MyBook Studio networkability

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
1

Howdy,

so I agreed to help my father in law out when he was sold a MyBook Studio and told it would backup all the files from his 3 home PC’s.

I know the live is the one that was originally designed to do that.

But, is it possible.

a.  can i network the drive (I can see the partition K on the host computer from all the other workgroup machines I setup and

b. will the WDSmart software allow mutiple machines to back to this one drive

Any help greatfully appreciated.

2

I dont know with another backup software, but with Smartware you wont be able to do it like that. 

3

You can connect it to one computer and allow the others full access. That PC will have to be runnunig to access the drive like a shared printer.

Joe