To map the newly created share, on windows, click the start button. May 27, 2002 hey experts, i think i may have made a mistake. Is it possible to install freenas onto a western digital my book live duo nas. Freenas is free and opensource nas software based on freebsd. Initially i will be using the same 4x1 tb disk, i will want to remove the my world disk and replace it with a external usb 4 tb disk drive that i can use as backup. I generated a public key on my wd my book live duo and want to paste it into. Build a file server with 500gigs of hdd space or buy the wd my book world ii. How i rescued my data from a 3tb wd my book external hard drive duration.
I also run my irc weechat on the box and as the front end and this is the best thing ever. To that end, i have long used freenas around my home office. Wd wdh1nc0n 1tb my book world edition network hard. Forum forum per page discussions freenas started by.
From it you can stream photos, music, and videos to your home entertainment centre all you need is the my book world edition drive and a digital media adapter or a game console like an xbox 360 or playstation 3, and your masterpiece is there on the big screen. The reason i bough it is to have it as a ftp server, that way i can access files across the lan and wan. Unable to map network drive on nas server wd world. So i decided to get a nice mini atx chassis and use the amazing freenas platform, which. Using synctoy to sync nas with onedrive epinionated.
Western digital my book world edition you and your family have a lot of media files. On my hp notebook with both vista and windows 7 i cannot connect to the mybook. The nas came with mionet, which in my opinion it simply sucks i want to give users the right to download files across the internet, you could use that with mionet, but first of all the interface sucks, it requires java, and its slow. Readynas would not have been my personal choice of nas. Webmin makes a nice backup in the event you lose wd dashboard as it.
The wd my book world editions sevenpage quick install guide is about as simple as it gets in terms of getting a product set up and operational. Cant connect to my network hard disk nas dell community. I went through the entire hackm up and setup and have found that throughput isnt even close to 100mb and im using gigabit nics and switches which i upgraded to thinking that the 100mb nics and switches were the issue. Seems like this should be really easy, but im just not sure how to do it. Here is how to get at your data from a failed 1tb wd my book world blue ring. For more information, see drive management on page 41. Advice to build a freenas filewebserver out of a wd. Opensuse btrfs with their snappy is awesome two drives that are redundant. Cant access my network hard disk nas microsoft community. Definitely would prefer a plugin, basic setup and leave option would something like the wd my book world new edition be acceptable or a lacie network space. How to setup ftp on my world book edition ii without using.
Administrator name password tool language id like to know if there is a way he can map the drive on the machine in question without. Hello, i have two my book world edition white light network hdds from wd. It offers several extra features missing in the wd os, e. Dec 10, 2007 western digital 1tb mybook nas adds overly restrictive drm to deny access to the video and music you legally own, when you try and play it from outside your home network. If your product is not listed above, please visit the product page. Fyi successfully returned all my wd red dmsmr drives. In order to recover data from wd mybook and other nas devices, you have to follow several steps that involve disassembling the device and your pc, and connecting all hard drives from the nas device directly to ide or sata ports inside your computer. Restart your my book nas for the new setting to take effect. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to.
Wd my book world edition white solved windows 10 forums. Jo lenne valami webes file kezelo ra mint ami a freenasben van, mert a beepitett copy manager fapad, meg. Fix nas drive not visible on network windows 10 so your nas drive has disappeared from your network. Apr 29, 2007 i also bought this drive and was hugely disappointed with it. Freenas is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network.
Cant access my network hard disk nas hi, ive recently bought a western digital my book world 1tb nas drive wdh1nc20000 but for some reason i cant access it wirelessly from my laptop. In the example below, a western digital external 6tb hard disk drive is 33% cheaper than something comparable as an internal drive. From it you can stream photos, music, and videos to your home entertainment centre all you need is the my book world edition drive and a digital media adapter or a game console like an xbox 360 or playstation 3, and. The heavy duty backup is done by an intel based freenas. This item wd my book world edition ii 2 tb 2 x 1 tb network attached storage wd 8tb my cloud ex2 ultra network attached storage nas wdbvbz0080jchnesn b01awh05ge wd 4tb my cloud home personal cloud storage wdbvxc0040hwtnesn,white b076ctk55w. Western digital my book world edition 1tb home network. The western digital mybook world edition has a glossy white case and shares the same rounded booklike shape of other mybook external hard drives. So your nas drive has disappeared from your network. How to revive western digital my book world edition complete walkthrough from attaching serial for debricking to installing debian. Fix nas drive not visible on network windows 10 youtube. Huge 1tb storage capacity the western digital my book world edition. The hard drive inside the wd mybook live is a 2tb western digital caviar green.
For mac, go to the apple menu and select software update if your device is currently running firmware version 02. I want to buil a freenas filewebserver taking the 2tb drive out of the wd box and 2x2gb ddr333mhz ram that i already have. How to build a squeezecenter server with freenas and a. My book world edition can be your homes central media hub. The western digital mybook world edition has a glossy white case and shares the same rounded book like shape of other mybook external hard drives. By clicking the notify me when available button below, i consent to the use of the information provided below by. Wd my book world edition nas server 1 tb series sign in to comment. Wd my book world edition white after building a pc with win 10, ive not had my wd my book world edition used for a good while, decided to plug it in and install the drivers etc.
Page 1 of 2 my book world edition white light not responding posted in external hardware. Mount mybook nas in freenas help struggling for a while with trying to get my freenas install to mount my mybook live nas. From there, you will be able to update to the current available 02. Cant connect to my network hard disk nas hi, ive recently bought a western digital my book world 1tb nas drive wdh1nc20000 but for some reason i cant access it wirelessly from my laptop.
Does the user on freenas have a home directory specified. The wd my book world edition ii nas is excellent for a home network backup device. Connect the removed physical drive to usb port using whatever adapter you have and power up the drive. Freenas storage operating system open source freenas.
Just watch the whole video to find the fix that works for you. My western digital my book world edition white light nas died. The nas came with mionet, which in my opinion it simply sucks. Wd my book world edition nas server 1 tb series specs. We received western digitals mybook world edition ii, which is based on raid 0 or raid 1 and two 2tb 3.
Plugged it into a switch and its not being recognised at all, even downloaded the wd cd with the drivers and the detection tool doesnt see it either. Oct 15, 2015 ive bought the wd mybook world edition ii white lite. The hidden cost of using zfs for your home nas hacker news. Freenas is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data. I have been googling all morning, but not finding any on point info also not helpful that freenas servers are down. Western digital my book world edition ii 2 tb 2 x 1 tb.
If all you want is to share files and do backups you can probably be server just as well by a low end nas like a western digital my book live that includes the drive for not much more than the price of a bare drive. A frontmounted white light doubles as an operation indicator and capacity gauge. From a 5400 rpm laptop hdd to this wd my book real world transfer speed is averaging 4080 mbs under windows 10 and the same goes up to 5 mbs. Wd 8tb my book duo desktop raid external hard drive usb 3. Western digital 1tb mybook nas adds overly restrictive drm to deny access to the video and music you legally own, when you try and play it from outside your home network. The uid user id is listed first, followed by the gid group id. I have the 3tb my book live and if it could do more i probably wouldnt be writing this. Unable to map network drive on nas server wd world edition hi, im trying to connect to my nas server at home wd world edition and am unable to map the network drive. The router is wireless accessed by my computers in the house.
I am also pondering to use the wd whites for freenas. I got the uid and gid settings by navigating to the shares directory and doing a listing as shown below. Wd my cloud nas devices have hardwired backdoor the. The support for media streaming is also extremely limited. May 20, 2009 the wd my book world editions sevenpage quick install guide is about as simple as it gets in terms of getting a product set up and operational quickly. Install freenas onto wd my book live duo or build own kit. Oct 15, 2015 im currently looking into buying a nas to be used as a home media server. Has anyone used a 1tb wd my book world edition ii storage system with a mac. Freenas is open source based on bsd and takes advantage of the gui framework developed for the m0n0wall router project happily, others share my opinion of freenas. Mar 26, 2007 i need a way to access my many files, pics and movies when im on the go or anywhere that has internet access with my mbp.
A quick look at western digitals latest my book nas the. Western digital has been relying on the mybook design for a few years now, and the mybook world edition ii follows suit. If you have a western digital my cloud network attached storage device, its time to learn. Run my printer from the server and have a personal rstudio and juypter notebook server running on it. I use the drive to share files between all the computers in my house and use it with the wd tv live to play videos from the my book on my tv. Synctoy has saved the day when it comes to keeping my nas drive up to date with onedrive. I know it is working properly because i can manually type in \\mybookworld it will show up but once i close that window its gone again. I just built a zfs raidz2 array with some of these drives red efax a couple months ago. So i did some checkouts with recent lede distro on wd my book live tftp boot and. I have a wd mybookworld network drive connected directly to my computer but it is not showing up under network in explorer.
Whats the opinion here on shucking external drives. Fun with rsync and more on the wd my book live smallnetbuilder. Feb 09, 2018 fix nas drive not visible on network windows 10 so your nas drive has disappeared from your network. Following every instruction under the sun to install or activate either has had no effect. I have been googling all morning, but not finding any onpoint info also not helpful that freenas servers are down. Receive an email notification when this product becomes available. As everyone who has tried it has stated, going the wd my book world edition route is not the way to go. Alternative idealworld solution thats much simpler and guaranteed to work until major changes are made to the freenas installation process that is, if freenas didnt go crazy with this procedure, for mysterious reasons. Im currently looking into buying a nas to be used as a home media server. Since there are two instead of only one hard drives inside the book.
Freenas was very easy to setup like 15 minutes or so. The dualdrive model my book world edition ii is preconfigured for maximum capacity as a large single spanned volume. Their website specs make no mention of macs, and i would like to get one for our pcmac network. My book world edition user manual getting started 4 getting started format and configuration my book world edition is preformatted as a linux file system. I recently bought a wd my book essentials 2tb with the intention of using it as a nas. One of the most popular posts on this blog has been how to sync a nas drive with onedrive and since writing it and banging my head against the obvious limitations in the onedrive client ive been using synctoy for over a year now without a single issue. Apr 05, 20 i have a wd mybookworld network drive connected directly to my computer but it is not showing up under network in explorer for some reason. Mar 16, 2016 1 wd my book world with 2tb there fore i am planning to build a nas using a supermicro x9xxx board with an i3 cpu and 16gb of ecc ram. After your my book nas has restarted, log into the wd network storage manager from a web browser and create a new share. The backup software is a load of junk, lacks many control options and crashed a lot on me. Recovering data from nas devices including wd mybook pro. Ive bought the wd mybook world edition ii white lite. Solved wd my book world edition nas not showing up on my pc.
Sep 18, 2015 this video shows, how to connect a nas storage western digital wd mybook live duo to a windows 10 system as a drive with a fixed letter. Western digital releases new firmware that makes the devices web interface more responsive and intuitive but doesnt do much to improve the remote. Use freenas with zfs to protect, store, and back up all of your data. The latest example of the home nas is western digitals my book world edition ii. Hi, i have a my book world edition ii 2tb and i would like to install freenas because i am not happy with the wd original firmware.
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