Lenovo IdeaCentre D400 User manual

Version 1.0 2009.7

User Guide

Lenovo

IdeaCentre D400 Series

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Important Safety Information

Before using this manual, it is important that you read and understand all of the

related safety information for this product. Refer to the Safety and Warranty Guide

that you received with this product for the latest safety information. Reading and

understanding this safety information reduces the risk of personal injury or damage

to your product.

Danger: Be aware of extremely hazardous or lethal situations.

Attention: Be aware of possible damage to programs, devices, or data.

Note: Pay attention to this important information.

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Contents

Important Safety Information

Introduction ................................................................................. 1

Chapter 1

Instruction for using Home Server hardware ....... 4

Front view ......................................................................................4

Front panel LED indicators .............................................................5

Using the one-touch USB backup feature ......................................8

Rear view .......................................................................................9

LAN related LEDs on the rear side ...............................................10

Connect the power cord ..............................................................11

Connect to the home network .....................................................11

Lenovo Home Server Recovery DVD ...........................................11

Client Software Installer CD ..........................................................12

Computer Restore CD .................................................................12

Chapter 2 Installing the software .......................................... 13

Install the Windows Home Server Connector on the client

computer ...............................................................................13

Install the Lenovo Home Server EasyAccess utility .......................24

Install the LightsOut client utility ...................................................30

Chapter 3 Restoring a home computer ................................ 34

Chapter 4

Server Recovery .................................................... 35

Chapter 5

Windows Home Server Console .......................... 40

The Windows Home Server Console window ..............................41

Computers and Backup ...............................................................41

User Accounts .............................................................................42

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Shared Folders ............................................................................42

Server Storage .............................................................................43

LightsOut .....................................................................................43

Network Health ............................................................................44

Chapter 6 Settings .................................................................. 45

Remote Access ...........................................................................45

Chapter 7 Conﬁguring the hard disk drive ........................... 47

Adding a hard disk drive ..............................................................47

Replacing the hard disk drive .......................................................52

Chapter 8 Troubleshooting .................................................... 57

Post error code for the system state LED indicator ......................58

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Introduction

Home Server is a data storage and digital media content server for families and

SOHO Small Businesses with multiple computers and multimedia devices on a

home network who want to enjoy their digital experiences when and where they

want.

Home Server enables you to access easily and more securely your ﬁles and

computers from inside and outside your family or SOHO Small Business. You can

use it to store your important photos, videos, music and ﬁles in a central location

for access anytime and anywhere.

Speciﬁcations for Home Server

• Processor

Intel

®

Atom™ 230

• Drive storage

Up to four 3.5-inch hot-swappable hard disk drive (HDD)

SATA 2 or above edition as primary drive.

• Memory

Up to 2 GB DDR2 MHz unbuffered SDRAM

• Ethernet

High performance (10/100/1000) Gigabit Ethernet port

• I/O ports

USB 2.0 ports (1 front and 4 rear), Gigabit Ethernet port, eSATA port, recovery/

reset button

• Power

100-127/200-240V, 3.5V, 50/60 Hz

• Server operating system (OS) support

Windows Home Server

• Client computer OS support

Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit Edition

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Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit Edition

Client computer installation

• Up to 10 home computers can install and use the Windows Home Server

Connector software which enables automatic backup and access to shared

folders on the home server.

Do not support Wireless

• You must use an Ethernet cable to connect your Home Server to your

broadband router or home computer. Wireless connecting your Home Server

to your broadband router or home computer is not supported.

• Can not setup a shared network printer with your Home Server.

Recommended environment for client computer

For best results, your computer should meet the following hardware and software

requirements:

• Processor

1 GHz Pentium 3, Pentium 4, AMD x64, or newer processor

• System memory

512 MB or above

• Supported operating systems for home computers

The following operating systems for home computers support Windows Home

Server:

• Windows Vista Home Basic

• Windows Vista Home N (EU only)

• Windows Vista Home Premium

• Windows Vista Business

• Windows Vista Business N (EU only)

• Windows Vista Enterprise

• Windows Vista Ultimate

• Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2 (SP2)

• Windows XP Professional with SP2

• Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with SP2 and Rollup 2

• Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004/2005 with SP2

• Windows XP Tablet Edition with SP2

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• Internet connection

• 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet connection

• Broadband connection (DSL only)

• Broadband router (DHCP enabled)

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Chapter

Instruction for using Home Server

hardware

Attention: Do not open the rear cover of your Home Server chassis at

any time. If you are unable to resolve a problem on your own, contact the

Lenovo Customer Service.

Front view

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Power button Individual HDD status indicator

Network indicator System hard drive

Hard disk drive (HDD) status indicator USB connector

System status indicator USB backup button

USB backup indicator Hot-swappable HDDs (3)

Front panel LED indicators

The LED indicators mounted on the front panel provide information about the

status of the system, its hard drives, and its network connection.

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LED indicator Color status Description

Power button

LED

(Single color)

Blue ON The system is connected to the power

supply and is turned on and ready for

use.

Blue blink The system is booting.

The system is in S3 sleep mode

(suspend to memory).

OFF Power OFF

Network LED

(Single color)

Blue ON The network is connected.

Blue blink The network is active.

OFF The network is disconnected.

HDD access LED

(Single color)

Blue blink Disk access

OFF No access

System status LED

(Dual color)

Purple ON The system stays on initial mode.

Blue blink The operating system is in the process

of booting or in the process of shutting

down.

Blue ON The operating system has booted

(running/normal operation).

Red blink Boot from internal Windows PE for

system recovery/reset

Blue and purple

blink

Boot from USB (Reserved for BIOS

update while boot block is active.)

Red ON When the system is booting:

System failure: See POST error code

System status Red ON with HDD LEDs.

When the system is running:

Go to Health dialogue box to check what

events are triggered or happened.

Red blink When the system has booted:

HDD LED 0~3 Red blinking

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USB backup LED

(Single color)

Blue ON The USB is connected.

The backup is complete.

Blue blink The system is backing up ﬁles from a

USB storage device.

OFF The USB storage device is not mounted.

Individual HDD

status LED

(Two colors + one

mixed color)

Purple ON A disk was mounted and has not been

manually added into the Windows Home

Server HDD volume.

Or, a disk was mounted and has been

manually removed from the Windows

Home Server HDD volume.

Purple blink A disk was mounted and is in the

process of being manually added/

removed into the Windows Home Server

HDD volume.

Blue ON The disk was mounted and the disk has

been manually added into the Windows

Home Server HDD volume.

Red blink A disk was failure with system status

LED RED ON.

OFF The disk was un-mounted.

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Using the one-touch USB backup feature

The USB backup button on the front panel allows you to back up the data from a USB

storage device to the Home Server. Windows Home Server ﬁrst copies all ﬁles into

the Public shared folder, and then classiﬁes the ﬁles according to their media type into

the corresponding shared folders, namely Music, Videos and Photos. When Windows

Home Server cannot determine the ﬁle type, the ﬁle is automatically stored in the Other

folder.

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Attention:

• Only the front USB port supports the backup feature.

• The data backup feature supports only standard USB ﬂash disks, USB

hard disks and USB card readers free of internal Hub.

(Note: “standard” refers to media that do not require speciﬁc drivers

and can be recognized directly by Microsoft Windows Home Server.)

1. Plug the USB device into the front USB connector

.

2. Press the USB backup button

. The USB backup indicator blinks blue.

3. All ﬁles on the USB storage device are copied into the Public shared folder.

Note: During the copy process, Windows Home Server checks the ﬁle

properties including time, size and ﬁle name to verify whether the same

ﬁle or a ﬁle of the same name already exists in the folder. If there is a

conﬂicting ﬁle name, the data will be copied and the ﬁle name will be

assigned a serial number. If the ﬁle of exactly the same properties already

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exists in the Public shared folder, the ﬁle will be ﬁltered out of the copy

process.

4. Afterwards, Windows Home Server automatically copies and classiﬁes the

newly copied ﬁles according to their ﬁle type.

5. You can ﬁnd ﬁles of different types in their corresponding shared folders (Music,

Videos and Photos). Files other than music, videos and photos are found in the

Other folder.

6. When the backup process is complete, the USB backup indicator turns solid

blue.

Rear view

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Ethernet connector

Recovery/reset button

eSATA connector

USB connector

Power connector

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LAN related LEDs on the rear side

1 2

LED indicator Color status Description

LAN SPEED-LED

(Rear side, RJ45)

(Dual color)

Amber ON 1000 Mbit/s

Green ON 100 Mbit/s

OFF 10 Mbit/s or Disconnected

LAN ACTIVE-LED

(Rear side, RJ45)

(Single color)

Green blink Access

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Connect the power cord

Plug the power cord into the power connector and the other end of the power

cord into an electrical outlet.

Connect to the home network

Connect one end of the Ethernet cable to the Home Server and the other end to

an available Ethernet port on your router.

Lenovo Home Server Recovery DVD

The Lenovo Home Server Recovery DVD will lead you through the steps to recover

your Windows Home Server system. You can also restore your Windows Home

Server to the original factory conﬁguration.

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Client Software Installer CD

The Client Software Installer CD will lead you through the steps to install the

Windows Home Server Connector on the computers you want to connect to your

home server. It will also install the LightsOut client utility.

Computer Restore CD

The Computer Restore CD will lead you through the steps to recover your home

computer system from a backup that is located on your home server. You need

to back up the data from your home computer before recovering the computer

system.

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Installing the software

Chapter

Install the Windows Home Server Connector on the

client computer

After setting up your Home Server, you must install the Windows Home Server

Connector on your computer.

Note:

• Before installing the Windows Home Server Connector on the client

computer, make sure the HDD indicator on the front panel lights is blue.

• Prior to installing the Windows Home Server Connector, make sure you

have administrator privileges. Refer to Windows Help for more details on

changing your user account settings.

1. Place the Windows Home Server Connector

Client Software Installer

CD in the optical drive of the home computer. Single-click on the

Run SWINstaller.exe ﬁle to begin installation.

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2. The End User License Agreement window appears. Select the “I accept terms

in End User license Agreement” option button, and then click Next.

3. Select the “Install Windows Home Server Connector SW” option button if you

want to install SW for the Connector.

4. Click

Install to begin the installation process.

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5. The Windows Home Server Connector installation starts to ﬁnd and connect to

your Home Server.

6. Once the server is found, the Welcome window appears.

7. Click

Next.

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