How to map a WD network drive on a Mac

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To access and store data on My Book Live, WD ShareSpace, My Book World Edition (White Light), or My Book World Edition II (White Light) after setting up the device, you must first map a network drive to one or more of the default shares. This section contains network drive mapping steps that you must follow for Mac.

For Mac OS 10.7 (Lion):


1. In Finder, click Go and point to Connect to Server.



2. Enter smb://wdsharespace or smb://mybookworld and click Connect.
   

   Note:

   If you renamed the network storage during device setup, enter “smb://newdevicename" (where newdevicename is the name you gave the WD ShareSpace or My Book World device).

   
   
   
   
3. Choose the radio button “Connect as Registered User”.



4. Leave the "Workgroup or Domain" field as the default but enter "admin" into the "Name" and "Password" fields.



5. Choose a share on the drive.



6. Click the “OK” button.

The default shares are "Public" and "Download" so you will need to repeat the steps above to map to both of the factory shares
Please Note: You should not map to the "Configuration" share as that displays information about the drive and is not a place to store data.

To show the mapped drives on the desktop, open the Finder preferences (Select Finder then Preferences) and check the Connected Servers box.

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For Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger):


1. In Finder, click Go and point to Connect to Server.



2. Enter smb://wdsharespace or smb://mybookworld and click Connect.
   

   Note:

   If you renamed the network storage during device setup, enter “smb://newdevicename" (where newdevicename is the name you gave the WD ShareSpace or My Book World device).

   
   
   
   
3. Click the “Authenticate” button.



4. Leave the "Workgroup or Domain" field as the default but enter "admin" into the "Name" and "Password" fields.



5. Click the "OK" button.



6. Choose a share on the drive from the drop-down box.



7. Click the “OK” button

The default shares are "Public" and "Download" so you will need to repeat the steps above to map to both of the factory shares

Important: You should not map to the "Configuration" share as that displays information about the drive and is not a place to store data.

To show the mapped drives on the desktop, open the “Finder” preferences (Select Finder than Preferences) and check the Connected Servers box.

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