Accessing MyBookWorld on Windows 10

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I am trying to help a friend out with this issue. He has a computer running Windows 10 (64-bit) Home. The version is 1803.

OS Build: 17134.345

He is attempting to access the MyBookWorld drive. When doing so, he gets a web page sign-in. The fields listed are:

Administrator Name

Password

Tool

Language

I’d like to know if there is a way he can map the drive on the machine in question without having to log in via the website. Thank you.

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It sounds like he’s accessing it via the web browser (http://x.x.x.x). Have him open it in windows explorer with the path like “\\x.x.x.x” (without the quotes).

3

This device only supports SMB1, which has been deprecated in Windows 10. You can re-enable SMB1 support in Windows 10 by enabling the SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support feature.

At the start menu search for and start “Windows Features”. Check the box beside “SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support”. Once you’ve done that you can access the device using \xx.xx.xx.xx.

You can map a drive to the SMB share, but know that Windows 10 currently has a known issue with re-establishing network drive maps. You’ll have to launch the drive map in Windows Explorer (e.g. Start "m:") every time you reboot, and let windows whinge and complain while it (successfully) re-establishes the map before other programs can access the share. God I hate Windows 10.

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It is much easier to fix than seems to be out there on the internet.

To enable SMB1 on Windows 1803 workstations:

  1. Search in the start menu for ‘Turn Windows features on or off’ and open it.
  2. Search for ’ SMB1 . 0/CIFS File Sharing Support’ in the list of optional features that appears, and select the checkbox next to it.
  3. Click OK and Windows will add the selected feature.

After I did this, MYBOOKWORLD was accessible from my Windows 10 Dell Latitude

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is this accessible via network i.e switch or modem as its anetwork drive not usb? I have 2 but now Mionet isnt supported im stuck with 2 perfect hdds with files i cant access