My NAS gave up no me!

After more than a year of use, my Buffalo NAS (Network Access Storage) Link Station Pro 1.0TB has crashed on me!!!

Buffalo Live Station Pro LS-XHL

I would say this device served me well...

1. Download torrents remotely through its built-in Bittorrent client-- this way I call on my NAS to download whatever I want and by the time I get home it's all ready
2. Stream movies wirelessly across through my uPNP device (Archos 5) to my TV ... no more transferring of files-- it becomes an extension of my media player!
3. Remotely access files through webaccess
4. Share large files to friends-- I just tell them to access my NAS through the NET

Basically its a computer that I can remote control and access... best of all it stays on without consuming much electricity.

Ahh... yes I do love this device-- sad to say support sucks and I'm on my own since I bought this from the US, so I doubt local Buffalo distro would support me. I've gone through the forums of reflashing firmware etc etc but none of it worked for my NAS!

I learned that the file system of the Buffalo NAS is XFS so no good mounting it on Windows, thank God again for UBUNTU, I managed to take off the hard drive and run it straught from UBUNTU, phew all files are still intact, so it could be the board or corrupted firmware that's bugging my NAS-- I assume it was power failure last week that caused this.

Today, started backing up and transferring 100GB of data... 700GB to go...

I also came across this forum: http://buffalo.nas-central.org its a wiki site on how to hack your NAS station... oh joy! Finally an excuse to hack my station, let's see what the open stock firmware has to offer-- they say more!

Remove the two stickers at the bottom and split the casing into 2!

 

 Well well a WD 1.0TB HDD securely attached to the main PCB of the NAS

 Simply remove the screws securing the HDD and it's off! Time to retrieve those files!

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TRENDnet 3-Port Print Server TE100-P21

No not 1, not even 2, but 3, yes 3 printers, running different OS's at the same time from a single print server, the TRENDnet 3-Port Print Server TE100-P21

In my sales department, I currently have 3 printers and around 2 desktops and 4 notebooks running... I initially bought a single printer server, it worked--for one printer... but what about the other two?

My printers are 1 Epson LX-300II dot matrix, 1 classic yet robust HP Laserjet 6L printer and an economy HP Laserjet 1020... now how do you run them across OS's at the same time without problems? a 3 printer print server! The OS's I'm currently running within the are Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux... and a couple other Windows 7  notebooks across the network.

The Trendnet print server has 3 ports, 2 USB ports and 1 LPT printer port.

I must admit it was easier and faster setting up the printers from Ubuntu compared to Windows.

With Ubuntu simply add network printers and the 3 printers from the server attached through the network would just pop out, where as with Windows your better of going through the print server's installation software, than manually installing the printers.

This is still cheaper compared to buying single port print servers that is if you have 3 or more printers in the network.

 
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