No, I’m sure that we are not the only two people to have problems with WD Discovery finding our World drives on a network. However, I have not found many postings anywhere on the Internet that address this problem.
I can access my White Light drive from all five computers on my network (all running XP), and I have assigned drive letters as necessary, but WD Discovery cannot fine the drive and so I cannot use any of the software that comes on the CD-ROM.
Your fix looks a lot like a random event, since all of my computer get their IP addresses from the DCHP server on my router. I expect that my problem has something to do with Windows firewall or my anti-virus software.
I will try WD customer support today to see if they have this problem already worked out.
Has anyone else already got around this problem without having to change from static to dynamic IP assignment?
