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Using Mybook Essential as Mybook Live Safe Point

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‎06-25-2012 06:45 AM

I have a Mybook essential hooked up to my iMac and I have shared the drive by right clicking on the drive->Get Info->Checking Shared Box.  However, the drive is not appearing in the dashboard when searching for shared drives.  The manual says that hard drives connected to a computer via USB will work but thus far no luck.  Any suggestions?

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Re: Using Mybook Essential as Mybook Live Safe Point

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‎06-26-2012 08:35 AM

The drive should work without been shared on the LAN

 

did you try removing the shared settings ?

 

Change the drive letter and see if it will pick it up 

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‎06-27-2012 08:30 AM

The drive does not show up when shared or not shared.  Can't change the driver letter as on OSX there are no driver letters.

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‎06-27-2012 03:22 PM

I called customer service.  They stated the issue is with the SMB protocol in OSX 10.7.  Bascially the feature is not compatible with 10.7+ .  If anybody learns otherwise let me know.



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