Private share not accessible from VISTA because of DOMAIN/user structure

WD Legacy Products My Book Live Duo
#1

I have setup my WD 6TB as RAID 1 and access this drive from my network with a Windows vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 pc AND with a macbook and other devices.  Vista will not connect to private share becaus it puts the domain before the username before it tries to login. I canot seem to prevent this from happening. Can anyone helpe me? 

Regards

Rutger

#2

Hi, can you access the public shares fine? Try using the WDlink app to map private share. 

Mapping a drive letter on a WD Network hard drive using WD Link

#3

This might work…

When Vista asks for the user name put in the name of your MBL for the domain.

like:

mybooklive\user

Check your slash too. I am pretty sure it is a \ and not a /.

#4

Thanks for your reply. The problem is that next to vista, windows 7 and 8 laptops need to access this private share. And these systems do not use the domain prefix. I wonder why Microsoft uses so much different ways of connectivity.

#5

I’ll definitely try this solution!

#6

No idea why MS does what they do… probably something involving mantatees and beach balls with words on them.

Good luck!

#7

This offers no solution. After linking the drive the windows authorising window appears and the same domain/user authorisation is needed. Can I switch off the domain construct?

#8

There is no way that I know of to turn off the domain constraint. . . where you able to gain access to your shares using the \mybooklive\username method?