Buffalo TeraStation 7000 User Manual page 20

Accounts
Your TeraStation username and password should be the same as your Windows username and password. If they are
different, you may not be able to access folders on the TeraStation with access restrictions configured.
Read-only Shares
By default, new shares are set with read & write access, but you may change the attribute to Read-only in Shared Folder
Attributes. Read-only shares and HFS+ formatted USB hard drives will have "Read-only" added to the shared folder
description.
Hidden Shares
To hide a shared SMB folder, select "Hidden Share (SMB Only)" and click OK. To open a hidden folder, click Start - Search
programs and files and enter \\TeraStation name\Shared folder name$\ for the name. Example: If the TeraStation name is
"TS-XX001" and the shared folder name is "share", then enter "\\TS-XX001\share$\" to open it.
Note:
FTP, SFTP, and Mac AFP folders cannot be hidden.
Notes:
• The following characters are handled differently by Mac OS and Windows. Avoid using these characters when
sharing data between Mac OS and Windows:
• Windows does not support some characters that Mac OS and the TeraStation allow. If you create a filename on a Mac
with any of the following characters, it will not display correctly on a Windows computer. With OS X 10.2 or later, you
may have to connect to the TeraStation via AFP in order to display or copy any of the following characters.
? " ] / \ = + < > ; : " , | *
• Do not use any of the following words as a username or group name: root, bin, daemon, sys, adm, tty, disk, lp, sync,
shutdown, halt, operator, nobody, mail, news, uucp, ftp, kmem, utmp, shadow, users, nogroup, all, none, hdusers,
admin, guest, man, www, sshd, administrator, ftpuser, apache, mysql
• Do not use any of the following words as the name of a shared folder. These words are reserved for internal use by
the TeraStation: info, spool, lost+found, global, printers, homes, lp, authtest, ram, msdfs_root, mt-daapd, usbdisk#
(where # is a number, for example: usbdisk1)
• Don't use the following unsupported characters in shared folder names, workgroup names, or filenames:
• File and folder names may contain up to 255 single-byte (UTF-8) characters. Two-byte characters count as two
characters each.
• Configure hidden and read-only file attributes in Settings. Configuring them from within Windows is not supported
and may cause unexpected behavior.
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