The Technic Alley

[This is part of the Buffalo Linkstation Pro Duo NAS Configuration article.]
The Shared Folders Configuration page has two sub-menus:

Shared Folders Setup, and,
Services Setup

1) Shared Folders Setup
In this page, you will see a list of existing shared folders and a brief description of each. You can also “add” or “delete” shared folders using the buttons at [...]

I was using Turbo Tax Home and Business 2007 and wanted to send the final PDF to a tax consultant for some review. I wanted to create an encrypted PDF from Turbo Tax; I couldn’t find a way to do this. Then I figured that an alternative would be to “ZIP” the unencrypted PDF, and [...]

Do you have a webserver or some other application that is running on your home network that you want to access from outside? This is fairly easy to enable on a typical home router.

On a Linksys router, look under “Applications and Gaming.” Let’s say you have an application called PhotoShare running on a PC or [...]

Pictures Are Worth Thousands Of Megabytes
With the ever dropping prices of digital cameras — you can get several 8-10 megapixel compact cameras for $100-200 today — everyone is shutter-happy these days. Anyone who has had a digital camera for a year or more will most likely have several gigabytes worth of pictures. How do [...]

In this article, we look at some of the administration and configuration features of the Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo NAS.
Logging in
In your web-browser, enter the IP address of your Buffalo Linkstation, e.g 10.1.5.5. You should see a login page. Enter your administrator login name and the password.
Home
This is the first page that you see [...]

I have been using the Norton Ghost 9.0 for a couple of years now. When I started using it, I used to connect an external USB harddisk to my PCs and backup frequently. In some cases, I tried backing up data from one PC to a shared drive on another PC (see Strategies For Backing [...]

[Continued from Managing Data On Your Home Computers.]
In this article, we look at some possible strategies to backup data on your home computers.
1. Same PC, same harddisk, backup data from one partition to another.
This gives you protection against some kinds of harddisk problems where the data on one partition goes bad, while others are intact. [...]

Do you have a lot of critical data on your home computers that you would like to backup regularly? Do you wish that all your data was in one place and accessible from all PCs in your home? Are you struggling with multiple copies of your photos and videos?
A network-attached-storage box (NAS) like the Buffalo [...]

What is my data?
Your computer is probably one of the most frequently used thing in your home today. You probably have several of them too. What do you do with them?
Gone are the days when you used the computer to write an occasional letter, work on a spreadsheet, print some [...]