How do I get my Live Media Hub to read a drive connected to my Mac?

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Of course my Live Media Hub is available to my Mac, as I have been putting lots of media on it. Now its full. 

However, I cannot get the Hub to see my Mac or an attached drive.

It would have been simpler to hook the new drive to the USB port but that won’t work. The new drive has to be Mac OS journaled in order to accept files larger than 4 GB. The Mac will not write to an NTSF drive so that is out. Yes, there are ways to make your Mac write to a NTDS drive but I’m not that technical. 

I figured the simplest route is to use my Mac and attach the 2 TB drive to that. I just can’t get it to work. Yes, the firewall is off.

Thanks

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You can use NTFS for Mac OS X (needs MacFUSE to work I think). I use NTFS now for my Mac all the time as there are no compatibility issues with PC users. 

My WD Live Hub sees my networked Mac and the attached drives. My problem is that the network speed simply cant cope with large HD files. Smaller avi and music files are fine but (for example) my 20gb Avatar MKV stutters etc.

Hope this helps.

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What will happen if I format my drive as NTFS and plug it directly into the hub? Will it read from there?

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Actually I just plugged my new mac formatted 2TB drive directly to the hub and it works just fine.