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WD Live and OSX 10.7

  • 14-02-2012 7:04pm
    #1
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I have a crappy WD Live media player and it worked great with my windows xp machine but for the life of me I can't get it to work with osx.

    I can see the wd on my mac and I can copy stuff to any usb device on the WD live device but for the life of me I can't get the wd live to connect to the mac as a shared network drive when using it on my tv which is really annoying.

    Curious if anyone here has one of these devices, and if so any suggestions?


Comments

  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    OS X's previous SMB implementation was replaced in Lion with Apple's own version, which supports SMB2 but not SMB1 - which is what WDTV uses. You'll have to find a workaround, either by installing Samba (no thanks) or using a UPnP client. I use Yazsoft's Playback. It works pretty good, better than SMB in most ways, but it doesn't support external subtitles - they have to be embedded in the file. Afaik there are free alternatives available as well.

    I'm very cautious about installing WDTV updates and haven't updated in a while, so I don't know if they've done anything to resolve this issue. I doubt it.


  • #3
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Copying files across from my Mac to my WD TV Live Hub has been unusable since the update to OS X Lion. Both my WD TV and Mac are up to date with the latest updates. I can actually copy files from within a Virtual Machine running on my Mac to the WD TV much faster! Madness.


  • #4
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    crap anyway, think its time to flog my wd live and just bite the bullet and build a machine for XBMC


  • #5
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Just so you know, this issue isn't isolated to WDTV. You may experience similar problems with XBMC or anything that uses SMB1.


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