Buffalo Technology TS-RHTGL-R5 User Manual

User Manual

Rackmount TeraStation Pro

TS-RHTGL/R5

www.buffalotech.com

v1.2

Introduction

Congratulations on your new TeraStation! Your TeraStation Pro is a powerful le server that’s as easy to use as a hard drive. With its straightforward conguration GUI, 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 four hard drives that may be congured in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 10 arrays. It also includes SAMBA 3.0, allowing it to join Active Directory domains, download users, passwords, and groups, and keep them up to date. 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: www.buffalotech.com.

If you run into dif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

73 and 74.

Table of Contents

TeraStation Layout............................................................4

Installation .......................................................................7

Accessing TeraStation Data from a PC ............................. 10

Accessing TeraStation Data from a Mac...........................14

TeraStation Expansion ................................................... 18

Advanced Settings ........................................................... 19

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

Hard Drive Settings ......................................................... 25

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

Shared Folders ................................................................ 37

Groups ...........................................................................41

Users ..............................................................................42

Troubleshooting Multiple Shares..................... ................ 44

Backups .........................................................................46

Maintenance Settings ...................................................... 50

UPS Settings ...................................................................51

System Information ......................................................... 58

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

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

Changing Hard Drives ..................................................... 67

Technical Specications .................................................. 72

Technical Support ........................................................... 73

GPL Information .............................................................75

TeraStation Layout

Power Switch

Display Mode

Switch

Front Panel lock

(Turn counter-clockwise to release)

Hard Drives (Squeeze tabs to release)

TeraStation Layout

Init Button (Hold down to reset all settings)

TeraStation Layout

Power Cable

UPS

Ethernet

USB in

(to router)

Installing Software

Begin by connecting your TeraStation’s power and Ethernet cables. For best results, the Ethernet cable should be connected to a router, hub, or switch on your network. Turn the TeraStation on by pushing the power button on the front panel. It will take about a minute to boot.

Insert the TeraNavigator 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:\TSnavi.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

TeraNavigator to begin installation.

Press the Begin Installation button to begin.

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

Click Next to step through the installation.

TeraNavigator Setup

Follow the steps shown and continue pressing Next to step through the installation.

When installation is complete, click Finish.

TeraNavigator Setup

Using your TeraStation with a Windows PC

Two new icons will be on your desktop: Shortcut for TS-TeraStation_ name and Buffalo NAS Navigator.

Clicking Shortcut for TS-TeraStation_name takes you directly to the folders on your TeraStation. Share is the main folder that you can put les and folders in. Info contains a copy of your user manual.

The Buffalo NAS Navigator icon opens the TeraStation’s client utility.

Turn to page 59 for more on using the NAS Navigator client utility.

Accessing TeraStation Data from your PC

To Access TeraStation Data from a PC:

Your TeraStation uses “shares” (folders) to hold data. A share called “share” is already congured on your TeraStation, and you can create additional shares on page 37. To start using your TeraStation, you can either click on the Shortcut for TeraStation on your desktop, or you may just use drive T in My Computer, which setup has mapped to the default share in your TeraStation.

Accessing TeraStation Data from your PC

You can map additional driveletters to shares on your TeraStation.

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

hostname (you can get it from the NAS Navigator utility) or IP address.

Press OK.

Your TeraStation should open. “Share” is a data folder in your

TeraStation 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 TeraStation 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 nd it with Browse or enter \\TeraStation_

Name\share_name in the Folder: eld, where TeraStation_Name is your TeraStation’s hostname and share_name is the name of a folder on your TeraStation. Check the Reconnect at logon checkbox

to have Windows connect to this mapped drive everytime it starts. When nished, press the Finish

button. Your share is now mapped to a drive letter.

Using your TeraStation with a Mac

After installing the TeraNavigator software, your Mac will have a NAS Navigator icon on the desktop.

Clicking the NAS Navigator icon opens the TeraStation’s client utility.

Accessing TeraStation Data from a Mac

You can add a link from your TeraStation’s

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.

Accessing TeraStation Data from a Mac

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

Select the volume that you want to mount, such as share or share-mac,

from the list of folders on the TeraStation.

The share will open. A link to the shared folder will appear on your desktop.

Accessing TeraStation Data from a Mac

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 nd 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 TeraStation’s IP address from the LCD display

on the front of the TeraStation as it boots up.

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.

TeraStation Expansion

TeraStation Pro has two USB 2.0 ports on the rear. These ports can be used for adding external USB Hard Drives or UPS systems. 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 Pro. To connect a USB hard drive or UPS to TeraStation, simply plug it into one of the USB Ports.

You may plug in additional USB hard drives to either of the USB ports on your TeraStation. See page 31 for setting up your USB hard drive on the TeraStation. Page 46 shows you how to set up TeraStation to backup to a USB Hard Drive.

See page 51 for more information on using the TeraStation with a UPS.

The Conguration GUI

Advanced Settings

The Conguration 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 the Conguration GUI from

NAS Navigator by clicking on Setup and choosing Conguration Settings.

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 nished.

User name: admin

Password: password

See page 43 to change your password.

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 is in the same range as that of your PC.

Note: Pages 63 and 64 describe how to congure the TeraStation with a Static IP Address.

Advanced Settings

Welcome to the conguration GUI for the TeraStation! Bookmark this page in your browser so it can be easily accessed for future conguration changes. If the TeraStation’s IP Address changes,

you will need to recreate the link. You can also get here by typing http://TeraStation_Name into a

Web browser, where TeraStation_Name is the name of your TeraStation.

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 TeraStation’s current conguration. You may close this screen by clicking Logout at the bottom left, or just by closing the browser window. If you have lost your TeraStation, clicking I’m

here! at the bottom left will cause it to beep, making it easier to nd.

Basic

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 Time. To have your system time automatically set by an NTP server, enable NTP Server and enter an IP Address for the 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 elds have been completed, press

the Apply button.

Advanced Settings

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. Only use JumboFrame settings when operating in a Gigabit environment where all other clients support the same JumboFrame

setting.

Click Apply after making any changes.

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