LaCie 5big Network 2 • DESIGN BY NEIL POULTON Administering Your LaCie 5big Network 2
User Manual page 33
4.6. Dashboard: General Settings
This page allows the administrator to modify some of your 5big Net-
work 2’s general parameters.
Machine Name: Modify the machine name. The machine name
identifies your 5big Network 2 in LaCie Network Assistant and on
the local network.
IMPORTANT INFO: The machine name is limited to 15 charac-
ters.
Date (mm/dd/yy): Change the date.
Time: Change the time.
Language: Change the Dashboard language.
Time zone: Change the time zone.
NTP Server: Click the box, then click the field to the right and type
the address of a Network Time Protocol server to provide the time
for the 5big Network 2 automatically. While NTP is selected, you
can’t modify the time and date settings.
Workgroup: Modify the Windows workgroup name to set your 5big
Network 2 to belong to a certain workgroup.
Domain: See section 4.6.1. Active Directory.
TECHNICAL NOTE: Mac users connected to a network with Win-
dows com puters can also access shares this way by selecting in the
Finder Network > [Workgroup] > LaCie-5big where “[Work group]”
is the name of the Windows workgroup.
Toggle Services: Turn the various services off or on. By default, all
these services are enabled. However, UPnP and Time Machine ser-
vices also need to be enabled at the share level in order to be op-
erative (4.9. Dashboard: Shares).
✦ SMB: Toggle this feature to activate/deactivate the SMB net-
work transfer protocol.
✦ AFP: Toggle this feature to activate/deactivate the AFP (Apple
Filing Protocol).
✦ FTP Service: Toggle this feature on to allow your 5big Network
2 to be accessible via File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Refer to
section 3.4. Accessing Shares via FTP for details on FTP ac-
cess.
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