Running a Buffalo Linkstation successfully on a network?

Having upgraded to OSX Lion some time ago, our Buffalo Linkstation had issues. Eventually found some well hidden Buffalo updates and patches and all was working well. Good news as it holds all of our music, photos and shared business documents.
In the past coupe of weeks my wife and I have both been getting an increasing number of dialogue boxes appearing saying "Do you want the application “NasNavigator2.app” to accept incoming network connections?" Despite having allowed all Buffalo/NAS Navigator programmes in the firewall settings this is getting worse.
I am currently getting this dialogue box pop up in batches of 5 every 15 seconds! This is making using the computer almost impossible.
Having had lots of correspondence with Buffalo and none of their suggestions working, I have pinned it down to the firewall. If I turn it off (risky I know) the problem does not occur and we still have full access to the Linkstation.
The issue is obviously with Lion's firewall and from the posts on the internet looks like it has been an issue with previous OSX back to 2010. So hoping someone as found a fix for this!
Thanks,
Nick
2x iMac, iPhone, Macbook
Buffalo Linkstation LS-WX2.0TL/R1 (Firmware 1.58)
Nas Navigator 2 (Version 2.51)
OSX Lion 10.7.4

Totally agree with Linc. All firewalls have no real purpose behind a good router. Especially with Mac computers.

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was intriguing so I looked at Bufflalo Technology's web
site. They claim to have a built-in ftp server, and that
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