A couple of quick NAS shares questions

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
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Hi all,

I recently bought a WDTV Live Streaming Media Player. It certainly has a much prettier UI than my Netgear NeoTV550 alas I have not found it anything like as easy to setup to stream my own local content.

I run a Netgear NAS containing multiple shares of various types of media. I wanted to add each of these so that I could for example have “Films” & “TV” under Video and “Music” under “Music” etc. My NeoTV (for all its faults) was very easy to set-up: it saw the NAS and I added the shares and that was it. 

However I can’t seem to do this with the WDTV. I can add a single share eg “Films” so I get “READYNAS/Films” but then can’t seem to add another. If I try it just keeps defaulting back to READYNAS/Films. I can start the process again, but then I end up with whatever that one isand the originally added share is gone.

First question: can anyone definitively confirm that the WDTV will happily support multiple shares rather than multiple folders on a single share?

Second question: is it possible to configure it so that I only see “Music” under Music and “TV”, “Films” under video?

TIA

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Absolutely.  I have 7 different shares coming from 3 different NAS’s right at this moment… :slight_smile:

Are you “adding” these shares via the Media Library Manager section of SETUP?

Or are you just changing the CONTENT SOURCE?

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Hi Tony,

I was trying to add them via the Media Library Manager section of Setup although I had tried to change content source too.

Could this be my problem: initially I couldn’t work out what user name and password it wanted because my shares aren’t set up to require authentication, but eventually I entered the name of the share as the user name with a blank password which brought up that specific share. What would I need to enter to connect to the NAS as a whole rather than a specific share?

As things are, once one share is mapped I can’t ever even get to see the others…

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Generally, if the share isn’t set up to REQUIRE a password, then just using the default WD-provided “anonymous” and no password is sufficient.

What SHOULD be happening in the MLM is:

  1. You select ADD…

  2. It brings up a list of servers it discovers (both NFS and SMB)

  3. You select the server.

  4. If it doesn’t have Login-info for it yet, it will prompt you for User-ID and password  (see above.)

  5.  It will then list all of the shares that user has access to.

So, at step 5, is it then only LISTING one SHARE?  Or is it continuing to list all of them, but you cannot ACCESS another share?

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I do ADD and it gives me my server READYNAS. I select this and it gives me the login. At this point in the past I’ve tried:

  • un/pw of my NAS admin = wrong

  • un “share” (eg films) with no pw = gives me (for example) READYNAS/Films

Once that is in place, if I try to add another share it takes me back to READYNAS/Films (or whichever one I’ve connected) and doesn’t give me any opportunity to try for another.

I was fairly sure that I have tried doing as you suggested and leaving the login to anonymous with (presumably) a blank password to no avail but perhaps I need to try that again when I get back home. If that works I will not only be eternally grateful for your help but will also kick myself reasonably hard!

Either way, I shall report back here…

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Still no luck.

I’ve just tried to add the share, leaving the un as “anonymous” with a blank password and get the following message:

“Unable to connect to the selected source. Please make sure the selected source is active and available for sharing.”

Which it is, and can be seen by two PCs, a Mac and a Netgear NeoTV550.

Why is this thing such a ball-ache to set up?!