Buffalo LinkStation User manual

LinkStation User Manual
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Using your LinkStation ....................................................4
LinkStation Conguration Utility .............................................. 4
Adding shared folders ............................................................. 7
Access Restrictions........................................................................ 9
FTP Server..................................................................................... 15
Direct Copy .................................................................................... 18
Users/Groups .......................................................................... 20
Adding Users ................................................................................. 20
Add users as shown below. ........................................................... 20
Adding Groups............................................................................... 22
Admin Password ............................................................................ 23
Network ................................................................................... 24
Jumbo Frames ............................................................................... 24
System Settings ...................................................................... 26
Name, Date and Time .................................................................... 26
System-Storage ...................................................................... 28
Check Disk..................................................................................... 28
Format a Drive ............................................................................... 30
Adding Storage .............................................................................. 32
Remove Disk.................................................................................. 36
System-Backup ....................................................................... 37
Time Machine ................................................................................ 37
System-Backup.............................................................................. 42
RAID Arrays ............................................................................ 50
System-Maintenance .............................................................. 55
E-mail Notication .......................................................................... 55
System Power Management................................................... 57

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UPS Settings.................................................................................. 57
Sleep Timer.................................................................................... 58
Restore Factory Defaults ............................................................... 60
Format the LinkStation................................................................... 62
Extensions............................................................................... 63
WebAccess .................................................................................... 63
Print Server .................................................................................... 71
BitTorrent Client ............................................................................. 78
Media Server.................................................................................. 84
Using iTunes with the Media Server .............................................. 95
Web/Database Server (LS-WXL, LS-WSXL only)................... 96
Chapter 2
NAS Navigator2 ................................................................98
Chapter 3
Web Administration Tool .................................................103
Home....................................................................................... 103
Shared Folders........................................................................ 104
Users/Groups .......................................................................... 107
Network ................................................................................... 110
System .................................................................................... 113
Extensions............................................................................... 126
Appendix .....................................................................130
Default Conguration Settings ................................................ 130
Mapping Additional Shares ..................................................... 131
Windows ........................................................................................ 131

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Mac OS X....................................................................................... 132
File Sharing Security Level Change Tool ................................ 133
Status LED (LS-XHL, LS-CHL) ............................................... 135
Status LED (LS-WXL) ............................................................. 138
Status LED (LS-WSXL)........................................................... 142
Compliance Information .......................................................... 145
Data Backup............................................................................ 146
GPL Information ...................................................................... 146

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Chapter 1
Using your LinkStation
LinkStation Conguration Utility
To congure your LinkStation, use the web-based conguration utility from a browser on a
computer connected to the same network.
Launch NAS Navigator2. For Windows, click on the [BUFFALO NAS Navigator2] icon on your
desktop. For Mac OS X, double-click on the [NAS Navigator2] icon in the Dock.
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Enter your username and password, and click [Login].
Initially, use the default username and password:
After you log in, change the password for security.
Right-click on the LinkStation icon (on Mac OS X,
click the icon while holding down the control key)
and select [Open Web Setting] from the menu.
Notes: If multiple LinkStations and TeraStations
are connected to the network, multiple
icons will be displayed. Click on the correct
LinkStation.
Record the LinkStation’s IP address from the
bottom right of the NAS Navigator2 window.
Username: admin
Password: password

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Note: Use Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari with the conguration utility. Other browsers may not
display it correctly.
This is the LinkStation’s conguration utility. This
page displays the LinkStation’s current status,
including name, IP address, workgroup, and hard
drive settings.
• Shared Folder
Add/delete shared folders, set access restrictions,
and congure for a direct copy.
• Users/Groups
Register and delete users/groups.
• Network
Register and delete a network or workgroup.
• System
Perform Name, time, disk check format, backup, mail notication settings, timer ON/OFF,
UPS synchronization settings, initialization, complete disk format.
• Extensions
Congure for WebAccess, Print Server, and Time Machine.
The conguration utility is organized by tabs across the top. The following tabs are available.

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To open the LinkStation’s conguration utility from a dierent computer, open a browser and type the
LinkStation’s IP address into the URL eld. You recorded the LinkStation’s IP address in step 2 on page 3.
If you have a Mac, you can open the conguration utility from "Bonjour".
1Launch Safari.
2 Select [View] - [View Bookmark Bar] from Safari’s menu.
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1 Enter your username and password.
2Click [Login].
Note:To log in as a guest, type "guest" as the
username and leave the password blank.
Select [Bonjour] from the left-side menu, then
click on your LinkStation in the bookmark list.
The conguration utility opens.
The LinkStation’s name, IP address and drive
information are displayed on the left.
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1 Enter desired characteristics for the new share.
Note: If you would like to copy the settings of an
existing folder, select a source folder from
the [Copy Settings from] dropdown.
2Click [Save].
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You have created a new share.
Adding shared folders
By default, the LinkStation includes one shared folder “share”. You may add additional folders as
follows.
1In the LinkStation conguration utility, navigate
to [Shared Folders] and click [Folder Setup].
To protect your data from accidental deletion, you may enable a Recycle Bin for the share (not
available for Apple and FTP connections). Deleted data in a shared folder will be temporarily moved
to the [Recycle Bin] folder. To recover deleted data, open the Recycle Bin folder and move les.
Read-Only shares cannot be modied or deleted. To make a Read-Only share, select [Read Only] in
the Shared Folder Conguration utility and click [Save].
Notes: • By default, shares are congured as [Read & Write].
• A shared folder set to Read Only cannot be written by any users or groups, even if they have
read and write permissions. Read-Only folders are read-only for all users.
• Read Only shares are described as (Read Only)] in the shared folder description.

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• When using two-byte characters (such as Japanese), make folder or le names with 80 characters or less. You
may not be able to copy a folder or a le whose name length is more than 80 characters.
• You cannot set hidden or read-only attributes to sub-folders or les on the LinkStation.
• If non-Roman alphabetical folder names or workgroup names do not display properly, rename the folder or
workgroup with Roman alphabetical characters.
• Please don’t use any of the following words as the name of a shared folder. These words are reserved for
internal use by the LinkStation:
info, spool, usbdisk1, usbdisk2, usbdisk3, usbdisk4, lost+found, global, printers, homes, lp, auth, test, ram,
disk1, disk2, disk3, disk4, array1, array2, msdfs_root, mt-daapd
• The following characters are handled dierently by Mac OS X and Windows. Avoid using these characters when sharing
data between Mac OS X and Windows:
• The following characters are not displayed correctly by Windows, or by a Mac connected to the LinkStation via SMB.
Avoid their use in le names that will be used with the LinkStation.
• Never turn o the LinkStation or unplug its network cable while data is being written. Doing so may result in an
incomplete le that cannot be opened or deleted. If this happens, restart the LinkStation, delete the le, then retry
copying the le.
• Your OS may update the date and timestamp stored on the LinkStation’s hard drive, or on a USB drive
connected to the LinkStation. This might result in inaccurate information for date-created or date-accessed
data on the LinkStation.
• In the LinkStation’s conguration utility, or from a Mac OS X 10.6 or later, drive size is displayed in gigabytes,
where 1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes. This is also how drive capacity is expressed on your LinkStation’s
packaging. However, if you check the drive size from an older Mac, or from a Windows computer, it may
display the size of the drive in gibibytes, where 1 gibibyte = 1,073,741,824 bytes. Since a gibibyte is larger
than a gigabyte, the displayed drive capacity will be a smaller number than the actual drive size.
Notes:

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Access Restrictions
There are several ways to restrict access to users of a LinkStation.
Access restrictions for locally registered users
The next page describes how to congure access restrictions for local users.
Access restrictions by using the Delegate Authority server feature
Follow the procedure on page 11 to congure.
Notes: • Permissions are assigned to shared folders. Child folders in a shared folder inherit their
permissions from the parent folder. If a le or folder is moved into a new shared folder
with dierent permissions from the folder it was originally in, it will now have the access
restrictions from the new shared folder.
• When accessing the LinkStation from Windows via SMB, changing permissions from the
folder’s security tab in the properties screen of a folder is not supported. Access restrictions
for shared folders on the LinkStation can only be congured from within the LinkStation’s
conguration utility.