Network Places

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
1

For some reason my My Book Love doesn’t appear in my network since I changed its name. When I first unboxed it, it would appear - but not anymore.

It appears as a media source (for photos and videos), as storage (opens up a browser) but to see it in the network places I have to type its IP address (or map it).

Any idead why and how to fix this?

2

That’s weird, once you map it, it should stay mapped.

3

If you changed its name, and you originally mapped it by name instead of IP address, you need to delete the previous mapping and re-map it.

4

The mappings stay in place (because I’m using the IP address). What I’m talking about is the network section in Windows, where you can traverse the network; where you see other PCs on the network.

Additionally, I can’t type \{server-name}\share - it can’t find it, but it can if use the IP address.

5

Make sure the Workgroup name matches your PCs, and also try to reboot the MBL.

6

They’re the same. I’ve rebooted a number of times.

I believe, though, that this is the underlying issue. I originally changed it to something else from WORKGROUP. When I realize that all the PCs are WORKGROUP I changed it back…but too late. No one cares. He left the party and is no longer welcomed.