Accessing My Book World Edition on OSX El Captain

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Hi
I have a 1TB MyBook World Edition NAS drive connected to my iMac running OSX El Captain

I can see under the shared drives both MyBookWorld, which I can connect and save/move files around
I can also see below that share, another share drive named “MyBookWorld-Backup”, which gives me a connection failed message when I click on it

I want to:

  • be able to access its web based tool so that I can reformat and erase all its contents, but cant seem to be able to access it. I have tried typing smb://mybookworld and nothing happens

  • I have also tried to setup Time Machine to use this drive and when I turn Time Machine on, it gives me the option to select the MyBookWorld-backup, but it tries to connect and after some time it comes with a unable to connect message

any clues?

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forgot to add my NAS model - WD10000H1NC-00

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Hello, to answer your questions:

You need to use safari or chrome to access the user interface, you need to type in http://mybookworld.local this will take you to the user interface.

If you go to page 45 in the user manual it will explain you how to set up time machine correctly.

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thank you Lluna
I had already seen the instructions in the manual, but as I have said, eventhough the MybookWorld-backup shows up in the Shared list in Finder, when I select it, it fails to connect and when I launch Time Machine, it gives me the option to select this drive “MyBookWorld-Backup”, but after some seconds trying to connect to it, it returns saying it could not connect

Thanks for the other tip on the web interface - I managed to launch it -

If I wanted to reformat and start from scratch the NAS, what would be the best way

I launched Disk Utility but it does not list this WD drive

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Hi,
Did you solve this issue ? I have the same one. WD MyBookWorld white light to which I can connect through smb, but not by clicking either on the bonjour links in the finder and I cannot connect it through TimeMachine either on either my my MacBook pro running El Capital or the iMac I just upgraded to High Sierra.

It used to work on previous OS versions.
Any help is welcome :slight_smile: