I have:
- LinkStation Duo 2TB (LS-WXL?)
- Firmware version 1.24 (DTCP-IP:1.22-20091015)?
- Mac OS X 10.6.3
- Netgear Wireless-N 150 Router : model WNR1000v2
I have a few issues with my new drive:
1) Every once in awhile the connection will get interrupted. This happens a few different ways. Sometimes I'll open a finder window, select my linkstation under the "Shared" pane, it will say "Connecting..." for a few moments and then the drive will disappear from the shared pane. Sometimes it wont show up under the shared pane at all when I boot my computer up. Interestingly, I've found that I can still log into the firmware by going to 192.168.etc.etc, and if I go to "Network" --> "Settings" --> "Network Services" --> "AFP" and then click "Save", everything will come back and work fine. If it wasn't such a pain to have to do that all the time I would, but I feel like its symptomatic of a deeper issue anyway. Anyone have any insight on this?
2) If I go to BuffaloNas.com and type in the "name" of my hard drive, it works just fine... but only if I'm connected to the same local network, i.e. BuffaloNas.com will resolve to a 192.168.etc.etc IP address successfully. Unfortunately, it will not resolve successfully when I am on campus or at work, etc. Interestingly enough, though, it will resolve to the correct IP issued to my home network's 68.etc.etc.etc IP address. It just wont retrieve any data at all. I figure this is a port forwarding issue with my router? I tried setting it up to have an FTP port forward on port 9000, which then allowed me to enable the firewall, but then I wonder if I should add one on 81 for web access? Would that do it?
3) This is more of a question than an issue. I was hoping there was some way to interact with my hard drive in a sort of "file-sharing" context. For example, if I wanted to listen to an album I ripped, I'd like to open the playlist file instead of having to play each song one at a time over a web server. Also, I'd love to drag and drop files for uploading/downloading. Anything like that possible?