I recently bought a WD MyBook World Edition 500gb, and i would like to share my experiences with this drive and Ubuntu.
My kids has a Windows computer, so i used it to configure the MyBook-Drive, using the shipped CD.
After the configuration i was able to find the drive in Ubuntu under System->network.
But i wanted to get more out of the MyBook, so i read some tutorials about it, and found out that there is actually a Linux-OS in MyBook, so by taking out the harddrive from the mybook, and mount it in a Ubuntu-box, it's possible to access the Linux-System files. Now, why do you want to do this? Well, because it's very easy to change in the inet.d config-file to make it start an SSH-Daemon. I did this, and then putting the harddrive back in the MyBook, and started it. Now i was able to connect to MyBook using SSH. Or even FTP.
Right now i'm compiling rtorrent client, this will be great, now i can manage my downloads from anywhere in the world
I'm very happy with my MyBook so far, and i really recommend it.



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