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User Manual LinkStation Live Shared Network Storage www . bu f f alote ch . c om v1.10.
2 Introduction Congratulations on your new LinkStation Live. This user manual is intended to assist you in conguring it. Because we’re constantly updating our product, the images and text in this manual may vary slightly from the images and text displayed by your LinkStation.
3 Table of Contents Initial Setup ...................................................................... 4 Install Software ................................................................. 8 Using your LinkStation with a PC ..........................
4 Begin by plugging your power cable and Ethernet cable into the back of the LinkStation as shown. Connecting your LinkStation.
5 Plug the power 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.
6 Powering up Press the power button on the front panel. LEDs will blink 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.
7 The LinkStation’s Ethernet port will automatically adjust to use either a crossover or catch cable, so you may connect the LinkStation to your network with either type of Ethernet cable. Verify that the LINK/ACT LED on the front of LinkStation is lit (see page 6’s picture).
8 Insert the LinkNavigator CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. On a PC, setup should automatically launch. If it does 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).
9 Press the Begin Installation button to begin. LinkNavigator Setup If you’re installing on a PC, click on Connect this PC to LinkStation (the green, lower button).
10 LinkNavigator Setup Continue pressing Next to step through the installation. When installation is complete, you may close the installation window..
11 Two new icons will be on your desktop: Shortcut for LinkStation and Buffalo NAS Navigator . Clicking Shortcut for LinkStation takes you directly to the folders on your LinkStation. Share is the main folder that you can put les and folders in. Info contains a copy of your user manual.
12 To Access LinkStation Data from a PC: Your LinkStation uses “shares” (folders) to hold data. A share called “share” is already congured on your LinkStation, and you can create additional shares on page 32.
13 You can map additional driveletters to shares on your LinkStation. From the Start menu, select Run... . Enter your LinkStation’s hostname (see page 25, or you can get it from the NASnavigator utility) or IP address. Press OK . Your LinkStation should open.
14 From the Tools pull-down menu, select Map Network Drive . Choose a drive letter from the Drive: pull down menu. To specify the folder to map, either nd it with Browse or enter LinkStation_ Names.
15 After installing the LinkNavigator software, your Mac will have two new icons on the desktop. The Share folder is the main folder that you can put les and folders in. NAS Navigator is the LinkStation’s client utility. Clicking Share opens the main folder on your LinkStation.
16 You can manually add LinkStation Shares (folders) to your desktop by adding them to the Mac’s server list. Begin by clicking Go , and then choose Connect to Server .
17 Select Guest and click on Connect . Note: If you have congured share permissions on your 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.
18 If you don’t know your LinkStation’s IP address, there are several ways to get it. One simple method is to use the NAS Navigator client utility (included on your CD) to nd your LinkStation(s). Just click on the tab for your LinkStation and you’ll be able to read its IP address.
19 LinkStation Expansion LinkStation Live has two USB 2.0 ports on the rear. These ports can be used for adding external USB Hard Drives or a USB Printer. LinkStation will share connected USB storage devices, allowing everyone on the network to use them.
20 Power Button – Press and release the Power Button to turn the LinkStation on. Hold it down for three seconds to turn the LinkStation off. Link/Act 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.
21 Init button – The red Init button allows you to return your LinkStation to factory defaults. 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Port – Use this port to 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.
22 Advanced Settings The Conguration GUI may be accessed at any time by typing the IP address of your LinkStation 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.
23 This login prompt will appear. Enter admin for the user name. Until you change it, the password for the admin account will be password . Press the OK button when nished. Advanced Settings User name: admin Password: password See page 38 to change your password.
24 Welcome to Advanced Settings , the conguration GUI for the LinkStation! Bookmark this page in your browser so it can be easily accessed for future conguration changes. If the LinkStation’s IP Address changes, you will need to recreate the link.
25 You may modify your LinkStation’s hostname and description under Hostname Setup . A friendly, easy-to-remember name (e.g. “LinkStation”) is recommended. Make sure that the date and time are correct in Date and Time Setup . To synchronize time settings with those in your computer, press Use Local Time .
26 Advanced Settings Network (IP Address Properties) In most networks, LinkStation will get its IP Address automatically from a DHCP server. You may disable DHCP here. If DHCP is disabled and an IP Address is not set manually, it will default to 192.168.
27 Advanced Settings Network (Workgroup/Domain) If you are unfamiliar 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 elds on this page and click Apply .
28 Advanced Settings 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.
29 Advanced Settings Disk Management (USB hard drives) From here you can see your USB hard drives’ setup information. If the hard drives’ information isn’t displayed properly, try restarting your USB hard drives and then restarting your LinkStation.
30 Advanced Settings 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 .
31 Disk Management (Disk Format) To format a hard drive or array, select it from the Target Disk drop box. Choose the le system desired from the File System dropbox (internal drives can only be formatted with XFS). Note that FAT32 has a 4 gigabyte lesize limit for individual les.
32 Advanced Settings Shared Folders To add new shares on your LinkStation, select Shared Folders 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.
33 Advanced Settings Adding a new Shared Folder To add a new shared folder, enter a name for it in the Shared Folder Name box and choose which Disk Space it will reside in.
34 Advanced Settings Shared Folders (Access restrictions) To use Access Restrictions for a share, select Enable . Highlight groups or users in the All Groups/ Users column and use the left-pointing ar.
35 Advanced Settings Shared Folders (Service Setup) To allow FTP Access to LinkStation, choose Enable for FTP Server . To enable legacy AppleTalk support, choose Enable for AppleTalk Protocol . FTP Server Info: Enabling the FTP Server will allow users to connect to shares via FTP protocol.
36 Advanced Settings Group Management Groups allow for easier management of permissions in some networks, specically networks with a lot of users in different departments. To Delete a group, put a check next to its name and click Delete . To add a group to your LinkStation, click Add .
37 Advanced Settings User Management LinkStation is precongured with two users, admin and guest , out of the box. The admin and guest user accounts cannot be deleted. To delete any other user, put a check next to their name and click Delete . To add a new user, click Add .
38 Advanced Settings User Management (changing passwords) To change an account’s password, click on the name of the account under User Settings . Note: if a user name and password are used to log in.
39 With Buffalo’s WebAccess, you can access your LinkStation from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. It’s easy to access your les, or share them with other people, wherever they may be. WebAccess WebAccess is set up from within the Conguration GUI.
40 Select ‘Folders Setup’ in the left-side menu. Any shares on your LinkStation will appear on the list to the right. Click on the icon beside it to select a share for web access. Choose your desired level of Web Access from the ‘Web Access Settings’ dropbox: ‘Disable’ will prevent remote access to this share through WebAccess.
41 To access your LinkStation remotely, open a browser window on any computer connected to the Internet and go to buffalonas.com . In the dialog box, type the BuffaloNAS name that you set on page 39. Alternately, you can go directly to your share by typing BuffaloNAS.
42 To access individual folders on the right, click on their open links. Using WebAccess Clicking on individual les will give you other options, depending on the letype.
43 Accessing Multiple Shares from a single PC When accessing multiple shares to a Windows PC, you may see this error message. This is caused by having multiple shares to the same resource using different login credentials. The error occurs when connecting to at least one secure, restricted share.
44 Advanced Settings Mapping Multiple Shares When mapping any share, select the Connect using a different user name option. A login and password prompt will appear. Use the username and password required by any secure, restricted shares for all shares.
45 Advanced Settings Disk Backup To create a backup job, click on a Job Number . The Edit Backup Job dialog will appear..
46 Advanced Settings Disk Backup (Edit Backup Job) A Backup Job can run regularly on a daily or weekly schedule, or immediately by appropriate choices in the Backup Job Schedule eld. Date and Time for the backup may be entered, and Encryption and Compression enabled or disabled.
47 Advanced Settings Disk Backup (LinkStation List) The LinkStation list shows other LinkStations in your network that you can congure network backups to.
48 Advanced Settings Disk Backup (Add LinkStation) To add a remote LinkStation to your network, enter its numerical IP Address in the Remote LinkStation IP Address eld and click the Add to List button. For remote LinkStation backups, make sure both rewalls are congured to allow trafc in and out of their networks.
49 PCast and DLNA are special services that can run within LinkStation, allowing it to be a media server for LinkTheater or other digital multimedia players. The LinkTheater product is a media server that connects to your television and streams multimedia content.
50 PCast Settings - LinkTheater Media Server Function: The Media Server Function will need to be enabled for this function to work. If you do not own a LinkTheater than disabling this feature is recommended. Media Folder: The Media Folder species which shared folder to share with LinkTheater.
51 PCast Settings - LinkTheater Get to this page by clicking Choose Devices on the previous 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 .
52 Using your LinkStation with iTunes Your LinkStation may be used as a music server for computers running iTunes. 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.
53 Using your LinkStation with iTunes You can congure iTunes to store all of your music on the LinkStation if desired. To do so, select Edit and then Preferences .
54 Using your LinkStation with iTunes Browse to the media folder on your LinkStation (by default, the media folder is “//LinkStationName/share”). Click OK , and then OK again.
55 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Notification) If your LinkStation is remotely managed, you may choose to receive nightly status reports and be notied of any disk events by email. To set this up, enable Mail Notication and enter the IP Address of your SMTP server* in the SMTP Server Address eld.
56 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Alert Settings) Alerts can be congured on the LinkStation to make audible noises when a problem is detected. Along with the audible noise, alert emails will be sent out if Mail Notication was properly congured.
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.
58 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Shutdown) From the Shutdown page, press Apply to shutdown LinkStation. This has the 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.
59 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Initialization) Initialization is a reset procedure that restores all settings back to the default, out of box, conguration. All conguration, users, groups, and backup jobs are lost, but actual data and shares on the hard are NOT lost.
60 System Status (System Information) This page shows you the System Information 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.
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.
62 Advanced Settings System Status (Drive Properties) This page shows you the properties of all hard drives in and attached to your LinkStation..
63 Advanced Settings System Status (Network Information) This page shows you the System Information for your network connection..
64 LinkStation Client Utility This is the Buffalo NAS Client Utility . Installed on your PC, it allows you to access each of the LinkStations (and TeraStations) on your network.
65 LinkStation Client Utility IP 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.
66 Printer Installation If a USB printer is plugged 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 conguration GUI for your LinkStation.
67 Printer Installation • Access the LinkStation by pressing Start , selecting the Run... option, and entering LinkStation_Name (where LinkStation_ Name is the name you set on page 25). Press the OK button when nished. • Right click on the lp icon and select Connect .
68 Printer Installation • The Add Printer Wizard will launch. Select the proper driver for your printer. If the specic printer is not in the list, you will be required to insert the CD that came with your printer into your PC’s CD-ROM drive and press the Have Disk button.
69 Printer Installation • To print a test page or congure additional printer settings, right click on the lp printer icon and select Properties . This will open the printer’s driver properties page. • Press the Print Test Page button to print a test page.
70 Print Server (Delete Print Queue) If a corrupt print job is sent to a printer, printing may suddenly fail. If your print jobs seem to be locked up, clearing the print queue may resolve the issue. To delete the print queue, press the Delete button. This will clear all current print jobs.
71 Disk Errors If LinkStation encounters a disk error, it will be reported in the LinkStation status on the top of any of the Web-Based conguration screens.
72 Technical Specifications LAN Standards: IEEE 802.3u; IEEE 802.3ab; IEEE 802.3 Transmission Types: 1000BASE-T: 8B1Q4, PAM5; 100BASE-TX: 4B5B MLT-3; 10BASE-T Manchester Coding Access Media: CSMA/CD Media Interface: RJ-45 USB Standard: USB 2.
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