User Manual LS-CL LinkStation EZ www.buffalotech.com 35010667 ver.1 2-01 C20-005 v1.
Introduction Congratulations on your new LinkStation EZ. This user manual is intended to assist you in configuring 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.
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 USB Devices ......................
Back Panel Layout USB Auto On Off Power Mode Switch Ethernet (to Router) Power Plug 4
Installation 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.
LinkNavigator Setup Choose your preferred language. Mac users can skip this step. Press the Begin Installation button. Click Next to step through the installation.
LinkNavigator Setup The wizard will guide 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.
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 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.
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 files 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 65 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 folders to hold data. The default folder is called “share”. This folder is where you place data that you want to share with other users. You can create additional folders using the Shared Folders option.
Accessing LinkStation Data from your PC You can map additional drive letters 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 NASnavigator2 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 find it with Browse or enter \\LinkStation_ Name\share_name in the Folder: field, 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.
Using your LinkStation with a Mac After installing the LinkNavigator software, your Mac will have two new icons on the desktop. The LS-CLSettings.txt file contains the IP address of your LinkStation. NAS Navigator is the LinkStation’s client utility. With the information in the LS-CLSettings.txt file, 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.
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 field, 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-CLSettings.txt file on your desktop, or see page 16.
Accessing LinkStation Data from a Mac Select Guest and click on Connect. Note: If you have configured 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 find your LinkStation(s). Just click on the icon for your LinkStation and you’ll be able to read its IP address. The LS-CLSettings.txt file on your desktop contains the IP address of the LinkStation at the time that the setup program was run.
LinkStation Expansion LinkStation EZ has a USB 2.0 port on the rear. This port can be used for adding an external USB Hard Drive or a USB Printer, or for connecting to a UPS. 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, turn to the “Disk Management” section of this manual for information on configuring your LinkStation to use it.
Front Panel Layout Power LED - Blue. Lit when the LinkStation is on. Flashes during boot or shutdown. Function Button/LED - See the next page for instructions on using the function button.
Using the Function Button Direct Copy - You can copy digital media files directly to the LinkStation Live from a USB storage device, such as a digital camera, USB flash drive, or external hard disk. 1. Connect your USB device to the port on the back of the LinkStation Live. The function button will glow solid blue for 60 seconds. 2. While the Function button is still glowing blue, press it once.
Using the Function Button Initialization - You can easily bring your LinkStation EZ back to factory settings with the following steps. 1. Move the power switch to the ‘Off’ position. The LinkStation EZ will shut down after about 45 seconds. 2. While holding down the function button, move the power switch to the ‘On’ postion. The function button will begin to flash blue. 3. While the function button is still flashing, hold it pressed down for six seconds.
Web Administration Tool The Web Admin tool 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 Web Admin from NAS Navigator by right-clicking on your LinkStation and choosing Open Web Admin from the menu.
Log in 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. User name: admin Password: password Instructions for changing your password may be found on page 38.
Advanced Settings - Home Welcome to your LinkStation’s Web Admin tool! 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_Name into a Web browser, where LinkStation_Name is the name (hostname) of your LinkStation. You are now at the Home screen. Notice that the Home button is lit up in yellow.
Basic Settings 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.
IP Address In most networks, LinkStation will get its IP Address automatically from a DHCP server. You may disable DHCP here if you would rather set a static IP address manually. If DHCP is disabled and an IP Address is not set manually, it will default to 169.254.xxx.xxx with subnet mask 255.255.0.0. The LinkStation’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.
Network (Workgroup/Domain) If you do not participate in a Domain network, then please leave the Network Type selected as Workgroup and Workgroup Name set to the name of your local workgroup. To make your LinkStation a member of a workgroup or an NT domain, enter the appropriate information into the fields on this page and click Apply. If using NT Domain, LinkStation must be added as a member computer in the Domain Server.
Disk Management This page shows the properties for the drives in your LinkStation EZ. If you have a USB hard drive plugged into the linkstation, its properties will appear here as well.
USB Hard Drives From here you can see your USB hard drive’s system information. If the hard drives’ information isn’t displayed properly, try restarting your USB hard drives and then restarting your LinkStation. Some USB hard drives must be reformatted from within LinkStation before they can be assigned shares. Select Disk Format from the left-side menu to format your USB hard disk(s). Note: Reformatting a drive will erase all data on it! Back up any data on the drive before reformatting it.
Disk Check Disk Check checks any of your hard drives for errors. To use Disk Check, select the disk that you want to check from the target pulldown and click Select Target. Then click on Start Disk Check.
Disk Format To format a hard drive or array, select it from the Target Disk drop box. Choose the file system desired from the File System dropbox (internal drives can only be formatted with XFS). Note that FAT32 has a 4 gigabyte filesize limit for individual files. If you choose FAT32 for your file system, you will not be able to store single files larger than 4 gigabytes on the drive. Use of the XFS or EXT3 file systems is recommended. Press Select Target Disk when done, and then Start format.
Disk Erase To remove all data from a Disk, use Disk Erase. Once erased, this data cannot be restored. Note: Disk Erase may take several hours to complete.
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. Deleting shares will remove the share and erase all of the files and folders inside that share.
Add 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 Folder Support, and whether the share supports the Recycle Bin by putting a selecting Enable or Disable. Enter a Shared Folder Description and a Remote Backup Password if desired. Click Apply to build the new shared folder.
Access Restrictions To use Access Restrictions for a share, select 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.
Shared Folders (Services) To allow FTP Access to your LinkStation, choose Enable for FTP Server. To enable legacy AppleTalk support, choose Enable for AppleTalk Protocol. Click Apply. If enabled, FTP lets users access the LinkStation from anywhere. Type ftp://username: password@IP_address into a browser window to access the LinkStation remotely. Users will have access to shares that they have local access rights to on the LinkStation.
Groups 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 a description to the Add New Group fields. 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.
Users 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 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 LinkStation from a Windows 95/98 computer, their password should be 15 characters or less.
Changing User Passwords To change an account’s password, click on the name of the account under Local User Settings. Note: if a user name and password are used to log into a user’s windows computer or domain, the same user name and password should be used when creating the user’s account on the LinkStation, or problems accessing shared folders may occur. Enter the desired new password in both boxes and click Apply.
WebAccess 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 is set up from within the Web Admin. First, select ‘Web Access’, and then ‘Service Setup’ from the menu on the left. To use Webaccess, set ‘Web Access Service’ to Enable. You may enable SSL Encryption if desired. Using ‘BuffaloNAS.com’ is recommended.
Configuring WebAccess 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 this share through WebAccess. This is the default setting. ‘Allow Anonymous’ will allow anyone to access the share.
Using WebAccess 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 URL window. The folders from your LinkStation’s share will appear. Files from anonymous shares will appear to the right.
Using WebAccess To access individual folders on the right, click on their open links. Clicking on individual files will give you other options, depending on the filetype. Clicking on the Audio link at the bottom left corner of the page will give you options for playing music files, including the opportunity to launch a Flash-based music player that will stream your audio files directly through the Web interface.
Direct Copy To use Direct Copy, plug a USB device into the LinkStation and press the fuction button on the front within 60 seconds. Media files will be copied to the LinkStation automatically. On this page, choose the folder on the LinkStation that Direct Copy copies files to and click Apply.
Printer Installation If a USB printer is plugged in to 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 Web Admin for your LinkStation.
Printer Installation • Access the LinkStation by pressing Start, selecting the Run... option, and entering \\LinkStation_Name (where LinkStation_ Name is the DNS name of your LinkStation). Press the OK button when finished. • Right click on the lp icon and select Connect. • You may receive a warning about installing from a trustworthy source. If you receive this message, press Yes to continue. • You will receive a warning that the server does not have the proper drivers. Press OK to continue.
Printer Installation • The Add Printer Wizard will launch. Select the proper driver for your printer. If the specific printer is not in the list, you will be required 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 finish. • If lp is the only printer installed on the PC, then it will automatically be set as the default printer.
Printer Installation • To print a test page or configure additional printer settings, right click on the lp printer icon and select Properties. This will open the printer’s driver properties page. • Press the Print Test Page button to print a test page. You can also browse through the available settings for the printer. Please refer to the printer’s documentation for more information on changing the printer’s settings. NOTES: The printer installation process can be done on any machine on your network.
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 delete the print queue, 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.
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 to a constraint in Microsoft Windows, only one set of login credentials can access or map drive letters for a network resource such as the LinkStation.
Accessing Multiple Shares from a single PC 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 username and password! If only unrestricted shares are being mapped, then it’s not necessary to set a username and password for shares.
Backup The LinkStation’s built-in backup utility can back up files on your LinkStation to an attached USB hard drive or to another LinkStation on the local network. For best results, reformat attached USB hard drives with ext3 before use as backup storage. If backing up to another LinkStation, then the target LinkStation should be connected to the same network as the LinkStation doing the backup.
Edit Backup Job A Backup Job can run regularly on a daily or weekly schedule, or immediately by appropriate choices in the Backup Job Schedule field. 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 files changed since the previous backup.
LinkStation List The LinkStation list shows other LinkStations in your network that you can configure network backups to. Press Refresh to get a list of LinkStations on your network.
Disk Backup (Add LinkStation) To add a remote LinkStation to your network, enter its numerical IP Address in the Remote LinkStation IP Address field and click the Add to List button. For remote LinkStation backups, make sure both firewalls are configured to allow traffic in and out of their networks. Note: Disk Backups between two LinkStations use port 8873 for encrypted backups and port 873 for backups with no encryption.
Time Machine To use the LinkStation as a location for backups from a Mac running Time Machine, click Enable and then Apply.
Notification If your LinkStation is remotely managed, you may choose to receive daily status reports and be notified of any disk events by email. To set this up, enable Mail Notification and enter the IP Address of your SMTP server in the SMTP Server Address field. Select a Subject line for the emails (i.e. “LinkStation Status Report”) and enter the email address of each person you want to receive notification emails into a Recipient Mail Address field.
UPS Settings If using an Uninterruptible Power Supply, configure the LinkStation’s UPS settings here. Supported UPS products include USB models in APC’s Smart-UPS and BackUPS series. Note: Settings on this page can only be changed while a supported UPS is connected to the LinkStation. APC is a registered trademark of American Power Conversion Corporation.
Sleep Mode You may configure up to three situations where the LinkStation powers down for a set period. Example: To have the LinkStation enter sleep mode every night between noon and 3 pm, set a timer with Daily as the timer interval, 15:00 as the wakeup time, and 12:00 as the sleep time.
Restart From the Restart page, press Restart Now button to reboot the LinkStation, bringing it back to functionality after about 120 seconds.
Initialization Initialization is a reset procedure that restores all settings back to the default, out of box, configuration. All configuration, users, groups, and backup jobs are lost, but actual data and shares on the hard drive are NOT lost. If you want all data to be erased, erase the drive. Specify whether the LinkStation shall keep its administrator password after a initialization or whether the password should be reset to the default password (default password is password).
System Status (System Information) This page shows you the System Information for your LinkStation. Firmware updates are occasionally available from www.buffalotech.com for the LinkStation EZ. These must be executed from a Windows PC on the same network. Your router, switch, or hub should pass through ports 8873 and 22939 for this to work (most do).
System Status (USB Details) This page shows you details on USB hard drives and UPSs plugged into your LinkStation. In this example, no USB hard drives are plugged in to the LinkStation.
System Status (Drive Properties) This page shows you the properties of all hard drives in and attached to your LinkStation.
Network Information This page shows you the System Information for your network connection.
Client Utility This is the Buffalo NASnavigator2 Client Utility. Installed on your PC, it allows you to access each of the LinkStations (and TeraStations) on your network. Click View to get icons for each of your LinkStations. Highlight each tab to show the Host Name, Workgroup, IP Address, and Subnet Mask, Gateway, and MAC Address of the associated LinkStation, as well as the firmware version it’s running. Right-click on a LinkStation for more options.
Client Utility IP Address Setup From the IP Settings tab, you may enter your IP Address and Subnet Mask manually, or enable your LinkStation to acquire them automatically from a DHCP server. Press OK when you’re done.
Troubleshooting 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 try to backup any data you can before beginning. Finally, if none of the above solutions help, then please contact Technical Support for further assistance.
Fan Replacement Remove the screw from the top of the LinkStation. The fan will now slide straight out to the side. Unplug the connector by pulling it straight up.
Technical Specifications Data Transfer Rates: 10/100/1000 Mbps Hard Drives: 3.5” SATA Main Connector Type: RJ-45 (Ethernet) USB Interface: USB 2.0/1.1 Protocol Support: TCP/IP SMB, FTP, AppleTalk (File Sharing) HTTP (Management) NTP (Time Synchronization) Power Supply: 100-240V 50/60Hz Client OS Support: Windows® Vista™, XP, 2000, Mac OS® 10.3.9 or later Power Consumption: ~24W (with no USB devices connected) Dimensions: 6.9” x 1.8” x 6.1” (174 x 45 x 156 mm) Weight: ~17.
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