Buffalo Technology LS-WSGL User Manual

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User Manual

LS-WSGL

LinkStation Mini

Introduction

Congratulations on your new LinkStation Mini. This user manual is intended to assist you

in conﬁ guring it.

Because we’re constantly updating our products, the images and text in this manual may vary slightly from the images and text displayed by your LinkStation. 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 www.buffalotech.com.

If you run into difﬁ culties or need additional help, feel free to contact our technical support.

Contact information for Buffalo Technology and our technical support is available on pages 67 and 68.

Table of Contents

Back Panel Layout ............................................................4

Installation .......................................................................5

Power Mode Switch ...........................................................8

Using your LinkStation with a PC .....................................9

Using your LinkStation with a Mac .................................13

Add Additional Hard Drives ............................................17

Advanced Settings .......................................................... 18

Network Settings ............................................................. 22

Disk Management ........................................................... 24

Shared Folders ................................................................ 30

Groups ...........................................................................34

Users ..............................................................................35

Passwords ....................................................................... 36

WebAccess ...................................................................... 37

DLNA Media Server ......................................................... 41

Installing a Printer ..........................................................42

Troubleshooting Multiple Shares..................... ................ 47

Backups .........................................................................49

Maintenance & Notiﬁ cation .............................................53

System Status ................................................................ 58

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

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

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

Contact Information (USA) ..............................................67

Contact Information (Europe) ......................................... 68

GPL Information ............................................................. 69

Back Panel Layout

USB

Power Switch

Power Plug

Ethernet (to Router)

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:\LSnavi.exe (where d is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive). Press OK to continue.

If you are installing the software on a Mac, open the CD and click LinkNavigator to begin installation.

Installation

Press the Begin Installation button to begin.

If you’re installing on a PC, click on Easy Setup (the pink, upper button). Mac users can skip this step.

Click Next to step through the installation.

LinkNavigator Setup

The wizard will step you through installation. Follow the directions on each screen and continue pressing Next to step through the installation.

When installation is complete, you may close the installation window.

LinkNavigator Setup

Power

Mode

Power Mode

The “Power Mode” switch on the back of the unit has three positions: “Auto”, “On”, and “Off”. The “Auto” position automatically powers the unit on or off based with your PC. If your PC is turned on the LinkStation will power up; if the PC is turned off the LinkStation will power down.

You must have installed the NAS Navigator software on your PC 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 “On”.

Move the switch to the “Off” position to turn the LinkStation off. It will take about 35 seconds to shut down. Do not unplug or interrupt power to the unit until shutdown is complete and all LEDs are off.

Using your LinkStation with a Windows PC

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 ﬁ les and folders in. Info contains a copy of your user manual.

The Buffalo NAS Navigator icon opens the LinkStation’s client utility. Turn to page 63 for more on using the NAS Navigator client utility.

Accessing LinkStation Data from your PC

To Access LinkStation Data from a PC:

Your LinkStation uses “shares” (folders) to hold data. A share called “share” is already conﬁ gured on your LinkStation, and you can create additional shares in Shared Folders. To start using your LinkStation, you can either click on the Shortcut for LinkStation on your desktop, or you may just use drive L in My Computer, which setup has mapped to the default share in your LinkStation.

Accessing LinkStation Data from your PC

You can map additional driveletters to shares on your LinkStation.

From the Start menu, select Run.... Enter your LinkStation’s

hostname (if you don’t know it, you can get it from the NASnavigator utility) or IP address. Press OK.

Your LinkStation should open. “Share” is a data folder in your LinkStation by default. “Info” contains your user manuals. If you have created other folders, they will be visible here too. You can map drive letters to any of these folders.

Accessing LinkStation Data from your PC

From the Tools pull-down menu, select Map Network Drive. Choose a drive letter from the Drive:

pull down menu. To specify the folder to map, either ﬁ nd it with Browse or enter \\LinkStation_ Name\share_name in the Folder: ﬁ eld, where LinkStation_Name is your LinkStation’s hostname

(page 21) and share_name is the name of a folder on your LinkStation. Check the Reconnect at logon checkbox to have Windows connect to this mapped drive everytime it starts. When ﬁ nished, press the Finish button. Your share is now mapped to a drive letter.

Using your LinkStation with a Mac

After installing the LinkNavigator software, your Mac will have two new icons on the desktop.

The LS-ProDuoSettings.txt ﬁ le contains the IP address of your LinkStation. NAS Navigator is the LinkStation’s client utility.

With the information in the LS-ProDuoSettings.txt ﬁ le, you can easily connect to the LinkStation from any of your computers on your local network.

The NAS Navigator icon opens the LinkStation’s client utility. See page 63 for more on using the NAS Navigator client utility.

Accessing LinkStation Data from a Mac

You can add a link to your LinkStation’s share folder to your desktop by adding it to the Mac’s server list. Begin by clicking Go, and then choose Connect to Server.

In the Server Address ﬁ eld, enter your LinkStation’s IP address in the form smb:// ipaddress (where “ipaddress” is your LinkStation’s IP address), and click Connect.

You can get your LinkStation’s IP address from the LS-ProDuoSettings.txt ﬁ le on your desktop, or see page 16.

Accessing LinkStation Data from a Mac

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

Select the volume that you want to mount, such as share or share-mac, from the list of folders on the LinkStation.

The share will open. A link to it will appear on your desktop.

Accessing LinkStation Data from a Mac

If you don’t know your LinkStation’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 ﬁ nd your LinkStation(s). Just click

on the icon for your LinkStation and you’ll be able to read its IP address.

The LS-ProDuoSettings.txt ﬁ le on your desktop contains the IP address of the linkstation at the time that the setup program was run.

You can always get the LinkStation’s IP address from your

router’s conﬁ 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 LinkStation’s IP address.

LinkStation Expansion

LinkStation Mini has two USB 2.0 ports on the rear. This port can be used for adding an external USB Hard Drive or a USB Printer. LinkStation will share connected USB devices, allowing everyone on the network to use them. To connect a USB hard drive to your LinkStation, simply plug it into the USB port.

Once your USB hard drive is connected, see page 26 for conﬁ guring your LinkStation to use it.

To conﬁ gure a USB printer, see page 42.

The Conﬁ guration GUI

Advanced Settings

The Conﬁ guration 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.

You may also open the Conﬁ guration GUI from NAS

Navigator by right-clicking on your LinkStation and choosing Open Web Admin.

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 OK button when ﬁ nished.

User name: admin Password: password

See page 36 to change your password.

If this login prompt does not appear, your DHCP server may not be functioning correctly. If DHCP is disabled, either re-enable it or verify that the LinkStation’s IP Address is in the same range as that of your PC.

Advanced Settings - Home

Welcome to Advanced Settings, the conﬁ guration GUI for the LinkStation! Bookmark this page in your browser so it can be easily accessed for future conﬁ guration changes. If the LinkStation’s

IP Address changes, you will need to recreate the link. You can also get here by typing http:// LinkStation_Name into a Web browser, where LinkStation_Name is the name (hostname) of your

LinkStation.

You are now at Home. Notice that the Home button is lit up in yellow. You can navigate this menu by clicking on the buttons at the left of the screen. Here at “Home”, you can see basic information about your LinkStation’s current conﬁ guration. You may close this screen by clicking Logout at the bottom left, or by just closing the browser window.

Basic

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. To have your system time automatically set by an NTP server, enable NTP Server and enter an IP Address for an NTP server (e.g. 192.43.244.18) or use the supplied default NTP server.

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

Once desired ﬁ elds have been completed, press

the Apply button.

Advanced Settings

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