User manual BUFFALO HS-DHTGL : TERASTATION LIVE

[. . . ] User Manual TeraStation Live HS-DHTGL/R5 www. buffalotech. com v1. 0 Introduction Congratulations on your new TeraStation!Because we're constantly updating our product, the images and text in this manual may vary slightly from the images and text displayed by your 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 available for download at our web site: http://www. buffalotech. com. [. . . ] If the hard drive's information isn't displayed properly, try restarting 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 Format from the left-side menu, to begin reformatting your USB hard disk. Turn to page 40 to set up shares on your USB hard drives. 37 Advanced Settings Disk Management (Disk Check) To initiate a comprehensive 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 while the disk check is running. 38 Advanced Settings Disk Management (Disk Format) To format a hard drive or array, select it from the Target Disk drop box. Choose the file system desired from the File System dropbox (internal drives can only be formatted with XFS). If you choose FAT32 for your file system, you will not be able to store single files larger than 2 gigabytes on the drive. Depending on the size of the target hard disk or array, a Disk Format may take several hours to complete. Performance will be slow during the disk format. 39 Advanced Settings Shared Folders To add new shares to your TeraStation, 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 the share and erase all of the files and folders inside that share. 40 Advanced Settings Add 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 the Recycle Bin by putting a selecting Enable or Disable. Enter a Shared Folder Description and a Remote Backup Password if desired. Checking "Apple" by Shared Folder Support lets you use your TeraStation with older Macs, but gives you all of Appletalk's limitations, including a 2GB maximum filesize and a 32 character limit for filenames. For OS X 10. 3. 9 and later, leave "Apple" unchecked for best performance. Remote Backup Password will set a password on this share for other TeraStations who want to use it as a remote backup target. This password will not affect users attempting to access the share; it only pertains to remote TeraStations trying to access this share for backup tasks. 41 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 want to give them read access only) or all the way to the Writable box, if you want to give them full access to the share. Right-pointing arrows will move highlighted users or groups back to the right. Click Apply when you have your groups and users in the appropriate boxes. To set up new groups and users, see pages 45 and 46. 42 Advanced Settings Shared Folders (Service Setup) To allow FTP Access to TeraStation, choose Enable for FTP Server. To enable legacy AppleTalk support, choose Enable for AppleTalk Protocol. [. . . ] Clicking the Setup pulldown menu and selecting Browser Management takes you to the configuration GUI. And clicking Setup and choosing Modify IP Address takes you to the following screen . . 71 TeraStation Client Utility IP 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. Press OK when you're done. 72 Troubleshooting If TeraStation encounters a disk error, it will be reported in the TeraStation status on the top of any of the Web-Based configuration screens. [. . . ]