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Advanced Settings

System Status (Drive Properties)

This page shows you the properties of all hard 
drives and RAID arrays in and attached to your 
TeraStation.

Summary of Contents for TeraStation Live HS-DH-TGL/R5

Page 1: ...User Manual TeraStation Live HS DHTGL R5 www buffalotech com v1 0...

Page 2: ...our TeraStation These changes are minor and should not affect the ease of setup adversely As time passes future user interfaces updated software and later versions of this manual may be freely availab...

Page 3: ...d Settings 23 Network Settings 27 Hard Drive Settings 29 Adding Extra Hard Drives 36 Shared Folders 40 Groups 45 Users 46 Troubleshooting Multiple Shares 48 Backups 50 Maintenance Settings 60 PCast an...

Page 4: ...4 Begin setting up your TeraStation by plugging your power cable and Ethernet cable into the back of the TeraStation as shown TeraStation Quick Setup...

Page 5: ...o a wall socket or surge protector Plug type and socket will differ according to country of use Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into a hub router or switch in your network TeraStation Quick S...

Page 6: ...ll light as your TeraStation boots up After your TeraStation has completed booting up check the LINK ACT LED on the front of the TeraStation If it s lit then your TeraStation is connected properly and...

Page 7: ...o page 8 to continue setting up TeraStation If the LINK ACT LED is still not lit try the suggestions below to verify that you re not suffering from common setup problems Having problems Make sure that...

Page 8: ...lly launch If it does not manually launch setup exe by pressing Start and selecting the Run option When the Run dialog opens type d TSnavi exe where d is the drive letter of your CD ROM drive Press OK...

Page 9: ...Setup Press the Begin Installation button to begin If you re installing on a PC click on Connect this PC to TeraStation the green lower button Mac users can skip this step Click Next to step through t...

Page 10: ...10 TeraNavigator Setup Continue pressing Next to step through the installation When installation is complete you may close the installation window...

Page 11: ...u directly to the folders on your TeraStation Share is the main folder that you can put les and folders in Info contains a copy of your user manual The Buffalo NAS Navigator icon opens the TeraStation...

Page 12: ...con gured on your TeraStation and you can create additional shares on page 40 To start using your TeraStation you can either click on the Shortcut for TS Live on your desktop or you may just use drive...

Page 13: ...u can get it from the NAS Navigator utility or IP address Press OK Your TeraStation should open Share is a data folder in your TeraStation by default Info contains your user manuals If you have create...

Page 14: ...TS Live share_name in the Folder eld where TeraStation_Name is your TeraStation s hostname and share_name is the name of a folder on your TeraStation Check the Reconnect at logon checkbox to have Win...

Page 15: ...AS Navigator is the TeraStation s client utility Clicking Share opens the main folder on your TeraStation You can put les and folders in Share as though it were any other hard drive connected to your...

Page 16: ...Begin by clicking Go and then choose Connect to Server Accessing TeraStation Data from a Mac In the Server Address eld enter your TeraStation s IP address in the form smb ipaddress where ipaddress is...

Page 17: ...tion select Registered User and enter your Registered User credentials Accessing TeraStation Data from a Mac Select the volume that you want to mount such as share or share mac from the list of folder...

Page 18: ...ess See page 73 for more on the client utility You can get the TeraStation s IP address from the LCD display on the front of the TeraStation as it boots up You can always get the TeraStation s IP addr...

Page 19: ...he network to use them Up to two external USB hard drives may be added to TeraStation Live To connect a USB hard drive to your TeraStation simply plug it into one of the USB Ports You may plug in addi...

Page 20: ...TeraStation off Hard Drive Access The Access LEDs will blink green when the associated hard drive is accessed During startup it s normal for all the lights to blink Hard Drive Cage The tubular lock pr...

Page 21: ...21 The Status LCD can be con gured to display speci c TeraStation information Please see page 62 to con gure the various display options TeraStation Layout...

Page 22: ...TeraStation Live 10 100 1000 Mbps Ethernet Port Use this port to connect your TeraStation to a switch a router or another computer The port is autosensing so either a conventional Ethernet cable or a...

Page 23: ...Station into the URL bar of a browser running on a computer connected to the same network as the TeraStation This works perfectly with OS X Linux and other non Windows PCs You may also open the Con gu...

Page 24: ...admin Password password See page 47 to change your password If this login prompt does not appear your DHCP server may not be functioning correctly If DHCP is disabled you may re enable it or verify th...

Page 25: ...ion_Name is the name of your TeraStation You are now at Home Notice that the Home button is lit up in yellow You can navigate this menu by clicking on the buttons at the left of the screen Here at Hom...

Page 26: ...tings with those in your computer press Use Local Time To have your system time automatically set by an NTP server enable NTP Server and enter an IP Address for the NTP server e g 192 43 244 18 or use...

Page 27: ...manually it will default to 192 168 11 150 The TeraStation s IP Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway Address and DNS Server address may all be entered manually under IP Address Properties Ethernet Fra...

Page 28: ...Workgroup Domain To make your TeraStation a member of a workgroup enter the workgroup name here and click Apply Entering a WINS server IP address is optional The TeraStation Live does not support Act...

Page 29: ...29 Advanced Settings Disk Management Drive Properties This page shows the current properties of your hard drives and RAID Arrays To change these settings click on RAID Setup at left...

Page 30: ...ils the mirror continues to supply data so you may work on normally You may replace the damaged or defective drive at any time and normal RAID 1 mirroring will then be automatically restored RAID 5 pa...

Page 31: ...es the TeraStation to run a RAID Scan immediately You may also disable RAID Array Error Detection Response from this page Normally this is set to automatically shut down the RAID array when an error...

Page 32: ...guration A con gured RAID array may be deleted by pushing the Delete RAID Array button This will free up all hard drives listed under Disk Structure You will need to enter a con rmation number from th...

Page 33: ...to con gure e g RAID Array 1 Choose your RAID mode under RAID Settings and put checks next to the hard disks you want included in the array under Disk Structure Click Setup RAID Array when ready It m...

Page 34: ...isk Management Disk Check When RAID Con guration is done a disk check will run automatically This may take several hours to complete Performance of the TeraStation will be slower than normal while the...

Page 35: ...ed Settings Disk Management RAID Con guration You ll see this screen when your new RAID Array is completely con gured Click on Shared Folders and turn to page 40 to begin setting up shares on your Ter...

Page 36: ...Settings Disk Management USB Settings If you ve plugged an external USB hard drive into one of the USB ports on your TeraStation you may set it up from this page Click on its name under USB Disk Setu...

Page 37: ...ting your USB hard drive and then restarting your TeraStation Some USB hard drives must be reformatted from within TeraStation before they can be assigned shares Press Format USB Disk or choose Disk F...

Page 38: ...rehensive disk check on a hard drive or array of drives select the hard drive or array that you want to check from the Target dropbox and click the Start Disk Check button Performance will be slower w...

Page 39: ...t FAT32 has a 2 gigabyte single le size limit If you choose FAT32 for your le system you will not be able to store single les larger than 2 gigabytes on the drive Use of the XFS or EXT3 le systems is...

Page 40: ...eraStation select Shared Folders from the left side menu and then click the Add button To delete a share select the share you d like to delete and press the Delete button Deleting shares will remove t...

Page 41: ...ord if desired Click Apply to build the new shared folder Appletalk support is available for use with legacy Macs Checking Apple by Shared Folder Support lets you use your TeraStation with older Macs...

Page 42: ...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 the way to the Writable box if you want to give t...

Page 43: ...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 write...

Page 44: ...44 Advanced Settings Shared Folders DFS Setup To allow Distributed File System DFS technologies for Windows Server 2003 R2 select Enable and click the Apply button...

Page 45: ...TeraStation click Add Add a name and a description to the Add New Group 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 yo...

Page 46: ...heck next to their name and click Delete To add a new user click Add Local User The Add New User dialog will appear Enter a User Name Password and User Description for the new user and click the Apply...

Page 47: ...t 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 T...

Page 48: ...n Microsoft Windows only one set of login credentials can access or map drive letters for a network resource such as the TeraStation As such only one username and password can be used while mapping dr...

Page 49: ...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 lo...

Page 50: ...50 Advanced Settings Disk Backup To create a backup job click on a Job Number The Edit Backup Job dialog will appear...

Page 51: ...he previous backup or Differential Backups to backup only les changed since the previous backup Select the folder to be backed up from the Local Backup Shared Folder dropbox and the destination for th...

Page 52: ...anced Settings Disk Backup TeraStation List The TeraStation list shows other TeraStations in your network that you can con gure network backups to Press Refresh to get a list of TeraStations on your n...

Page 53: ...ddress in the Remote TeraStation IP Address eld and click the Add to List button For remote TeraStation backups make sure both rewalls are con gured to allow traf c in and out of their networks Note D...

Page 54: ...treams multimedia content The PCast service allows you to stream any multimedia content directly from your TeraStation Live to the LinkTheater DLNA is an industry standard supported by PCast many digi...

Page 55: ...At this time only one shared folder can be accessed with LinkTheater Please make sure that all of the multimedia les you wish to share with LinkTheater are in this shared folder PCast Password Restri...

Page 56: ...us page Search for DLNA Client This will show a list of all clients that could connect to the media server For any that you want to have access put a checkmark next to their MAC address and click Allo...

Page 57: ...es As long as PCast s Media Servers function is enabled the Media Folder Share by default will appear in iTunes on computers on the same subnet All music les in the Media Folder will be visible from w...

Page 58: ...TeraStation with iTunes You can con gure iTunes to store all of your music on the TeraStation if desired To do so select Edit and then Preferences On the Advanced tab to change the iTunes Music folder...

Page 59: ...e media folder is TS Live share Click OK and then OK again Browse to the media folder on your TeraStation by default TS Live share Browse to the media folder on your TeraStation by default the media f...

Page 60: ...enable Mail Noti cation and enter the IP Address of your SMTP server in the SMTP Server Address eld Select a Subject line for the emails i e TeraStation Status Report and enter the email address of e...

Page 61: ...TeraStation to make audible noises when a problem is detected Along with the audible noise alert emails will be sent out if Mail Noti cation was properly con gured Please select the features you woul...

Page 62: ...atically Switch LCD Items tells the TeraStation to cycle through the selected display items every 10 seconds Disabling this feature means the LCD display does not cycle and it will stay on the same di...

Page 63: ...63 Advanced Settings Maintenance Syslog Transfer Check Enable to allow system logs to be transferred Press Apply once all of the settings have been con gured...

Page 64: ...ame function as holding down the power button on the front of TeraStation but may be done remotely Turning on the TeraStation after a shutdown requires a physical button push on the front of TeraStati...

Page 65: ...r the TeraStation shall keep its administrator password after a initialization or whether the password should be reset to the default password default password is password Press the Apply button once...

Page 66: ...ation for your TeraStation Firmware updates are occasionally available from www buffalotech com for the TeraStation Live These must be executed from a Windows PC on the same network Your router switch...

Page 67: ...67 Advanced Settings System Status USB Details This page shows you details on USB hard drives plugged into your TeraStation...

Page 68: ...68 Advanced Settings System Status Drive Properties This page shows you the properties of all hard drives and RAID arrays in and attached to your TeraStation...

Page 69: ...69 Advanced Settings System Status Network Information This page shows you the System Information for your network connection...

Page 70: ...tem Status Log Information This page lets you save or display system log information Choose the log you want from the Log Type dropdown and click Save The dialog will let you save or display Open the...

Page 71: ...shows the Host Name Workgroup IP Address and Subnet Mask of the associated TeraStation as well as the version of rmware it s running With a TeraStation s tab selected you can click on the View Shares...

Page 72: ...Address Setup Here you may enter your IP Address and Subnet Mask manually or enable your TeraStation to acquire them automatically from a DHCP server You ll need the administrator password to use this...

Page 73: ...Scan in the event of this error If that does not resolve the problem a format is recommended Formatting the drive will delete all of the data on it so back up any data you can before formatting Final...

Page 74: ...Cooling Error Cooling by fan cannot catch up B E13 Error has occurred on RAID Array x B E14 Cannot mount RAID Array x B E15 Not Used E16 Cannot nd HDDx B E17 Cannot communicate with RTC chip IC12 A E...

Page 75: ...9A at 12Vdc as the specification of current load Do not use any Hard Disk Drive which does not have required safety certificate example MET UL approved by NRTL The above warning is for safety restric...

Page 76: ...76 Replacing a Hard Drive Turn the key counter clockwise to open drive door Squeeze the tabs gently and swing the tray latch upward The hard drive tray will now slide out...

Page 77: ...77 Gently push down on the two tabs to release the plug Lower the drive carefully to the work surface...

Page 78: ...78 Pull the plug straight out to remove the drive To remove the hard drive from its cage set the assembly on a soft surface and remove these four screws...

Page 79: ...same steps in reverse order Begin by screwing the new hard drive into the cage Plug the power data connector into the hard drive Slide the hard drive cage back into the TeraStation Press the latch do...

Page 80: ...Media CSMA CD Media Interface RJ 45 USB Standard USB 2 0 Hi Speed HS Full Speed FS Low Speed LS USB Connector USB A Connector 2 Data Transmission Speed Max 480 Mbps HS Mode Max 12 Mbps FS Mode Power C...

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