QNAP TS-AI642 User Manual

1. Connect an HDMI display to the NAS.
2. Connect a USB keyboard to the NAS or prepare the QNAP IR remote control (not available on all
models).
3. Power on the NAS.
The Welcome screen of the Smart Installation Guide appears.
4. Select Start Smart Installation Guide.
The Enter the NAS name and administrator’s password screen appears.
5. Specify the following information:
• NAS Name: Specify a name with 1 to 14 characters. The name can contain letters (A to Z, a to z),
numbers (0 to 9), and hyphens (-), but cannot end with a hyphen.
• Username: Specify an administrator username that contains 1 to 32 characters. The name can
contain letters (A to Z, a to z), numbers (0 to 9), and hyphens (-), multi-byte Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, and Russian characters.
The username cannot contain the following special characters: grave accent (`), asterisk (*), equal
sign (=), plus sign (+), square brackets ([ ]), curly brackets ({}), slash (\), vertical bar (|), semicolon
(;), colon (:), apostrophe ('), quotation mark ("), comma (,), less than sign (< ), greater than sign (>),
backslash (/), question mark (?), percent sign (%), dollar sign ($), and the space character.
Important
To protect your NAS from brute force attacks, create a new system administrator account
during QTS installation to disable the default "admin" account.
• Password: Specify an administrator password with 1 to 64 characters. The password can contain
any ASCII characters.
• Conrm Password: Enter the new administrator password again.
6. Click Next.
The Thunderbolt Connection page appears.
Note
This page only appears if your device supports Thunderbolt. You will need to connect your
device to a computer using a Thunderbolt cable.
7. Click Next.
The Summary screen appears.
8. Review the settings.
9. Click Next.
The Conrm screen appears.
Warning
Clicking Next deletes all data on the drive before installing QTS.
10. Click Next.
Note
The initialization may takes several minutes to complete. Do not power o the device during
the process.
QTS is initialized.
TS-AI642 User Guide
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QNAP TS-AI642 Specifications

General

Brand	QNAP
Model	TS-AI642
Category	Storage
Language	English