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3. Insert a 3.5” SATA hard drive into an available drive

bay. Make sure to align the drive connector to the

SATA connector on the bottom edge inside the drive

bay of the DNS-343. Gently push the drive in until it

connects.

4.

Attach the faceplate to the front of the device.

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5. Connect an Ethernet cable to the available Ethernet port. This

cable should connect the DNS-343 to your local network via a

router or switch, or directly to a computer for configuration.

6. Connect the supplied power adapter to the power receptacle.

When a hard disk is installed, the hard disk must first be formatted in

the DNS-343 before it can be used. Insert the Installation CD into your

computer’s CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive and follow the instructions

below to use the Easy Search Utility to establish a network link to the

DNS-343. Then use the web-based management software to format

the new hard disk.

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Configuration

When first powered on, during the initial boot sequence, the DNS-343 will wait to be assigned an IP address via DHCP.

If it does

not receive a DHCP assigned IP address, by default it will have a self-assigned IP address of 192.168.0.32.

It is recommended

to use the included D-Link Easy Search Utility when accessing and configuring the DNS-343 for the first time. If you want to

change the IP address before logging in or are unable to connect to the DNS-343 IP address, you can use the Easy Search

Utility provided on the product CD to locate the device on your network and make any needed changes.

The Easy Search Utility displays all

available DNS-343 devices within

the same network.

Refresh

Volumes that are available for

mapping are displayed here.

Click

Configuration

to access the

Web based configuration of the

DNS-343.

Click

Apply

to save changes to the

LAN Settings.

Configure the LAN Settings for the

DNS-343.

Network

Storage Device

Refreshes the device list.

Configuration

LAN

Apply

Drive Mapping

Available

Drive Letters

Choose an available drive letter.

Click

Connect

to map the selected

volume. Click

Disconnect

to

disconnect the selected mapped

volume.

Exit

Click

Exit

to close the utility.

Easy Search Utility

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To run the Easy Search Utility, insert the DNS-343 CD into your CD-ROM drive:

Click

Easy Search Utility

.

Getting Started

Select the listed DNS-343 and click the

Configuration

button.

This will launch the computer’s default web browser and direct

it to the IP address listed for the device. Make sure the browser

is not configured to use a proxy server.

The first window that appears will require the user to login for

Configuration

or

Downloads

menus. The

Downloads

menus

are described later in this guide in the section titled

Downloads

on page 60.

Note:

The computer used to access the DNS-343

web-based configuration manager must be on the same

subnet as the DNS-343. If your network is using a DHCP

server and the computer receives IP settings from DHCP,

the DNS-343 will automatically be in the same subnet.

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The Login screen will appear:

Type

admin

for the username and

leave the password field blank.

When logging into the DNS-343 for the first time, you will be asked to choose a drive configuration (Basic or Custom)

and format the drives.

Basic Configuration

offers four options:

Standard

,

JBOD

,

RAID 1

and

RAID 5

. Standard configures each disk as a

separate volume, while JBOD combines all disks into a single volume. See page 26 for more details on using the RAID

configurations.

Custom Configuration

offers 3 combination methods:

RAID 0 + JBOD

,

RAID 1 + JBOD

, and

RAID 5 + JBOD

. See

page 26 for more details on using the RAID configurations.

Note:

All data will be erased during the format process.

Click

Configuration

Note:

If the web browser is unable to connect to the web manager of the DNS-343, check to make sure your computer is on the same

subnet as the DNS-343. For example, if there is no DHCP server active, your computer will need an IP address in the 192.168.0.0 subnet.

Your computer should have an IP address of 192.168.0.x where x equals a number from 1 to 31, or 33 to 254.