MyBookLIve Requires UserName and Password

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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I have a WD MyBookLive NAS drive on my local network and I’m trying to mount it to a Trendnet video camera so that the video camera can store videos on the NAS drive. Both devices are on my home local area network. I have created a public share on the MyBookLive for the video camera called “Trendnet”. When I try to mount it to the Trendnet camera, I get an error that says “Mounting to NAS drive failed. Invalid directory or incorrect username/password”.

I tested attempting to access this share using a web browser with the URL of \MyBookLive\Trendnet and it prompts me for a username and password and doesn’t accept any username/password I put in. Why is it asking for a username and password if it is a public share? Is there anyway to create a pubic share that allows anonymous access without any username and password?

Thanks,

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It seems as if it’s your own network asking for credentials just to protect the computer.
Have you setup a login credential on your MBL?

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Yes, I have setup a login credential on the MBL and I can login to the MBL through the normal webportal. If I use a webrowser to access the MBL as

http://10.0.0.148

It brings me to the main MBL portal and I can login successfully from there and access shares.

If I try to access a share directly such as:

http://10.0.0.148/Trendnet

I get an internet explorer message that says "The server 10.0.0.148 is asking for your username and password. If I try to login at that point, the login fails. I would think that I shouldn’t have to login at all if it is a public share.

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The instructions on a MyCloud device are a bit more informative than those on MyBookLive. It says that a named public share may be created only if users are defined and is available to all users logged into the device. That’s not quite the same as the “credential-less” Public share - you can access the share only if you are logged into the NAS.

Perhaps you can get what you are after by making Trendnet a folder within the Public share.

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Thanks, I tried accessing the Public share directly and got the same error. I think this has something to do with using the NFS protocol to access the MBL. There seem to be some known issues with using NFS to access the MBL.

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I did some more playing around and I was able to mount the MBL NAS drive to the Trendnet video camera using the SMB/CIFS protocol. I have no idea why I haven’t been able to mount the MBL using NFS.