Lenovo Px2-300d User manual

px2-300d Network Storage

with LifeLine 4.1

User Guide

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CONTENTS

Setting up Your px2-300d Network Storage 1

Setup Overview 2

About the px2-300d Device Components 3

Front Panel 3

Drive Bay Access 4

Rear Panel 5

Default Settings 5

Connecting the px2-300d Network Storage to Your Network 6

Check Package Contents 6

Connecting the px2-300d 6

Safety Information 8

Accessing Your Device If It's Not Discovered 9

Direct Access Using the Device IP Address or Model Name 9

Discovery Using LenovoEMC Storage Manager 9

Discovering the px2-300d Using Your Computer OS 9

Setting Up Favorite Features 11

Setting Up Additional Features 12

Device Setup 13

Device Configuration Options 15

Network Settings 16

Manually Configuring Network Settings 17

Bonding NICs 18

VLAN Settings 19

Naming Your px2-300d Network Storage 20

Configuring Your px2-300d Network Storage to Use Active Directory 21

Enabling Active Directory Trusted Domains 22

Customizing Access to Features on Your px2-300d Network Storage 23

Enabling the Display of Features 23

Enabling Access Permissions to Features 23

Non-Administrator User Log In 24

Obtaining Alerts About Your px2-300d Network Storage 25

Tracing Events on Your px2-300d Network Storage 26

Downloading the complete event log file 26

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Obtaining System Status for Your px2-300d Network Storage 27

Space Usage 27

Control Panel 27

Device Information 27

Using Your px2-300d Network Storage in Various Time Zones 29

Setting the Display Language for Your px2-300d Network Storage 30

Printing Documents 31

Securing Your px2-300d Network Storage and Contents 32

How Do I Secure My px2-300d Network Storage? 33

Security Settings 34

Users and Groups 35

Users and Groups Overview 36

Users 36

Groups 36

How Access Rights Are Granted Using Groups in Workgroup Mode 36

Adding Users 37

Managing Users 38

Changing User Information 38

Changing User Access Permissions 39

Setting Quotas 39

Deleting Users 39

Adding Groups 40

Managing Groups 41

Removing a User from the Group 41

Changing Group Access Permissions 41

Deleting Groups 42

Using Active Directory Domain 43

Active Directory Users and Groups Overview 44

Managing Active Directory Users and Groups 45

Importing Users and Groups from Active Directory 45

Synchronizing with the Active Directory Controller 45

Changing Access Permissions 46

Setting Quotas 46

Deleting an Active Directory User or Group 46

Managing Your px2-300d Network Storage with Local and Active Directory Users 47

Enabling Active Directory after Creating Users in Workgroup Mode 47

Logging in to Your px2-300d 47

Creating Local Users and Groups in Active Directory Mode 47

Creating Share Permissions for AD Users and Local Users 48

Switching to Workgroup Mode from Active Directory 48

Sharing Files 49

Sharing Overview 50

Interfaces for Sharing 50

Shares 51

What are Shares and How Do I Organize Content with Them? 51

Adding Shares 52

Managing Shares 53

Deleting Shares 55

Using Protocols to Share Files 56

What Are Protocols and How Do I Use Them to Share Files? 56

AFP File Sharing for Macs 56

Bluetooth File Sharing 56

FTP File Sharing 57

TFTP 57

NFS File Sharing 57

rsync: Synchronizing Files with Another Storage Device or Other Computers 58

Monitoring Your Device with an SNMP Management Tool 59

Managing File Sharing with Web Access (http/https) 60

WebDAV: Managing Files Using HTTP or HTTPS 60

Windows DFS: Creating a Distributed Windows File System 60

Windows File Sharing 61

Sharing Content through the Home Page 62

Sharing Your Content with the World 62

Adding a Custom Home Page 62

Automatically Sending Content to Multiple People at Once 64

How to Set Up an Email Distribution Active Folder 64

Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 65

Managing Your Content 66

Transferring Content to and from Your px2-300d Network Storage with Copy Jobs 67

Copy Jobs Limitations 67

Getting Content from a USB External Storage Device 68

Safely removing external storage 68

One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 69

Setting QuikTransfer 69

Drive Management 70

Managing Drives 71

Write Caching 71

Global Drive Management Settings 71

Storage Pool Information 72

Drive Status 72

Adding New Drives to Your px2-300d Network Storage 73

Storage Pool Management 75

Understanding How Your Content Is Stored 76

Storage Pools 76

Volumes 76

Adding and Managing Storage Pools 77

Adding a Data Storage Pool 77

Improving Performance with a Cache Storage Pool 78

Creating a Cache Storage Pool 78

Assigning a Cache Pool to a Volume 79

Volumes 80

Snapshots 80

Exposing/Unexposing the Snapshot 81

Restoring a Snapshot 81

Deleting a Snapshot 81

Displaying Shares in the Snapshot 81

Make the Snapshot Read-only 81

Changing Expose Mode 81

Adding and Managing Volumes 82

Deleting a Storage Pool 84

Changing RAID Protection Types 85

iSCSI: Creating IP-Based Storage Area Networks (SAN) 86

iSCSI Overview 87

Adding iSCSI Drives 88

Enabling iSCSI Drives 88

Connecting to iSCSI Drives 88

Managing iSCSI Drives 89

Adding CHAP User Access to an iSCSI Drive 89

Deleting iSCSI Drives 90

Backing up and Restoring Your Content 91

Backup and Restore Overview 92

Backup of Data through RAID Protection 92

Backing up to and Restoring from Your px2-300d Network Storage 93

Backing up Macs with Time Machine 93

One-touch Transferring of Content from a USB Device 93

Copy Jobs Overview 94

Backing up Your px2-300d Network Storage 95

Copy Jobs 95

From: Settings 96

To: Settings 97

Setting a Schedule 97

Registering with Avamar for Backup and Restore 99

Backing up with Amazon S3 100

Restoring Files with Amazon S3 100

Backing up with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 101

Restoring Files with Personal Cloud 101

Personal Cloud: Accessing Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud From Anywhere in the

World 102

What Is LenovoEMC Personal Cloud ? 103

LenovoEMC Personal Cloud Key Terms 103

Is My Content Secure? 104

Creating a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 105

Configuring Router Port Forwarding for Personal Cloud 106

Router Port Forwarding 106

Configuring Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 107

Enabling Internet Access to the px2-300d 107

Changing Personal Cloud Settings 107

Inviting People onto Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 108

Joining a Trusted Device to LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 109

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Managing Trusted Devices on a Personal Cloud 110

Disconnecting Trusted Devices 110

Deleting Trusted Devices 110

Using Copy Jobs with a LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 111

Disabling or Deleting Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 112

Accessing Content Using Your LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 113

Informing Users What to Do with LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 114

Sharing Content Using Social Media 115

Sharing Content Using Social Media: Overview 116

Facebook 117

Flickr 118

YouTube 119

Share Content through LenovoEMC Personal Cloud 120

Media Management 121

Media Management Overview 122

Scanning for Media Content 122

Media Services Capabilities and Limitations 123

Sharing Media Content over the Internet 124

Enabling Internet Access from the Media Server Page 124

Media Aggregation 125

Enabling Media Aggregation 125

Social Media Sharing 126

Streaming Music, Movies, and Pictures 127

Example: Setting up iTunes 127

Example: Setting up Xbox 360 127

Photos 128

Photos Overview 128

Streaming Pictures 128

Creating a Slideshow on the Device Home Page 128

Automatically Resizing Your Photos 128

Getting Pictures from Your Camera 129

Music 130

Music Overview 130

Streaming Music 130

Videos 131

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Video Capabilities Overview 131

Streaming Movies 131

Adding Applications to Your px2-300d Network Storage 132

Application Overview 133

Application Installation 134

Application Manager 135

Starting or stopping an application 135

Adding applications 135

Removing applications 135

Software Updates 136

Auto-update process: installing a device software update 136

Manual update process: installing a device software update 136

Backing up and Recovering Your px2-300d Network Storage Settings 138

Backing Up Your px2-300d Network Storage Settings 139

Backing up Device Configuration 139

Restoring a Configuration Backup 139

Hardware Management 140

Energy Saving 141

Power Down Drives 141

Brightness 141

Wake On LAN 141

Creating a Power Schedule 141

Factory Reset 142

UPS Management 143

Troubleshooting Routers 144

Enabling the DMZ 144

Configuring Port Forwarding on Double NAT Networks 145

Bridging the Secondary Router 145

Bridging the Primary Router 145

Additional Support 147

How to Get Help 148

Support 149

Legal 150

Open Source 151

Warranty Information 152

Limited Warranty Notice 152

Limited Warranty for Iomega Products 152

Regulatory Information 153

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement 153

Canadian Verification 153

European Union - Compliance to the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive 154

Important WEEE Information 154

European Union RoHS 154

India RoHS 154

California Perchlorate Information 155

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Cable and Cord Notice 155

Recycling and environmental information 155

Export classification notice 155

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