Buffalo HD-HTGL User Manual

User Manual

TeraStation

HD-HTGL/R5

www.buffalotech.com

Rev 4.1

Introduction

Congratulations on your new TeraStation! This user manual is intended to assist you in confi guring

it. If you run into diffi culties or need additional help, feel free to contact our 24/7 Technical
Support at [phone] (USA & Canada only). Technical Support in Europe is available between
the hours of 9am - 6pm (GMT) Monday through Thursday and 9am-4:30 pm (GMT) Friday for this
product. Customers in Europe can obtain Technical Support using the following information:
Email: [e-mail] | Web: www.buffalo-technology.com

This user manual uses images representative of TeraStation user interfaces and software. 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 TeraStation. 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.

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Table of Contents

TeraStation Quick Setup ......................................... 4

TeraNavigator Setup ...............................................8

Accessing TeraStation Data from PC ..................... 14

TeraStation Diagram ............................................. 18

Advanced Settings ................................................21

Basic Settings .......................................................22

Network Settings ...................................................23

Disk Management .................................................25

Adding Extra Hard Drives .....................................31

Shared Folders .....................................................35

Groups ................................................................. 39

Users ....................................................................40

Printers ................................. ..............................44

Backups .......................................... ....................48

PCast .......................................... ......................... 52

Maintenance Settings ...........................................53

UPS Settings ......................................................... 54

Client Utility .........................................................63

Troubleshooting ....................................................65

Technical Specifi cations ........................................ 66

Technical Support .................................................67

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Begin setting up your TeraStation
by plugging your power cable and
Ethernet cable into the back of
the TeraStation as shown.

TeraStation Quick Setup

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Connect your cables

Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable
into a hub, router, or switch in your
network.

TeraStation Quick Setup

Plug the power cord into a 120
volt wall socket.

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TeraStation Quick Setup

Make sure that the power

After your TeraStation has completed booting up and the LED’s have

Make sure that the power

switch on the rear of the
TeraStation is in the ON
position, with the “I” symbol
pressed down.

Press the power button on the
front panel. The LED’s will swirl
as your TeraStation boots up.

After your TeraStation has completed booting up and the LED’s have

ceased to swirl, 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 page 8. If it’s not lit, turn to page 7 for troubleshooting.

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TeraStation Quick Setup

The TeraStation’s Ethernet port will automatically adjust to use either a Crossover or Patch cable,
so you may connect the TeraStation to your network with either type of Ethernet cable. Buffalo
Technology doesn’t recommend connecting the TeraStation directly to a PC.

Verify that the LINK/ACT LED on the front of TeraStation is lit (see page 6’s picture). If it’s lit, go to
page 8 to continue setting up TeraStation. 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 TeraStation 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, contact our 24/7 technical support at [phone] (USA & Canada only).
Technical Support in Europe is available between the hours of 9am - 6pm (GMT) Monday through
Thursday and 9am-4:30 pm (GMT) Friday for this product. Customers in Europe can obtain
Technical Support using the following information: Email: [e-mail] | Web:
www.buffalo-technology.com

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TeraNavigator Setup

Insert the TeraNavigator CD into your PC’s CD-ROM drive. Setup should automatically launch. If
it does not, manually launch setup.exe by pressing the Start menu 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.

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TeraNavigator Setup

TeraNavigator is now running. Please press the Install Client Utility icon, and then Start. When
installation is fi nished, press Launch.

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TeraNavigator Setup

The TeraStation Client Utility allows you to easily confi gure TeraStation’s network settings. The tabs

show the names of available TeraStations. If you have more than one TeraStation on the network,
click the tab of the one you want to select it. While a TeraStation’s tab is selected, its IP Address
is visible and the View Shares button will take you directly to its network shares and folders. See
page 61 for more information on TeraStation Client Utility. For now, make sure that the proper
TeraStation’s tab is selected, click Setup, and choose Browser Management.

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TeraNavigator Setup

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 fi nished.

User name: admin
Password: password

See page 41 to change your password.
If you’ve forgotten your password, see
page 51.

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 TeraStation’s IP address (page

10) is in the same range as that of
your PC. See page 61 and page 62 to
manually confi gure your TeraStation’s
IP address if necessary.

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TeraNavigator Setup

You are now logged in to the TeraStation Management Utility. Bookmark this page in your browser
so it can be easily accessed for future confi guration changes. You can also get here by typing
http://TERASTATION_NAME into a Web browser, where TERASTATION_NAME is the name of your
TeraStation that you set on page 13. For detailed explanations of each menu and setting, please

refer to the Advanced Settings section (starting on page 21) of this manual. To continue setup, click
on the Basic link on the left side.

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Here on the Basic page, begin by changing the
name of your TeraStation in the TeraStation
Hostname fi eld. A friendly, easy-to-remember
name is recommended. The name cannot
contain any spaces or special characters.
Alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and
underscores are allowed.

A short description of the TeraStation can be
entered into the TeraStation Description fi eld.
You’ll then see this description in Network
Neighborhood on Windows machines.

Make sure that the date and time are correct
in Date and Time Setup. To synchronize clock
settings with your computer, press Use Local
Time.

Once desired fi elds have been completed, press
the Apply button at the bottom of the page.

For more information on the Confi guration

Utility, turn to Advanced Settings, beginning on
page 21.

TeraNavigator Setup

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TeraNavigator Setup

Congratulations! You’ve completed basic setup. For more detail on the other settings available in
your TeraStation, turn to Advanced Settings, beginning on page 21.

To access TeraStation data:

Press the Start menu, select the Run... option. When the Run dialog opens, type \\TeraStation_
Name (where ‘TeraStation_Name” is the TeraStation Hostname set on page 13). Press the OK

button to continue.

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Accessing TeraStation Data from a PC

TeraStation’s root directory will appear. You will see all of the confi gured shares, including share,
the preconfi gured data folder. All users can read and write to all folders unless otherwise confi gured.
To set up security and password protection, or add other shares to your TeraStation, please refer
to pages 35 - 37 of this manual. To change your RAID confi guration, see pages 26 - 29. To setup
a printer see the Printers section beginning on page 42. Drive letters can also be mapped to shares
on your TeraStation; see page 16 for more information.

Note: If this page does not appear, or if you
receive a popup window from your fi rewall
saying that a NetBios Session has been blocked
from your TeraStation’s IP address, you will
need to add your TeraStation’s IP address to
your fi rewall’s trusted zone. You can get your

TeraStation’s IP address from the TeraStation
Client Utility (see page 10). Consult your

fi rewall documentation for more information on
allowing network access to and from a specifi c
IP address.

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Accessing TeraStation Data from a PC

From the TeraStation’s Root Directory screen (see page 15), click the Tools pull down menu and
select Map Network Drive; Map Network Drive will run. Select the drive letter you would like to map
from the Drive: pull down menu. Enter the \\TeraStation_Name\share_name in the Folder: fi eld,
where TeraStation_Name is the TeraStation Name set on page 13 and share_name is share (if you’re
mapping to this preconfi gured folder) or the name of another shared folder that you set up on page

22. You may browse for a shared folder by pressing the Browse button and searching through the
Entire Network and then the Microsoft Windows Network. Check the Reconnect at logon checkbox

to have Windows connect to this mapped drive everytime it starts. When fi nished, press the Finish
button. TeraStation is now mapped to a drive letter.

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TeraStation Expansion

TeraStation has four USB 2.0 ports, two on the front panel and two on the rear. These ports can be
used for adding external USB Hard Drives or a USB Printer. TeraStation will then share the USB
devices, allowing everyone on the network to use them. Up to four external USB hard drives, or
one printer and three hard drives, may be added to TeraStation. To connect a USB printer or hard
drive to TeraStation, simply plug it into one of the four USB Ports.

USB Hard Drive Information:

You may plug in additional USB hard drives to any of the four USB ports on your TeraStation. See
page 31 for setting up your USB hard drive under TeraStation. See page 35 for information on
setting up shared folders on a USB Hard Drive. Page 34 will show you how to reformat the USB
Hard Drive. Page 46 shows you how to set up TeraStation to backup to a USB Hard Drive.

USB Printer Information:

See page 42 to set up a USB Printer as a network printer on TeraStation.

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TeraStation Diagram

1. Power Button – Press and release the Power
Button to turn the TeraStation on. Hold it
down for 3 seconds to turn the TeraStation
off.

2. USB Ports – USB ports on both front and
rear panels of the TeraStation may be used
to connect USB hard drives, a printer, or an
additional TeraStation to your TeraStation.
See TeraStation Expansion on page 17 for
more information on using TeraStation’s USB
ports.

3. Hard Drive Status (also 5, 8, and 10) – This LED will glow green when the corresponding hard
drive is detected at boot, and will blink green when a disk check or format is in process. It will glow
red when the hard drive is 90% full or more, and blink red if there is a problem with the drive.

4. Hard Drive Access (also 6, 7, and 9) – This LED will blink green when the associated hard drive
is accessed. During startup, it’s normal for all the lights on the front panel to light up in order,
producing a pinwheel effect.

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TeraStation Diagram

11. Diagnostic LED – The Diagnostic LED may
fl ash when the TeraStation encounters an error.
In this event, please contact our 24/7 technical
support at [phone] (USA & Canada
only; see page 68 for European tech support
information).

12. Power – This LED glows a steady green
while the TeraStation is operating normally. It
blinks quickly during bootup and shutdown,
and slowly while the TeraStation is in sleep
mode.

13. Link/Act – This LED will glow when the
TeraStation is connected to a network, and blink
during normal network activity. It changes color
to indicate the speed of the connection: blue
for a 1000Mbps connection, green for 100Mbps,
and red for a 10Mbps connection.

14. Power Socket – Plug the power cord into

15. Power Switch – This is the TeraStation’s

master power switch. While it is on, the power
button on the front panel of the TeraStation may
be used to start and shut down the unit. When
this switch is off, no power goes to the unit. If
this switch is left off for an extended period of
time, the TeraStation’s internal system clock
may need to be reset.

16. Internal Fan – The internal fan will adjust
its speed according to the temperature inside the
TeraStation. To prevent possible overheating,
keep the fan clear and clean of obstacles or
dust.

17. INIT Button – The INIT button restores
your TeraStation to factory default settings. See
page 51 for more information on using the INIT
button.

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TeraStation Diagram

18. UPS interface – An Uninterruptable Power
Supply can use this interface to safely shut
down your TeraStation in the event of a power
failure. This interface is non-LPS. DP-1, DP-1P,
DP-2, or DP-2P cables may be used to connect
to the UPS.

19. 10/100/100 Mbps Ethernet Port – Use
this port to connect your TeraStation 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.

20. USB Ports – TeraStation offers four USB 2.0/1.1 ports for adding external drives or USB
printers. Please see the TeraStation Expansion section on page 17 to learn more about using
TeraStation’s USB Ports.

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Browser Management Tool - Home

Advanced Settings

Welcome to Advanced Settings! We’ll discuss
the many adjustments you can make to
your TeraStation. Begin by bringing up
the Browser Management screen that you
bookmarked on page 12. You are now at
Home. Notice that Home is lit up in yellow
in the screenshot to the left. You can return
to this page at any time by clicking on Home
from the menu at the left of your Browser
Management screen. Here, you can see
basic information about your TeraStation’s
setup. Now, click the Basic link from the
menu on the left side of your screen.

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Basic

You may modify your TeraStation’s hostname
and description under Hostname Setup.

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. To have your system time
automatically set by an NTP server, enable NTP
Server and enter an IP address for the NTP
server.

Ensure that both the Display Language and the
Windows Client Language are set to languages
that you’re comfortable with.

If you need to access your TeraStation with
FTP or AppleTalk, enable these protocols under
Network Sharing Services.

Once desired fi elds have been completed, press
the Apply button.

Advanced Settings

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Network (IP Address Properties)

Advanced Settings

In most networks, TeraStation 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 192.168.11.150. The
TeraStation’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.

Click Apply after making any changes.

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Advanced Settings

Network (Workgroup/Domain)

To make your TeraStation a member of a workgroup or domain, enter the appropriate information
into the fi elds on this page and click Apply. If the TeraStation is to be part of a Windows Domain,
the TeraStation should be added beforehand to the Domain Controller with a computer account
in Server Manager.

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Disk Management (Drive Properties)

This page shows the current properties of your hard

drives and RAID Arrays. To change these settings, click
on RAID Confi guration at left.

Advanced Settings

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Note on RAID Arrays

TeraStation uses RAID (“Redundant Array of Independent Disks”) technology to control the four
hard drives in your TeraStation. RAID may be confi gured several ways:

RAID Spanning - All four drives are striped into one large drive, giving the maximum capacity for

your TeraStation. This size is the one listed on your TeraStation’s box and shows the total capacity
of the TeraStation with no data used for redundancy. RAID Spanning is fast and effi cient, but with
no redundancy, if one hard drive fails, all data on the TeraStation is lost.

RAID 1 (mirroring) - Hard drives (or spanned pairs of hard drives) are arranged in mirrored pairs.

Each half of the pair reads and writes exactly the same data. This costs you half the total capacity
of your TeraStation, but provides excellent redundancy. If a hard drive fails, the mirror continues
to supply data, so you may work on normally. You may replace the damaged or defective drive at
any time, and normal RAID 1 mirroring will then be automatically restored.

RAID 5 (parity) - All drives in a RAID 5 array reserve part of their data space for parity information,

allowing all data to be recovered if a single drive fails. The parity information takes up about one
hard drive’s worth of space, so if you set up all four drives in the TeraStation as a RAID 5 array,
your usable capacity will be about 3/4 of the total capacity of the TeraStation. RAID 5 is an
excellent compromise between effi ciency and security. If a single drive fails, no data is lost. After
the damaged or defective drive is replaced, your TeraStation will automatically restore all data to
the new drive and resume normal RAID 5 operation. This is how your TeraStation is set up out
of the box.

Buffalo Technology recommends RAID 5 for its excellent balance of effi ciency and security.

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Advanced Settings

Disk Management (RAID Configuration)

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 Confi guration.

You may also disable RAID Array Error Detection
Response from this page. Normally, this is set
to automatically shut down the RAID array
when an error is detected. Though it is not
recommended, you may disable that behavior
by clicking Disable and then Apply under RAID
Array Error Detection Response.

Note that your TeraStation has four internal hard drives. Before creating a new RAID array, you
may have to delete one or more pre-existing RAID Arrays to clear up the hard drives for your new
one. This will destroy all data currently on the disks, so back up any important data before deleting
RAID arrays. Whether you want to clear out an old array or create a new one, begin by clicking on
the array’s underlined RAID Array #, under Name.

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Disk Management (RAID Configuration)

A confi gured RAID array may be deleted by pushing

the Delete RAID Array button. This will free up all
hard drives listed under Disk Structure.

To confi gure an unconfi gured array, put checks

Advanced Settings

next to the hard disks you want included in

the array (under Disk Structure) and choose

your RAID mode. Click Setup RAID Array when

ready. It may take several minutes to complete

setting up the RAID array. When it’s fi nished, a

Disk Check will run.

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Disk Management (Disk Check)

Advanced Settings

When RAID Confi guration is done, you’ll see

this screen. To confi gure a new array, click
on RAID Array # and go back to the bottom of

page 28. To setup shares turn to page 35.

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Disk Management (RAID Configuration)

You’ll see this screen when your new RAID

Advanced Settings

Array is completely confi gured. Click on
Shared Folders and turn to page 35 to begin
setting up shares on your TeraStation.

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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

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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 within
TeraStation before they can be assigned
shares. Press Format USB Disk, or choose
Disk Format from the left-side menu, to begin
reformatting your USB hard disk. Turn to
page 34 for more information on reformatting
disks. Turn to page 35 to set up shares on
your USB hard drives.

Advanced Settings

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Advanced Settings

Disk Management (Disk Check)

To initiate a comprehensive disk check on a hard drive or array of drives, select the hard drive or
array that you want to check from the Target Disk dropbox and click the Select Target button. A
disk check on larger hard drives or arrays may take several hours.

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Disk Management (Disk Format)

Advanced Settings

To format a hard drive or array, select it from

the Target Disk dropbox. Choose the fi le
system desired from the File System dropbox
(internal drives can only be formatted with
XFS). Note that FAT32 has a 4 gigabyte fi le
size limit. If you choose FAT32 for your fi le
system, you will not be able to store fi les
larger than 4 gigabytes on the drive. Buffalo
Technology recommends the XFS fi le system.
Press Select Target Disk when done.

Depending on the size of the target hard disk

or array, a Disk Format may take several
hours to complete.

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Advanced Settings

Shared Folders

To begin setting up shares on your TeraStation, select Shared Folders from the left side menu,
and then click the Add button under Shared Folders Setup.

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Add a new Shared Folder

Advanced Settings

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 the share
will support by putting the appropriate checks
next to Shared Folder OS Support, and whether
the share supports the Recycle Bin by putting
a dot next to Enable or Disable. Enter a

Shared Folder Description and a Remote Backup
Password if you desire. Click the Apply button

to build the new shared folder.

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Shared Folders (Access restrictions)

Advanced Settings

To use Access Restrictions for a share, put a
dot next to Enable.

Highlight groups or users in the All Groups/
Users column and use the left-pointing arrow
buttons (located just to the left 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 groups and users, see pages 39
and 40.

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Advanced Settings

Shared Folders (Anonymous FTP Setup)

To allow Anonymous FTP, choose Enable for Anonymous FTP Server. Select a folder to share from
the Anonymous User Public Shared Folder (only one folder may be shared by anonymous FTP) and
choose whether you want the share to be Writable, or Read Only. Click the Apply button to set up
anonymous FTP.

If FTP Server is disabled in the Basic window, this page will not be accessible.

Anonymous FTP mode uses port 8021 (i.e. ftp://IP Address:8021).

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Group Management

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 and a description to the Add New
Group fi elds. 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.

Advanced Settings

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User Management

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 TeraStation from
a Windows 95/98 computer, their password
should be 15 characters or less. Mac users’s
passwords should be 9 characters or less.

Advanced Settings

TeraStation is preconfi gured with two users,
admin and guest, out of the box. The guest
account allows network users login access so
that they can clear the print que. It has no
password. 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.

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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
user’s windows computer or domain, the same
user name and password should be used when
creating the user’s account on the TeraStation, or
problems accessing shared folders may occur.

Enter the desired new password in both boxes
and click Apply.

Advanced Settings

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Advanced Settings

Troubleshooting Multiple Shares

When adding multiple shares, you may see this
error message.

This is caused by having multiple shares to the

same resource using different credentials. The
error occurs when connecting to at least one secure, restricted share. Due to a constraint in
Microsoft Windows, only one set of credentials can map drive letters for a network resurce such as
the TeraStation. As such, only one username and password can be used while mapping a drive. If
unsecure, unrestricted shares are mapped and then an attempt to map a secure, restricted share
occurs, then this error will occur. To prevent this, you must create all mapped shares using the
same login and password information. Please follow the steps on the next page to remedy this
problem.

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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 must use
the same username and password!

If only 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.

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Advanced Settings

Print Server (Settings)

A USB printer, plugged into a USB port on either the front or the rear of your TeraStation, may be
used as a Windows Print Server and/or an Apple Print Server on your network by choosing Enable
on this page as appropriate and then clicking Apply.

44

USB Settings

Print Server - Printer Share Installation

If TeraStation is set up to share your printer (page 42), 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, selecting the Run...
option, and entering \\TeraStation_Name (where TeraStation_
Name is the name you set on Page 18). Press the OK button
when fi nished.

Right click on the lp icon and select Connect. You’ll

receive a warning that the server doesn’t have the
proper drivers. Press the OK button to continue.

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Print Server - Printer Share Installation (continued)

The Add Printer Wizard will launch. Select the proper driver
for your printer. If your printer is not in the list, you’ll have
to insert the CD that came with your printer into your PC’s
CD-ROM drive and press the Have Disk button. Refer to your
printer documentation for further information on installing
your printer if necessary. Press OK to fi nish.

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 the Set as Default Printer option from the File drop­down menu.

USB Settings

46

Advanced Settings

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 execute the Delete Print Queue program,
press the Delete button. This will clear all
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
printer back on, and then turning the TeraStation back on again.

Note that if a multi-function (all-in-one) printer is attached to the TeraStation, usually only
the printing and fax functions will work. Other features, such as scanning, probably will not
function.

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Disk Backup

Advanced Settings

To create a backup job, click on an underlined
Job Number. The Edit Backup Job dialog will
appear.

If the Disk Sleep function is enabled, disable it
(page 53) before creating a backup job.

48

Disk Backup (Edit Backup Job)

Advanced Settings

A Backup Job can run regularly on a daily or
weekly schedule, or immediately by appropriate
choices in the Backup Job Schedule fi eld. Date
and Time for the backup may be entered,
and Encryption and Compression enabled or
disabled. Enable Overwrite Backup to have
each scheduled backup write over the previous
backup, or Differential Backups to backup only
fi les changed since the previous backup.

Select the folder to be backed up from the
Source Backup Shared Folder dropbox, and
the destination for the backup fi les from the
Destination Backup Shared Folder dropbox.
The destination folder may be on a USB
drive attached to the TeraStation, or another
TeraStation on the network. Click on Select.

Click the Apply button when your backup job is
set up the way you want it, or Clear Job to stop
a job from running again.

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Disk Backup (TeraStation List)

Press Refresh to get a list of TeraStations on your network.

Advanced Settings

50

Advanced Settings

Disk Backup (Add TeraStation)

To add a TeraStation to your network, enter its numerical IP address in the Remote TeraStation IP
Address fi eld and click the Add to List button.

51

PCast

Advanced Settings

Clicking on PCast on the left-side menu takes
you to this page. Use this fi eld to set a share
on your TeraStation as the media folder for your
LinkTheater. Choose Enable for PCast Media
Server and choose the share where you keep
your media fi les as the Media Folder. If you
choose to Enable a password, pick one that you
can easily enter with your LinkTheater’s remote
control.

If you don’t have a LinkTheater, you can ignore
this page.

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Advanced Settings

Maintenance (Notification)

If your TeraStation is remotely managed, you
may choose to receive nightly status reports
and be notifi ed of any disk events by email.
To set this up, enable Mail Notifi cation and
enter the IP address of your SMTP server*
in the SMTP Server Address fi eld. Select a
Subject line for the emails (i.e. “TeraStation
report”) and enter the email address of each
person you want to receive notifi cation emails
into a Recipient Mail Address fi eld.

* SMTP server must be of open type. There’s no provision for entering a username or password.

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Maintenance (UPS Settings)

Advanced Settings

You may enable Synchronize with UPS and
UPS Automatic Shutdown from this page.

Consult your Uninterruptable Power Supply’s
documentation for further information about
setting up your UPS system.

TeraStation’s UPS interface is serial. USB-type
UPS interfaces are not currently supported.
See page 20 for more information on
TeraStation’s UPS interface.

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Advanced Settings

Maintenance (Disk Sleep Function)

If there are regular periods when your TeraStation is not in use, you may want to schedule disk
sleeping. Enable Disk Sleep, select the time that you want to initiate sleep mode, and select the
time that you want the TeraStation to “wake up” and resume normal operation. Click Apply. To
avoid confl icts, do not use the Disk Sleep Function concurrently with Disk Backup.

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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.

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Maintenance (Initialization)

The INIT button on the rear of your TeraStation normally returns the
TeraStation to factory settings when held down for 15 seconds. This affects
Admin Password, Ethernet Frame Size, and IP Address. If the Remain option
has been selected on the screen below, then the Admin Password will not be
reset when the INIT button is held down.

Pressing Apply for Restore Defaults from
Maintenance/Initialization resets Admin
Password, Hostname, TeraStation Description,
NTP Settings, Workgroup Settings, Access
Restrictions, User Settings, Group Settings,
Mail Notifi cations, UPS Settings, Disk Sleep,
and Disk Backup. If you select the Remain
option for Admin Password and then click
Apply, the admin password will no longer be
reset when the INIT button on the TeraStation
is held down.

Advanced Settings

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System Status (System Information)

This page shows you the System Information for your TeraStation.

Advanced Settings

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Advanced Settings

System Status (USB Details)

This page shows you details on USB hard drives and printers plugged into your TeraStation.

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System Status (Drive Properties)

This page shows you the properties of all hard drives and
RAID arrays in and attached to your TeraStation.

Advanced Settings

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System Status (Network Information)

This page shows you the System Information for your network connection.

Advanced Settings

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User Access Status

This page shows you the current status of all users on the system.

System Status

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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 associated

TeraStation, as well as the version of fi rmware

it’s running.

With a TeraStation’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 21. And clicking Setup and

choosing Modify IP Address takes you to the

following screen . . .

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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.

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Troubleshooting

If TeraStation encounters a disk error, it will be reported in the TeraStation status on the top of any
of the Web-Based confi guration screens. Run a ‘Normal’ Disk Scan in the event of this error. If
that doesn’t work, try running a ‘Thorough’ Disk Scan. Additionally, if that still does not resolve the
problem, a format is recommended. Formatting the drive will delete all of the data on it so back up
any data you can before formatting. Finally, if none of the above solutions help, then please contact
Technical Support (see pages 67 and 68 for Technical Support contact information).

DIAG LED codes:

One blink every second: RAID Array Confi guration is running normally

One blink every four seconds: RAID Error

Four blinks every four seconds: Internal Fan Error

Five blinks every four seconds: Flash ROM Error

Six blinks every four seconds: Hard Drive Error

Seven blinks every four seconds: RAM, LAN, or HDD Controller Error

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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 Connector: USB A Connector (4)

Data Transmission Speed: Max: 480 Mbps (HS Mode)
Max: 12 Mbps (FS Mode)

UPS: UPS Compatible (Serial port connection)

Power Consumption: 17W Maximum

Dimensions: 6.6” x 8.7” x 9.5” (168 x 221 x 241 mm.)

Weight: 15.8 lb. (7.2 kg.)

Operating Environment: 32° - 95° F; 20-80% non-condensing

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Technical Support (US and Canada)

Buffalo Technology offers toll-free technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for this product.
Customers in the United States and Canada can obtain technical support using the following
information:

Web: www.buffalotech.com
E-mail: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone] (USA & Canada only; see page 68 for European tech support)

FCC Warning

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
(1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference
received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

GPL Statement

This product uses GPL/LGPL software. Please see the GNU LICENSE document on the LinkNavigator
CD-ROM for more information concerning the terms of the license. To obtain a copy of our open
source software, please send a message to [e-mail] to inquire about obtaining a
package.

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Technical Support (Europe)

Buffalo Technology (Europe), Inc.
176 Buckingham Avenue,
Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4RD
United Kingdom

GENERAL INQUIRIES

Email: [e-mail]

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Technical Support in Europe is available between the hours of 9am-6pm (GMT) Monday to
Thursday and 9am-4:30pm (GMT) Friday for this product. Customers in Europe can obtain
Technical Support using the following information:

E-mail: [e-mail] | Web: www.buffalo-technology.com

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