User manual SIMPLETECH 61600-00072-001

[. . . ] SIMPLESHARE USER'S GUIDE Copyright ©2005 by SimpleTechTM, Inc. Information contained in this document, including but not limited to any instructions, descriptions and product specifications, is company private to SimpleTech and shall not be modified, used, copied, reproduced or disclosed in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the written consent of SimpleTech. Export Administration Regulation This document may contain technical data controlled by the U. S. Export Administration Regulations, and may be subject to the approval of the U. S. Export Administration Regulation is prohibited. Trademark Information SimpleTech, DirectPath and SimpleTech are trademarks of SimpleTech, Inc. [. . . ] The claiming process destroys all the data on the drive. Managing SimpleShare Basic Disk 41 RENAMING A DISK DRIVE 1 In the Disk Management menu click Basic. 2 Select Show Disk Details. The Show Disk Details checkbox is located at the bottom of the Disk Management page. It may be necessary to use the scroll bar to see the checkbox. 3 Click Rename Disk . 4 Select the disk you want to rename from the Old Disk Name list. 6 Click Rename Disk . OK 7 In the confirmation dialog, click . Managing SimpleShare Basic Disk 42 ERASING A DISK POOL 1 Erase all shares from the disk pool you want to delete. For instructions, see "Deleting a Share" on page 37. Deleting shares and disk pools erases all data within them so make complete backups prior to deleting shares or disk pools. Quick Erase performs a brief erasure of the primary file system structures but does not erase all locations on the disk that contained user data. Full Erase performs multiple erasure passes on the entire disk. 7 In the confirmation dialog, click OK . Before you can delete a disk pool, you must first delete all shares allocated within the pool. An erased or wiped disk appears in SimpleShare Administrator as a Blank Disk. 2 In the Disk Management menu, click Basic. 4 In Disks Available on the Wipe Pool page, select the disk drive you want to wipe (erase). 6 Click Quick Erase or Full Erase, depending on the type of erase process you want to perform. Managing SimpleShare Basic Disk 43 ERASING A DISK DRIVE Erasing disks destroys the existing data on the disks. Do not use this function unless you wish to destroy the data on a disk. Exercise extreme caution when using this function, as the data on disks that are erased using this function may not be recoverable. Quick erase only takes a few minutes to complete. However, portions of the data may be recoverable using data recovery tools. If you are concerned about erased data becoming available to others, perform a full erase. If the data on SimpleShare is encrypted, it may not be necessary to perform a full erase. To decrypt the data requires knowledge of the encryption password. 1 In the Disk Management menu, click Basic. 2 Select Show Disk Details. The Show Disk Details checkbox is located at the bottom of the Disk Management page. It may be necessary to use the scroll bar to see the checkbox. 3 Click Erase Disk . Managing SimpleShare Basic Disk 44 4 In Disks Available, select each disk you want to erase. 6 Click Quick Erase or Full Erase , depending on the type of erase process you want to perform. Quick Erase performs a simple erase of the primary file system structures but does not erase all locations on the disk that contained user data. Full Erase performs multiple erasure passes on the entire disk. 7 In the confirmation dialog, click OK . Managing SimpleShare Basic Disk 45 ENABLING DISK POWER MANAGEMENT Disk power management allows the internal SimpleShare disk drive to be automatically powered off during periods when it is not being accessed. 3 Enter the time-out period in the Minutes and Seconds text boxes. The time-out period can range from 0 (zero) minutes and 0 seconds, up to 21 minutes and 15 seconds. Seconds values not in increments of 5 (five) are rounded to the closest multiple of 5. 4 Click Apply . OK 5 In the confirmation dialog, click . Managing SimpleShare Basic Disk 46 VIEWING DISK DRIVE HEALTH INFORMATION SimpleShare's internal disk drive supports SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) for monitoring drive health. [. . . ] 7 Click Reboot to restart SimpleShare and apply your changes. Managing SimpleShare Printer 99 DISABLING THE PRINT SERVER 1 Click the Printers menu. 3 Click Apply 4 In the warning dialog, click OK . . 5 In the confirmation dialog, click OK . Managing SimpleShare Printer 100 INSTALLING PRINTER DRIVERS ON WINDOWS COMPUTERS 1 In the Address line of your browser, enter \\<SimpleShare name> to open the SimpleShare root directory (where <SimpleShare name> is the network name of your SimpleShare server). 2 Right-click on the printer icon, and then click Connect to start the Add Printer Wizard. Managing SimpleShare Printer 101 3 If you are running Windows XP, the Connect to Printer dialog appears. Click OK to start the Add Printer Wizard. 4 Select the manufacturer and model of your printer from those listed or if you have the printer installation disk, click Have Disk and follow the onscreen instructions. [. . . ]