But you are wrong - it has everything to do with the Samba team moving to the GPLv3. I agree with you that WD is not the culprit here - Apple is.
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WD devices still work perfectly well with Windows and Linux machines if everthing in your network is set up correctly.Īnd this has nothing to do with GP元, except of course unless Apple want to restrict what software you can install on your machine. But in the meantime, either install Samba on your OS X Lion Mac, or run a media server. If they get to it in a later firmware update, that’s great. Once installed, your WDTV Live/LivePlus can connect to a Mac running Lion without issue.Īs far as the person saying WD is responsible for fixing this - no, they are not! Apple made a change and no longer ‘out of the box’ supports Samba - that is not Western Digital’s fault, and it is not their responsibility to try and code changes so that the WDTV Live/LivePlus can connect via Apple’s changed service. Yes, it is not for the faint of heart, but it DOES work. Your link to installing Samba on OS X Lion is the way to go.
Some folks here mention running a media server on your Mac, but you’ll lose things like the ability to use ISOS, etc. While you can connect to Windows servers and shares with no problem, the WDTV Live/LivePlus will not be able to connect to your Mac running Lion. Rather than hassle with it, Apple built their own services. Well, Apple didn’t ‘break’ Samba - Samba changed the licensing to GPLv3, which is more restrictive and pretty much prevented Apple from including it in OS X Lion. Install a true version of SAMBA as described here.Install a Media Server and use that instead of file sharing.Roll back to your previous OS version that worked.Wait till Apple fix the problem (unlikely because they have known about the problem for many months and done nothing about it).
Just Google around and you will find it is not just the WDTV Live products affected. Yes, Apple has broken SMB sharing in OSX Lion for many devices that use SAMBA.
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