WD MyBook Live Network Mounting Ubuntu

Network Mount Western Digital's MyBook Live! on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

When you mount your external hard drives to your network it really does make life so much easier to move files around the various devices attached to your network as does ftp'ing into your drives, which I will discuss later.

Let's start, open your favourite Command Line Interface terminal (I just use the standard ubuntu terminal, suits me fine)

You will need to create a folder or more correctly a directory, that you link the external drive to so you can access it as a normal folder on your PC

sudo mkdir /media/mybooklive
(you can name the folder anything, just remember the name you use, so you can use it in the fstab entry as seen below!)

Insert the following line to the bottom of your machines fstab file, so from the terminal enter the following lines depending on your preference.

sudo gedit /etc/fstab
or
sudo nano /etc/fstab

Now add the line below to the bottom of the fstab file, make sure you save it.

//192.168.X.X/Public /media/mybooklive cifs  guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8  0  0

you will need to reboot the PC or enter the following into the terminal, this will remount everything in the fstab file, it should tell you if there are any problems when you hit enter after the command, if all is well, nothing will be listed and your MyBook should be showing up in your network list.

sudo mount -a

I just used the line as is, I only changed the network address 192.168.xxx.xxx to the MyBook Live! as I said you can change the Directory name but it must be the same in the line you insert into the fstab file.

I did this with the MyBook Live! model shown below...

Here is a link to the main site that has some general information and tips about the Western Digital Mybook Live!

http://www.thegoss.net/content/hardware/wd-mybook-live

External Drive for the Raspberry Pi

The external USB storage drive is the only thing that gives me bother with the pi, originally I had an external IDE hard drive in my external case. It started out working fine and I'm sure it did so the whole time. The Raspberry Pi seemed to lose connection to the drive, it messed with Torrents and NZB's, SabNZBD and Transmission daemon were and still are the only extra packages I have installed of course along with their dependencies.

If you had both running you needed to download at about 250KB/s, more,  the RPI seemed to bog down the higher speed you downloaded at. It's still a damn handy always on Torrent client and NZB downloader that is on 24/7, 365 days a year.

I decided to rearrange my drives, I purchased two 2.5 hard drive enclosures and one 2.5 WD 300GB hard drive disk. I have a decent four port hub that should power it no problems, hopefully... So far so good, the new disk is working admirably, there was a few hiccups on the whole install process, but lots of searching on Google and forums had me finding the answers no worries.

I also thought it about time I bought a USB SATA dock used for inserting sata hard drives so they can be plugged in to a USB port on your computer, no screws just plug in a drive and go, start accessing your hard drive contents right away! The two external hard drive enclosures I bought are nice and slim and just small in general, dinky little cases really but will do their intended job just fine.