Buffalo Technology HS-DH-TGL/R5 - Manuals

Plug the power cord into a wall socket or surge protector. 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. TeraStation Quick Setup Connect your cables

TeraStation Quick Setup Press the power button on the front panel. LEDs will light as your TeraStation boots up. After your TeraStation has completed booting up, check the LINK/ACT LED on the front of the TeraStation. If it’s lit, then your TeraStation is connected properly, and you can go on to pag...

Installing Software Insert the TeraNavigator CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. On a PC, setup should automatically launch. If it does not, manually launch TSnavi.exe by pressing Start and selecting the Run... option... When the Run dialog opens, type d:\TSnavi.exe (where d is the drive letter of...

TeraNavigator Setup Press the Begin Installation button to begin. If you’re installing on a PC, click on Connect this PC to TeraStation (the green, lower button). Mac users can skip this step.. . Click Next to step through the installation.

10 TeraNavigator 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 TS-Live and Buffalo NAS Navigator . Clicking Shortcut for TS-Live takes you directly to the folders on your TeraStation... Share is the main folder that you can put files and folders in. Info contains a copy of your user manual. The Buffalo NAS ...

1 To Access TeraStation Data from a PC: Your TeraStation uses “shares” (folders) to hold data. A share called “share” is already configured on your TeraStation, and you can create additional shares on page 40. To start using your TeraStation, you can either click on the Shortcut for TS-Live on your ...

1 After installing the TeraNavigator software, your Mac will have two new icons on the desktop.The Share folder is the main folder that you can put files and folders in... NAS Navigator is the TeraStation’s client utility. Clicking Share opens the main folder on your TeraStation. You can put files a...

1 You can manually add TeraStation Shares (folders) to your desktop by adding them to the Mac’s server list. Begin by clicking Go , and then choose Connect to Server . Accessing TeraStation Data from a Mac In the Server Address field, enter your TeraStation’s IP address in the form smb:// ipaddress ...

1 Select Guest and click on Connect . Note: If you have configured share permissions on your TeraStation, select Registered User and enter your Registered User credentials. Accessing TeraStation Data from a Mac Select the volume that you want to mount, such as share .or. share-mac , from the list of...

1 If you don’t know your TeraStation’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 find your TeraStation(s). Just click on the tab for your TeraStation and you’ll be able to read its IP address. You can get the T...

1 TeraStation Expansion TeraStation Live has two USB 2.0 ports on the rear. These ports can be used for adding external USB Hard Drives. TeraStation will share connected USB storage devices, allowing everyone on the network to use them. Up to two external USB hard drives may be added to TeraStation ...

0 Power Button – Press and release the Power Button to turn the TeraStation on. Hold it down for three seconds to turn the TeraStation off. Hard Drive Access – The Access LEDs will blink green when the associated hard drive is accessed. During startup, it’s normal for all the lights to blink. Hard D...

1 The Status LCD can be configured to display specific TeraStation information. Please see page 66 to configure the various display options. INIT Button – The INIT button restores your TeraStation to factory default settings.. It’s located on the underside of the display, and only accessible while t...

Power Plug – The TeraStation Live is designed for 100-120 Volt AC power. Connecting this plug to a 220 V power supply will damage your.TeraStation.Live.. 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Port – Use this port to connect your TeraStation to a switch, a router, or another computer. The port is autosensing, so...

Advanced Settings The Configuration GUI may be accessed at any time by typing the IP address of your TeraStation into the URL bar of a browser running on a computer connected to the same network as the TeraStation. This works perfectly with OS X, Linux, and other non-Windows PCs.You may also open th...

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 finished. User name: admin Password: password See page 47 to change your password. If this login prompt does not appear, your DHCP server ...

You may modify your TeraStation’s hostname and description under Hostname Setup ... A friendly, easy-to-remember name (e.g. “TeraStation”) 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 T...

Advanced Settings Disk Management (Drive Properties) This page shows the current properties of your hard drives and RAID Arrays. To change these settings, click on RAID Setup .at.left.

0 TeraStation. uses. RAID (“Redundant Array of Independent Disks”) technology to control the four hard drives in your TeraStation. RAID may be configured several ways: RAID 0 - All four drives are combined into one large, fast drive, giving the maximum capacity for your TeraStation. This size is the...

1 Advanced Settings Disk Management (RAID Setup) This page shows your current RAID arrays. You may delete old arrays or create new ones by clicking on the underlined RAID Array # under RAID Array Configuration ... The RAID Scanning Settings set a specific time for the TeraStation to scan and inspect...

Advanced Settings Disk Management (Disk Check) When RAID Configuration is done, a disk check will run automatically. This may take several hours to complete. Performance of the TeraStation will be slower than normal while the disk check is running.

Advanced Settings Disk Management (RAID Configuration) You’ll see this screen when your new RAID Array is completely configured. Click on Shared Folders and turn to page 40 to begin setting up shares on your.TeraStation.

Advanced Settings Disk Management (USB Settings) If you’ve plugged an external USB hard drive into one of the USB ports on your TeraStation, you may set it up from this page. Click on its name under USB Disk Setup to begin.

Advanced Settings Disk Management (USB hard drive setup) From here you can see your USB hard drive’s setup information. If the hard drive’s information isn’t displayed properly, try restarting your USB hard drive and then restarting your TeraStation. Some USB hard drives must be reformatted from wit...

0 Advanced Settings Shared Folders To add new shares to your TeraStation, select Shared Folders from the left side menu, and then click the Add button. To delete a share, select the share you’d like to delete, and press the Delete button. Deleting shares will remove the share and erase all of the fi...

1 Advanced Settings Add 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. You may also choose which operating systems and features the share will support by putting the appropriate checks next to. Shared F...

Advanced Settings Shared Folders (Service Setup) To allow FTP Access to TeraStation, 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. Their ...

Advanced Settings Group Management Groups allow for easier management of permissions in some networks, specifically 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 TeraStation, click Add . Add a name an...

Advanced Settings User Management TeraStation is preconfigured 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 Local User . The Add New Us...

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 into a user’s windows computer or domain, the same user name and password should be used when creating the ...

USB Settings Print Server - Printer Share Installation If TeraStation is set up to share your printer (page 48), 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. . Access the TeraStation by pressing Start...

With Buffalo’s WebAccess, you can access your TeraStation from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. It’s easy to access your files, or share them with other people, wherever they may be. WebAccess WebAccess is set up from within the Configuration GUI. First, select ‘Web Access’, and th...

Select ‘Folders Setup’ in the left-side menu. Any shares on your TeraStation 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 thi...

To access your TeraStation 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.48... Alternately, you can go directly to your share by typing BuffaloNAS.com/your_BuffaloNAS_name in the...

To access individual folders on the right, click on their open links. Using WebAccess Clicking on individual 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 opp...

Advanced Settings Troubleshooting Multiple Shares 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...

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. All mapped shares on a single PC must use the same...

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

0 Advanced Settings Disk Backup (TeraStation List) The TeraStation list shows other TeraStations in your network that you can configure network backups to.Press Refresh to get a list of TeraStations on your network.

1 Advanced Settings Disk Backup (Add TeraStation) To add a remote TeraStation to your network, enter its numerical IP Address in the Remote TeraStation IP Address field and click the Add to List button. For remote TeraStation backups, make sure both firewalls are configured to allow traffic in and o...

PCast and DLNA are special services that can run within TeraStation, 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. The PCast service allows you to stream...

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 specifies which shared folder to share with LinkTheater. All of ...

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 ....

Using your TeraStation with iTunes Your TeraStation 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. All music files in the Media Folder will ...

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

Advanced Settings Maintenance (Notification) If your TeraStation is remotely managed, you may choose to receive nightly status reports and be notified of any disk events by email. To set this up, enable Mail Notification and enter the IP Address of your SMTP server* in the SMTP Server Address field....

0 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Status LCD) The Status LCD Setup allows configuration for the LCD display on the front of TeraStation. Please select the type of information that the front panel should display from the LCD Display Items .. . Automatically Switch LCD Items tells the TeraStation to cy...

1 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Syslog Transfer) Check Enable to allow system logs to be transferred. Press Apply once all of the settings have been configured.

Advanced Settings Maintenance (Shutdown) From the Shutdown page, press Apply to shutdown TeraStation. This has the same function as holding down the power button on the front of TeraStation, but may be done remotely. Turning on the TeraStation after a shutdown requires a physical button push on the ...

System Status (System Information) This page shows you the System Information for your TeraStation.Firmware updates are occasionally available from www.buffalotech.com for the TeraStation Live. These must be executed from a Windows PC on the same network. Your router, switch, or hub should pass thro...

System Status Log Information This page lets you save or display system log information. Choose the log you want from the Log Type dropdown and click Save . The dialog will let you save or display (“Open”) the logfile.

TeraStation Client Utility This is the TeraStation Client Utility . Installed on your PC, it allows you to access each of the TeraStations on your network. Click Refresh List to get tabs for each of your TeraStations. Each tab shows the Host Name, Workgroup, IP Address, and Subnet Mask of the associ...

0 TeraStation Client Utility IP Address Setup Here, you may enter your IP Address and Subnet Mask manually, or enable your TeraStation to acquire them automatically from a DHCP server. You’ll need the administrator password to use this screen. Press OK when you’re done.

1 . If TeraStation encounters a disk error, it will be reported in the TeraStation status on the top of any of the Web-Based configuration screens. Run a Disk Scan in the event of this error. If that does not resolve the problem, a format is recommended. Formatting the drive will delete all of the d...

Replacing a Hard Drive Safety Warning: Do not use a replacement Hard Disk Drive which has more than 0.92A at 5Vdc and 0.9A at 12Vdc for the specification of current load.Do not use any Hard Disk Drive which does not have required safety certificate (example: MET, UL) approved by NRTL.The above warni...

Replacing a Hard Drive Turn the key counter-clockwise to open drive door. Squeeze the tabs gently and swing the tray latch upward. The hard drive tray will now slide out.

Technical Specifications LAN Standards: IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX; IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T Transmission Types: 1000Mbps/100Mbps/10Mbps; 100BASE-TX 4B/5B, MLT-3;10BASE-T Manchester Coding Access Media: CSMA/CD Media Interface: RJ-45 USB Standard: USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (HS) Full-Speed (FS) Low-Speed (LS) USB Conn...

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