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Access LUN Groups From an iSCSI-Attached Device
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ReadyNAS OS 6.7 3. Click the Properties button to the right of the LUN group to manage. 4. Select the Selected radio button next to Allowed Initiators. 5. Select the initiator that you want to edit. 6. Click the gear button ( ) to the right of the list of initiators. The Initiator Settings pop-up window opens. 7. Enter a new password in the fields. 8. Click the Apply button in the Initiator Settings pop-up window. 9. Click the Apply button in the LUN group properties window. Your settings are saved. Access LUN Groups From an iSCSI-Attached Device An iSCSI initiator application lets you set up a connection from a server to a LUN group (and therefore to individual LUNs). Normally, users would not initiate such a LUN connection. The network administrator would provide access to a LUN group through a server. The iSCSI targets (that is, the LUNs in the LUN group on the ReadyNAS) present themselves on the client system as virtual block devices and can be treated as a locally attached disks. Windows, for instance, can run FAT32 or NTFS on the iSCSI target device and treat the devices as though they were locally attached. When they can access a LUN group, users can employ any backup application to back up local data from their iSCSI-attached device to a LUN. Note Unlike snapshots that reside on a share, snapshots that reside on a LUN are not visible to users. For information about how to recover data using a snapshot on a LUN, see Recover Data from a Snapshot to an iSCSI-Attached Device on page 115. Accessing LUN groups from iSCSI-attached devices requires these high-level steps: LUNs 95