Chapter 2 NAS Starter Utility

Click Configuration > System Setting in the main utility screen to display the following screen. Figure 14 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

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

Connection

connect to the Internet. Enter your user name and password

 

 

Automatically get

Select this if the NSA is automatically assigned an IP address from the ISP or a DHCP

IP address

server in your network.

 

 

Manually assign IP

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

address

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

Domain Name System (DNS) is for mapping a domain name to its corresponding IP

server

address and vice versa. Select this if the NSA is automatically given DNS information

 

from the ISP or a DHCP server in your network.

 

 

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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