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Originally Posted by hopeful1212
I just recently got a Western Digital My Book Live and I'd like to put OOTP's data folder on it so I can access it from either my desktop or laptop and not have to bother with USB drives (which is what I was doing previously).
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EDIT: I should add that these are samba shares that are mounted with cifs.
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I am not sure if this is where I should reply. It seems to me the thread is very big and my post might get lost.
I too have a Western Digital My Book Live and all is well. I think the biggest issue is that you are using Samba (SMB) shares. SMB implements the DOS FAT file structure which does not allow for linux file permissions. This can cause all sorts of file troubles. I suggest you do what I have done and use the Unix NFS shares as they are faster and support all the file permissions Linux wants to see.
The WD My Book Live is in fact a Linux device which is great news. All you need to do it use a hidden setting to enable ssh then you can log into a command shell on the My Book device. Open this URL in a web browser:
http://<mybook ip>/UI/ssh
turn on the ssh option. Now you can "ssh <mybook ip>", then edit (I use vi) /etc/exports to share /. Then you can mount all the folders in /shares on your linux boxes using /etc/fstab.