This software updates the LinkStation firmware to version 1.81. If your firmware is already version 1.81 or later, you do not need this update.

Note: If your LinkStation is in EM mode, this firmware update might recover it.

How to Check Your Firmware Version:

Select your LinkStation from the NAS Navigator2 window. The firmware version is displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen. If the name is in the form LS-***-EM***, the LinkStation is in EM (emergency) mode.

Version History

Added and Modified Features

- Improved recognition accuracy when connecting USB drives.

Bug Fixes

- Modified to deal with Samba programming vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-0178 and CVE-2015-0240)

- Fixed a bug where a backup job could not be added if the backup target folder contains full-width spaces in its name.

- Fixed a bug where a shared folder, user, or group could not be created if its name contains specific symbols.

- Fixed a bug where an invalid default gateway is configured when changing the IP address on NAS Navigator2.

How to Update the Firmware

1. Connect the LinkStation properly and configure the LinkStation and a computer to run the updater on the same network subnet. The subnet masks should be the same and the first three numbers of the IP addresses should be the same. The last number of the IP addresses should be different.

For example, if the IP address and subnet mask of the computer are

" 192.168.0.10 , 255.255.255.0 "

and the IP address and subnet mask of the LinkStation are

" 192.168.1.150 , 255.255.255.0 "

then the updater will _not_ work properly.

In this case, reconfigure the LinkStation's IP address and subnet mask to

" 192.168.0.150 , 255.255.255.0 ".

Then they will be on the same subnet and the updater ...