Win 8 External USB Drives Not Seen in Windows Share

Hi - thanks for your post.  I have done everything you suggested before and have verified again.   The only step I never knew about was clicking the “manage” on My Computer.  When i do, the Shared folders → Shares does list the 2 external drives.  I assigned them letters W and Y and I actually see the following:

W

W$

Y

Y$

the $ ones say they are for adminstrative purposes.  The other ones i can add users and they both show “Everyone” having full access.  I even went and added the Share user specifically, even though Everyone should cover that.  

So everything checks out but for some reason they still don’t show up in wd live when i select my home network share