Belkin HOME BASE F5L049 User Manual
  1. Manuals
  2. Brands
  3. Belkin Manuals
  4. Wireless Router
  5. F5L049
  6. User manual

Belkin HOME BASE F5L049 User Manual

User manual
Hide thumbs Also See for HOME BASE F5L049:
Table of Contents

Advertisement

Quick Links

Download this manual

Home Base

User Manual
8820-00256 F5L049

Advertisement

Table of Contents
loading
Need help?

Need help?

Do you have a question about the HOME BASE F5L049 and is the answer not in the manual?

Questions and answers

Related Manuals for Belkin HOME BASE F5L049

Summary of Contents for Belkin HOME BASE F5L049

  • Page 1: Home Base

    Home Base User Manual 8820-00256 F5L049...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    TaBle of ConTenTs sections table of contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 Media server .

  • Page 3: Introduction

    Thank you for purchasing the Belkin Home Base. By following these simple setup instructions, your Belkin Home Base will allow you to share your USB printer and hard drives, with any computer or laptop on your home network. The Control Center software offers a convenient central location to configure the Home Base and the USB devices you attach to it.

  • Page 4: Home Base

    Share – Easily pass files back and forth across the network. Share • Quick Installation Guide music, photos, video, documents, or any content you want by • Belkin Setup Assistant Software CD placing it on the external drive attached to Home Base. • RJ45 Ethernet Networking Cable •...

  • Page 5: Getting Started

    GeTTInG sTarTeD sections table of contents Connect Home Base to your network First, connect Home Base to If you’d like to use Home Base wire- your router with a network lessly, plug it into your router for now. cable. Next, plug the included The setup software will help you power supply into Home Base make Home Base operate on your...

  • Page 6: Home Base

    GeTTInG sTarTeD sections table of contents Install Control Center on other computers You will need to install Control Center on each additional *If the setup software does computer that will use Home Base. Insert the CD and the not run automatically, browse setup software will run*.

  • Page 7: Wireless Setup

    WIreless seTUP sections table of contents Wired setup of Wireless Mode There are three ways to attach your Home Base to your wireless network: note: If Home Base is powered on while plugged into a router, it will operate as a wired device. To enable Wireless mode, follow •...

  • Page 8: 4 . Push And Hold The Wps Button On Home Base. Release The Wps

    WIreless seTUP sections table of contents WPs Push Button Configuration If your router supports WPS, the WPS Push Button Configuration (PBC) is the quickest way to get Home Base onto your wireless network. Make sure Home Base is NOT plugged into your router. status of WPs Wireless security: Connect the AC adapter.

  • Page 9: Home Base

    WIreless seTUP sections table of contents WPs PIn Configuration If your router does not support the WPS Push Button Configuration, the alternative is to apply the WPS security using the PIN Configuration. Locate the 8-digit PIN code on the bottom of Home Base and enter this pin into your router to manually initiate a WPS connection.

  • Page 10: Available Devices List

    aVaIlaBle DeVICes lIsT sections table of contents The “Available Devices” tab displays a list of USB devices connected to Home Base and allows you to select devices and specify connection settings for them. For more information, see the “Device Properties” section below. The “Available Devices”...

  • Page 11: Device Properties

    DeVICe ProPerTIes sections table of contents To access the properties sheet for an individual device, select the device in Control Center and click “Properties”. The properties sheet allows you to specify general settings such as the name that the device will appear as in the Control Center, whether the device should automatically connect with a computer via the Home Base as soon as the computer starts, and more.

  • Page 12: Printer Connection Properties

    DeVICe ProPerTIes sections table of contents Device Connection Properties The “Connection” tab of the “Device Properties” screen enables you to specify if the device should connect automatically to this computer when the computer is started, and if any software should start automatically when the device connects.

  • Page 13: Home Base

    DeVICe ProPerTIes sections table of contents Printer Connection Properties If the printer is being shared among multiple computers, we recommend selecting “This is a shared printer, automatically connect and disconnect only when printing”. With this option, the printer is automatically connected when a print job is sent to it, then is disconnected as soon as the job completes so the printer is then available for other computers.

  • Page 14: Local Backup

    The Belkin Home Base Control Center Local Backup tab enables you to easily back up the files from your computer to USB drives connected to Home Base. To set up a backup from your computer, select the volume to which you If you want to change the disk volume used for backup, click want to back up and click “Choose Disk”.

  • Page 15: Home Base

    loCal BaCKUP sections table of contents Click “Options” to exclude files from the backup. This can help your To restore files back to your computer, you can right-click on a file or backup happen faster. You can choose to exclude “Log files and folder you wish to restore and choose “History”...

  • Page 16: Home Base

    loCal BaCKUP sections table of contents If you want to perform a full restore of your computer, launch the “Restore Utility” found in the “Local Backup” folder of the drive that received the backup. Home Base...

  • Page 17: Picture Sharing

    PICTUre sHarInG sections table of contents The “Picture Sharing” tab enables you to automatically upload pictures from USB disks connected to the Home Base to picture-sharing sites like Flickr and Picasa. If you want to change the time that Home Base performs the picture uploads to the online services, click “Options”.

  • Page 18: Home Base

    PICTUre sHarInG sections table of contents Now select the photo-sharing site you want to use and follow the The “Picture Sharing” configuration wizard will ask you for your online prompts. If you don’t have a Flickr or Picasa account, you will need to photo-sharing account information;...

  • Page 19: Home Base

    PICTUre sHarInG sections table of contents flickr account selection A Flickr account is selected here. Next to “User Name”, the user names If a new user name is entered, Flickr tool authorization is necessary. In stored in Home Base are displayed in a combo box. this case, clicking “Next”...

  • Page 20: Home Base

    PICTUre sHarInG sections table of contents If “OK” is clicked, the default web browser will launch and the Flickr authorization page will be displayed. Control Center will display a message telling the user to dismiss it when authorization is complete. After authorization is complete, the user clicks the message box’s “OK”...
  • Page 21 PICTUre sHarInG sections table of contents flickr optional settings Begin Upload Optional settings are configured here. After adding a picture job, the user will choose whether to perform the upload immediately, or wait until the configured time. When “Finish” is clicked, the upload will be performed according to the user’s selection.
  • Page 22 PICTUre sHarInG sections table of contents Picasa account selection If “Sign up for Web Albums” is clicked, the sign-up page for Picasa Web Albums will open in a web browser. The user can create a Google Account there if he or she does not already have one. A Picasa account is selected here.
  • Page 23 PICTUre sHarInG sections table of contents album Configuration Begin Upload The album to upload pictures is selected here. An existing album can After adding a picture folder, the user will choose whether to perform the be selected, or a new album can be created. If there are no albums for upload immediately, or wait until the configured time.

  • Page 24: Error Notification

    PICTUre sHarInG sections table of contents error notification In the folder list, an error status message will be displayed for If an error occurs while Picture Sharing is in progress, the user will be items where an error notified via an icon (or balloon help) in the task tray on Windows, or an occurred.
  • Page 25 PICTUre sHarInG sections table of contents Once you have configured Home Base to upload pictures to a photo-sharing If you want to change the time that Home Base performs the picture uploads site, a list of folders and their associated sites will be shown on the “Picture to the online services, click “Options”.

  • Page 26: Control Center Options

    ConTrol CenTer oPTIons sections table of contents You can specify general settings such as whether you want the Control Center software to start when you start your computer, how you want to update Control Center software, and more. To access “Control Center Settings” properties, click “Tools > General” or “Tools > Connected Home Bases” in Control Center. General settings If you check “Start Home Base Control Center when Windows Starts”, any devices to which you choose to automatically connect will be ready...
  • Page 27 ConTrol CenTer oPTIons sections table of contents Connected Home Bases On the “Connected Home Bases” tab you can view all Home Bases Network administrators who are administering a network containing available on your network and set properties for them. subnetworks can click “Refresh options” to specify broadcast IP addresses to be used when the Control Center searches the network for All connected Home Bases are listed in the box.

  • Page 28: Media Server

    MeDIa serVer sections table of contents overview In addition, the following files may be showed on file lists that the media player displays: Home Base can distribute pictures, movies, and music (called media Table 1 file formats files) to UPnP media players by using UPnP. Media Type File Extension function features...

  • Page 29: Upgrading Home Base Firmware

    UPGraDInG HoMe Base fIrMWare sections table of contents firmware Update Instructions From the Home Base Control Center software, click on “Tools”, Choose your Home Base from the list (check the MAC address on the then “Connected Home Bases”. label of the bottom of Home Base with the MAC address in the list) and select “Properties”.
  • Page 30 UPGraDInG HoMe Base fIrMWare sections table of contents Your web browser should open to the Home Base configuration page. Type in your Home Base password (there is no password by default), Click on “Upgrade Firmware”. and click “Login”. Home Base...
  • Page 31 UPGraDInG HoMe Base fIrMWare sections table of contents Browse to the firmware file you downloaded from the Belkin website and Click “Upload”. click “Open”. Click “OK” when the verification screen comes up. Your firmware upgrade will take a few minutes to complete after confirmation.

  • Page 32: Troubleshooting

    Home Base Firmware is the latest version. you can browse the Internet. Verify that the network is working Software and Firmware updates are available on Belkin’s website at properly. http://www.belkin.com.
  • Page 33 TroUBlesHooTInG sections table of contents Unable to select a disk for backup Device Troubleshooting If a device is visible in Control Center, but you cannot connect to it, your The backup function of Home Base supports FAT16-, FAT32-, and firewall may be blocking the connection. During installation, Control NTFS-formatted disk drives only.

  • Page 34: Firewalls

    fIreWalls sections table of contents This topic shows you how to create an exception for Control Center in several popular firewall programs. Because firewalls are designed to block unwanted intrusions into your network, you must specify settings that tell the firewall that Control Center should be allowed to communicate with the Home Base on your network.
  • Page 35 fIreWalls sections table of contents Windows live oneCare Select “Firewall” and click “Advanced settings”. Right-click on the Windows Live OneCare icon in the task bar. Click “Change OneCare settings”. Home Base...
  • Page 36 Select “Programs” and click “Add”. Select “connect.exe” from the folder where Control Center is installed. The default path is: C:\Program Files\BELKIN\Home Base Control Center\Connect.exe. Home Base...
  • Page 37 fIreWalls sections table of contents Check that the software is set to “Allow”. Click “Apply”. Now go to “Ports and protocols” and click “Add”. Home Base...
  • Page 38 fIreWalls sections table of contents 8 . Add a new exception, one for outgoing data. 9 . Add another new exception, one for incoming data. Name Name Home Base (Out) Home Base (In) TCP or UDP TCP or UDP Port Range Port Range 19540 to 19540 19540 to 19540...
  • Page 39 fIreWalls sections table of contents Mcafee security Center 2007 Click “Start > All Programs > McAfee”. Select “McAfee Expand the “Firewall Protection is enabled” list by clicking on the Security Center”. arrows (A). Then click “Advanced” (B). Select “Internet & Network” (A) and then click on the option to “Configure”...
  • Page 40 Ensure that “Program Permissions” on the left is highlighted (A). Browse to the folder where Control Center is installed. Click “Add Allowed Program” (B). The default path is C:\Program Files\BELKIN\Home Base Control Center\Connect.exe. Select the program (highlighted below) and click “Open”.
  • Page 41 fIreWalls sections table of contents norton Internet security 2007 Go to “Start > All Programs > Norton Internet Security”. Select Select “Program Control”. “Norton Internet Security”. Expand “Settings” (A), scroll down to “Internet Security and Firewall Options” (B) and click it. Home Base...
  • Page 42 Click “Add”. Browse to the folder where Control Center is installed. The default path is C:\Program Files\BELKIN\Home Base Control Center\Connect.exe. Select the program (highlighted below) and click “Open”. Home Base...
  • Page 43 fIreWalls sections table of contents Program control will then ask you for the appropriate action for this Click “Apply”. This confirms and applies the exception for Control program. Choose “Allow” and click “OK”. Center. Click “OK” to exit. You may need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.
  • Page 44 fIreWalls sections table of contents Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet security 2007 Go to “Start > All Programs > Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Click “Settings”. Security 2007”. Select “Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007”. Click “Personal Network & Firewall Controls” on the left. Home Base...
  • Page 45 fIreWalls sections table of contents Ensure that the option “Direct Internet connection” is highlighted On the next screen ensure that the security level is set to “Low” (A). (A), and then click “Add” (B). Click the “Program Control” tab (B). Home Base...
  • Page 46 Click “Add”. Browse to the folder where Control Center is installed. The default path is C:\Program Files\BELKIN\Home Base Control Center\Connect.exe. Home Base...
  • Page 47 fIreWalls sections table of contents Select the program “Connect” and click “Open”. Ensure that the program setting is set on “Simple Mode” and that the “Allow” option is selected. Click “OK”, and then “OK” once more. You may need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. Home Base...
  • Page 48 fIreWalls sections table of contents Zonealarm In Control Center, click “Configure General Hub Settings” under 4 . Select “Firewall”. Select “Zones” and click “Add”. “Tasks” in Control Center. The “Home Base Settings Properties” tabs appear. Select the “Connected Home Bases” tab. Write down the IP address of your Home Base. Right-click on the ZoneAlarm icon in the task bar and open the ZoneAlarm Control Center.
  • Page 49 fIreWalls sections table of contents Select “IP Address”. Make sure that the IP address of Home Base is listed in the “Trusted” zone and click “Firewall”. The connection in Control Center should now be enabled. Enter the IP address that you wrote down earlier. Click “OK”. Verify your settings.
  • Page 50 For example, a webcam will need software to capture video. The I can see a USB device in Control Center, but I can’t connect to Belkin Control Center enables you to specify that the software it. What should I do? automatically start when a device is connected to the Home Base.
  • Page 51 faQs sections table of contents How do I access USB disk drives connected to Home Base? What is the difference between Network USB mode and NAS mode? In Windows, Control Center automatically maps a new drive letter for your computer for each supported USB disk drive connected to In Network USB mode, it is as if the USB device is connected Home Base.
  • Page 52 faQs sections table of contents Can a password be set for a file? What is the password to log in to the FTP server? Passwords cannot be set. If security is necessary, use The user ID is root, and the password is the password you file-compression software to create a password-protected archive.

  • Page 53: Technical Support

    TeCHnICal sUPPorT sections table of contents You can find technical support information at http://www .belkin .com/networking or www .belkin .com through the tech support area. If you want to contact technical support by phone, please call: Belkin Tech support Belkin ltd .

  • Page 54: Information

    The FCC requires the user to be notified that any changes or modifications to this device that are not expressly approved by Belkin International, Inc., may void the This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a user’s authority to operate the equipment.

  • Page 55: Open Source Software

    The source code that can be found at the website and that is physically distributed EN50385: 2002-08: Product standard to demonstrate the compliance of radio base is complete to the best of Belkin’s knowledge. If you believe any additional (or stations and fixed terminal stations for wireless telecommunication systems with...
  • Page 56 1 . Contact Belkin International, Inc., at 501 W. Walnut St., In the event that Belkin is unable to repair or replace the product (for Compton, CA 90220, Attn: Customer Service, or call (800)-223-5546, example, because it has been discontinued), Belkin will offer either a within 15 days of the Occurrence.
  • Page 57 Belkin reserves the right to review the damaged Belkin product. All IN NO EVENT SHALL BELKIN BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, costs of shipping the Belkin product to Belkin for inspection shall be DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR MULTIPLE DAMAGES SUCH borne solely by the purchaser.
  • Page 58 +44 (0) 1933 31 2000 fax +61 (0) 2 4350 4700 fax © 2009 Belkin International, Inc. All rights reserved. All trade names are registered trademarks of respective manufacturers listed. Mac OS and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

Table of Contents