Re: Buffalo LinkStation on sbs2k or 2k3

From: Andrew Hodgson (me3_at_privacy.net)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:27:40 +0000

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:15:40 -0000, "Fred" <abc@no-domain.co.uk> wrote:

>"Andrew Hodgson" <me3@privacy.net> wrote in message
>news:sqtjq0pmbn8rnrpenhda1pm8dj10c9ktli@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:51:15 -0000, "Fred" <fbloggs@abc.co.uk> wrote:
>[snip..]
>
>> This is a cheap NAS device which I use here to store MP3 music and
>> backups on. Its not that hot with user restrictions (i.e, users can
>> either browse or not to a folder), and have never tried to
>> authenticate to a domain. SBS does most of the permission based
>> storage, this box just holds the backups and some general purpose
>> software distribution/MP3 files etc.
>>
>> Andrew (also in UK).

Sorry for taking time to get back on this one.
>
>If I understand you correctly, you've been able to connect the LinkStation
>to your network, with LinkStation configured in Workgroup mode, and can then
>access the disk from networked PCs or the SBS box. If that's true, is this
>an SBS4.x, 2k or 2k3 network?

Yes to the above - on a W2k3 network.

Linkstation 192.168.1.4
SBS 192.168.1.5
Clients 192.168.1.10 and above.

I can also access other Samba based servers I set up on old boxes no
problem.

>This is what the client and I have tried
>unsuccessfully to achieve on six different networks. The device can be seen
>on the network, but cannot be accessed.

If I remember correctly I used the LS setup utility to set its ip,
then did everything else by the web interface. The machine was given
an IP manually and gateway was set to the router, WINS was set to the
SBS box.

>Hope you can shed some light on this.

Not really - it just worked out of the box. I am actually doing some
hacking on this to get some other things set up on it - it is a Linux
box with pritty poor security (WWW processes running as root), as I
said, I am only using it as backup. There is also a Yahoo Group
dedicated to getting other parts running on this under the Linux OS,
if you want details on this please ask.

Andrew. 

-- 
 Andrew Hodgson in Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
My Email: use <andrew at hodgsonfamily dot org>.

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