10/09/2015

ZyXel - How to Use Dropbox with the NSA325-v2

  1. Open the Application - Dropbox page and check Enable Dropbox
  2. Then press Apply
  3. This wil open een internet session with Dropbox and at the same time a Get Ready Message on your NSA.
  4. DO NOT PRESS  THE Get Ready BUTTON before you complete the Dropbox internet session!
  5. If you don't get the Dropbox internet session, disable the pop-up protection in your browser.
  6. Login with your Dropbox username and password.
  7. Here after you will see:
  8. Press Allow and Zyxel NAS is connected to your Dropbox, now press Get Ready. Done!
  9. The moment you select Logout you must repeat the process as from step 1
  10. In order to temporarily disable the copy function from Dropbox to the NSA uncheck Enable Dropbox and press Apply
  11. To reactivate the process re-enable the checkbox and click Apply.
  12. Do not delete the NAStoken file as this is needed for your NSA to communicate with the Dropbox account.
  13. Dropbox creates 2 folders Drop2NAS and zDownload in your Dropbox account together wit a so calle NAStoken. The moment that this token is removed the copy function from Dropbox to NSA is no longer in place.
From the instruction for use:
Here is how to use the Drop2NAS and zDownload folders the NSA creates in your Dropbox account.
Using the Drop2NAS Folder
The NSA connects to Dropbox and copies files in the Drop2NAS folder to the NSA’s admin\Dropbox\FromDropbox folder and empties the Drop2NAS folder. The NSA initiates connections to the Dropbox server so you do not need to configure rules on a firewall in front of the NSA to allow access to the NSA. Dropbox is not connecting to the NSA. When you upload files of the same name to the Drop2NAS folder, the NSA adds a number to the names of the files in the NSA’s admin\Dropbox\FromDropbox folder in the format of “filename(n).extension”.
Note: Do not delete the NAStoken file as it is needed for your NSA to work with the Dropbox account.
Using the zDownload Folder
The NSA copies *.torrent files in the zDownload folder to the NSA’s admin\download\torrents folder and automatically starts downloading them.
The NSA adds a suffix to the name of each torrent file in the Dropbox account’s zDownload folder and keeps updating it to show the job’s state (downloading, queued, paused, canceled, uploading, finished, error, or retrying).
The NSA does not take any action for folders nor other types of files in the zDownload folder.

4 comments:

  1. Hi,
    nice tutorial.
    Is there a way to change the nsa download folder, for instance to: /pictures oder /music instead of /admin/Dropbox/FromDropbox

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  2. Cannot check it anymore since I sold the NAS..

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