USB Drives no longer show up as Network Drives

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Hi All.

I have a WD Live  over a wired network. Since one of the recent Firmware upgrades (not sure which one has been a couple in the last month - and I am guessing that MAY have been a possible cause) a portable drive in either of the USB ports no longer shows up as a Network drive - as it did do previously. The Drives are fully visible to the WD Live and the WD Live can see other network shares on the Network, both PC’s and NAS. I have tried an assortment of different small and large drives but none of them show up. Any suggestions?

Cheers

Rod

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Did sharing get turned off on the WDTV?

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Under the the Network Settings, I can only find the option to “Share WD Live” - which is turned on. Is there another place I should check?

Cheers

Rod

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I just performed several long overdue firmware updates and am now experiencing the same issue. The hard drives attached to the WD Live are no longer visible on the network…any thoughts?

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Bump…

I have searched to the best of my ability without finding a solution to this issue, any help would be much appreciated folks.

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Check that the workgroup names are the same. The update may have changed the name on the WD Live ?

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Bingo!

The updates changed the name from MSHOME to WORKGROUP, switched it back and its all good.

Thank you.