Belkin F5L049 User manual

Home Base

User Manual

8820-00256 F5L049

Home Base

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

9 Media Server.......................................... 26

10 Upgrading Home Base Firmware ....................... 27

11 Troubleshooting ...................................... 30

12 Firewalls ............................................ 32

13 FAQs ................................................ 48

14 Technical Support .................................... 51

15 Information .......................................... 52

1 Introduction ........................................... 1

2 Getting Started......................................... 3

3 Wireless Setup ......................................... 5

4 Available Devices List ................................... 8

5 Device Properties ...................................... 9

6 Local Backup ......................................... 12

7 Picture Sharing........................................ 15

8 Control Center Options................................. 24

(A) Wireless Security – Indicates wireless security is enabled when lit

(B) WPS Connect Button – Automatically establishes secure wireless

connection to routers with similar WPS connect button feature

(D) Power – On/Off

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INTRODUCTION

Thank you for purchasing the Belkin Home Base. By following these simple setup instructions, your Belkin Home Base will allow you

to share your USB printer and hard drives, with any computer or laptop on your home network. The Control Center software offers a

convenient central location to configure the Home Base and the USB devices you attach to it.

Home Base Capabilities

• Share and control printers and scanners among all

the networked computers in your home

• Share external drives with all the networked computers

in your home

• Back up critical and precious content from all your networked

computers to an external drive for safekeeping

• Schedule automatic backups to regularly archive new content

and changes

• Automatically share pictures on Flickr®and Picasa®

• Set up an external drive to act as a DLNA server for

your media content

• Media files served through Home Base’s drive can be

accessed directly from Xbox 360™, PlayStation®3, and

other DLNA client devices

(A) (B) (C) (D)

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INTRODUCTION

Benefits of Home Base

• Share – Easily pass files back and forth across the network. Share

music, photos, video, documents, or any content you want by

placing it on the external drive attached to Home Base.

• PeaceofMind – All your critical content can be backed up to the

drive(s) attached to Home Base. All your family photos and critical

documents will be safe from computer crashes.

• Mobility – Print and scan from anywhere in the home. You are no

longer tethered to the computer, nor do you need to email print

jobs to a computer physically connected to the printer.

• Freedom – Hide your printers, scanners, and external drives

out of sight.

• Flexibility – Any USB peripheral can be shared among all your

networked computers simply by attaching it to Home Base.

Package Contents

• Belkin Home Base

• Quick Installation Guide

• Belkin Setup Assistant Software CD

• RJ45 Ethernet Networking Cable

• Power Supply

• User Manual on the Setup Assistant CD

System Requirements

• Windows®, XP, or Vista®32- or 64-bit

• Mac OS®X v10.4 or v10.5

• Minimum 1GHz processor and 128MB RAM

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GETTING STARTED

Connect Home Base to your network

First, connect Home Base to

your router with a network

cable. Next, plug the included

power supply into Home Base

and into a power outlet.

If you’d like to use Home Base wire-

lessly, plug it into your router for now.

The setup software will help you

make Home Base operate on your

wireless network. You can

also use WPS to wirelessly set up

Home Base. See the help ﬁle on the

CD for details.

Run the setup software

Run the setup software to make Home Base a member of your network.

Insert the CD, and the setup software will run*. Choose “Set Up Home

Base”. If you don’t already have it installed, the setup software will also

install Control Center on your machine.

Setup CD

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GETTING STARTED

Install Control Center on other computers

You will need to install Control Center on each additional

computer that will use Home Base. Insert the CD and the

setup software will run*. Choose “Install Control Center”.

*If the setup software does

not run automatically, browse

the CD and run “Setup”.

Connect USB devices

Once Home Base is a member of your network, you’re

ready to plug in printers, hard drives, and other USB

devices to share among your computers. Simply plug each

device into an open USB port on the back of Home Base.

Note: If you plug a printer into Home Base, each

computer will ask you to install the printer’s driver if it

hasn’t been done already. You’ll only have to do this once.

You can manage these devices via the Control

Center, the icon of which appears in your system

tray (Windows®) or menu bar (Mac OS®X). It is

also accessible via the Start menu (Windows) or

Applications folder (Mac OS X).

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WIRELESS SETUP

There are three ways to attach your Home Base to your

wireless network:

• WiredSetupofWirelessMode

• WPSPushButtonConfiguration

• WPSPINConfiguration

Wired Setup of Wireless Mode

Note: If Home Base is powered on while plugged into a router, it

will operate as a wired device. To enable Wireless mode, follow

instructions below.

The setup software will help you make Home Base operate as a member

of your wireless network.

1. Start by connecting your Home Base to your router.

(You’ll unplug it later.)

2. Connect the AC adapter.

3. Run the setup software and follow the software’s instructions

to set up the Home Base.

4. When offered wireless setup, select a wireless network.

5. The setup software will tell Home Base what network you chose.

Follow the software’s instructions to unplug your Home Base from

the router and turn it off and on.

6. Your Home Base will then operate as a member of your

wireless network.

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WIRELESS SETUP

WPS Push Button Configuration

If your router supports WPS, the WPS Push Button Configuration (PBC) is the quickest way to get Home Base onto your

wireless network.

Status of WPS Wireless Security:

Off Wireless security is off

Blinking Blue WPS handshaking in process

Solid Blue Wireless security is on

If a connection is established, Home Base’s security LED will come on

in solid blue.

If a connection is not established after more than two minutes, the

security LED will flash quickly and continuously for 10 seconds, then

stop, and you’ll need to try again.

If Home Base couldn’t determine to which router to connect, the

security LED will flash in bursts of five for 10 seconds, then stop, and

you’ll need to try again.

1. Make sure Home Base is NOT plugged into your router.

2. Connect the AC adapter.

3. Push the WPS button on your router. (Refer to your router’s

instruction manual.)

4. Push and hold the WPS button on Home Base. Release the WPS

button when the blue security LED on the Home Base and the LED

start blinking. Once the LED starts blinking in longer intervals for

approximately three seconds, release the button.

5. Home Base and your router will negotiate a connection.

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WIRELESS SETUP

1. Read the PIN code from the bottom of Home Base.

2. Make sure Home Base is NOT plugged into your router.

3. Connect the AC adapter.

4. Push and hold the WPS button on Home Base. Release the WPS

button when the security LED on Home Base starts blinking short

blinks after about 10 seconds.

5. Enter the PIN code into your router’s interface. (Refer to your

router’s instruction manual.)

6. Home Base and your router will negotiate a connection.

If a connection is established, Home Base’s security LED will come on

in solid blue.

If a connection is not established after more than two minutes, the

security LED will flash quickly and continuously for 10 seconds, then

stop, and you’ll need to try again.

For more information on wireless setup, see the “Troubleshooting” and

“FAQs” sections in this manual.

WPS PIN Configuration

If your router does not support the WPS Push Button Configuration, the alternative is to apply the WPS security using the PIN

Configuration. Locate the 8-digit PIN code on the bottom of Home Base and enter this pin into your router to manually initiate a

WPS connection.

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AVAILABLE DEVICES LIST

The “Available Devices” tab displays a list of USB devices connected

to Home Base and allows you to select devices and specify connection

settings for them. For more information, see the “Device Properties”

section on the next page.

To connect to a USB device, select it and click “Connect”. Alternatively,

you can double-click on a device to connect to it. If you double-click

on a disk drive, you can access the contents of the disk drive.

By default, disks attached to Home Base are shared with all computers

on the network. A disk can be unmounted safely by selecting it and

clicking “Disconnect”. A disk that is not mounted can be mounted again

by unplugging and plugging its USB cable back into Home Base.

If someone is using a device you’d like to use, select the device and

click “Request Use”. A message will appear on the user’s computer

notifying him or her that you wish to use this device. They can elect to

make the device available to you, or not.

The “Available Devices” tab displays a list of USB devices connected to Home Base and allows you to select devices and specify

connection settings for them. For more information, see the “Device Properties” section below.

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