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  • Page 1: User Manual

    User Manual LS-WSGL LinkStation Mini www.buffalotech.com...
  • Page 2 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.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    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 ...

  • Page 4: Back Panel Layout

    Back Panel Layout Power Switch Power Plug Ethernet (to Router)

  • Page 5: Installation

    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).

  • Page 6: Linknavigator Setup

    LinkNavigator Setup 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.
  • Page 7 When installation is complete, you may close the installation window. The wizard will step you through installation. Follow the directions on each screen and continue pressing Next to step through the installation. LinkNavigator Setup...

  • Page 8: Power Mode Switch

    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;...

  • Page 9: Using Your Linkstation With A Pc

    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.
  • Page 10 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.
  • Page 11 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.
  • Page 12 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...

  • Page 13: Using Your Linkstation With A Mac

    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.

  • Page 14: 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. Accessing LinkStation Data from a Mac In the Server Address fi eld, enter your LinkStation’s IP address in the form smb:// ipaddress (where “ipaddress”...
  • Page 15 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.
  • Page 16 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.

  • Page 17: Add Additional Hard Drives

    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.

  • Page 18: Advanced Settings

    Advanced Settings The Confi guration GUI 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...
  • Page 19 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. Advanced Settings 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.
  • Page 20 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.
  • Page 21 Advanced 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.

  • Page 22: Network Settings

    Advanced Settings Network (IP Address Properties) In most networks, LinkStation 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.xxx.xxx with subnet mask 255.255.0.0.
  • Page 23 Network (Workgroup/Domain) from the domain controller(s). To confi gure the LinkStation Pro on an Active Directory network, you must have the Domain Administrator login credentials. Enter the Domain Name and Domain Controller into the appropriate fi elds. In an Active Directory environment, check the Active Directory Domain checkbox and fi ll in the remaining fi...

  • Page 24: Disk Management

    Advanced Settings Disk Management (Drive Properties) This page shows the properties for the drives in your LinkStation Mini. If you have a USB hard drive plugged into the linkstation, its properties will appear here as well.
  • Page 25 Advanced Settings Disk Management (RAID Setup) Confi gure your RAID settings here. To change the type of RAID array used, click on “RAID Array 1” under RAID Setup.
  • Page 26 Advanced Settings Disk Management (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.
  • Page 27 Advanced Settings Disk Management (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.
  • Page 28 Advanced Settings Disk Format To format a hard drive or array, select it from the Target Disk drop box. 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 lesize limit for individual fi...
  • Page 29 Advanced Settings Disk Erase To remove all data from a Disk, use Disk Erase. Once erased, this data cannot be restored.

  • Page 30: Shared Folders

    Advanced Settings Shared 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.
  • Page 31 Adding a new Shared Folder on is accessed from a modern OS through SMB, these limitations will not apply. Remote Backup Password will set a password on this share for other LinkStations who want to use it as a remote backup target. This password will not affect users attempting to access the share;...
  • Page 32 Advanced Settings Shared Folders (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...
  • Page 33 Advanced Settings Shared Folders (Service Setup) To allow FTP Access to your LinkStation, choose Enable for FTP Server. To enable legacy AppleTalk support, choose Enable for AppleTalk Protocol. FTP Server Info: Enabling the FTP Server will allow users to connect to shares via FTP protocol. Their username and password is used for their login credentials, and they will only have access to shares that have read-only or writeable access to on the LinkStation.

  • Page 34: Groups

    Group Management 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. Active Directory and Domain Groups are not shown here but are available under Share Management.

  • Page 35: Users

    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 LinkStation from a Windows 95/98 computer, their password should be 15 characters or less.

  • Page 36: Passwords

    User Management (changing passwords) Enter the desired new password in both boxes and click Apply. Advanced Settings 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 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...

  • Page 37: 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 fi les, or share them with other people, wherever they may be. ‘Auto-Confi gure Firewall’ is also recommended if your router supports UPnP (most do since 2001). If you choose not to enable this, you must manually confi...
  • Page 38 Confi guring WebAccess Select ‘Folders Setup’ in the left-side menu. Any shares on your Select ‘Folders Setup’ in the left-side menu. Any shares on your LinkStation will appear on the list to the right. Click on the LinkStation will appear on the list to the right. Click on the icon beside it to select a share for web access.
  • Page 39 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 37. Alternately, you can go directly to your share by typing BuffaloNAS.com/your_BuffaloNAS_name in the URL window.
  • Page 40 Clicking on individual fi les will give you other options, depending on the fi letype. Clicking on the Audio link at the bottom left corner of the page will give you options for playing music fi les, including the opportunity to launch a Flash-based music player that will stream your audio fi...

  • Page 41: Dlna Media Server

    Confi guring DLNA Media Server If you have a LinkTheater or other DLNA compatible media player, this page is where you confi gure your LinkStation to work with it. Choose Enable for Media Servers and select the folder where your media fi...

  • Page 42: Installing A Printer

    Printer Installation If a USB printer is plugged into 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. •...
  • Page 43 • 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 fi nished. • Right click on the lp icon and select Connect. •...
  • Page 44 • The Add Printer Wizard will launch. Select the proper driver for your printer. If the specifi c 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.
  • Page 45 • To print a test page or confi gure 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 •...
  • Page 46 LinkStation. Finally, you may try turning the LinkStation off, turning the printer off, turning the printer back on, and then turning the LinkStation back on again. Print Server (Delete Print Queue) If a corrupt print job is sent to a printer, printing may suddenly fail.

  • Page 47: Troubleshooting Multiple Shares

    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. As such, only one username and password can be used while mapping drives to a PC.
  • Page 48 Mapping Multiple Shares 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. If an unrestricted share and a restricted share are both being mapped or accessed, use the restricted username and password for the unrestricted share login by using the Connect using a different user name option.
  • Page 49 Advanced Settings Disk Backup To create a backup job, click on a job number. The Edit Backup Job dialog will appear.
  • Page 50 Advanced Settings Disk 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 fi eld. Date and Time for the backup may be entered, and Encryption and Compression enabled or Enable Overwrite Backup to have disabled.
  • Page 51 Advanced Settings Disk Backup (LinkStation List) The LinkStation list shows other LinkStations in your network that you can confi gure network backups to. Press Refresh to get a list of LinkStations on your network.

  • Page 52: Backups

    Advanced Settings Disk Backup (Add LinkStation) To add a remote LinkStation to your network, enter its numerical IP Address in the Remote LinkStation IP Address fi eld and click the Add to List button. For remote LinkStation backups, make sure both fi rewalls are confi gured to allow traffi c 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.

  • Page 53: Maintenance & Notifi Cation

    Maintenance (Notifi cation) * SMTP server must be an open type server. Currently, there’s no provision for entering a username or password. Advanced Settings If your LinkStation 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...
  • Page 54 Advanced Settings Maintenance (UPS Settings) If using an Uninterruptible Power Supply, confi gure the LinkStation’s UPS settings here.
  • Page 55 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Alert Settings) Alerts confi gured LinkStation to make audible noises when a problem is detected. Along with the audible noise, alert emails will be sent out if Mail Notifi cation was properly confi gured. Please select the features you would like to receive an audible sound alert from and then press the Apply button.
  • Page 56 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Shutdown) From the Shutdown page, press Apply to shutdown LinkStation. This has the same function as holding down the power button on the front of LinkStation, but may be done remotely. Turning on the LinkStation after a shutdown requires a physical button push on the front of LinkStation. The Restart Now button simply reboots the LinkStation, bringing it back to functionality after about 120 seconds.
  • Page 57 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Initialization) Initialization is a reset procedure that restores all settings back to the default, out of box, confi guration. All confi guration, users, groups, and backup jobs are lost, but actual data and shares on the hard are NOT lost.

  • Page 58: System Status

    Firmware updates are occasionally available from www.buffalotech.com for the LinkStation Mini. 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).
  • Page 59 Advanced Settings 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.
  • Page 60 Advanced Settings System Status (Drive Properties) This page shows you the properties of all hard drives in and attached to your LinkStation.
  • Page 61 Advanced Settings System Status (Network Information) This page shows you the System Information for your network connection.
  • Page 62 Advanced Settings System Status (Logs) Choose a Log from the dropdown menu and click View to see it.

  • Page 63: Client Utility

    LinkStation Client Utility This is the Buffalo NAS 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...
  • Page 64 LinkStation 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.

  • Page 65: Troubleshooting

    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 confi guration 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.

  • Page 66: Technical Specifi Cations

    Data Transfer Rates: Hard Drives: Main Connector Type: USB Interface: Protocol Support: Power Supply: Client OS Support: Power Consumption: Dimensions: Weight: Operating Environment: Technical Specifi cations 10/100/1000 Mbps (2) SATA RJ-45 (Ethernet) USB 2.0/1.1 TCP/IP SMB, FTP (File Sharing) HTTP (Management) NTP (Time Synchronization) 100-240V 50/60Hz Windows...

  • Page 67: Contact Information (Usa)

    Contact Information (North America) Buffalo Technology USA Inc. 11100 Metric Blvd., Suite 750 Austin, TX 78758 GENERAL INQUIRIES Monday through Friday 8:30am-5:30pm CST Direct: 512-794-8533 | Toll-free: 800-456-9799 | Fax: 512-794-8520 | Email: sales@ buffalotech.com TECHNICAL SUPPORT North American Technical Support by phone is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (USA and Canada).

  • Page 68: Contact Information (Europe)

    2 Bracknell Beeches, Old Bracknell Lane Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 7BW United Kingdom GENERAL INQUIRIES Email: sales@buffalo-technology.com TECHNICAL SUPPORT Buffalo Technology provides technical support in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. For opening hours and relevant telephone numbers, please go to: www.buffalo-technology.com/contact...

  • Page 69: Gpl Information

    Within the envelope containing the self addressed padded CD shipping envelope, please include a bank draft or money order for $20 (USD) (made out to Buffalo Technology) to cover our handling fee, postage and CD preparation. The CD-R should have the name of the product and revision number clearly written on the actual CD-R (not on the insert).
  • Page 70 Within the envelope containing the self addressed padded CD shipping envelope, please include a bank draft or money order for €20 (Euro) (made out to Buffalo Technology) to cover our handling fee, postage and CD preparation. The CD-R should have the name of the product and revision number clearly written on the actual CD-R (not on the insert).

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