OK, after much searching and seeking help, apparently I found a solution to the issue of accessing Office files straight from the MBL device when in remote (from WD2go.com).
First things first: the issue is known to WD, and it is explained here: http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9586 . Obviously WD’s answer is a shame!
The issue therefore is the second layer of authentication on part of Windows. To solve the problem one needs to create a user name and corresponding password for Windows authentication. In order to do so:
1 - activate SSH access: on a browser write the address http://<MBL.IP.address>/UI/ssh and on the page activate SHH.
2 - dowload Putty to use it to access the device sustem. To enter write “mybooklive” or IP address of the device, then log-in as “root” and write “welc0me” (that’s a zero) as password.
3 - to create a new user/password for authentication in Windows, write
nano /etc/nas/apache2/auth/htgroup
and insert a “user_name” (without brackets) on the “admin” line, if you want to access the share as admin. Save.
4 - Once back to the initial screen (the one after logging with Putty), enter the following command line:
htdigest /etc/nas/apache2/auth/htpasswd ‘DeviceUser’ “user_name” (this user name is going to be the password for your user name to access authentication in windows)
5 - you will be asked to enter the password twice (this is for encryption purposes)
6 - there you go! You now should now be able to remotely open any Office file directly from wd2go by entering the word you used as user name and password in the authentication dialogbox.
NOTE: I would not know how to roll back this process, but anyhow it is cleaver first back up the files /etc/nas/apache2/auth/htgroup and /etc/nas/apache2/auth/htpasswd.
You can do this by writing, before changing the files:
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cp /etc/nas/apache2/auth/htgroup /etc/nas/apache2/auth/htgroup.backup
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cp /etc/nas/apache2/auth/htpasswd /etc/nas/apache2/auth/htpasswd.backup
I hope this is clear… find more at http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-593394/streaming-ms-office-files-over-remote-mybooklive#post-1631975
Many thanks to Bourgeoa who helped me in this!
