I have a WD box with external hard drive connected via wire to the router. I just bought a new WD box for another room in the house that is connected wirelessly to the network and I would like to connect it to the external drive that’s hooked to the wired wd box. Is there a way to do this. Curren…

Yes, it can be done, many of us have multiple connected devices, but your WD boxes each need a unique device name which you find in the devices’ settings. If your original device has the default name (e.g. WDTVLIVE – not sure of the exact name,) and if your new box has the default name, you have a …

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mike27oct January 27, 2014, 7:13pm 4

Of course it worked; this is the most common mistake made by people who try to connect a second unit and it doesn’t work.