wd tv live network dont work with mac os x 10.7 lion

[jborko]

Goes both ways... But if you read the info Apple was blamed for using open sourced Samba, and they had to drop it because of legal issues. (New licence of Samba that forbids for it to be used on products that are being comercially sold)

So they should resolve the things amongst them selves...

Oh and BTW Apple SMBX shares work on Windows computers... So its only Linux to accept the new game...

[RoofingGuy]

Yes, but the manual specifically says it works with Leopard and Snow Leopard, and that it works with Samba shares.   There's nothing that says it would work with SMBX or Lion.

The WDTV isn't doing anything "wrong".  Nothing has changed.

Lion users have "upgraded" to an incompatible system.

[Vyper007]

Well I've seen a few different threads on this topic and it seems nobody has a great solution, however I too have a WD Live HD device and likewise I upgraded to Lion to find to my dismay that SMB doesn't work anymore. But I think I've found a work around.

In the Apple App Store there a piece of software called MediaShare, the software is idiot proof, you just add the foders you want to share and hit the play button. This then uses UPnP to share your desired folders and hey presto now the WD Live box can see all your shares again and you'll be able to play all your media again. The app isn't free its £1.49 but it's well worth the money if you cant be bothered waiting for WD or Apple to come to some kind of compromise with each other.

So give it a try. Hopefully it'll solve everybodys issues on this whole Lion and WD Live not working scenario, if anyone finds a cheaper or free solutions thats just as easy to implement then let us all know. I had this solution working in 30 seconds, its a piece of cake.

[bnz99]

I think probably everyone know about this obvious "workaround". The problem is that DLNA is unstable and doesn't properly support subtitle files (without reencoding).

[TheRoadToad]

having tried various options, including a try at installing SAMBA but that appeared to be a bit scarey, I decided on the free TVMobiLi

http://www.tvmobili.com

It is simple to install and works for me.

[figaro331]

Unfortunately, tvmobili doesn't play ISO, doesn't play mkv- it's really worthless even it's free!!!

[mu51c10rd]

For what it is worth, Samba just released 3.6.10 a few days ago which will support Lion. Perhaps it is worth an Ideas post asking for a Samba update in a future firmware release?

[jborko]

+1 for this idea

[ASFx2600]

I wish WD would hurry up and fix this. They had a very long time to make sure their products would continue to work with Lion. What did they do during the entire Lion beta period? Nothing? Pretty sad that WD just leaves their customers alienated like this for so long.

[RoofingGuy]

Until the Samba people wrote a new version of Samba that would work with Lion's SMB2, what precisely is it you think WD should have been doing?

Until WD had software provided to them that would work with Apple's decision to not support SMB shares, WD's hands were tied.

You could have always re-written Samba during the Lion beta period, so that WD would have proper software available to them.

Or, simply not upgraded to an operating system that was known to not work with any device that used Samba (limiting Windows Sharing essentially to only Windows PCs and Macs, and cutting off all hardware devices like NAS drives and media players.)