Showing as a Drive for WD MyBook Live

[birdman]

I recently purchased a WD MyBook Live 2TB NAS. I set it up through my Mac, and I am able to see the NAS from the Finder and drag and drop files to it. I have it set up as Public with no PW protection and I would now like to be able to access the NAS as a drive from my other computers, (an Acer netbook and my daughter's Dell laptop.)

While I can "see" the MyBook Live NAS from each of those computers, when I click on it in My Network Places, it takes me to the web page and lets me log in. What I really want to do, is just see the NAS show up in the Control Panel on those other computers as a drive that I can just drag files to and access files from.

Sorry for what seems like a very basic question, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it.

TIA (Thanx in advance)

 

[thiggins]

what you are clicking on is the UPnP link to the admin interface.
For XP, click down deeper into the Entire Network icon, then Microsoft Windows Network, then Workgroup and you should see the share.

Or set up a mapped drive and browse for the share.

 

[birdman]

Thanx for the suggestion, but went through that and I do not see the share.

 

[thiggins]

Make sure the SMB / CIFS / Microsoft networking service is enabled and that there are shared folder(s) created.

You can also try accessing the share by Start > Run and entering \\ followed by the IP address of your mybook.