I have bought my 2 TB My Book World Edition (version 1 I think) and it works first time.
Now I want to copy 500GB of data onto it but not wirelessly because it looked like it would take days, I’d like to just plug it into my laptop with a cable and do a copy, this should be faster.
How do I connect it to my laptop locally? I’ve tried the Ethernet cable and a USB → USB cable and neither works - Windows Explorer just doesn’t register the drives existence.
If you don’t know your MyBook’s IP address, you have to connect your MyBook first to a network with DHCP.
Press the recovery button while powering up the device. So it resets the admin user name, password and the network configuration.
The default user name: admin
password: 123456
Look for your actual IP address in Command Promt: ipconfig
Open the IExplorer. Connect to " http://IPaddress "
So you can connect to the Shared Storage Manager where you can set your device.
Set the IP address for fix IP which convenient to your notebook’s IP address. ( Important : If you have changed the IP address you cann’t reach any more in the DHCP net)