Buffalo Technology LinkStation Live Shared Network Storage - Manual

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. Connect your Cables

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. If it’s...

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). If it’s lit, go to page 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). Pre...

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). Mac users can skip this step. Click Next to step through the installation.

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 files and folders in. Info contains a copy of your user manual. The Buffal...

1 To Access LinkStation Data from a PC: Your LinkStation uses “shares” (folders) to hold data. A share called “share” is already configured 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 y...

1 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 files and folders in. NAS Navigator is the LinkStation’s client utility. Clicking Share opens the main folder on your LinkStation. You can put files and...

1 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 . Accessing LinkStation Data from a Mac In the Server Address field, enter your LinkStation’s IP address in the form smb:// ipaddress ...

1 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. Up to two external USB hard drives may be adde...

0 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. Info L...

1 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 Ethern...

Advanced Settings The Configuration 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. You may also open t...

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. Advanced Settings User name: admin Password: password See page 38 to change your password. If this login prompt does not appear,...

Welcome to Advanced Settings , the configuration GUI for the LinkStation! Bookmark this page in your browser so it can be easily accessed for future configuration changes. If the LinkStation’s IP Address changes, you will need to recreate the link. You can also get here by typing http:// LinkStation...

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...

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. Dele...

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

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 LinkStation, click Add . Add a name and ...

Advanced Settings User Management LinkStation 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 . The Add New User dialog wil...

With Buffalo’s WebAccess, you can access your LinkStation 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...

0 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 t...

1 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.com/your_BuffaloNAS_name in the U...

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. Due t...

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.

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. The PCast service allows you to stream...

0 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 o...

1 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 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. All music files in the Media Folder will ...

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. Click Refresh List to get tabs for each of your LinkStations. Each tab shows the Host Name, Workgroup, IP Address, and Subnet...

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.

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 configuration GUI for your LinkStation.

1 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 configuration screens. Run a Disk Scan in the event of this error. If that doesn’t work, try a reformat. Reformatting the drive will delete all of the data on it so ...

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