System management installation menu

With version 16.0, this menu is merged with the other settings menu and includes several new options.
We advice all users to read it again.

Table of contents:

• I - Time/Date Settings
• II - Firmware Interface Settings
• III- Colors Settings
• IV- WEB Server Settings
• V - AFP Server Settings
• VI - Add-ons volume Settings
• VII - Other Settings
• VIII - Save/Restore NAS settings

I - Time/Date Settings

Set Clock from internet time server (NTP client)

With version 15.1 and above, you can use domain name for NTP server instead of their public IP address.
Note: The NTP client will fail to start if no Internet access is available

Time Zone

With version 15.3, time is adjusted automatically for daylight saving.
Important: After upgrading the firmware, the selected time zone is overwritten if you use an old time zone (vers.<15.3) the new selected time zone is UTC by default when you reboot the NAS. To restore the right time zone you need to select a new time zone.

NTP server

This feature allows you for synchronizing other hosts with the NAS time. (You can use NAS name or its IP address as local NTP server).

II - Firmware Interface Settings

Languages

Only English, German, Dutch and French dictionaries are updated.
For all other languages no update is made, as result when using these languages, parts of the menus will stay in English

Since version 16.0 and later you can edit language files (but not create a new language). More detail on our board: Firmware support language: Member contributions

Administrator

The administrator password setting concerns the password to open the web interface as user "admin-nas" (so not for any other access).
With version 16.0, the password encryption is stronger. To get it you must enter again your current password.

Enable/disable display passwords users

This option allow you to disable displaying the passwords of users in the menus.

III- Colors Settings

In this section , you can change the colors used by the firmware for the administrator console and user console. For each console, you can select a color for :

• The main title (NAS name)

• The background of the vertical and horizontal menus

• The text of menus

• Color used when the mouse is over a menu

• The background of the selected menu

• The text of the selected menu

After selecting your colors, click on "Save the console colors" to save the colors of the current selected console. When you change the administrator console, you must refresh the window to apply the modifications.

You can restore the default colors of the current selected console by clicking on "Restore the default colors"

IV- WEB Server Settings

Web Server Settings: Memory Level used

Feature not available for small NAS (SPD8020, NWSP1,...). Allocate more memory, improves performance of the web server what can be interesting if you enable Web-Explorer.

Note: High level can only be selected if the NAS has enough memory (NWSP2, 5Big x,...)

Feature not available for small NAS (SPD8020, NWSP1,...). Allocate more memory, improves performance of the web server what can be interesting if you enable Web-Explorer.

Web Server Settings: TLS/SSL protocol (HTTPS)

New features implemented in version 11.0 fvdw-sl :
 - Enable or disable the web server with SSL (HTTPS)
 - Choose the HTTPS port. if you don't chose the default port (443), url having to be used is then : https://My-NAS-Domain-NameWeb:httpsport)
 - Edit the Web server's TLS/SSL certificate
 - Download the Certificate Authority (to import in client side)

When you enable SSL, you can access the web interface with the url "https://My-NAS-Domain-NameWeb" where "My-NAS-Domain-NameWeb" is the name entered in the certificate.

This access is only useful with a remote Internet connection because it encrypts the data transmitted (also the login authentication). It slows down the speed of transfers (time required for data encryption)

So the "https://My-NAS-Domain-NameWeb" must logically be the domain name that you use with DDNS.

For use only within the local network (LAN), the "My-NAS-Domain-NameWeb" must be the name of the NAS, and the url to use is: https://YOUR_NAS_NAME.
(Of course, you can still use the standard url http://Your_NAS_NAME without encryption)

If you have enabled DDNS in the menu "LAN Setup", it is the domain name entered in this service, which will be proposed when you create the certificate.

Notes:

1. You cannot activate the web server with SSL if no certificate is available.
2. If you try to access the web interface using a domain name different from the certificate (eg with the url https://nas_name and the certificate with your web domain name), a warning will be displayed by the browser.
   Depending on the browser and if you have installed the certificate of authority, access may be refused by the browser!

Click on the button  "Edit the TLS/SSL certificate" to create or modify the certificate

To obtain the certificate authority that validates the certificate of the web server, click on the button "Download the Certificate Authority".
It allows you to remove warnings by installing it in your browser.
This certificate must also be sent to the other users that you authorize to have access to the NAS server (useful for future applications)

Notes: 

1. To install the certificate in IE, just click on the file and follow the standard instructions to the end.
2. To install the certificate in FF,
   Do menu "Tools" > "Options" > select the tab "Advanced";
   Then in the "Encryption" tab > click on "View Certificates" > Select "Authorities" tab > click on "Import"
   After importing, search in the list the certificate "CA_FVDWSL" and click on the button "Custom level"> chek to authorize the certificate to identify websites.
3. As there is no feature to manage certificates with FF for smartphone, your must use an url to do it.
   From your smartphone and after loading the web-interface, enter the url: https://your-DDNS/.caroot
   Then check at least the option "Trust to identify websites"
   

Redirect some servers via a proxy

This feature allows you to enable a proxy gateway for several servers and to access to their interface with the port 80 (http) or 433 (https) via a special url :

The related servers are :

• BTSync, url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/bt-sync or http(s)://your-DDNS/bt-sync

• webcam, url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/cntrlwebcam or http(s)://your-DDNS/cntrlwebcam and for the webcam streaming http(s)://your-public-ip/mywebcam or http(s)://your-DDNS/mywebcam

• Transmission client, url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/transmissioncli or http(s)://your-DDNS/transmissioncli

• MlDonkey, url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/ml-donkey or http(s)://your-DDNS/ml-donkey

• NzbGet, url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/nzb-get or http(s)://your-DDNS/nzb-get

• Twonkymedia(*), url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/twonky-media or http(s)://your-DDNS/twonky-media

• Firefly, url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/firefly or http(s)://your-DDNS/firefly

• Logitech(*), url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/slimserver or http(s)://your-DDNS/slimserver

• Mediatomb and you use, url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/media-tomb or http(s)://your-DDNS/media-tomb

And if you have installed plex media server or pyload, their url is :

• PLEX, url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/plex or http(s)://your-DDNS/plex

• pyload, url to access the web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/.pyload or http(s)://your-DDNS/.pyload

(*) With these media server, you need to install again the last version (it is a patched version for working with this feature)

Safety Warning : NEVER enable this option without changing the default credential of the servers. Needless to explain why...

If you have several NAS with fvdw-sl firmware, you can also redirect their interface.
When you enter a nas names list, use these url to access the nas web-interface : http(s)://your-public-ip/nasname1 or http(s)://your-DDNS/nasname1; http(s)://your-public-ip/nasname2 or http(s)://your-DDNS/nasname2; ...

Note: you must upgrade all your nas with version 16.0

V - AFP Server Settings

The AFP server must be started only if you have some Mac hosts.

If you enable the option "Stop samba server", samba will be stopped when you start the AFP server and be restarted when you stop it.

Note: Never select this option if you use also Windows/Linux OS (all shares will be no longer available)

VI - Add-ons volume Settings

This feature can be used only if the NAS has several internal disks (nwspmax; 2bigx or 5bigx NAS) and several volumes are available. With rpsb2 nas, you can also select an USB disk.

With this option, you can select what volume will be used to create the technical shares. No nas rebooting is required after selecting a new volume.

If you enable the option 'Move the technical shares on the new volume', the script lists what features are installed and are running. After changing the add-ons volume, it restarts all features previously running.

After selecting a new volume, read the log to search any reported error. If you restart the NAS, the log file is no longer available!

So if the move is interrupted and/or incomplete, you can use the move feature (share menus) to move manually the missing technical shares (in this case, the feature is available for the technical shares) and/or use directly shell command.

With version 16.0, the technical shares are: fvdw; cronjobs; tr-daemon; tr-downloads; tf-downloads; minidlna; twonkymedia; mt-daapd; mp3; tflux; oxylbox; mediatomb; motion-webcam; btsync; mldonkey; nzbget; owncloud; netatalk; plex-prog.

With version 16.1, as fvdw share must be present in all case on the addons volume, so if you don't have yet created it or you do not select the option 'Move the technical shares on the new volume', a fvdw share will be created on the new addons volume and an existing  fvdw shares is renamed (fvdw-old).

Note: Only if you don't have enough free space on the new add-ons volume may make errors. So check this point before changing the current add-ons volume!

VII - Other Settings

Switch power LED On/Off

Since version 16.0, a better LED management is available from the web interface.

With all NAS type you should be able to switch  on/off the blue LED and for 5/2 big2 the LED brightness.

Notes:

- For 5/2 big1 you can not switch off the blue LED of the sata disks.

- If a raid volume is not clean, you can not switch off the red led

LED behavior with a raid volume:

if a raid volume is clean and all partitions are working, then the LED have the standard behaviour (blue LED on).

if a raid volume is degraded: at least one partition state is not 'in_sync (for example when raid is building or recoring; or when a disk state is faulty; ...) then:

- The front LED is blinking alternatively blue and red, at every 2s (────────)

- The sata LED of the raid volume are also blinking   (────────) but if a disk state is faulty, its red sata LED is on (────────)

Check for new firmware

If automatic check is enabled and you don't have the last version, an alert is displayed in the main Information menu. 

Root Certificate Authority

By default several linux commands require to be able to check validity of a certificate before making secure connections to a server over the Internet, for example with an https url. You have this behaviour with curl, wget or openssl. Before version 16.1 you had need to use a flag to disable this check and so it was an unsecure way.
To validate the certificate, you need to have a root certificate autorities updated list. With this feature you can update it at any time. You need to update it if you fail to make a secure connection. If  after updating, you still fail to make a secure connection, that means that the remote server uses an unvalid certificate. Then you should ask you  if you have to force or not the connection...

Advanced feature: you can add some custom root certificate authorities, by adding their public key in the file (/rw_fs/etc/ssl/owncert.pem).  After updating this file, you need to get again the rootcertificate autorities list to include your custom root certificate. owncert.pem file uses the PEM format (Base64 encoded ASCII and contain "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" and "-----END CERTIFICATE-----" statements).

Note: We included  the certificate "CA_FVDWSL" in this authorities list so that any url provided by your https server or from another NAS with FVDW-SL firmware, may be automaticaly validated 

 

VIII - Save/Restore NAS settings