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Home Base
User Manual
8820-00256 F5L049
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TaBle of Con Ten Ts t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 Media s erver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2 Getting s tarted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 10 Upgrading Home Base f irmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3 Wireless s etup .
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InTro DUCTIon t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 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
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InTro DUCTIon t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Package Contents Benefits of Home Base • Belkin Home Base • S h are – Easily pass files back and forth across the network. Share • Quick Installation Guide music, photos, video, documents, or any content you want by • Belkin Setup Assistant Software CD placing it on the external drive attached to Home Base. • RJ45 Ethernet Networking Cable • P e a c e o f M i n d – All your critical content can be backed up
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GeTTIn G sTar TeD t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 Connect Home Base to your network First, connect Home Base to If you’d like to use Home Base wire- your router with a network lessly, plug it into your router for now. cable. Next, plug the included The setup software will help you power supply into Home Base make Home Base operate on your and into a power outlet. wireless network. You can also use WPS to wirelessly set up Home Base. See the help file
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GeTTIn G sTar TeD t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 3 Install Control Center on other computers You will need to install Control Center on each additional *If the setup software does computer that will use Home Base. Insert the CD and the not run automatically, browse setup software will run*. Choose “Install Control Center”. the CD and run “Setup”. 4 Connect USB devices You can manage these devices via the Control Once Home Base is a member of your network,
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WIreless se TUP t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 There are three ways to attach your Home Base to your Wired setup of Wireless Mode wireless network: note: If Home Base is powered on while plugged into a router, it will operate as a wired device. To enable Wireless mode, follow • W i r e d S e t u p o f W i r e l e s s M o d e instructions below. • W P S P u s h B u t t o n C o n f i g u r a t i o n The setup software will help you make Home Base
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WIreless se TUP t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 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. 1 . Make sure Home Base is NOT plugged into your router. status of WPs Wireless security: 2 . Connect the AC adapter. off Wireless security is off 3 . Push the WPS button on your router. (Refer to your router’s Blinking Blue WPS handshaking in proces
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WIreless se TUP t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 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. 1 . Read the PIN code from the bottom of Home Base. If a connection is established, Home Base’s security LED will come on i
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aVaIla Ble D eVICes l IsT t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 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. 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 t
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DeVICe ProP er TIes t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 To access the properties sheet for an individual device, select the device in Control Center and click “Properties”. The properties sheet allows you to specify general settings such as the name that the device will appear as in the Control Center, whether the device should automatically connect with a computer via the Home Base as soon as the computer starts, and more. The “General” tab of the “Device Properti
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DeVICe ProP er TIes t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The “Connection” tab of the “Device Properties” screen enables you Device Connection Properties to specify if the device should connect automatically to this computer when the computer is started, and if any software should start automatically when the device connects. The information in this topic applies to all devices except printers and disks that are shared via NAS mode. To learn about connection prope
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DeVICe ProP er TIes t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 If the printer is being shared among multiple computers, we recommend Printer Connection Properties selecting “This is a shared printer, automatically connect and disconnect only when printing”. With this option, the printer is automatically connected when a print job is sent to it, then is disconnected as soon as the job completes so the printer is then available for other computers. Check “Automatically co
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lo Cal B aCKUP t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The Belkin Home Base Control Center Local Backup tab enables you to easily back up the files from your computer to USB drives connected to Home Base. To set up a backup from your computer, select the volume to which you If you want to change the disk volume used for backup, click want to back up and click “Choose Disk”. “Change Disk”. Your backup will begin when indicated by “Next Backup”, or you can The backup
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lo Cal B aCKUP t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Click “Options” to exclude files from the backup. This can help your To restore files back to your computer, you can right-click on a file or backup happen faster. You can choose to exclude “Log files and folder you wish to restore and choose “History” to bring up the history caches”, “Operating system files”, and “Applications”, and elect to browser, which will list all versions of the file/folder existing in the
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lo Cal B aCKUP t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 If you want to perform a full restore of your computer, launch the “Restore Utility” found in the “Local Backup” folder of the drive that received the backup. Home Base 14
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PICTUre s Har InG t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The “Picture Sharing” tab enables you to automatically upload pictures from USB disks connected to the Home Base to picture-sharing sites like Flickr and Picasa. If you want to change the time that Home Base performs the picture uploads to the online services, click “Options”. To enable this feature, click “Add a share” and select a folder from the disk(s) connected to the Home Base. Home Base will monitor th
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PICTUre s Har InG t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Now select the photo-sharing site you want to use and follow the The “Picture Sharing” configuration wizard will ask you for your online prompts. If you don’t have a Flickr or Picasa account, you will need to photo-sharing account information; you will need to authorize your sign up for one, which you can do for free. Home Base product so it can access your account and automatically upload your pictures. The wi
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PICTUre s Har InG t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 f lickr account selection A Flickr account is selected here. Next to “User Name”, the user names If a new user name is entered, Flickr tool authorization is necessary. In stored in Home Base are displayed in a combo box. this case, clicking “Next” will bring up the following message. Home Base 17
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PICTUre s Har InG t able of c ontents sections 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 If “OK” is clicked, the default web browser will launch and the Flickr authorization page will be displayed. Control Center will display a message telling the user to dismiss it when authorization is complete. After authorization is complete, the user clicks the message box’s “OK” button. The new user account information is stored to Home Base and the wizard continues. Home Base 18
