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Sommaire 1 What it can do "out of the box" 1.1 Installing that thing the proper way 1.2 Why Vista doesn't remember my password ? 2 What it can do "with some tweaks" 2.1 Media sharing with TwonkyMedia 3 Links 3.1 Official ressources 3.2 Dark Side

What it can do "out of the box"

My advice so far:

• don't touch that CD
• don't install any WDEveryWhere or MioNet related software ever

Doing the initial setup with the provided CD may prevent you of using that device with anotherOS.
This device can successfully be used with any OS that supports CIFS/SAMBA remote access.

Installing that thing the proper way

1. Unbox, plug the network, plug the power, wait 30 seconds.
2. Power the device (big button on the front) wait 5 minutes.
3. Connect to the device via a web browser (network name is something like "mybookworld"). Default login is "admin", default password is "123456".
4. Change the password, perform an update, wait till it's finished.
5. Disable WD Access Everywhere, the status on the right side should be "inactive"
6. Create users & shares

Why Vista doesn't remember my password ?

I don't know either, but you can try to input this information manually:

• Go to "User Preferences" in the "Control Panel"
• Select "Manage Network Passwords" in the left sidebar
• Connexion is "\\mybookworld", username and password are the one you are using to login

What it can do "with some tweaks"

Other Guides I'm working On

Media sharing with TwonkyMedia

• Follow instructions at this page to get SSH access.
• Connect to the device (with ssh, use Putty if you are using Windows) and follow these instructions to install optware.
  • You need "unzip", and maybe "nano" if you are not comfortable with "vi" (If you don't know what "vi" is, you want "nano")
• Go to the official Twonky page and copy the URL of the "Linux ARM little endian uclibc 0.9.28" file. (as of 7-oct-08, it's [1]
  • cd ~/
  • wget http://www.twonkyvision.com/Download/4.4.9/twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28-20081002.zip
  • cd /usr/local && mkdir TwonkyMedia && cd TwonkyMedia
  • unzip ~/twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28-20081002.zip
• Then, as you want to start Twonky everytime you boot the NAS, we'll create an entry in the init.d.
  • cd /etc/init.d
  • ln -sf /usr/local/TwonkyMedia/twonkymedia.sh S80twonky && chmod +x S80twonky
  • ln -sf /usr/local/TwonkyMedia/twonkymedia.sh K80twonky && chmod +x K80twonky
• Finally, we'll start TwonkyMedia
  • ./S80twonky start
• The Twonky web-interface should be up on port 9000 of your NAS.

Links

Official ressources

• Can a WD My Book World Edition hard drive be used without using WD Anywhere Access? (WD official KB)

Dark Side

• Hacking Western Digital MyBook World Edition
• MyBook World Edition Wiki