N4B2
Network Attached Storage
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NAS Setup Guide (85 MB)
An interactive setup guide. |
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NAS Detector - Windows
Finds any LG NAS devices on your network. Provides a link to the Web menu and shared folders. Also allows you to change some of the network settings. |
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NAS Detector - Mac
Finds any LG NAS devices on your network. Provides a link to the Web menu and shared folders. Also allows you to change some of the network settings. |
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NAS Monitor - Windows
This program runs in the System Tray and allows quick access to LG NAS funstions.
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N4B2 Initialize Disc ISO (288 MB)
Erases all data and re-initializes (resets) the N4B2 NAS. |
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New User Interface for the N4B2
A new User Interface (UI) is available for the N4B2 series of LG NAS devices. Although not required, we recommend you upgrade your firmware to the new UI.
While installing the new UI, the NAS will be initialized. This means the NAS will be re-formatted. You must back up all of your data if you wish to upgrade to the new UI.
There only a few disadvantages to upgrading, but there are many advantages. The advantages are listed below in new features and updates. Disadvantages to upgrading are: Hard Drives must be re-formatted, iSCSI for the optical drive is no longer supported, and learning a new user interface.
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New UI
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There only a few disadvantages to upgrading, but there are many advantages. The advantages are listed below in new features and updates.
Disadvantages to upgrading are:
- Hard Drives must be re-formatted.
- iSCSI for the optical drive is no longer supported (but Hdd is).
- Learning a new user interface.
New Features in the New UI
- Remote Network Drive support.
- Community Board
- This is a bulletin board for sharing info with other users on the NAS
- Multimedia Browser
- System resource status information check (CPU. Memory, LAN Bandwidth Transfer)
- New User can request an account
- A new user can request account to access the NAS.
- HDD iSCSI feature
- Firewall feature
- Volume encryption feature
- Disk (ODD) encryption feature
- Home monitoring feature (via USB web cam)
- HDD SMART check and HDD Inspection
Feature update:
- FTP advanced options support
- MLSD/FXP options support
- Passive ports are changeable
- Brightness (LED) and Sound (Buzzer) Settings to on or off
- The current access status check by services (Web, CIFS(samba), AFP, FTP, NFS)
- Torrent destination folder is changeable
- Auto firmware update
- If a user click a ‘Auto upgrade’ button, NAS checks if there is new firmware. If there it is, NAS download and update it automatically.
- Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) support
- iTunes 10.5 support
How to Update the User Interface on the N4B2
PDF Instructions
N4B2 New UI Firmware
Older Firmware
The firmware above includes all previous the previous updates below
Blu-ray Drive Update
New/Changed
- Added more support for blank media.
Firmware Version 2682- 144 MB
Download the zip file and install the bin file from the Web menu on the NAS. (LG-NAS WebMenu --> System --> Firmware)
Released February 2011
New/Changed
- DLNA media server addded.
- Faster network drive performance.
Fixed
- Security related updates to the OS.
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Web UI error when changing the system Standby Mode setting.
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Email alert setting error.
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An error related to the selective mirror function.
Mobile App' support.
Firmware Version 2572
Released February 2011
1. NTFS3G (paragon driver) support.
2. AjaXplorer Repository Copy support -> AjaXplorer now supports copying between volumes.
3. Added
4. Time-Machine fix: Sometimes after users create a new Time Machine Backup Folder, Time Machine Backup doesn’t work.
5. Mac OS 9 is now supported. Fixed a Korean language characters issue when creating folders on Mac OS 9.
6. Fixed the booting delay issue when DDNS is activated.
7. Fixed the issue regarding Automatic Hard Disk partitioning. The NAS will no longer create partitions automatically on a new inserted Hard Disk.
8. Security update.
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Download the zip file and install the bin file from the Web menu on the NAS. (LG-NAS WebMenu --> System --> Firmware)- 144 MB
Download the zip file and install the bin file from the Web menu on the NAS.
(LG-NAS WebMenu --> System --> Firmware) Auto F/W Update. Once a month, the NAS checks for new firmware. By default, it will download and install new firmware automatically. A pop-up window will inform Admin next time they log in. |
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