Add your WD TV drives to Windows Explorer

[chameleon_skin]

This tool will let you mount drives from your WDTV as drive letters in Wndows Explorer. Among other things, this allows you to drag and drop files from your desktop onto your WDTV.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/lt6i4z2uurxbb5t/netdrive.zip

It works by mounting ftp accounts as if they were regular drives. Additionally, if you use my ddclient plugin, your drives will be accessible even if you are outside your home network:

http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1523

Basic instructions:

* Log into your WDTV using telnet or ssh. Create a new user on your wdtv for each of your drives using the following command:

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adduser -h /path/to/your/drive/root some_username


* Start Netdrive. Click "Add new site". Enter the IP address of your WDTV on your home network or, if you are using the ddclient plugin, enter the domain name that you have registered with DynDNS for your WD TV.
* uncheck "anonymous/public logon". Enter the username and password that you created for the first user in the last step. Under "Drive:", choose, the drive letter that you want that account to show up as in Windows Explorer.
* Click "connect". Your drive should now show up in Windows Explorer.
* Repeat the last three steps for each of your drives.

[alucard89]

I can't seem to get command 'useradd' working with telnet using putty
Anything I'm missing here?

[chameleon_skin]

Oops - looks like "useradd" isn't on the WD TV. Use "adduser" instead. I'll update the first post with the correct instructions.

[alucard89]

Should it be something like this

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adduser -h /tmp/media/usb/USB1/93B56TF7B4D6DF33/root username

or without 'root'?

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adduser -h /tmp/media/usb/USB1/93B56TF7B4D6DF33/ username

Also, I can't seem to enter my username/password details on netdrive..

[chameleon_skin]

It's the second one.

Not sure what you mean about not being able to add your username & password in netdrive - after you click "add new drive", you should see a bunch of options on the right-hand side of the netdrive window. two of the fields are for "username" and "password".

[alucard89]

It's the second one.

Not sure what you mean about not being able to add your username & password in netdrive - after you click "add new drive", you should see a bunch of options on the right-hand side of the netdrive window. two of the fields are for "username" and "password".

Never mind, I got it to work with the latest version of Netdrive (1.2.02)
I couldn't type in my username/password on the netdrive from your link
Sorry to bother you again, but I can't modify/copy anything to my HDD <--USB1
but it works fine with my pendrive <-- USB2(mainly used for plugins/apps)
it's actually the same HDD that I couldn't get DownloadDaemon to write any data to it
What cmd should I use to fix this problem?

[chameleon_skin]

try telneting to the root of the drive and typing:

chmod -R 777 *