Buffalo LinkStation Live, User Manual

Page 1: ...User Manual LinkStation Live Shared Network Storage www buffalotech com v1 10 ...

Page 2: ...y your LinkStation These changes are minor and should not affect the ease of setup adversely As time passes future user interfaces updated software and later versions of this manual may be freely available for download at our web site http www buffalotech com If you run into difficulties or need additional help feel free to contact our technical support Contact information for Buffalo Technology a...

Page 3: ...ings 26 Disk Management 28 Shared Folders 32 Groups 36 Users 37 WebAccess 39 Troubleshooting Multiple Shares 43 Backups 45 PCast and DLNA 49 Using your LinkStation with iTunes 58 Maintenance Settings 55 System Status 60 Client Utility 64 Printer Installation 66 Troubleshooting 71 Technical Specifications 72 Contact Information USA 73 Contact Information Europe 74 GPL Information 75 ...

Page 4: ... Begin by plugging your power cable and Ethernet cable into the back of the LinkStation as shown Connecting your LinkStation ...

Page 5: ...ower cord into a wall socket or surge protecter Plug type and socket will differ according to country of use Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into a hub router or switch in your network Connect your Cables ...

Page 6: ...nk as your LinkStation boots up After your LinkStation has completed booting up check the LINK ACT LED on the front of the LinkStation If it s lit then your LinkStation is connected properly and you can go on to page 8 If it s not lit turn to page 7 for troubleshooting ...

Page 7: ...nkStation If the LINK ACT LED is still not lit try the suggestions below to verify that you re not suffering from common setup problems Having problems Make sure that the LinkStation and the router hub or switch are both powered on the Ethernet cable is securely plugged in at both ends and the Ethernet cable is not damaged Verify this by trying a different Ethernet cable If problems persist you ma...

Page 8: ...es not manually launch setup exe by pressing Start and selecting the Run option When the Run dialog opens type d setup exe where d is the drive letter of your CD ROM drive Press OK to continue Installing Software If you are installing the software on a Mac open the CD and click LinkNavigator to begin installation ...

Page 9: ...in Installation button to begin LinkNavigator Setup If you re installing on a PC click on Connect this PC to LinkStation the green lower button Mac users can skip this step Click Next to step through the installation ...

Page 10: ...10 LinkNavigator Setup Continue pressing Next to step through the installation When installation is complete you may close the installation window ...

Page 11: ...s you directly to the folders on your LinkStation Share is the main folder that you can put files and folders in Info contains a copy of your user manual The Buffalo NAS Navigator icon opens the LinkStation s client utility Turn to page 64 for more on using the NAS Navigator client utility Using your LinkStation with a Windows PC ...

Page 12: ...onfigured on your LinkStation and you can create additional shares on page 32 To start using your LinkStation you can either click on the Shortcut for LinkStation on your desktop or you may just use drive L in My Computer which setup has mapped to the default share in your LinkStation Accessing LinkStation Data from your PC ...

Page 13: ... 25 or you can get it from the NASnavigator utility or IP address Press OK Your LinkStation should open Share is a data folder in your LinkStation by default Info contains your user manuals If you have created other folders they will be visible here too You can map drive letters to any of these folders Accessing LinkStation Data from your PC ...

Page 14: ...ion_ Name share_name in the Folder field where LinkStation_Name is your LinkStation s hostname page 25 and share_name is the name of a folder on your LinkStation Check the Reconnect at logon checkbox to have Windows connect to this mapped drive everytime it starts When finished press the Finish button Your share is now mapped to a drive letter Accessing LinkStation Data from your PC ...

Page 15: ... client utility Clicking Share opens the main folder on your LinkStation You can put files and folders in Share as though it were any other hard drive connected to your computer You may add additional shares to your LinkStation on page 32 The NAS Navigator icon opens the LinkStation s client utility See pages 23 and 64 for more on using the NAS Navigator client utility Using your LinkStation with ...

Page 16: ...Begin by clicking Go and then choose Connect to Server Accessing LinkStation Data from a Mac In the Server Address field enter your LinkStation s IP address in the form smb ipaddress where ipaddress is your LinkStation s IP address and click Connect If you don t know your LinkStation s IP address see page 18 ...

Page 17: ...LinkStation select Registered User and enter your login credentials Accessing LinkStation Data from a Mac Select the volume that you want to mount such as share or share mac from the list of folders on the LinkStation The share will open A link to the shared folder will appear on your desktop ...

Page 18: ...for your LinkStation and you ll be able to read its IP address See page 64 for more on NAS Navigator You can always get the LinkStation s IP address from your router s configuration utility Many Buffalo routers list this information on the Client Monitor page as shown to the right Consult your router s documentation for instructions on identifying the LinkStation s IP address Accessing LinkStation...

Page 19: ...USB hard drives may be added to LinkStation Live To connect a USB hard drive or printer to your LinkStation simply plug it into one of the USB ports Once your USB hard drive is connected see page 29 for configuring your LinkStation to use it Page 31 will show you how to reformat the USB Hard Drive if necessary Page 41 and 42 show you how to set up LinkStation to back up to a USB Hard Drive See pag...

Page 20: ...LED The Link Act LED glows green when the LinkStation is connectied to a network It blinks when the LinkStation is sending or receiving data Info LED The Info LED blinks when you have a message waiting for you in the client utility Error LED This LED blinks to signal abnormal operation See page 71 for a list of LED error codes LinkStation Layout ...

Page 21: ...connect your LinkStation to a switch a router or another computer The port is autosensing so either a conventional Ethernet cable or a crossover Ethernet cable may be used USB Ports LinkStation offers two USB 2 0 1 1 ports for adding external drives or a USB printer See page 19 for more on using the LinkStation s USB ports LinkStation Layout ...

Page 22: ...Station into the URL bar of a browser running on a computer connected to the same network as the LinkStation This works perfectly with OS X Linux and other non Windows PCs You may also open the Configuration GUI from NAS Navigator by clicking on Setup and choosing Configuration Settings The Configuration GUI ...

Page 23: ...s User name admin Password password See page 38 to change your password If this login prompt does not appear your DHCP server may not be functioning correctly If DHCP is disabled you may re enable it or verify that the LinkStation s IP Address is in the same range as that of your PC NOTE Page 26 shows how to enable or disable DHCP or configure the LinkStation with a Static IP Address ...

Page 24: ...tation_Name is the name of your LinkStation page 25 You are now at Home Notice that the Home button is lit up in yellow You can navigate this menu by clicking on the buttons at the left of the screen Here at Home you can see basic information about your LinkStation s current configuration You may close this screen by clicking Logout at the bottom left or just by closing the browser window If you h...

Page 25: ...tings with those in your computer press Use Local Time To have your system time automatically set by an NTP server enable NTP Server and enter an IP Address for the NTP server e g 192 43 244 18 or use the supplied default NTP server Ensure that both the Display Language and the Windows Client Language are set to languages that you re comfortable with Once desired fields have been completed press t...

Page 26: ...t manually it will default to 192 168 11 150 The LinkStation s IP Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway Address and DNS Server address may all be entered manually under IP Address Properties Ethernet Frame Size may also be set manually on this page Only use JumboFrame settings when operating in a Gigabit environment where all other clients support the same JumboFrame setting Click Apply after making...

Page 27: ...amiliar with networking then leave the Workgroup Name set to Workgroup To make your LinkStation a member of a workgroup enter the appropriate information into the fields on this page and click Apply Use of a WINS Server with your LinkStation is strictly optional ...

Page 28: ...tings Disk Management Drive Properties This page shows the properties for the main drive in your LinkStation Live If you have any USB hard drives plugged into the linkstation their properties will appear here as well ...

Page 29: ... drives information isn t displayed properly try restarting your USB hard drives and then restarting your LinkStation Some USB hard drives must be reformatted from within LinkStation before they can be assigned shares Select Disk Format from the left side menu to format your USB hard disk s Page 31 has more on disk formatting ...

Page 30: ...gs Disk Management Disk Check Disk check checks any of your hard drives for errors To use disk check select the disk that you want to check from the target pulldown and click Select Target Then click on Start Disk Check ...

Page 31: ...byte filesize limit for individual files If you choose FAT32 for your file system you will not be able to store single files larger than 4 gigabytes on the drive Use of the XFS or EXT3 file systems is recommended Press Select Target Disk when done and then Start format Depending on the size of the target hard disk or array a Disk Format may take several hours to complete Performance will be slow d...

Page 32: ...ers from the left side menu and then click the Add button under Shared Folders Setup To delete a share or shares check the checkbox next to the shares you d like to delete and press the Delete button Deleting shares will remove the share and erase all of the files and folders inside that share ...

Page 33: ...lick Apply to build the new shared folder Appletalk support is available for use with legacy Macs Checking Apple by Shared Folder Support turns on AppleTalk letting you use your LinkStation with older Macs Note that Appletalk files are limited to 2GB maximum filesize and 32 characters for filenames If a folder with AppleTalk on is accessed from a modern OS through smb these limitations will not ap...

Page 34: ...t of each box to move individual groups or users from the All Groups Users column to the Read Only box if you want to give them read access only or all the way to the Writable box if you want to give them full access to the share Right pointing arrows will move highlighted users or groups back to the right Click Apply when you have your groups and users in the appropriate boxes To set up new group...

Page 35: ...e FTP Server will allow users to connect to shares via FTP protocol Their username and password is used for their login credentials and they will only have access to shares that have read only or writeable access to on the LinkStation The network administrator of your network may need to enable traffic on port 21 to the LinkStation for FTP to work over the Internet Click the Apply button to set up...

Page 36: ... LinkStation click Add Add a name and a description to the Add New Group fields Put checks next to each Member User that you want to be part of the group Click Apply when your group is set up the way you want it Active Directory and Domain Groups are not shown here but are available under Share Management Members can be added or removed from a group at any time by editing the group This is done by...

Page 37: ...and click Delete To add a new user click Add The Add New User dialog will appear Enter a User Name Password and User Description for the new user and click the Apply button If a user will be accessing the LinkStation from a Windows 95 98 computer their password should be 15 characters or less Mac OS 8 and OS 9 users s passwords should be 9 characters or less Users of other OSs may have passwords o...

Page 38: ...nt under User Settings Note if a user name and password are used to log into a user s windows computer or domain the same user name and password should be used when creating the user s account on the LinkStation or problems accessing shared folders may occur Enter the desired new password in both boxes and click Apply ...

Page 39: ...AS com is recommended Otherwise you ll have to manage your own DNS settings Auto Configure Firewall is also recommended if your router supports UPnP most do since 2001 If you choose not to enable this you must manually configure your router and firewall to forward internal port 9000 to the Internet Choose a name for your BuffaloNAS account and a password key This name is the name that will be used...

Page 40: ...are Don t use this setting unless you want your LinkStation share to be available publicly to everyone in the world Allow All Groups Users will allow only people who have an account on the LinkStation to access this share remotely Use Inherited Folder Permissions will allow people with an account on the LinkStation to access the share remotely only if they have read permissions on the specific sha...

Page 41: ... set on page 39 Alternately you can go directly to your share by typing BuffaloNAS com your_BuffaloNAS_name in the URL window The folders from your LinkStation s share will appear Files from anonymous shares will appear to the right To see files from shares that are not set to anonymous you will need to log in The login link is on the top left corner of the page Using WebAccess ...

Page 42: ...dual files will give you other options depending on the filetype Clicking on the Audio link at the bottom left corner of the page will give you options for playing music files including the opportunity to launch a Flash based music player that will stream your audio files directly through the Web interface ...

Page 43: ...n Microsoft Windows only one set of login credentials can access or map drive letters for a network resource such as the LinkStation As such only one username and password can be used while mapping drives to a PC If unsecure unrestricted shares are mapped and then an attempt to map a secure restricted share is made from the same PC this error will occur To prevent this you must create all mapped s...

Page 44: ...nly unrestricted shares are being mapped then it s not necessary to set a username and password for shares Multiple mapped drives to unrestricted shares can exist without a username or password as long as no restricted secure shares are mapped If an unrestricted share and a restricted share are both being mapped or accessed use the restricted username and password for the unrestricted share login ...

Page 45: ...45 Advanced Settings Disk Backup To create a backup job click on a Job Number The Edit Backup Job dialog will appear ...

Page 46: ...he previous backup or Differential Backups to backup only files changed since the previous backup Select the folder to be backed up from the Local Backup Shared Folder dropbox and the destination for the backup files from the Destination Backup Shared Folder dropbox The destination folder may be on a USB drive attached to the LinkStation or another LinkStation on the network Click on Select to app...

Page 47: ...anced Settings Disk Backup LinkStation List The LinkStation list shows other LinkStations in your network that you can configure network backups to Press Refresh to get a list of LinkStations on your network ...

Page 48: ...ress in the Remote LinkStation IP Address field and click the Add to List button For remote LinkStation backups make sure both firewalls are configured to allow traffic in and out of their networks Note Disk Backups between two LinkStations use port 8873 for encrypted backups and port 873 for backups with no encryption ...

Page 49: ... and streams multimedia content The PCast service allows you to stream any multimedia content directly from LinkStation to the LinkTheater DLNA is an industry standard supported by many digital PCast multimedia players If you do not own a multimedia player PCast and DLNA settings may be ignored For more information on LinkTheater please visit Buffalo Technology s web site at www buffalotech com an...

Page 50: ... At this time only one shared folder can be accessed with LinkTheater Please make sure that all of the multimedia files you wish to share with LinkTheater are in this shared folder PCast Password Restrict access to your media server by specifying an access password Limit DLNA Client Access Choose what devices can access your media server See next page for more information on configuration Update M...

Page 51: ...ous page Search for DLNA Client This will show a list of all clients that could connect to the media server For any that you want to have access put a checkmark next to their MAC address and click Allow Access You can deny access to any DLNA client by checking it and clicking Deny Access ...

Page 52: ...s As long as PCast s Media Servers function is enabled the Media Folder Share by default will appear in iTunes on computers on the same subnet All music files in the Media Folder will be visible from within iTunes 7 or later Music files stored in this folder will be playable from up to 5 computers on the network ...

Page 53: ... LinkStation with iTunes You can configure iTunes to store all of your music on the LinkStation if desired To do so select Edit and then Preferences On the Advanced tab to change the iTunes Music folder click Change ...

Page 54: ...nkStation with iTunes Browse to the media folder on your LinkStation by default the media folder is LinkStationName share Click OK and then OK again ITunes will now save all music to the media folder on the LinkStation ...

Page 55: ...enable Mail Notification and enter the IP Address of your SMTP server in the SMTP Server Address field Select a Subject line for the emails i e LinkStation Status Report and enter the email address of each person you want to receive notification emails into a Recipient Mail Address field SMTP server must be an open type server Currently there s no provision for entering a username or password ...

Page 56: ...e LinkStation to make audible noises when a problem is detected Along with the audible noise alert emails will be sent out if Mail Notification was properly configured Please select the features you would like to receive an audible sound alert from and then press the Apply button ...

Page 57: ...57 Advanced Settings Maintenance Status LED Settings Adjust the brightness of the LEDs on your LinkStation s front panel here Press Apply to update the settings ...

Page 58: ...same function as holding down the power button on the front of LinkStation but may be done remotely Turning on the LinkStation after a shutdown requires a physical button push on the front of LinkStation The Restart Now button simply reboots the LinkStation bringing it back to functionality after about 120 seconds ...

Page 59: ...her the LinkStation shall keep its administrator password after a initialization or whether the password should be reset to the default password default password is password Press the Apply button once you make the selection Press the Restore button to begin the initialization process this will restore all settings to factory defaults but will NOT erase the data on the hard drives Start Disk Forma...

Page 60: ...mation for your LinkStation Firmware updates are occasionally available from www buffalotech com for the LinkStation Live These must be executed from a Windows PC on the same network Your router switch or hub should pass through ports 8873 and 22939 for this to work most do ...

Page 61: ...61 Advanced Settings System Status USB Details This page shows you details on USB hard drives and UPSs plugged into your LinkStation In this example no USB hard drives are plugged in to the LinkStation ...

Page 62: ...62 Advanced Settings System Status Drive Properties This page shows you the properties of all hard drives in and attached to your LinkStation ...

Page 63: ...63 Advanced Settings System Status Network Information This page shows you the System Information for your network connection ...

Page 64: ...st Name Workgroup IP Address and Subnet Mask of the associated LinkStation as well as the version of firmware it s running With a LinkStation s tab selected you can click on the View Shares button to go directly to its root share Clicking the Setup pulldown menu and selecting Browser Management takes you to the browser management tool that we began exploring on page 22 And clicking Setup and choos...

Page 65: ... Address Setup Here you may enter your IP Address and Subnet Mask manually or enable your LinkStation to acquire them automatically from a DHCP server You ll need the administrator password to use this screen Press OK when you re done ...

Page 66: ...gged into your LinkStation you can easily add the printer to any Windows PC on your network Follow these steps for each PC that you want to be able to access the printer To begin enable the print server in the configuration GUI for your LinkStation ...

Page 67: ...ion_ Name is the name you set on page 25 Press the OK button when finished Right click on the lp icon and select Connect You may receive a warning about installing from a trustworthy source If you receive this message press Yes to continue You will receive a warning that the server does not have the proper drivers Press OK to continue ...

Page 68: ...isk button Refer to your printer documentation for further information on installing your printer if necessary Press OK to finish If lp is the only printer installed on the PC then it will automatically be set as the default printer If it s not the only printer you may make it the default printer by clicking Printers and Faxes in Control Panel right clicking on the lp printer icon and selecting th...

Page 69: ...st Page button to print a test page You can also browse through the available settings for the printer Please refer to the printer s documentation for more information on changing the printer s settings NOTE The printer installation process can be done on any machine on your network Multiple machines may print to the printer at the same time Repeat this process on all computers that require access...

Page 70: ...l current print jobs Users will have to re send any incomplete print jobs to the printer If there are still problems printing to the printer then check the printer manufacturer s documentation for troubleshooting information Also verify that the USB cable is securely fastened to both the printer and the TeraStation Finally you may try turning the TeraStation off turning the printer off turning the...

Page 71: ...e drive will delete all of the data on it so try to backup any data you can before beginning Finally if none of the above solutions help then please contact Technical Support for further assistance LED Flash Codes 3 flashes Partition problem with hard drive Reformat the hard drive 4 flashes Fan problem 5 flashes ROM problem 6 flashes Hard Drive can not be recognized 7 flashes Problem with motherbo...

Page 72: ...terface RJ 45 USB Standard USB 2 0 Hi Speed HS Full Speed FS Low Speed LS USB Connector USB A Connector 2 Data Transmission Speed Max 480 Mbps HS Mode Max 12 Mbps FS Mode Electric Current 120V A C Power Consumption 21W Varies slightly with drive size Dimensions 2 4 x 6 3 x 8 5 60 x 160 x 216 mm Weight 3 5 lbs 1 6 kg Varies with drive size Operating Environment 41 95 F 5 35 C 20 80 non condensing ...

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