I have the MyBook Live plugged in directly into the ethernet port on my Macbook Pro.
Have spent days and days transferring files.
I’ve gone through this forum and tried all kinds of things, short of fiddling with commands in the terminal to change from using samba to afp. I thought this solution would be easy to set up but as it is I’ve lost a week of working time.
Any kind of activity involving the MBL - moving files around, or accessing media - entails minutes looking at a spinning wheel or frozen screens. TimeMachine backup took 5 days. iTunes is unusable. I’ve lost my patience.
I’d like a simple solution that just works between my MacBook Pro and the MBL but just reading through all the various workarounds here suggests that there isn’t one, but neither is it an isolated problem. Or am I missing something?
Can anyone offer any ideas before I abandon this Networked Storage lark and just go back to a good old USB or Firewire drive?
Not sure I understand your configuration. MBL requires an assigned IP (static or DHCP). Connecting directly to your Mac is not what an NAS is supposed to be. My MBL is connected to my LAN via router and my macbook pro works seamlessly.
Well, if you are an advance user, you can get that to work. However, it would require static IPs. Or for the MAC to be a DHCP server.
But since you do not mention that, yeah, makes no sense how your MAC talks to the MBL on your current setup.
By the way, I do have a MAC book pro. Both connect to router/switch. Works great.
In some threads it’s been mentioned that working wirelessly is a cause of slowness so cabling is one solution. That’s why I tried plugging the MBL directly into the ethernet port of the MacBook Pro. Before that I did have the MBL connected to my Airport Extreme Router. Unfortunately I can’t do that and also have an ethernet cable connecting the laptop since the Airport Extreme only has one ethernet socket and I don’t have a switcher.
Of course I had assumed that it should all work fine with the laptop connected wirelessly since that’s the whole point of this system but it wasn’t working satisfactorily. I guess also my Airport Extreme isn’t Gigabit Ethernet. (the light by the socket on the MBL is amber rather than green.) I didn’t realize I would have to buy more kit to make the kit I have already bought work properly.
After spending days making a Time Machine backup it now seems to be there but I’m not sure I trust it.
I also moved my iTunes library across but if I try to navigate through the folders I just get the spinning wheel for minutes and iTunes just seems to hang. What is the best way to use the drive with iTunes? Is it best to keep the library file on the laptop and just keep the iTunes Music folder (about 170GB in my case) on the MBL?
Can anyone tell me how their smoothly running setup with a MacBook Pro in case I can replicate it?
I have:
MacBook Pro
OSX 10.7.5
Airport Extreme 802.11g
MyBookLive 3TB and the cable it came with.
ansuman wrote:
In some threads it’s been mentioned that working wirelessly is a cause of slowness so cabling is one solution. That’s why I tried plugging the MBL directly into the ethernet port of the MacBook Pro. Before that I did have the MBL connected to my Airport Extreme Router. Unfortunately I can’t do that and also have an ethernet cable connecting the laptop since the Airport Extreme only has one ethernet socket and I don’t have a switcher.
Of course I had assumed that it should all work fine with the laptop connected wirelessly since that’s the whole point of this system but it wasn’t working satisfactorily. I guess also my Airport Extreme isn’t Gigabit Ethernet. (the light by the socket on the MBL is amber rather than green.) I didn’t realize I would have to buy more kit to make the kit I have already bought work properly.
After spending days making a Time Machine backup it now seems to be there but I’m not sure I trust it.
I also moved my iTunes library across but if I try to navigate through the folders I just get the spinning wheel for minutes and iTunes just seems to hang. What is the best way to use the drive with iTunes? Is it best to keep the library file on the laptop and just keep the iTunes Music folder (about 170GB in my case) on the MBL?
Can anyone tell me how their smoothly running setup with a MacBook Pro in case I can replicate it?
I have:
MacBook Pro
OSX 10.7.5
Airport Extreme 802.11g
MyBookLive 3TB and the cable it came with.
So if you have the MBL directly ethernet connected, how do you access your network/internet? Normally you would connect the MBL to your airport extreme and your Mac via ethernet to it as well. Its not the fact that you don’t have giga-ethernet connections. Many here run only 100mb ethernet LANs.
