I have read lot of comment and posts in this forum but could not find any solution. I have 2 TB Mybook live. I have everything working but 2 issues are driving me crazy.
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I map drive to my work PC and after restart mapped drive disappears. This could make me refuse to use this drive anymore.
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When I open office 2010 document Windows security prompt shows up and asks me to click OK. Why??? It remembers the username and the pass but why should I click OK everytime I open save and close a document. This is anoying.
I really expect WD officals to help out here. I have like 4 days to return this product. And if I return it I will never have the courage to buy such drive.
For other users - if you guys experienced the same issues I’m sure those of you that resolved these issues will help me out.
Thank you in advance!
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When you map the drive, you need to make sure you checkmark the box to “Reconnect at logon” or whatever it says. It’s a Windows option – not the WD’s problem.
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Sounds like your PC is connecting via WebDAV instead of CIFS protocol.
Try reading the WebDAV FAQ:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-Live/WebDAV-FAQ/td-p/463854
I have experience in mapping drives. WD has webaccess. If you have used you know that you just enter you account at wd2go.com and you see what has been shared to you. ONLY thing you can do is open in explorer - this automatically maps the desired drive. So far so good. But after restart mapped drive disappears and I have to go to the wd2go.com and login and again tell him which drive to open in explorer.
So this is WD issue not windows at all!
Of course I know about that… But you didn’t mention you were using WD 2go, so i assumed you were connecting from your home network.
Accually I said that I map the drive from work PC. Sorry for not clearing it up.
I have experience in mapping drives…
Since you have experience mapping drives, then it’s easy.
Just note the URL that WD maps to when you map it via the WD 2go webserver.
Example:
C:\Users\a0193633>net use
New connections will not be remembered.
Status Local Remote Network
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N: \\bignas3.devicexxxxx.wd2go.com\TonysShare
Web Client Network
and map it manually using the regular Windows Map method.
I said that I map the drive from work PC.
So do I … My work PC is a laptop which comes home with me. 
Yes, that was what I asking for in my first question. Thanks alot.
Interesting fact. In my home desktop machine I mapped my live drive over the network of course. I’m using TP-Link router with 100 mbit WAN. I know know 1 Gbit would change alot things but anyway I’m using laptops with 54 Mbit wireless cards, so I don’t care much for the speed so far. So the speed I can get when downlaoding from mybook live is about 10 mb/s which is fine for 100 Mbits network. Here is the funny stuff. If I map the drive over wd2go the speed for the very same operation is doubled - like 18-22 mb/s. I just checked from outside PC using RDC and the speed was the same about 20 mb/s. Somehow if you don’t have Gbit home network connecting over web gives you better speed.
My second question about opening office files and windows security prompt is not WD issue, but still if somebody has solution, please share. So far just one little issue I loved the speed with no Gbit network.
Accually it should be WD issue couse you guys decided to ise webdav and should show us the solution. Noone make me believe that this is mission impossible. I’ve read that office 2007 works fine but 2010 gets this problem. Howcome??? We should downgrade again???
