Buffalo TS-XL, TS-WXL User Manual

TeraStation User Manual

TS-XL/R5 and TS-WXL/R1 models

www.buffalotech.com

v2.3

Introduction

Congratulations on your new TeraStation! The TeraStation is a powerful le server that’s

as easy to use as a hard drive. With its straightforward Web Admin Tool, anyone can

easily congure the TeraStation’s settings. You don’t even necessarily need to congure it at all; right out of the box it’s ready to be plugged in and put to work. But the TeraStation

remains a fast, reliable, Linux-based server, with multiple hard drives that may be

congured in RAID arrays. This user manual is intended to assist you in conguring your

new TeraStation.

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.

Introduction

Diagrams and Layout 4 TS-XL/R5 4 TS-WXL/R1 7 Power Mode 10

Using your TeraStation

Using your TeraStation with a PC 11 Using your TeraStation with a Mac 13

Finding your TeraStation’s IP address 17

Settings and Conguration

Web Admin Tool 18 Users/Groups Adding Users 21 Adding Groups 24 Disk Quotas 25 Network Settings 26 Port Trunking 27 Workgroup/Domain 29 NFS 31 DFS 32 System Settings 33 Disks RAID Conguration 34 Hot Spare 36 Hot Swap 37 USB Hard Drives 38 Formatting Hard Drives 39 Encryption 39

Adding Shares 40 Mapping Additional Shares 43 TeraSearch 45 Maintenance 48 Replication 49 Backup Jobs 50 Initialization 51 NS-SHFT 54 EXT3 Reader 56 UPS 57 Extensions Sleep Timer 58 Print Server 59 Time Machine 63 DLNA Media Server 68 Bittorrent Client 70 Direct Copy 72 Remote Access WebAccess 73 FTP 78

Troubleshooting

Error codes 79 Troubleshooting Multiple Shares 81 Replacing a Hard Drive 84

Appendix

Specications 85 Factory Defaults 86 Contact Information 87 GPL Information 88

TeraStation Quick Setup

Front Panel (TS-XL/R5)

Status LEDs

Power On/Off

LCD Display

Door Lock

Display Button

Function Button

TeraStation Quick Setup

Open Front Panel (TS-XL/R5)

Init Button

Drive LED

Drive Lock

(Press left to open drive)

Diagnostic Port (Buffalo factory use

only)

Serial Port for UPS

USB

Ethernet 1

Ethernet 2

Power Mode

Auto Manual

TeraStation Quick Setup

Rear Panel (TS-XL/R5)

Power Connector

Security Mount

TeraStation Quick Setup

Front Panel (TS-WXL/R1)

Status LEDs

Power On/Off

LCD Display

Door Lock

Display Button

Function Button

Open Front Panel (TS-WXL/R1)

TeraStation Quick Setup

Init Button Drive LED

Drive Lock

(Press left to open drive)

Diagnostic Port (Buffalo factory use

only)

USB Ports

Serial Port

for UPS

TeraStation Quick Setup

Rear Panel (TS-WXL/R1)

Power Connector

Ethernet 1

Ethernet 2

Power Mode

Security

Auto Manual

Mount

Power Mode

The “Power Mode” switch on the back of the unit has two positions: “Auto” and “Manual”. The “Auto” position automatically powers the unit on or off with your computers. If any of your

computers are turned on, the TeraStation will power up; if all computers are turned off, the TeraStation will power down.

You must have installed the NAS Navigator2 software on each of your computers for this feature to work. Otherwise, if you move the switch to “Auto”, your unit will power down by itself and you will have to manually turn it back on.

Also note that the unit needs to be powered on if you want to use the Web Access feature. When using Web Access, it is best to leave the Power Mode switch set to “Manual”.

The “Auto” mode does not work if “NasNavi Detection” is disabled in Network/Settings/Network Services, or if Port Trunking is enabled. In either of these cases, use the “Manual” mode.

To turn the TeraStation off, hold down the power button on the front panel for ve seconds. It will take about 30 seconds to shut down. Do not unplug or interrupt power to the unit until shutdown is complete and all LEDs are off.

Using the TeraStation with a PC

On your desktop is a new shortcut to Buffalo NAS Navigator. Double-click it to

open the NAS Navigator2 client utility.

Double-click on your NAS device’s icon to open it. Or, right-click on it for more

options.

From NAS Navigator2, you can easily browse the shares on your TeraStation, open its Web Admin Tool, map a drive letter to a share, or

make a desktop shortcut

to the main share on the

TeraStation. Clicking

I’m Here causes the TeraStation to beep and

ash its LEDs, making it

easy to identify.

Using your TeraStation with a Mac

After installing the TeraNavigator software, your Mac will have

“NASNavigator” in the dock.

The NASNavigator icon opens the TeraStation’s client utility. If you have more than one NAS device on the network, each will be visible here. Click on the chosen device to highlight it. Click on the “gear”

symbol to drop down available commands.

Open Web opens the Web Admin Tool. Congure opens the menu on the next page. Color Label lets you color-code your NAS devices in NAS Navigator2. Show View Options lets you choose the size and order of icons in the NAS Navigator2 display.

In NAS Navigator2, choose Congure from the drop-down menu to get to the Web page. Click Open Web Page to go the Web Admin Tool, or click IP Address to change the TeraStation’s IP Address

settings.

The IP Address page lets you change the TeraStation’s IP address

settings.

If you have more than one NAS on your network, Show View Options can be useful. It lets you choose the order of icons in the NAS Navigator2 display. You may also adjust the size of the icons from

here.

You can manually add shares (folders) to your desktop by adding them to the Mac’s server list. Begin by clicking Go, and then choose

Connect to Server.

In the Server Address eld, enter your TeraStation’s IP address in the form smb://

ipaddress (where “ipaddress” is your

TeraStation’s IP address), and click Connect.

If you don’t know your TeraStation’s IP address, see page 17.

Select Guest and click on Connect. Note: If you have congured share permissions on your TeraStation, select Registered User and enter your login credentials.

Select the volume that you want to mount, such as share, from the list of folders on the TeraStation.

The share will open.

Finding your TeraStation’s IP Address

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 Navigator2 client utility

(included on your CD) to nd your TeraStation(s). Just click on the icon for your TeraStation and you’ll be able to read its IP address.

You can get the TeraStation’s IP address from the LCD display

on the front of the TeraStation. Press the Display button until

the IP address is displayed.

You can always get the TeraStation’s IP address from your router’s conguration utility. Many Buffalo routers list this

information on the Client Monitor page, as shown to the right.

Consult your router’s documentation for instructions on identifying the TeraStation’s IP address.

Web Admin Tool

Advanced Settings

To access the Web Admin Tool, right-click on your

TeraStation in NAS Navigator2 and choose Open Web Admin.

Alternately, you may access the Web Admin Tool

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.

Advanced Settings

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 Login button when nished.

User name: admin Password: password

Welcome to the Web Admin Tool! On the left side, you can see your TeraStation’s system information. Tabs and submenus along the upper edge allow easy access to all of the settings pages for your TeraStation.

Category Tabs Submenus Help and

Individual

Instructions

Settings

Adding Users

To add users, select the Users/Groups tab. Local Users is the default submenu. Click on Create User.

Enter your user information and click Save.

You may enable quotas for the user if desired.

The hard limit is the maximum amount of space in gigabytes that this user will be able to use. The soft limit, which should be smaller, is the maximum amount of space in gigabytes that the user can use before receiving a warning that they are running out of space.

Adding Users in CSV Format

To add many users easily, a CSV (Comma-

Separated-Variables) le is recommended. This is a text le, with each line consisting

of a Username, Password, and Description separated by commas and ending with a

carriage return. These les can contain from 1 - 1000 users. Paste the contents of the CSV le into the CSV input window and click on

Start Import.

The users from the CSV le will be added to the

list of local users for the TeraStation.

Note: Paste the contents of the CSV text le into the CSV input window, not the text le

itself.

Remote Users

You may manage users and passwords for a TeraStation from a SMB server.

In your TeraStation, enable Delegate Authority

to External SMB Server in Network/Workgroup/ Domain. Users from the local TeraStation

may then be moved to the External Users list. This will remove all passwords, leaving their accounts unusable until the passwords are

set on the SMB server. The External Users

and their passwords will then be managed

from the SMB server. Shares, user rights, and permissions will still be congured from the local TeraStation’s Web Admin Tool.

Advanced Settings

Adding Groups

To add a group, select the Local Groups submenu under the Users/Groups tab. Click on Create Group.

Enter information for your group and click on

Save.

Disk Quotas

Disk Quotas let you set a maximum on the

amount of total storage that may be used by a user or group.

Under the Users/Groups tab, click on Local

User or Local Group. Then, click on Edit User or Edit Group as appropriate. Enable

Quotas and enter amounts (in Gigabytes) for

the maximum storage to be available to the user or group. The hard limit is the absolute maximum amount of space in gigabytes that this user or group will be able to use. The soft limit, which should be smaller, is the maximum amount of space in gigabytes that the user or group can use before receiving a warning that they are running out of space.

If both user and group quotas apply to a member of a group, then whichever is smaller will be

enforced.

Network Settings

Network Settings contains settings that affect your Ethernet connection. In most networks, TeraStation will get its IP Address automatically from a DHCP server. You may disable DHCP here and congure the IP address settings manually if desired. If no DHCP server is available and an IP Address is not set manually,

it will default to a random address on the

169.254.xxx.xxx subnet with subnet mask

255.255.0.0.

Ethernet Frame Size, Services, and Port Trunking settings are also set from this page. Only use

JumboFrame settings when operating in a

Gigabit environment where all other clients

support the same JumboFrame setting.

Port Trunking

Port Trunking allows you to connect the TeraStation to the network with two separate

Ethernet cables. To use it, you need an

“intelligent” switch that supports port trunking.

Congure two LAN ports on the switch in port trunking mode. Connect them to Ethernet ports 1 and 2 on the TeraStation.

In the Web Admin Tool, navigate to Network/

Settings/Port Trunking. Select one of the port

trunking models and click Save.

Restart the TeraStation before use.

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