Hi CM,
I regret that Buffalo have not provided a great deal of help despite the efforts of Craig Reid who is based in Eire with Buffalo Technology - basically, Buffalo Technology is Japan has been less than forthcoming.
To summarise the situation:
1. Buffalo will not provide root access to the TeraStation.
2. Japan states that the TeraStation is meant to be a backup location, not the other way around. I must say that this is not how I read their marketing material!
3. On 30th March, Craig told me that 'soon there will be the Linux GPL open source posted to the website, you might be able to generate a new firmware from this that allows telnet/ssh. Hell, if I could generate new firmware, I could give myself root access! However, there is still no sign of it.
As you can see, Craig has tried to assist but Japan not only fails to assist but misrepresents the facts. They market the TeraStation as 'Network Attached Storage', which normally means that it can used for data storage - in fact, they provide 'Robust user and group level permissions for securing network data shares' from their marketing material at http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97&categoryid=19. This marketing material also clearly states 'Powerful backup utility allows easy setup and management of backups to or from the TeraStation' - admittedly qualifying this by stating 'when multiple TeraStations are located on the network'.
I'm awaiting the Linux GPL open source posting on their website to see what can be achieved with that. Meanwhile, I'm simply using the TeraStation as a B2D device for Backup Exec.
Cheers
Joe.