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2 Introduction Congratulations on your new LinkStation Mini. This user manual is intended to assist you in confi guring 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 ad[...]

3 Table of Contents Back Panel Layout ............................................................ 4 Installation ....................................................................... 5 Power Mode Switch ........................................................... 8 Using your LinkStation with a PC ..................................... 9 Using you[...]

4 Back Panel Layout USB Power Switch Power Plug Ethernet (to Router)[...]

5 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. Installation If you are in[...]

6 Press the Begin Installation button to begin. LinkNavigator Setup 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.[...]

7 LinkNavigator Setup The wizard will step 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.[...]

8 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; if the PC is turned off the LinkStation will power down. You must have installed the NAS[...]

9 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. Info contains a copy of your user manual. The Buffalo NAS Navigator icon opens the LinkStation’s cl[...]

10 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 us[...]

11 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. “Share” is a data folder in your LinkStation by default. “Info” contains[...]

12 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_ Nameshare_name in the Folder: fi eld, where LinkStation_Name is your LinkStation’s hostname (page 21) and share_name is the name of a folder on your[...]

13 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 compu[...]

14 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” is your LinkStat[...]

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. Accessing LinkStation Data from a Mac 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[...]

16 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. The LS-ProDuoSettings.txt fi le on your desktop contains[...]

17 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. Once your USB hard d[...]

18 Advanced Settings 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 guration GUI from NAS Navigator by right-clicking on your LinkStation and choosing Open Web Admin . T[...]

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 corr[...]

20 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 LinkStati[...]

21 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 automaticall[...]

22 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. The LinkStation’s IP Address , Subnet Mask , Default Gat[...]

23 Advanced Settings Network (Workgroup/Domain) If you are unfamiliar with Domain/Active Directory networking, then please leave the Network Type selected as Workgroup and Workgroup Name set to Workgroup . To make your LinkStation a member of a workgroup or an NT domain, enter the appropriate information into the fi elds on this page and click App[...]

24 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.[...]

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.[...]

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 [...]

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 .[...]

28 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 les. If you choose FAT32 for your fi le system, you will not be able to store s[...]

29 Disk Erase To remove all data from a Disk, use Disk Erase . Once erased, this data cannot be restored. Advanced Settings[...]

30 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. Deleting shares will remove the share and erase a[...]

31 Advanced Settings Adding 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 [...]

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 wa[...]

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 cr[...]

34 Advanced Settings Group Management Groups allow for easier management of permissions in some networks, specifi cally 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 fi elds.[...]

35 Advanced Settings User Management LinkStation is preconfi gured 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 [...]

36 Advanced Settings User Management (changing passwords) 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 pro[...]

37 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. WebAccess WebAccess is set up from within the Confi guration GUI. First, select ‘Web Access’, and then ‘Service Setup’ from the men[...]

38 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 [...]

39 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. The folders from your LinkStation’s [...]

40 To access individual folders on the right, click on their open links. Using WebAccess 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 pl[...]

41 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 les are stored. This may be located on a USB hard drive connected to the LinkStation if the USB Disk box is checked. Check the Allow Acces[...]

42 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. • To begin, enable the print server in the confi guration GUI for your LinkStation.[...]

43 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 fi nished. • Right click on the lp icon and select Connect . • You may receive a warning about installing from a trustworthy [...]

44 Printer Installation • 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. Refer to your printer documentation for further information on instal[...]

45 Printer Installation • 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 can also browse through the available settings for the printer. Please refer to [...]

46 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[...]

47 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 s[...]

48 Advanced Settings 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 sh[...]

49 Advanced Settings Disk Backup To create a backup job, click on a job number. The Edit Backup Job dialog will appear.[...]

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 disabled. Enable Overwrite Backup to have each scheduled backup write over t[...]

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.[...]

52 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 [...]

53 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Notifi cation) 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 cation and enter the IP Address of your SMTP server* in the SMTP Server Address fi eld. Select a Subject line for the emails ([...]

54 Advanced Settings Maintenance (UPS Settings) If using an Uninterruptible Power Supply, confi gure the LinkStation’s UPS settings here.[...]

55 Advanced Settings Maintenance (Alert Settings) Alerts can be confi gured on the 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 pre[...]

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 si[...]

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. If you want all data to be erased, reformat the drive. Specify whether t[...]

58 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 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 (mos[...]

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.[...]

60 Advanced Settings System Status (Drive Properties) This page shows you the properties of all hard drives in and attached to your LinkStation.[...]

61 Advanced Settings System Status (Network Information) This page shows you the System Information for your network connection.[...]

62 Advanced Settings System Status (Logs) Choose a Log from the dropdown menu and click View to see it.[...]

63 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 ass[...]

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.[...]

65 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 beginni[...]

66 Technical Specifi cations Data Transfer Rates: 10/100/1000 Mbps Hard Drives: (2) SATA Main Connector Type: RJ-45 (Ethernet) USB Interface: USB 2.0/1.1 Protocol Support: TCP/IP SMB, FTP (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[...]

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