Mar 20, 2009 the western digital my book world edition is a great addition to the my book family of external storage devices and offers consumers an extremely easytouse network storage solution. Wd offers my book world edition network storage drive macworld. Their website specs make no mention of macs, and i would like to get one for our pcmac network. Wd my book world edition ii wdh2nc20000 nas server 2 tb series sign in to comment. My book world edition network storage driver download software manual installation guide zip my book world edition network storage driver download software drivercategory list one of the most difficult jobs in keeping an up graded driver database on your hard drive or laptop is trying to find each individual driver on the web. Western digital my book world edition ii specifications pdf. I have enabled remote access to my router but i cant remember how i managed to access the nas. 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. Watch your blocksize, the guide assumes 512 bytes, however some new disks specifically, the larger advanced format disks will come with 1024 bytes or even gpt style 4094 bytes from the log i see the disk was a 1024 byte. Western digital wd20000d033 my book world edition ii manuals. 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. From it you can stream photos, music, and videos to your home entertainment center. Western digital wd on wednesday introduced the my book world edition, a new network storage drive thats mac and pccompatible.
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Jack wallen shows you how to mount remote sftp shares on a chromebook, with the help of a simple extension. Hard drive replacement for western digital my book world. Few things are more upsetting than having a piece of hardware that doesnt work. How to fix bricked wd my book world edition white light or. My book world edition can be your homes central media hub. I have been experimenting with opening ports to it on my router, etc. To do this, go to file sharing user management and create a new user for the sake. Im planning to replace the hard drives on my wd my book world edition ii. After this hack is applied, you must reboot the mybook. Wd my book world edition white solved windows 10 forums. My book is a series of external hard drives produced by western digital. Though it looks similar, there are quite a few differences with the earlier western digital mybook world edition ii. On the front panel figure 1, theres a power switch that is surrounded by two blue rings. I am using this method to attach to a remote system with sshfs whenever my vpn.
It has the capability of automounting a bookmark, whenever the. A place to discuss and share ideas for modifying the mbwe existing linux installation. Cant login to web interface for the my book world edition. Quickest way i found to get the ip address for your mbweii is to look at. Mionet issues due to lost mionet registration info. Customizing wd mybook world external network hdd western digital mybook world is an external network disk possible terabytes and raid.
Apr 16, 2010 my book world edition 1 my dad installed this on our network and i tried to access it. The reason i bough it is to have it as a ftp server, that way i can access files across the lan and wan. Wd my book world edition ii wdh2nc20000 nas server 2. No matter from which win 7 system i try to connect from, with all security software shut off, it wont accept my password even though i know its correct. Wd offers my book world edition network storage drive. Forum my book world edition blue rings hacking wd mybook. All you need is the my book world edition drive and a digital media adapter or a game console like xbox 360 or playstation 3, and your masterpiece is there on the big screen. I bought brand new wd caviar green hard disks and put them into my book world edition ii white light case but surprisingly it doesnt work or even start. I cant connect to my wd mybook world edition from win 7 64 bit. Here is a complete list of links to hacks and howtos for the western digital my book world edition. The nas came with mionet, which in my opinion it simply sucks. I needed to set it up to allow the backup scripts ssh access.
We delete comments that violate our policy, which we. My test unit was the 500 gb single drive world edition. Use a client ftp to connect from the outside to the nas. Give the my book a local static ip and open the port that is uses for the ftp through the routers firewall toward the static ip. Western digital my book world edition you and your family have a lot of media files. A frontmounted white light doubles as an operation indicator and capacity gauge. I connect my machines to the zyxel nas with sshfs to mount the. Apr 19, 2017 hi there, i use my mybook world edtion in my lan since a few years, i was always able to access it via my local lan since yesterday it seems like the device doenst boot properly anymore as soon as i turn it ob, it starts working and it sounds like it boots normally, but however, i cannot access it via network, no chance to reach it i rebooted it a few times i used the reset switch. I am unable to set my wd mybook world edi apple community. View and download western digital my book world edition ii specifications online. My book world edition 1 my dad installed this on our network and i tried to access it. Hello, i have two my book world edition white light network hdds from wd and theyve worked fine.
When i browse to the web interface i am presented with a login screen. My goal is only transferring the data to another nas. The above is a general description of a solution and does not take care of security. To make it easier to go into web gui of mybook world page, use wd discovery software. The client interacts with the remote file system via the ssh file transfer protocol sftp, a network protocol providing file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable. If your product is not listed above, please visit the product page. I need to mount other server via sshfs with readonly mode. Setting up ssh on western digital my book world devices rants.
May 21, 2010 no matter from which win 7 system i try to connect from, with all security software shut off, it wont accept my password even though i know its correct. I dont want to pay for mionet and i know this can be done, however i. Essential edition, home edition, office edition, mirror edition, studio edition, premium edition, elite edition, pro edition, av dvr live edition, and the world edition. Jul 05, 2010 my book world edition hi just install windows 7 7057 64bit and i cannot get it to see my book world 1tb drive on the network i think its to do with 128bit encryption i have not come across this before thanks for any help. Install clean hdd in white light my book world edition.
Customizing wd mybook world external network hdd alephzarro. Ligd is easy to install, but is limited to files less than 2gb in size. The western digital my book world edition is a great addition to the my book family of external storage devices and offers consumers an extremely easytouse network storage solution. Enabling cron on a western digital my book world edition. How to setup my book world edition ii i found some help about how to do this but a it was spread across many different sources and b wasnt always accurate, so i decided to post my own howto and how not to for the mbweii. How to setup ftp on my world book edition ii without using. Western digital released yesterday a firmware update for the mybook world edition i and ii network drives, to version 01. Ive bought the wd caviar red to replace the current hard drive. Install the putty tool 2 on your windows computer, launch this tool, type the ip address of your mybook and use port 22. Apr 29, 2007 has anyone used a 1tb wd my book world edition ii storage system with a mac. There are two different web servers that can be installed on the wd my book workd nas. Earlier today, a tweet from a colleague got me wondering whether i could set up cron on my nas drive to give me the ability to run scheduled tasks.
Wd my book world edition ii wdh2nc20000 nas server 2 tb. Western digital my book external hard drive my book is a series of external hard drives produced by western digital. My book world edition hi just install windows 7 7057 64bit and i cannot get it to see my book world 1tb drive on the network i think its to do with 128bit encryption i have not come across this before thanks for any help. This was bought by one of our project managers in a field office. My book world edition ii storage pdf manual download.
It is quite thick for a singlebay external hard drive, but the extra room allows it to be passively cooled through. If you enable ssh, it allows for the installation of some simple software on the. From what i gather, the mybook live is hardly a fullfeatured nas, but anyway. I bought a 500gb wd mybook world edition with the intention of using it to backup various servers on my network. How to mount an sftp drive on your chromebook techrepublic. This is for the white light version of the western digital my book world edition nas. The western digital my book world edition runs on a cut down version of linux and as such can be accessed via ssh. Sshenable this procedure will allow connect to your mybook via the putty tool and ssh protocol. Wd mybooklive smb problems support roon labs community. Without a doubt, the 1tb western digital my book world edition is the easiest to use nas ive ever tried. Drivers were installed and i have and icon for wd my book world edition publicin computerwin7, and in network i have two accessible icons for the device. Wd0h1nc world edition, wd20000h1nc world edition, wdh1nc0. My book world edition white light not responding external. Have repeatedly asked for a resolution and get no response.
I did a bit of research and found out that it ran linux and also had a pretty decent community following. Apr 10, 2009 without a doubt, the 1tb western digital my book world edition is the easiest to use nas ive ever tried. Enabling ssh access on mybook world edition martin hinner. Another common method of identification is the number line thats a line of numbers on the page. Cannot access my my book world edition wd0h1nc anymore. You will then be able to manage your mybook as a real linux box, via a command line interface. Hack your western digital mybook world edition 12 years owners of a wd mbwe with intermediate linux experience looking for a good time should hop on over to martin hinners site. An easytouse installer package for the latest version of sshfs can be.
I want to be able to access the my book world edition i just bought from any remote location. The publisher may actually state the words first edition or first printing on the page. Hi there, i use my mybook world edtion in my lan since a few years, i was always able to access it via my local lan since yesterday it seems like the device doenst boot properly anymore as soon as i turn it ob, it starts working and it sounds like it boots normally, but however, i cannot access it via network, no chance to reach it i rebooted it a few times i used the reset switch. Remote access without mionet other network drives wd. Western digital my book world edition 1tb home network. My book drives are designed to look like a standard black hardback book, with the exception of the. I want to use my course material to write a book in the future.
I dont leave any machines on at home, but my nas drive is on 247, so it could be useful especially as a. Book world edition ii not responding to web browser, wd discovery, ssh. Ssh will not allow you to login as root without password. Sshfs ssh file system is a file system client used to mount and interact with directories and files located on a remote server or workstation. My book world edition network storage driver download. So, just to make sure its not an issue with adding a secondary ip to my notebook, i decide to setup the mybok to an address on my lan. Western digital wd20000d033 my book world edition ii pdf user manuals. May 20, 2009 the wd my book world edition s sevenpage quick install guide is about as simple as it gets in terms of getting a product set up and operational quickly. Wait 30 seconds for wd mybook world initialize and shutdown itself all 8 front led go off. It isnt anywhere near what the nslu2 had i was planning to purchase an nslu2 and found out they were no longer in production but it was still.
Its a white book, western digital my book world device. This ssh hack is based on the mybooklinuxssh hack 1 not. As its name implies, it does indeed look like a book. The western digital mybook world edition has a glossy white case and shares the same rounded booklike shape of other mybook external hard drives. Sep 14, 20 wait 30 seconds for wd mybook world initialize and shutdown itself all 8 front led go off. I wont use world book white edition ii anymore, its about 9 years old and i just had to recover world book blue ring raid1, 10 years old where the controller failed capacitor burned on print many thanks for any help. Sep 21, 20 page 1 of 2 my book world edition white light not responding posted in external hardware. I can connect fine from any xp or 2003 system with no problems at all. 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. All you need is the my book world edition drive and a digital media adapter or a game console like xbox 360 or playstation. My book world edition ii not responding to web browser, wd. Western digital have updated their my book world edition ii nas, boosting the dualdrive device to a total of 4tb. Only top led is blinkingflashing and mbwe doesnt appear in my network environment.
The dualdrive model my book world edition ii is preconfigured for maximum capacity as a large single spanned volume. View online or download western digital wd20000d033 my book world edition ii user manual. Western digital my book dualdrive network storage users manual. Good day, i have a my book world edition ii white lights that has. Mounting remote directories with sshfs on ubuntu 11. Two models will be available 2tb and 4tb each offering either raid 0 or 1. Then, press power button at the back of the mybook world for 3 seconds until led at the bottom goes on until it boot up. 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. 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. To use macfusion with the newer fuse for os xbased version of sshfs, put. 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. Restore the software on a mybook world edition hard drive. How to fix bricked wd my book world edition white light or install.
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