I recently replaced an old WD MyBook Live (network attached) with a WD MyBook USB which is attached to my computer. I had previously been using SmartWare (non-Pro version) to back up my computer and two others to the MyBook Live drive. The new drive came with SmartWare Pro and three licenses. So fa…

Hello, If you are using a USB drive such as the My Book then you must have the drive plugged into the computer that you want to backup. WD Smartware will not recognize a USB drive if you have it shared on the network. If you want to backup all 3 computer to the same drive without having to attach…

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gpaine April 10, 2015, 6:08pm 3

Thanks for the quicky reply. If I had know that SmartWare was so restrictive I would have bought something else.