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User Manual

CloudStor

CS-WX/1D and CS-WV/1D

www.buffalotech.com

v1.4

™

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Page 1: ...User Manual CloudStor CS WX 1D and CS WV 1D www buffalotech com v1 4...

Page 2: ...les photos and multimedia over the Web to any of your devices wherever you may be Turn to page 4 to set up your CloudStor Because we re constantly updating our products the images and text in this man...

Page 3: ...lders 21 Renaming Devices 22 Active Copy 23 Settings and Configuration General Settings 24 Social Settings 25 Media Settings 27 Security Settings 29 Upload Settings 30 Adding a Printer 31 Device Setti...

Page 4: ...com Click Set Up Your CloudStor Plug one end of the included Ethernet cable into the Ethernet port on your CloudStor and the other end into any available LAN port on your router In the browser window...

Page 5: ...ait for the CloudStor to boot This will take about 5 minutes When the power LED on the front panel stops blinking and glows steadily the unit has finished booting The Info Error LED should not be blin...

Page 6: ...Stor flashing amber Check the following Is the Ethernet cable connected to your CloudStor and to your router Is your router turned on Is your router configured to automatically assign IP addresses DHC...

Page 7: ...7 Back Panel Layout Front Power LED Function LED Info Error LED Front Cover pull straight toward you to remove...

Page 8: ...8 Back Panel Layout Front Panel Removed Spare drive bay for optional 2nd drive Main hard drive Press tab to release drive...

Page 9: ...9 Front Panel Layout Rear Function Button USB Fan Auto Power Power On Power Off Ethernet to router Power Socket for Kensington style lock Power cord stress relief...

Page 10: ...tware available from www buffalotech com 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...

Page 11: ...11 Using Your CloudStor Login To access your CloudStor open a browser and go to https mycloudstor com Enter the email address and password that you registered during setup...

Page 12: ...o If this is your first time using the CloudStor click on the Public folder at the bottom left of the window Click Upload Files on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen When the upload files dialogu...

Page 13: ...lumn In Thumbnail view they ll be at the bottom of the folder icon In either view click the icon that is an arrow pointing down When the save file dialogue box appears click OK to save the file The fi...

Page 14: ...e for iPhone iPad and Android devices give you the ability to access files on your CloudStor from anywhere anytime on your mobile device To download the Pogoplug applications visit www buffalocloudsto...

Page 15: ...ew you are in this icon will appear either to the right of the folder or file in the Actions column or at the bottom of its icon 4 If you click on Share This or Share the sharing options window will o...

Page 16: ...wn menu next to their email address 10 A link will be emailed to the users you have shared with If you have given them write privileges they will need to create a password for themselves If they do no...

Page 17: ...the drive folder or file 2 Click Share This or Share to open the sharing options window 3 To stop sharing the drive folder or file with anyone uncheck Turn on sharing Or click the next to an individu...

Page 18: ...creen that allows you to display your movies and photos by date The Music category includes buttons at the top right of the screen that allows you to sort your music by songs artists albums and genres...

Page 19: ...e Slideshow from the menu at the bottom of the screen 2 Enter a name for the new slideshow in the popup window 3 To add files to the slideshow drag them from the bottom panel to the upper panel 4 When...

Page 20: ...bar at the left of the screen select the drive and directory where you would like to create the new folder Click More Actions at the bottom of the page Then click Create Folder Give your new folder a...

Page 21: ...name of the folder or file you would like to rename and click it You can then change the name of the file or folder In list view click the abc icon next to the name to change the name of the file or...

Page 22: ...gs tab at the top of the window You will see a list of your CloudStor devices Next to each device there is a rename link Click the link to enter a new name Note that the Public folder cannot be rename...

Page 23: ...ur computer you can also use it with Active Copy To configure Active Copy click on Active Copy in the left side menu Then click on Set up Active Copy on a new folder Choose the source folder on the le...

Page 24: ...h your account You may associate multiple email addresses with your account Each email address has full access to all drives and shares associated with the account To add additional email addresses to...

Page 25: ...k sign in and step through the wizard Once you re logged in you can share drives folders and files on your social networks Select a drive folder or file and click Share This or Share to open the shari...

Page 26: ...26 Enter text for your post and click OK Your text will be posted to the chosen social network s with a link to the drive folder or file that you re sharing...

Page 27: ...the CloudStor handles videos There are 3 options optimize videos for playback convert into web friendly H 264 encoding create media meta data fetch music album art iPhoto dates etc and generate thumbn...

Page 28: ...r the thumbnail for a video You can turn off this feature on the Media Settings page by unchecking Preview videos when hovering over video thumbnails HTLM5 is supported for compatible Web browsers Sel...

Page 29: ...in with full security keeping your password and account access safe Security Settings Require sign in to view email shares Check the box next to Require sign in to view email shares to require the pe...

Page 30: ...CloudStor to automatically upload files that are emailed as attachments to upload mycloudstor com Check the box next to Upload my email attachments to Choose a folder to store uploaded attachments the...

Page 31: ...print documents that are stored on your CloudStor to a supported printer that s attached to the CloudStor To enable this feature go to Print Settings and check Enable printer discovery Select your Cl...

Page 32: ...y email attachment sent from your current CloudStor email address to print mycloudstor com will now print to the selected printer You can also allow others to print to the printer connected to your Cl...

Page 33: ...33 Click Invite The person you ve invited can now print documents by sending them as attachments to print mycloudstor com To view your shared printers click Printers I share from the left side menu...

Page 34: ...34 Click Manage to open local settings or BitTorrent to open BitTorrent settings Device Settings...

Page 35: ...The default password is password BitTorrent The BitTorrent folder is automatically created on the drive If the CloudStor is in JBOD mode then the BitTorrent folder is created on disk 1 To Local Setti...

Page 36: ...anged when you are connected to the CloudStor locally as described above Storage You may reconfigure the hard drive settings for the CloudStor here Notifications Enable Email Notification to have your...

Page 37: ...started This operation cannot be stopped or reversed Note Restore and Rebuild Media Library can only be used when you are connected to the CloudStor locally Updates If enabled the CloudStor will be au...

Page 38: ...the the local user interface at http x x x x where x x x x is the IP address of your CloudStor The new drive will be listed in Storage Click on Change Disk Settings Select either Keep Adding a Second...

Page 39: ...nt They may contain different data The full capacity of both drives is usable There is no redundancy If a drive fails all data on that drive is lost In RAID 1 disk mirroring provides fault tolerance b...

Page 40: ...al user interface and clicking Add Enter the Computer Name assigned to the Mac from its Sharing page as the Hostname For the MAC address enter the Ethernet ID of the Mac from Advanced Settings in its...

Page 41: ...vwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Spaces underscores and other characters should not be used if Time Machine is to function properly For the MAC address field enter the Ethernet ID from Advanced Settin...

Page 42: ...to be created To be safe wait three minutes before continuing After three minutes have passed open the Finder Click on All below Shared Find your CloudStor in the window and double click on it It will...

Page 43: ...43 Open Time Machine Click on Choose Backup Disk Choose your CloudStor from the list and click Use for Backup In 120 seconds Time Machine will begin running a backup...

Page 44: ...o enable it select Enable Click Apply Then click Open Download Manager Enter your BitTorrent username and password This is not the same as your CloudStor username and password The default BitTorrent u...

Page 45: ...download icon at the top left The Add Torrent dialog will open Click Browse navigate to the torrent file and open it or enter the URL of the torrent in the Torrent URL field Click OK The file s will a...

Page 46: ...ack of the CloudStor The function LED on the front of the unit will glow blue for 60 seconds Direct Copy While the function LED is still glowing blue hold down the function button for 3 seconds All fi...

Page 47: ...hes with the number of shorter flashes to produce a two digit error code E00 no flashes MPU failure E01 DRAM data line problem E02 DRAM address line problem E03 RTC chip error E04 failed to extract ke...

Page 48: ...ormation codes Like the error codes these alternate between flashing for 1 second tens digit and 1 2 second ones digit Combine the number of longer flashes with the number of shorter flashes to produc...

Page 49: ...s XP Windows Server 2003 2008 Windows Server 2003 2008 R2 Mac OS X 10 4 or later Power Consumption 17 W average 48 W max Dimensions 5 0 x 3 4 x 8 1 127 x 86 x 206 mm Weight 3 3 pounds 1 5 kg Operating...

Page 50: ...day 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...

Page 51: ...ited 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 rel...

Page 52: ...52 Source code for Buffalo products is available at http opensource buffalo jp GPL Information North America GPL Information...

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