Confused! Twokia Media 5.1.4-1 on WD Mybook 1 TB NAS drive..

[bobby999]

I bought this NAS drive MyBook World Edition 2nd hand. i didnt realise but was pleasantly surprised it had a media server to stream to my PS3!

MY issue is though i have another portable USB which i plug into the WD, however i cant get Twonky to see this USB drive when i go to ADD a new shared location!

Any idea how i can get Twonky to see this drive?

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, please advise where this should be posted!

Can someone tell me if Twonky came with the WD or did previous owner install manually? can it be upgraded?

MY software says TwonkeyMedia 5.1.4-1. that product isnt listed on here. only TwonkyServer, TwonkyManager!!?

please advise

[theforumer]

TwonkyMedia is the same as TwonkyServer (which I think got this new name since version 6). Version 5.1.4-1 is a quite old and buggy version of TwonkyServer (latest available for NAS at this time is version 6.0.39). TwonkyMedia is built-in with the NAS but unfortunately WD did not upgrade this OEM licensed version for almost 2-3 years even with new firmware releases. I purchased a new license for version 5/6 and manually upgraded to TwonkyServer 6.0.39 on my WD MyBook World Edition (the 1GB white one). It's not difficult but requires SSH access to your NAS and some basic skills on linux like systems. The right version for WD is the same as "Maxtor Shared Storage 2" here:

http://www.twonkyforum.com/downloads/6.0.39/

Version 6 has many features (like MKV container support and SRT subtitles support) and bug fixing.

Concerning your request, the default configuration of twonky on WD NAS has a line:

contentbase=/DataVolume/Public

in a configuration file:

/DataVolume/jewab/twonkymedia-server.ini

so you can share only folders relative to this one (i.e. tipically "/Shared Videos" which actually corresponds to the real folder "/DataVolume/Public/Shared Videos", etc...), and unfortunately the external USB drive is mounted as:

/shares/usb1-1share1

(other partitions on USB drive are mounted as /shares/usb1-1share2, /shares/usb1-1share3, etc...)

To solve this issue you can make a symbolic link issuing a command like this one:

ln -s /shares/usb1-1share /DataVolume/Public/usb1-1share

accessing the NAS with SSH from a linux console or a SSH client on windows (SSH can be enabled from a page in the web configuration of the NAS and you must use user "root" and default password "welc0me").
Then you should be able to select also "/usb1-1share" as a folder to share with Twonky.

[bobby999]

great response ! thank you so much! will try this out now!!