Cannot Mount Buffalo LinkStation Pro

I've just recently purchased the new Macbook Pro (Retina). I have a Buffalo LiveStation Pro NAS to which I can connect my older Windows Vista laptop. However I cannot connect to the NAS via the Macbook. I've narrowed it down to an issue with the Macbook's PF Firewall. If I disable the firewall, I can access the NAS from Finder and all shared folders/files within it. With the PF Firewall enabled, I cannot even see the NAS in Finder. I'm doing this via my WiFi router - no wired connection.
If there a specific change to the firewall required in order to get this working? Can anyone help?
TIA.

Although that would do the trick. It's something I would not rather do.
Thanks.

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I am thinking of buying the Buffalo Linkstation Pro Duo 1Tb as a backup for my work based Macs (2 Power Mac G5's). My main machine has 350Gb and a 150Gb drives, while my second one has a 150Gb drive. None of the drives are anywhere near full. For this reason, I think that I could even get away with backing up to 500Gb RAID (the Buffalo has 2x500Gb). Although as a backup drive, it may not be as important to have RAID.
Anyway.....I read a review about the Buffalo that said that it could only handle 128 characters for filenames including the directory structure. Will this matter with Time Machine?
I am also thinking of the same drive as a RAID for my home network to store photos and maybe as Time Machine backups of user folders. Again will a 128 character limitation be a problem if I simply store photos on the drive and do not use Time Machine?
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Hi
Im thinking of purchasing a Buffalo LinkStation Pro networked drive to hook up to my home network.
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/linkst ation-pro-ls-xhl/
One of the specifications of this drive is that it has a built in iTunes server. Can i use this server to provide content to Airport Express, or would i still need to go via a PC?

One of the specifications of this drive is that it has a built in iTunes server. Can i use this server to provide content to Airport Express, or would i still need to go via a PC?
Based on the following feature comment: "iTunes® Support: Play music from the LinkStation through your iTunes application," I would be led to believe that you will still require an iTunes host (PC or Mac) to play the audio files stored on the Buffalo LinkStation.

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Hi all, im still looking for a solution to this problem...
I have 2 macs that use airport express for network / internet etc. The Airport express is connected to my router to get to the internet connection. I also have a PC that is wired to the router. All works great, until I got a Buffalo Linkstation Pro Network HardDrive. I have set up the buffalo by plugging it in to the router and config it on the same IP range and its set up for mac and PC, it can be seen and used via my PC both by using the ip address through explorer to see the config page and as an extra hard drive, but the macs just cant see it.
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Lee

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first. Sorry about my english ...
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We have a Buffalo linkstation hooked to a new Airport Extreme.
All PCs can see it and view documents, iTunes, etc. My iMac cannot. Actually, I think it sees it but it's a mere file on my desktop. When I click on it, it pulls up a Finder type window, but this Buffalo icon (like network icon) can't be mounted in my normal finder main section. I can't figure out how to do that.
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All I want to do is see the darned iTunes on the buffalo wirelessly via airport extreme. LOL All other computers (PC's) did this instantly. Help?

Yes, I can see everything I need to see (external HD)....
I even dragged the darned thing into the finder...
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iMac
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Why is it that my MBP always see's the PC (win7) on my home wifi|cat5 network yet no matter how many times I go finder|go|server|192.168... etc. It mounts the drive and it becomes explorable and then the MBP loses the connection and the mount fails?

I've got a 2TB Linkstation Pro Duo - same problem. to solve it, (no help from Buffalo Tech support - it's nonexistent for Mac apaprently) - I had to turn the unit to ON instead of Auto. Waste of energy, but it stays connected and available.
There's also a firmware update (3.09 to 3.10) but firmware updates can't be applied from a Mac "on any of our products," they say.
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Disk Utility says everything's fine, but Install disk doesn't find my internal drive as a possible destination. When I startup with Command S, I get a looping "cannot mount errno = 19" message.

Disk Utility says everything's fine, but Install disk doesn't find my internal drive as a possible destination. When I startup with Command + S, I get a looping "cannot mount errno = 19" message.
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When I startup holding the Option key, I can see my internal drive, but I get the same results as above.
When I startup using the MacBook OSX Install DVD, it does not find my internal drive as possible destination.
When I startup using the MacBook OSX Install DVD and then run Disk Utility, it finds my drive, allows me to "repair" and says everything is fine.
When I startup with Command + S, I get a looping error message "errno = 19" and cannot stop it to do anything else.
When I startup from Disk Warrior v4.4, it does not find my internal drive to do any repairs.
When I startup from Tech Tool Pro 6 and run the "computer check" diagnostics, everything passes but the Volume Structure, which fails at "Volume Extents (B-tree)." When I use TTP's "Tools" option to run "volume repair" it will show my internal drive and allow me to click the GO button, but nothing happens and nothing changes.
I have a Time Machine backup on an external USB drive, but for as long as the internal drive doesn't mount, I can't use the backup to restore.

It's a false report and should be ignored.
I would not rely on TT as I've already said earlier even before Grant posted similar advice.
I really think the Rigid Disk Block may be corrupted. This holds the partition map and could prevent a volume from being unmounted. Unfortunately, there is no way to fix that without repartitioning the drive which will remove everything. So, before going down this road I hope you have backups or can make a backup.
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Hi ,
thanks for your advice. My problem is resolved.
The USB drive was actually a FAT filesystem.
so I did # mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0:c /testpoint and everything went fine
I can read/write to my USB disks when i'm in
muti-user mode but when to I swith to single-user
mode ( init S ), I cannot mount it.
in Single-user mode , i started volume management
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but i'm still not able to mount it.It probably requires other items to be started
first.
I tried to mount manually:
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this
error: < mount : not a UFS magic number ( 0x0) ,
dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 is not of this fstype.
Looks like it's assuming UFS. If this is a pcfs
filesystem, give it the type on the mount line.
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 /testpointYeah, this was the right command, I had to specify option < -F pcfs >.
but I read somethere on this forum i had to specify :c as the drive for FAT at the end of c2t0d0p0 , so the full command was:
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