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Media Server With the built-in Media Server capability, the N7700 provides media streaming service to stand-alone networked home media adapters that s

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

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

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

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

7. Your PC will start to connect to the Photo Web Server. 8. Select N7700 Photo Gallery Wizard to publish your pictures to the N7700. 9. Login

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

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

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

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

Slide Shows Slide shows are a great way to enjoy pictures stored on your N7700. You can click on the Start Slide Show icon on the top right hand cor

Package Contents Your N7700 package should contain the following items: z N7700 Unit x1 z Power Cord x1 z QIG (Quick Installation Guide) x1 z CD-

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

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

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

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

13. Click on Disk Management and you will see a new hard disk listed. 14. Initialize the new hard disk and you will then be able to use the iSCSI t

Chapter 6: Tips and Tricks USB and eSATA Storage Expansion The N7700 supports external USB hard disks through its four USB ports. Once a USB hard disk

Part I - Setup a DynDNS Account 1. Go to http://www.dyndns.org from your home PC. 2. Click on the Sign Up Now link. 3. Check the Check boxes, sele

Replacing Damaged Hard Drives If you are using RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 6 you can easily replace a damaged hard drive in the Thecus N7700 while keeping

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

4. Set the Date, Time, and Time Zone. 5. Click Apply. In addition, if the N7700 is able to access the Internet and you want to keep the NTP Server

Front Panel The Thecus N7700’s front panel has the device’s controls, indicators, and hard disk trays: Front Panel Item Description 1

Chapter 8: Revision updated (FW 3.00.03 to 3.00.06) What’s New There are additional features implemented into the new 3.00.04 version firmware. RAID

RAID Volume Encryption With firmware v3.00.04, you can protect your data by using RAID Volume Encryption function to prevent the risk of data exposure

RAID volumes with encryption enabled will be displayed with a key lock symbol next to volume ID name. NOTE 2. With RAID volume encryption ena

Next, setup the physical capacity for iSCSI thin-provision volume by dragging the Allocation bar to the desired size. After the size has been deter

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

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

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

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Chapter 9: Revision updated up to FW 3.00.08 What’s New There are additional features implemented into the new 3.00.08 version firmware. Updated Lo

Disclaimer Page Added The following disclaimer page has been added to this firmware release. Please click the check box if you do not want to have th

Hard Disk Trays Each of the N7700’s hard disk trays has a lock, a latch, and two LED indicators: 3 4 51 2 Hard Disk Trays Item Description 1.HDD Power

Updated Main User Interface The look and icons of the main user interface have been updated. Add On-Line Register Service From main menu tree, there

Added Rsync Setting under Nsync Target The Thecus Nsync feature has added a third way to use Rsync to replicate data between two systems. For the tar

enable the sync target server and input a valid username and password to grant access permission. Added 2nd Gateway for Clients of DHCP Server Route

Added Dual DOM for Auto Repair The unique Dual DOM feature can now perform “Auto Repair”. The Thecus NAS will backup up to five versions of the system

Chapter 10: Version 3.01.00 Firmware Updates What’s New There are additional features implemented into the new 3.01.00 version firmware. Updated Lo

Administrators can add or remove favorite functions to My Favorites by right clicking the mouse on the menu tree. The other way administrators can

Added Additional Mode Support for Link Aggregation Link Aggregation now has six supported modes. The administrator can choose the most suitable mode

Appendix A: Product Specifications Hardware Specifications Product Model N7700 / N7700PRO Network Interfaces WAN Gigabit RJ-45 connector LAN Gig

Hot swappable Hot spare Disk roaming RAID level migration RAID expansion iSCSI Target Supports: Microsoft iSCSI Initiator v2.0.4 StarPort Initiator V

Appendix B: Customer Support If your N7700 is not working properly, we encourage you to check out Chapter 7: Troubleshooting, located in this manual.

Back Panel Item Description 1.LAN Port • LAN port for connecting to an Ethernet network through a switch or router 2.WAN Port • WAN port for connec

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

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

Disk Usage When all 7 disks are of the same size, and used in RAID, N7700 disk usage percentage is listed below: RAID Level Percentage Used RAID 0

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

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

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

they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors' reputations. Finally, any fre

these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally pri

4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, m

149 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

Chapter 2: Hardware Installation Overview Your N7700 is designed for easy installation. To help you get started, the following chapter will help you q

Cable Connections To connect the N7700 to your network, follow the steps below: 1. Connect an Ethernet cable from your network to the WAN port on th

Checking System Status After making connections on the N7700 and powering up, check whether the system status is normal or has trouble by observing in

Chapter 3: First Time Setup Overview Once the hardware is installed, physically connected to your network, and powered on, you can configure the N7700

6. Name your N7700 and configure the network IP address. If your switch or router is configured as a DHCP Server, configuring the N7700 to automatic

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

LCD Operation The N7700 is equipped with an LCD on the front for easy status display and setup. There are four buttons on the front panel to contr

2009/05/22 12:00 Current system time. Disk Info Current status of disk slot has been installed RAID Current RAID status. The N7700 will rotate thes

Step 1: Network Setup From the Web Administration Interface, you can configure the network settings of the N7700 for your network. You can access the

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Chapter 4: System Administration Overview The N7700 provides an easily accessible Web Administration Interface. With it, you can configure and monitor

Menu Bar Item Description System Information Current system status of the N7700. System Management Various N7700 system settings and information. S

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

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

Logs From the System Information menu, choose the Logs item and the System Logs screen appears. This screen shows a history of system usage and import

System Management The System Management menu gives you a wealth of settings that you can use to configure your N7700’s system administration function

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

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

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

See the following table for a detailed description of each item. UPS Setting Item Description UPS Monitoring Enable or disable UPS monitoring. Manuf

Example - Monday: On: 8:00; Off: 16:00 System will turn on at 8:00 AM on Monday, and off at 16:00 on Monday. System will turn on for the rest of the w

From the menu, choose the SNMP item, and the SNMP Support screen appears. From here, you can Enable or Disable. Utility ˙ Administrator password

Confirm Password Type the new password again to confirm. Apply Press this to save your changes. ˙ Config Mgmt From the menu, choose the Config Mg

˙ Reboot & Shutdown From the menu, choose Reboot & Shutdown item, and the Shutdown/Reboot System screen appears. Press Reboot to restart the

Once the system has rebooted, you will be returned to the File System Check prompt. There you will see the available RAID volumes to

The system must be reafter file system check cobooted before the N7700 can function normally mplete. NOTE System Network Use the System Netwo

WAN Configuration Item Description Host name Host name that identifies the N7700 on the network. Domain name Specifies the domain name of the N770

Table of Contents Copyright and Trademark Notice ...2 About This Manual...

WARNING Most Fast Ethernet (10/100) Switches/Routers do not support Jumbo Frame and you will notbe able to connect to your N7700 after Jumbo Frame is

NOTE The IP Segment of WAN and LAN should not overlap. WARNING The IP address of the LAN interface should not be in the range of the Start IP add

Samba Anonymous Login Authentication To enable this option, no matter there is share folder has been created in public access. The user account and pa

A description of each item follows: NFS Server Setting Item Description NFS Enable or Disable NFS support. Apply Click Apply to save your changes.

Security FTP Enable or disable Security FTP, be sure the client FTP software has also security FTP setting enabled. Port Specifies the port number

A description of each field follows: Media Manager Settings Item Description Media Server Enable or disable the Media Server service. Shared Media

4. Setup the DMA (These steps will be different if you use a different DMA) a. From the Server List screen, select “N7700: Media Server” as the ser

UPnP This device supports UPnP Media server, which allows users to play media files with UPnP client (ex. DMA devices). Enable or disable Universal P

through Bonjour zero-configuration networking with a complete description of the protocols and technologies used to create Bonjour enabled application

Bad Block scan Yes to start scan Bad Block. Total Capacity Shows the total SATA hard disk capacity. Disk Power Management The administrator can set

System Information...26 Product Information...

Current Pending Sector Current count of unstable sectors (waiting for remapping). The raw value of this attribute indicates the total number of secto

RAID Information Item Description Master RAID The RAID volume currently designated as the Master RAID volume. ID ID of the current RAID volume. N

2. On the RAID Configuration screen, set the RAID storage space as JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 — see Appendix C: RAID Basics for

With a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 volume, you can also add a spare disk after the RAID is created. See Chapter 6: Tips and Tricks

RAID 5 requires a minimum of 3 disks. RAID 5 can sustain one failed disk. RAID 6 Two independent parity computations must be used in order to provide

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

Remove RAID destroys aunrecoverable. ll data in the current RAID volume. The data is WARNING Expanding a RAID To expand a RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6

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

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

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

Snap (Snapshot configuration)...69 Folder and sub-folders Access Control List (ACL) ...

RAID 6 X X [ONLINE] [RAID 6] HDDx4 to [RAID 6] HDDx5[RAID 6] HDDx4 to [RAID 6] HDDx6[RAID 6] HDDx4 to [RAID 6] HDDx7[RAID 6] HDDx5 to [RAID 6] HDDx6[R

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

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

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

2. Press YES. All data in the volume will be removed. Advance Option There are 2 options is currently allow Admin to Enable/Disable to operate N7700 a

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

Add Folder Item Description RAID ID RAID volume where the new folder will reside. Folder Name Enter the name of the folder. Description Provide a

Description Provide a description the folder. Browseable Enable or disable users from browsing the folder contents. This setting will only apply whi

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

Snapshot The N7700 is capable for 16 snapshot version control. To have snapshot to work on, the file system creation for RAID volume has to be “ZFS”.

Part III - Setting up Virtual Servers (HTTPS)... 116 Firewall Software Configuration...

These taken snapshot is only accessible though CIFS/SMB by manually type \\NAS IP address\snapshot and invisible from normal access. Also, the taken s

2. With the group or user selected, press one of the buttons from the three access level columns at the top. The group or user then appears in that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Disk Usage...142 Appendix D: Active Directory Basics...

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

support feature; the N7700 will connect with the ADS/NT server and get all the information of the domain users and groups automatically. From the Acco

To join an AD domain, you can refer the figure and use the example below to configure the N7700 for associated filed input: AD Domain Ex

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

NOTE All users are automatically assigned to the ‘users’ group. Edit Users 1. Select an existing user from the Local User Configuration screen.

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

Add Groups 1. On the Local Group Configuration screen, click on the Add button. 2. The Local Group Setting screen appears. 3. Enter a Group Name.

Remove Groups 1. On the Local Group Configuration screen, select a group name from the list. 2. Press Remove to delete the group from the system.

Application Server The N7700 supports printer server, and Tunes server. The integrated Print Server allows you to share a single USB printer will all

If a corrupt print job is sent to a printer, printing may suddenly fail. If your print jobs seem to be locked up, pressing the Remove All Documents b

Chapter 1: Introduction Overview Thank you for choosing the Thecus N7700 IP Storage Server. The Thecus N7700 is an easy-to-use storage server that all

Windows Vista To set up the Printer Server in Windows Vista, follow the steps below: 1. Open Printer Folder from the Control Panel. 2. Cl

4. Select The printer that I want isn’t listed. You can press The printer that I want isn’t listed to go into next page without waiting f

If your printer model is not listed, please contact your printer manufacturer for help. 7. Windows will attempt to connect to the printer.

iTunes® Server With the built-in iTunes server capability, the N7700 enables digital music to be shared and played anywhere on the network! From the

User Module The user module is reserved for Thecus fans to build up 3rd party functions in the future. Backup There are a number of ways to back up d

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

Password on Target Server The password for the username on the target server. Test Connection Click to check the connection to the Target Server. Sch

Thecus Backup Utility The Thecus Backup Utility is on your Installation CD. When you click on the CD, the Backup Utility will be installed under Progr

2. When the Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP screen appears, click Perform Additional Tasks. 3. Click Browse this CD. 4. In Windows Explorer, na

Chapter 5: Using the N7700 Overview Once the N7700 is setup and operating, users on the network may manage all varieties of digital music, photos, or