This should be pretty much solved. And since you’re complaining about it being painful, hopefully you will permit me to point out that we would have gotten here more directly if you’d given the information I asked for from the start, and if you’d actually tried the stuff before you gave a blanket answer that you’d done everything.
So now, if the WD is seeing the Mac when you select Linux Shares under Content Source (I don’t think Windows Shares will work, the WD can see the computer but can’t communicate with it that way), the mac end should be done. Now I’m guessing it is just the WD being wonky as it often is.
If you completely shut it down (hold power button several seconds) and turn it back on again, it might work. You could try clearing the share credentials in the Setup menu, or connect to a local storage drive first and then change content source.
If those things don’t work, and you are entering the correct username and password in the right place, sorry, I don’t know what the problem might be.
It’s not you or your process that was painful. It’s the WD. I’ve been thanking you all along for your help and yes I have made a few missteps. While this may be easy for some, it is not for me. From a customer perspective and as someone who has switched to and enjoys the simplicity of the mac it’s a disappointment to me that I and many others have to go through these gyrations to get something to work. Thanks again.
A restart of the WD seems to have worked, in an odd way. Now both the computer name and it’s ip address show up as separate entries in the network share window on the WD. Trying to connect to the computer name entry does not work. Connecting to the ip entry does.
I believe it’s syncing now. It’s a big library so I think it will take some time.
Syncing? Do you have the WD TV Live Streaming Media Player (Gen 3)? I don’t know about the other models, but I don’t think this thing syncs anything.
I haven’t even noticed that it does the Media Library thing (getting info, compiling, whatever it calls it) when it accesses my computer on NFS. But come to think of it, maybe it should be doing that, I don’t know.
I have the WDTV Live Hub. The intent is not to stream. I do not like that option. I like to keep the files locally and have them synced with my mac pro. I want to replace my gen 1 apple tv with the WD. The only way to do this is to have the WD sync folders with my mac pro automatically. Under Setup Options there is a choice to sync with a nework share. Now that I have resolved the sharing issue it is syncing. It does so when it is resting (sleeping), not when active.
Final solution to access iMac (Mountain Lion) shared drive through WD Live TV “Files”.
After reading all those posts and struggling with SMB, SMBup and so on (does not work, donated 1USD regardless), I came to a final solution which worked.
On WD: Enable Linux Shares from Setup menu of your WD TV Live.
VERY IMPORTANT: on your mac, go to finder, select the folder you want to share (in my case Movies), right click, Get Info, check that folder is Shared tick box is on, and most importantly, add Everyone to shared user list. Click on the lock, enter your password, add Everyone. This is the secret that worked for me.
On WD Live TV: go to Files → Content Sources->Network Shares->Linux Shares. It will scan the network and your MAC’s IP will appear. Can take up to 30 seconds.
Enjoy.
I am not saying this is universal - this is what worked for me. Two main things - first, NFS Enabler which does this exports thing right, second - add everyone to shared folder users, otherwise the folder will come up empty - it will say you have no access. I did not figure out where to enter user name and password for Linux share.
Hope this helps. Posting this as a thank you for all people who guided me today.
By the way, I needed network share access only because of SRT support, which PLEX media server does not provide. If you don’t need subtitles or any other specific reason to access your Mac through network share, just install Plex Media Server on your and run everything through DLNA, saving yourself from all this bull**bleep** with Linux shares and export files (shudder).
This is excellent. After many painful attempts I was able to get it to work with the path method but for only one folder. Now for the next question: Can this work for more than one folder?
For example, I like to sync my iTunes Music Folder and My Pictures folder which are in very different locations on my hard drive. Will this work? How do you do it?
Simple answer is NO… the NFS workround supplied by WD will only share one folder… and it won’t see mac aliases either so you can’t link multiple folders by putting an alias in your movies folder.(bummer for me as I have 7terabytes on my mac of movies and tvshows). I installed the SMBup ( http://eduo.info/apps/smbup)) which works just fine for std definition stuff, which is 90% of the tvshows I watch via the computer … it only struggles if I’m running vuze or some other bandwidth hog at the same time…For HD movies etc to get round this I just stuck an 8gb memorystick in the front usb socket… then go finder/go/network and select you WDTV live… choose connect as … use your username as the login and the default pass is admin … then the memory stick simply shows up as an attached drive… I can now just copy or delete stuff from the memorystick direct from my mac… I would assume that the HD from a wdtv live hub would show up as the same… no lag or wifi problems … doesn’t copy stuff all that fast over the network but it’ll do the 8gb in about 6 minutes… I also installed the TVMOBiLi media share prog just to try and it also works just fine… you have to add each folder you want to share to the website/tool thingy but that took a minute… it’s only free up to 10gb a month after that for unlimited shares they want a quid a month…so I use it just for music as I like the way it lists everything alphabetically…
one thing with the smbup… after adding all the folders you want to share click save all… if you quit and select save and quit when the warning comes up it doesn’t seem to work… relaunch and all your folders are gone and have to be re-added.small bug…
I spent a long time on the phone with a WD level 2 Mac support specialist, but he could not get it to work either. I had done everything as I should. The funny thing is that I have 3 installations of 10.8.2 on my Mac, and I was able to get it to work on one of them, but not on the other two. And on those two, the probelms were different. Very strange and unpredictable. One of the installations that did not work was even a fresh install. Bummer.
I did the Firecore download and added my iTunes music folder. This did sync which covers my music, tv shows, and movies because they are all subfolders. It seems to sync quickly when I add files such as tv shows but does not remove them when I delete TV shows. I am not sure if this is a bug or not. To delete things I find I have to mount the drive via alias and delete manually. Does anyone know about this? Is this the case? Do you have to reboot the WD to have it remove things while syncing?
I was not able to sync more than one folder individually. I don’t think you can use the Firecore tool to sync subfolders because it creates a conflict and rejects the entry. I did not try to sync multiple folders that are independent (not subfolders).
If this does not work for all of you and you only want to sync one folder and subfolders, I was able to successfully do this with CCCloner by having it run a scheduled task to clone iTunes music to WD. It works great with one folder and subfolders. I’m not sure if it could be used for more than one independent folder. I haven’t tried it yet. I may go back to this method.
Thanks to everyone! I followed the directions and got it to work!
Now, question I have is displaying folder/file name in Korean text. After setting up the share in wdtv, I see a folder icon, but, the names are blank. Folder names in English displays correctly. Any suggestions on getting the folder name to display in Korean text?
Your advice is working so well that I decided to seek you opnion on the bizarre probelm I have with NFS enabler. I have 3 Macs (Pro, MacBook Pro and Mini) all with the latest 10.8.3 with all updates. On MBP and Mini it works like a charm, on Pro it flashed the following message:
Error 16: Failed to save changes. UUID changed for /, was 1E23B584-AB00-3366-91D1-5B0D5AD243F8 now 7499EFB4-24C0-3FD6-A476-7CA228697467.
Now, I have no idea of whar this uuid is. Surely not my Mac, I checked it. Would it be of the enabler itself?
