==========
** This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of

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** 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson.
=== asctime.c==========
=== date.c ==========
/*
* Copyright (c) 1985, 1987, 1988 The Regents of the University of California.
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
* provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
* duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
* advertising materials, and other materials related to such
* distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
* by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the
* University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
* from this software without specific prior written permission.
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT[A]BILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
*/
=== difftime.c ==========
/*
** This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
** 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson.
*/
=============
====== localtime.c =====
/*
** This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of

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** 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson.
*/
==================
====== logwtmp.c =====
/*
* Copyright (c) 1988 The Regents of the University of California.
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
* provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
* duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
* advertising materials, and other materials related to such
* distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
* by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the
* University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
* from this software without specific prior written permission.
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT[A]BILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
*/
===================
====== private.h =====
** This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
** 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson.
====== private.h =====

======tzfile.h =====
** This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of

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** 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson.
====== tzfile.h =====

This Product includes crypto++ software under below license

License
The License of Crypto++ is somewhat unusual amongst open source projects. A distinction is made
between the library as a compilation (i.e., collection), which is copyrighted by Wei Dai, and the
individual files in it, which are public domain (with the exception of mars.cpp which is subject to its
own license, included in that file).
The library is copyrighted as a compilation in order to place certain disclaimers (regarding warranty,
export, and patents) in the license and to keep the attributions and public domain declarations
intact when Crypto++ is distributed in source code form. The fact that individual files are public
domain means that legally you can place code segments, entire files, or small sets of files (up to
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worrying about the copyright.
Because one purpose of the project is to act as a repository of public domain (not copyrighted)
cryptographic source code, the code in Crypto++ was either written specifically for this project by
its contributors and placed in the public domain, or derived from other sources that are public
domain (again with the exception of mars.cpp).

Compilation Copyright (c) 1995-2009 by Wei Dai. All rights reserved.
This copyright applies only to this software distribution package
as a compilation, and does not imply a copyright on any particular
file in the package.

The following files are copyrighted by their respective original authors,
and their use is subject to additional licenses included in these files.

All other files in this compilation are placed in the public domain by
Wei Dai and other contributors.

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I would like to thank the following authors for placing their works into
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Joan Daemen - 3way.cpp
Leonard Janke - cast.cpp, seal.cpp
Steve Reid - cast.cpp
Phil Karn - des.cpp
Andrew M. Kuchling - md2.cpp, md4.cpp
Colin Plumb - md5.cpp
Seal Woods - rc6.cpp
Chris Morgan - rijndael.cpp
Paulo Baretto - rijndael.cpp, skipjack.cpp, square.cpp
Richard De Moliner - safer.cpp
Matthew Skala - twofish.cpp
Kevin Springle - camellia.cpp, shacal2.cpp, ttmac.cpp, whrlpool.cpp, ripemd.cpp

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this compilation for
any purpose, including commercial applications, is hereby granted
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1. Any copy or modification of this compilation in any form, except
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2. Users of this software agree that any modification or extension
they provide to Wei Dai will be considered public domain and not
copyrighted unless it includes an explicit copyright notice.

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3. Wei Dai makes no warranty or representation that the operation of the
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obligation to provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or
otherwise. THE SOFTWARE AND ANY DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS"
WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT WILL WEI DAI OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE FOR
DIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

4. Users will not use Wei Dai or any other contributor's name in any
publicity or advertising, without prior written consent in each case.

5. Export of this software from the United States may require a
specific license from the United States Government. It is the
responsibility of any person or organization contemplating export
to obtain such a license before exporting.

6. Certain parts of this software may be protected by patents. It
is the users' responsibility to obtain the appropriate
licenses before using those parts.

If this compilation is used in object code form in an application
software, acknowledgement of the author is not required but would be
appreciated. The contribution of any useful modifications or extensions
to Wei Dai is not required but would also be appreciated.

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This Product includes wxWidgets software under below license

Licence
Background
wxWidgets is currently licensed under the "wxWindows Licence" pending approval of the
"wxWidgets Licence" which will be identical apart from the name.
The wxWindows Licence is essentially the L-GPL (Library General Public Licence), with an exception
stating that derived works in binary form may be distributed on the user's own terms. This is a
solution that satisfies those who wish to produce GPL'ed software using wxWidgets, and also those
producing proprietary software.
Participants in the discussion that led to this decision include the folk from Abisource, Robert
Roebling, Julian Smart, Markus Fleck, Karsten Ballueder, and some advice from Richard Stallman.
Richard has confirmed that the new licence is compatible with GPL'ed applications. However, there
are no significant restrictions on proprietary applications.
The wxWindows Licence has been approved by the Open Source Initiative, and you can find the
licence on their site here.
In August 2005, an ambiguity in Clause 2 was removed (replaced "the user's" with "your") and the
version bumped to 3.1.

The wxWindows Library Licence
Copyright (c) 1998 Julian Smart, Robert Roebling [, ...]
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this licence document, but changing it is not allowed.
WXWINDOWS LIBRARY LICENCE

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library

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General Public Licence for more details.
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If you do not wish that, you must delete the exception notice from such
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This Product includes squeezeboxserver software under below license

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SLIM DEVICES LICENSE NOTICE

Please be aware that not all software distributed by Slim Devices
is licensed under the GPL. If you wish to redistribute any of our
software, please be sure to first read the GPL, and then make sure
that you are only distributing materials which we've explicity
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questions, or would like permission to distribute our other non-GPL
programs. Also, be aware that standard copyright rules apply in any
case where no particular license is given.

Each of the software products we ship are licensed as follows:

- All of Squeezebox Server's perl code is licensed for redistribution
or inclusion in other software per version 2 of the GPL license,
included below for your convenience.

- SoftSqueeze is (c) Richard Titmuss and is licensed under GPL.

- The CODE2000 TrueType Font is (c) James Kass and is Shareware.
See Graphics/CODE2000.HTM for more information.

- Certain integral components of Slim Server, such as CPAN modules,
are (c) of their respective authors, and are included in Squeezebox Server
per their respective licenses.

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- Certain ancillary programs included in the Squeezebox Server distribution
on our web site are licensed to us only for direct distribution to
end-users. These include the Windows installer and Activestate
binaries.

- Squeezebox firmare may not be redistributed under any
circumstances. It is (c) Slim Devices, and additonally contains
code which is (c) Ubicom. Ubicom's code is licenced to us only
for direct distribution in binary form. You may use the firmware
only on hardware manufactured by Slim Devices.

- SLIMP3 firmware is (c) Slim Devices, and source is available
under the Slim Devices Public Source Licence, for certain educational
and hobbyist uses. Please read the license carefully.

- Slim Devices logos, graphics, animations, and documentation are
(c) Slim Devices and are not licensed for redistribution. When in
doubt look for a GPL notice at the top of the file, or ask us for
written permission to redistribute, which we will grant for any
reasonable purpose.

- Squeezebox2 firmware additionally contains the following code:
- Kiss FFT, Copyright (c) 2003-2004, Mark Borgerding, licensed under
a modified BSD license (reproduced below).
- 16:16 fixed math routines, Copyright (c) 2001 Beartronics, licensed
under the "Artistic License"
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.html). Copies of
modified source files can be found at

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http://www.slimdevices.com/opensource/fixed_math.tar.gz.

- The following applies to Squeezebox2 distribution:
This product is protected by certain intellectual property rights of
Microsoft Corporation. Use or distribution of such technology outside
of this product is prohibited without a license from Microsoft or
authorized Microsoft subsidiary.

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Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by

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the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
your programs, too.

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
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To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
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These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
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For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
rights.

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.

Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
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want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original
authors' reputations.

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
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The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
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Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not

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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).
Whether that is true depends on what the Program does.

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
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and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
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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.

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
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a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
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b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
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parties under the terms of this License.

c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
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These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
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Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest
your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to
exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or
collective works based on the Program.

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

3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
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b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
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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
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The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for

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making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
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If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
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4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
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However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under
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signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
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modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
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6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
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the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.

If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under
any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to

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apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other
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It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any
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9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions
of the General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will
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address new problems or concerns.

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
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PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
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TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
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REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

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WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
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PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

#------------------------------------------------------------------

Kiss FFT used under the following license:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted
provided that the following conditions are met:

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* Neither the author nor the names of any contributors may be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
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NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN
IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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Details about Code2000 may be found in Graphics/CODE2000.HTM

This Product includes php software under below license

"PHP 4 and PHP 5 are distributed under the PHP License v3.01, copyright (c) the PHP Group.
"This is an Open Source license, certified by the Open Source Initiative.
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with GPL.
"Some files have been contributed under other (compatible) licenses and carry additional
requirements and copyright information.
This is indicated in the license + copyright comment block at the top of the source file.
"Practical Guidelines:
"Distributing PHP
"Contributing to PHP
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.

3. The name "PHP" must not be used to endorse or promote products
derived from this software without prior written permission. For
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4. Products derived from this software may not be called "PHP", nor
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it "PHP Foo" or "phpfoo"

5. The PHP Group may publish revised and/or new versions of the
license from time to time. Each version will be given a

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distinguishing version number.
Once covered code has been published under a particular version
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STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
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This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
individuals on behalf of the PHP Group.

The PHP Group can be contacted via Email at group@php.net.

For more information on the PHP Group and the PHP project,
please see .

PHP includes the Zend Engine, freely available at
.
This Product includes AutoXS-Header, Class-C3-XS, Class-XSAccessor, Class-XSAccessor-Array,
Compress-Raw-Zlib, Digest-SHA1, EV, ExtUtils-Cbuilder, GD, HTML-Parser, JSON-XS, Module-Build,
Sub-Name, Template-Toolkit and XML-Parser software under the same terms as Perl 's license
Perl5 is Copyright (C) 1993-2005, by Larry Wall and others.
It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:
a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1,
or (at your option) any later version, or
b) the "Artistic License".

For those of you that choose to use the GNU General Public License, my interpretation of the GNU
General Public License is that no Perl script falls under the terms of the GPL unless you explicitly put
said script under the terms of the GPL yourself.
Furthermore, any object code linked with perl does not automatically fall under the terms of the
GPL, provided such object code only adds definitions of subroutines and variables, and does not
otherwise impair the resulting interpreter from executing any standard Perl script. I consider linking
in C subroutines in this manner to be the moral equivalent of defining subroutines in the Perl
language itself. You may sell such an object file as proprietary provided that you provide or offer to
provide the Perl source, as specified by the GNU General Public License. (This is merely an alternate
way of specifying input to the program.) You may also sell a binary produced by the dumping of a
running Perl script that belongs to you, provided that you provide or offer to provide the Perl source
as specified by the GPL. (The fact that a Perl interpreter and your code are in the same binary file
is, in this case, a form of mere aggregation.)
This is my interpretation of the GPL. If you still have concerns or difficulties understanding my
intent, feel free to contact me. Of course, the Artistic License spells all this out for your protection,
so you may prefer to use that.

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-- Larry Wall

This Product includes gd software under below license

Portions copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Funded under Grant
P41-RR02188 by the National Institutes of Health.

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1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, Thomas G. Lane. This software is
based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. See the
file README-JPEG.TXT for more information.

Portions relating to WBMP copyright 2000, 2001, 2002 Maurice
Szmurlo and Johan Van den Brande.

Permission has been granted to copy, distribute and modify gd in
any context without fee, including a commercial application,
provided that this notice is present in user-accessible supporting
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This does not affect your ownership of the derived work itself, and
the intent is to assure proper credit for the authors of gd, not to
interfere with your productive use of gd. If you have questions,
ask. "Derived works" includes all programs that utilize the
library. Credit must be given in user-accessible documentation.

This software is provided "AS IS." The copyright holders disclaim
all warranties, either express or implied, including but not
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particular purpose, with respect to this code and accompanying
documentation.

Although their code does not appear in gd, the authors wish to thank
David Koblas, David Rowley, and Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation
for their prior contributions.

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• Connect ONLY suitable accessories to the device.

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electric shock from lightning.
• CAUTION: RISK OF EXPLOSION IF BATTERY (on the motherboard) IS REPLACED BY AN INCORRECT TYPE.
DISPOSE OF USED BATTERIES ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS. Dispose them at the applicable
collection point for the recycling of electrical and electronic equipment. For detailed information about
recycling of this product, please contact your local city office, your household waste disposal service or the
store where you purchased the product.
• Do NOT obstruct the device ventilation slots, as insufficient airflow may harm your device.
Your product is marked with this symbol, which is known as the WEEE mark. WEEE stands for Waste
Electronics and Electrical Equipment. It means that used electrical and electronic products should not be
mixed with general waste. Used electrical and electronic equipment should be treated separately.

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Appendix F Legal Information

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Index

Index
Numbers

preferences 199
protection 219, 220
status 196
URL 197, 239
FTP 185, 188, 279
activation 188
anonymous access 188
passive mode transfer 189
media server 186, 189
configuration 190
iTunes server 186, 216, 217
print server 224
configuration 214
name 214
web publishing 187, 206, 222
activation 206
example 221
port number 223

1-bay 18
2-bay 18
3-D photo wall 55

A
access rights 59
Flickr 285
shares 314, 315
YouTube 288
activation
download service 194
Flickr/YouTube 280
FTP 188
FTP Uploadr 289
recycle bins 59, 313
web publishing 206
ANONYMOUS FTP 351
anonymous FTP access 188
application zone 60
applications 185, 279
auto upload
Flickr/YouTube 279
FTP Uploadr 288
broadcatching 187, 207
adding channels 194, 208, 209
channel guides 223
RSS 187
COPY/SYNC button 215
configuration 215
example 225
synchronization 225
download service 186, 217
activation 194
adding a task 197, 204
configuration 194
link capture browser plugin 218
notifications 218
P2P download 197, 217

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archive 138
authorization
Flickr 280, 282
YouTube 285
auto upload
Flickr/YouTube 279
activation 280
authorization 280, 285
configuration 284, 285
FTP Uploadr 288
activation 289
bandwidth limit 292
configuration 290
server entry 289
grace period 285, 287, 292

B
backup 138
archive 138
synchronization tutorial 141
tutorial 141
backup files
restoring files by 147

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backup job
restoring files by 144

backup settings 327

data protection 173

bandwidth limit 292

date 158

broadcatching 187, 207
adding channels 194, 208, 209
channel guides 223
RSS 187

diagnostic tool 178

browser plugin, capturing link 218
browsing shares 56

diagnostic tools 178
discovery 21, 32
disk
S.M.A.R.T. attributes 275
disk replacement 162
displaying user information 305

C
capturing download links 218
certificate 329
editing 329
tutorial 122
verifying 132
changing password 50
channel guides 223
CIFS 157
configuration
COPY/SYNC button 215
download service 194
Flickr 284
FTP Uploadr 290
print server 214
recycle bins 316
YouTube 285, 286
CoolIris 55
COPY/SYNC button 19, 215
configuration 215
example 225
synchronization 225
copying contents 318
CPU
temperature 154
usage 154
creating
groups 308, 309
shares 312, 313
users 302, 303
volumes 165, 168

DLNA 186, 216
DNS 175, 178
documentation
related 2
Domain Name System, see DNS
domain user
troubleshooting 351
troubleshooting share access 351
download period control 200
download service 186, 217
activation 194
adding a task 197, 204
configuration 194
download period control 200
link capture browser plugin 218
notifications 218
activation 194
P2P download
IP filtering 202, 203
protection 219, 220
re-seeding 195
settings 201
torrent files 197, 217
preferences 199
status 196
URL, download service 197, 239
downloading files 58
duplexing 171

E
Exchangeable image file format, see Exif
Exif 54
explicit TLS/SSL 134

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Index

external volumes 168

GMT 30, 160

global icons 51, 63
Google Maps 54
fan speed 154

GPS 54

file
troubleshooting access 351

grace period 285, 287, 292

File Transfer Protocol over TLS, see FTPS

groups 307
adding 308, 309
editing 309
membership 304, 309
names 309
searching 308

files
downloading 58
uploading 58

file browser
configure share 58
share browser 56
File Transfer Protocol over Explicit TLS, see FTPES

FileZilla 134
fingerprint 132
firmware, upgrading 331
Flickr 279
access rights 285
activation 280
authorization 280, 282
grace period 285
safety level 285
folder
troubleshooting access 351
folder creation 57
FTP 134, 185, 188, 279
activation 188
anonymous access 188
over TLS 134
passive mode transfer 189
FTP Uploadr 288
activation 289
bandwidth limit 292
configuration 290
grace period 292
server entry 289

Home
icons 51
HTTP port 178
HTTPS 127, 328

I
icons 51, 63, 65
global 51, 63
users 303
ID3 tags 192
initialization wizard 24, 34
IP address 175
IP filtering 202, 203
iTunes server 186, 193, 216, 217

FTPES 186

JBOD 166, 170, 172

FTPES - FTP over explicit TLS/SSL 134

jumbo frames 176, 178

FTPS 134, 279

K
Ken Burns 61

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Index

volumes 167
workgroup 158

lag, time 157

NAS Starter Utility 21, 31, 47

language 62

navigation panel 63

latitude 54

network 175
diagnostic tools 178
DNS 175, 178
HTTP port 178
IP address 175
jumbo frames 176, 178
PPPoE 175, 183
activation 183
TCP/IP 176

link capture browser plugin 218
login 49
Logitech SqueezeCenter 193
logs 323
longitude 54

M
maintenance 319
backup settings 327
logs 323
power management 319
failure 320
resume 320
schedule 322
UPS 320
reset 327
restoring settings 327
shutdown 332
upgrading firmware 331

network connection test 178
notifications
download service
activation 194
notifications, download service 218

O
other documentation 2

master browser 158
media server 186, 189
configuration 190
ID3 tags 192
iTunes server 186, 193, 217
rebuild database 189
share publish 191
SqueezeCenter 193
status 189
membership 304
groups 304, 309

P2P download
IP filtering 202, 203
protection 219, 220
re-seeding 195
settings 201
torrent files 197, 217
health 205
info-hash 206
trackers 206
parity 171

mirroring 171

passive mode transfer 189

moving contents 318

password 50, 61
photo wall 55
ping 178

Play Next 62

naming
server 158
shares 59

port, HTTP 178

572

port mapping 178
power management 319
failure 320

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resume 320
schedule 322
UPS 320
PPPoE 175, 183
activation 183
preferences, download service 199
print server 224
configuration 214
name 214
protect 138
backup 138
backup tutorial 141
protection, download service 219, 220
public key certificate 329
editing 329
publishing shares 191

R
RAID 166, 170
degraded 164
RAID 0 171, 172
RAID 1 171, 173
recovering 162
replacing disks 162
resynchronization 162
rebuild media server database 189
recycle bins 315
activation 59, 313
configuration 312, 316
related documentation 2
replacing disks 162
reset 19, 327

attributes 275
safety level, Flickr 285
scanning volumes 168
schedule, power management 322
scheduling, download service 200
secure connections 127
server entry, FTP Uploadr 289
server name 158
setup
COPY/SYNC button 215
download service 194
Flickr 284
FTP Uploadr 290
media server 190
P2P download 201
print server 214
YouTube 285, 286
share
configuration 58
troubleshooting local user access 350
share publishing 191
shares 56, 311
access rights 59, 314, 315
adding 312, 313
browser 56
copying contents 318
downloading files 58
editing 313
folder creation 57
moving contents 318
names 59
recycle bins 312, 315
activation 313
configuration 316
share browser 312, 316
status 312
types 312
uploading files 58, 244, 317

restoring
by backup files tutorial 147
by backup job tutorial 144
files 144

shutdown 332

restoring settings 327

SqueezeCenter 193

RSS 187
download service notifications 218

SSL 134, 328
certificate 329
editing 329
tutorial 122

status 62, 154
download service 196
shares 312

S.M.A.R.T.

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Index

volume 163, 164
storage 161
creating volumes 165
disk replacement 162
JBOD 161, 166, 170, 172
methods 170
duplexing 171
mirroring 171
parity 171
striping 171
naming volumes 167
RAID 161, 166, 170
degraded 164
RAID 0 171, 172
RAID 1 171, 173
recovering 162
resynchronization 162
status 163, 164
USB devices 168, 169
volumes 161, 170
striping 171
synchronization 215, 225
configuration 215
directions 216
single direction 225
tutorial 141
two directions 226
system
date/time 158
login 49
master browser 158
password 50
reset 19
server name 158
settings 157
status 154
time lag 157
workgroup name 158
system settings 61

lag 157
server 159
zone 30, 160
Time Machine 297
TLS 134, 186, 279
torrent files 197, 217
health 205
info-hash 206
trackers 206
Transport Layer Security, see TLS
troubleshooting
domain user 351
domain user share access 351
file access 351
files not in proper folders 52
folder access 351
forgot password 346, 347
LED indicators 343
LAN 344
local user share access 350
login 349
media files 354
NAS Starter Utility 345
overview 343
user share access 350
web configurator access 347

U
Universal Plug and Play. See UPnP.
upgrading firmware 331
uploading files 58, 244, 317
UPnP 178
port mapping 178
UPS 320
URL 197, 239
USB devices 168, 169
User Name 248

T
TCP/IP 176
temperature
CPU 154
thumbprint 132
time 158

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usernames 305
users 301
adding an account 302, 303
displaying information 303, 305
editing an account 303
group membership 304, 309
icons 303
search 302

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usernames 305

V
video category, YouTube 287
video playback 62
volumes 161, 170
creation 165, 168
JBOD 161, 166, 170, 172
names 167
RAID 161, 166, 170
degraded 164
RAID 0 171, 172
RAID 1 171, 173
recovering 162
resynchronization 162
scanning 168
status 163, 164
storage methods 170
duplexing 171
mirroring 171
parity 171
striping 171

Y
YouTube 279
access rights 288
activation 280
authorization 285
configuration 285, 286
grace period 287
video category 287

Z
zPilot 27, 43

W
web configurator 47
icons 51
login 49
navigation panel 63
password 50, 61
status 62
web publishing 187, 206, 222
activation 206
example 221
port number 223
troubleshooting 357
web security 127
wizard 24, 34
workgroup name 158

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