User manual LACIE ETHERNET DISK MINI - HOME EDITION

[. . . ] LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 1 Table of Contents Health and Safety Precautions General Use Precautions 1. Installation and Setup Setup Step 1 ­ Verify Setup Step 2 ­ Connect Setup Step 3 ­ Install and Configure Device Setup Step 4 ­ Install Desktop Applications Record Important Information 3. Digital Media Sharing and Home Entertainment Digital Media Server (DMS) Digital Media Players (DMP) 4 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 11 13 13 14 15 16 17 17 17 18 18 19 20 20 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 29 30 31 32 32 33 34 35 35 36 36 36 LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 2 Digital Media Standards 7. Software Update Appendix A: Router Configuration D-Link® Router Configuration Linksys® Router Configuration Netgear® Router Configuration 37 38 39 39 40 40 41 42 43 43 44 44 45 46 47 48 48 49 50 50 51 52 52 53 53 54 55 55 55 56 56 56 57 57 57 58 58 63 68 LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 3 Copyrights Copyright © 2007 LaCie. [. . . ] You can also use MyContacts as your everyday address book ­ you can add up to 6 phone numbers, a home address, a work address and two email addresses for every contact in your MyContacts. LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 32 5. 1. Enter contact details on each of the three tabs in the Contact Details window ­ Basics, Email/Phone and Address. NOTE: Display name and Email on the Basics tab are required, but all other information is optional. Figure 5. 1 5. 2. Editing Contact Details To edit contact details, like name, email address, phone number, etc. , either click on the contact name in the contacts list or select multiple contacts from the list using the check boxes and click Edit in the action bar. A Contact Details window for each selected contact will open. LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 33 5. 3. Creating Mailing Lists You can use mailing lists to share folders with groups of people. For example, you can share a folder of vacation pictures with several family members. To create a mailing list: 1. All contacts in your address book are listed in the Address Book list. Select the contacts you want to add to the mailing list and click Add. The mailing list will appear in your address book. 3. Figure 5. 3 LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 34 5. 4. Importing Contacts If you already have a large address book in either Mozilla/Netscape 7 or Outlook Express, you can export the address book as an . ldif or . csv file and import it directly into MyContacts. To import contacts: 1. Follow the instructions in the Import Contacts window for exporting the proper type of file. Match the columns of your exported file to the corresponding contact details fields (Fig. Click Continue. NOTE: You can simplify the matching process by removing unnecessary fields from your exported . csv file by opening the file in a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel and deleting empty columns. 5. 4-B, all columns but First Name, Last Name and Email address 1 were deleted. MyContacts will import contacts from Windows . csv files exported from any email program. Figure 5. 4-A Figure 5. 4-B LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 35 5. 5. Sending Email to Contacts To send an email to your contacts, select contact from the contacts list and click the Send Email button. Your default email application will open with the selected contacts in the To: line. 5. 6. Select the contacts you want to delete from the list using the check boxes. Make sure you want to delete all listed contacts and click Delete. Figure 5. 6 LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 36 6. Digital Media Sharing and Home Entertainment The Ethernet Disk mini's Digital Media Server (DMS) component allows you to access and play your digital media ­ photos, videos and music ­ on a broad range of digital media players (DMPs) at home and on the road. At home, you could listen to digital music stored on the Ethernet Disk mini over your high end audio system in the den while simultaneously streaming video to your IP-enabled TV in the living room. [. . . ] Go back to Ethernet Disk mini setup and click the Retry button on the router configuration page. 2. If the message shown below does not appear after you click Retry, contact LaCie Customer Support, or click here to perform a port forwarding test on your router. LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 63 Linksys® Router Configuration Step 1 ­ Access your router configuration page 1. Open a Web Browser and navigate to the IP address for your Linksys router. If you don't know your router's IP address, try http://192. 168. 1. 1 or http://192. 168. 0. 1 (these are common IP addreses for home networking routers). 2. Enter your username and password. Please refer to your Linksys user manual for the default username and password. LaCie Ethernet Disk mini Home Edition User Manual page 64 Step 2 - Configure your router for UPNP 1. [. . . ]