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The Linkstation is using SAMBA Version 3.0.30-1.4.osstech.

I hope buffalo firmware put telnet and ssh in the firmware again.

thanks

I've just got a Linkstation Mini LS-WSX 1.0TB to provide centralised file storage for my home network (2 laptops, a PC and an XBox) and I'm chuffed to bits with it. The only fly in the ointment is the lack of support for hidden files, so all the junk that Windows keeps adding to my folders (thumbs.db, desktop.ini, $Recycle.bin, etc.) is visible. Now I can't be the only one out here who finds this just a little irritating.

Come on Buffalo - how about a firmware upgrade to save me from the curse of the Windows Junk?

Pleeeeeease...

FInd it hard to believe that there isnt a basic logging capability built into the devices. I could understand not having really deep, comprehensive logging due to potential performance issues, but NO LOGGING AT ALL? Come on now... and the "daily status email" thing just isnt enough.

 

Please add some sort of persistant logging that users can access & refer to, so that we can get a better idea of what is happening with the devices.

My setup is an old Linkstation HD-HLAN (100GB drive), Firmware 1.44, Samsung SCX4216F multifunction printer connected to the USB port, home network with Windows XP, Vista and Win 7 machines.

 

I just couldn't get my Linkstation connected printer to work through a TCP/IP port on the Win 7 machine. I eventually got it to work quite quickly by this connection method using a LOCAL port

 

1. Click ‘Devices and Printers’,

2. Click Add a Printer

3. Click 'Add a local printer'

4. Click 'Create a new port'

5  Select Local port, click Next

6. Enter port name as \\linkstation\lp then click OK

(Note: If this port does exist then click 'Use an Existing port' and select \\linkstation\lp LOCAL Port back at step 4.  Important to make sure its a local port and not a TCP/IP one)

7. For driver select Samsung SCX-4x16 series (the universal print driver which is supposedly for W7 x64 doesn’t work.  It simply starts the printer but then fails to print anything)

 

Hope this helps someone out there and this is the appropriate place to post this.

Running a 2TB LS-QL/R5 with 1.10 firmware, and a 1TB external USB drive (formatted as XFS) connected

to the rear USB port.   Running the Nav client on Windows XP with six clients accessing the shares.  

 

All working like a champ so far.  There were no issues with the setup (once I got the permissions right...

would like the manual to be a little clearer about that, but that would be a different post).  Now I have two 

perfectly visible and usable LinkStation shares (with RAID5 protection on one share for important files

and USB protection -- RAID0, if you're being picky -- in a different share for less-important files).

 

However, to move individual files between the two shares (the R5 RAID Array and the external USB drive),

I have to get a client of some ilk in the mix (which downloads the file from the LS to the client, then turns

around and uploads the file from the client back to the LS).   Seems like a lot more electrons being

temporarily inconvenienced than would otherwise be necessary, consuming network and client capacity

that's otherwise not really necessary.

 

It would be handy if this were available through the Nav interface, but I'm not particular about that.