I messed with users and groups and somehow newly created files in my Public folder are always executable now?
The only way to do that(I think ) is to assign user, group and settings to the folders. Can someone tell me defaults:
I can help you do that for me :
Login via ssh()

 cd / ls -l 

Post the output, should look like that:

 drwxrwxr-x 13 root www-data 65536 Jan 24 07:58 CacheVolume drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 65536 Jan 23 23:02 DataVolume drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:26 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 24 07:55 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:21 debootstrap drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 2500 Sep 10 12:29 dev drwxr-xr-x 78 root root 4096 Jan 24 08:07 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:21 home drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:27 lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Sep 10 12:29 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:21 media drwxr-xr-x 6 root share 65536 Jan 22 09:01 nfs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:21 opt dr-xr-xr-x 110 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 proc drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 24 08:04 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:26 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:21 selinux drwxr-xr-x 6 root share 65536 Jan 22 09:01 shares drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:22 srv drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 sys drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 1300 Jan 24 08:34 tmp drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:28 usr drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:29 var 

 cd shares ls -l 

 drw-rw-r-x 20 root share 65536 Jan 24 08:29 Public drwxrwxr-x 2 root share 65536 Oct 8 2010 SmartWare drwxrwxr-x 3 root share 65536 Sep 10 12:29 TimeMachineBackup 

Thank you in advance ;)

Hello everyone,

I have tried the install CUPS Print Server in blue ring Firmware: 02.00.19
When recompile and install Cups get error .
./configure
checking for gawk… gawk
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl.exe… no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See ‘config.log’ for more details.

I tried to recover Gcc but the link WD_MYBOOK_WE_500GB_FILE.7z is not found .
T2nd Solution to recover Gcc is not possible.
/opt/bin/ipkg install gcc
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package gcc.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'

I need file WD_MYBOOK_WE_500GB_FILE.7z or other solution.

Thanks in advance.

Hello, got a white light x2 shell in the mail to me right now, I'm just doing some research on what drive models will work with it. I remember seeing a page I believe on this site with confirmed WD models that work. I have a WD2ears… And I remember it works… But I would like to keep that for my other nas as a hot swap backup. Can anyone forward me the link to where I can find out what models work with my unit. Thank you in advance.

Can someone upload the contents of their /usr/local/sbin for me? I accidentally deleted the files.
Using 3GB MyBookLive

I need to some expertise here from everyone because I had this idea if it was possible to somehow modify QPKG packages from QNap to install and use on our WD My Books drives? Qpkg from what I can find out is based on ipkg but with some extras to do a self install. I for one would like to upgrade Twonky or get miniDNLA working.
Thoughts?

Hi All,

I have WebDAV installed on my MyBookWORLD and I can use it to access the HDD from outside of my local network. I wanted to use Twonky for this but there appears to be no way as it drops the DynDNS address for the local IP everytime. Anyway, I have family members and friends I would like to give access to, however I don't want them to be able to access EVERYTHING. I have personal stuff on there, but sharing pictures and videos would be nice.

So basically, is there a way I can setup multiple users (I know I can have many users in general) with different levels of access (i.e. limited to certain folders and files)?

Please note, I have limited Unix skills so I am hoping someone can give me some detailed, even step-by-step guidance.

Regards,
Steve

SMART data from my NAS . One of my drives is dying?
WD MY BOOK WE2, NAS RAID MIRROR 2x1T
_

Long time lurker here :)
You created a great place.
I thank you for that.

My problem.
Is one of my drives dying?
NAS Worked with 95% of capacity for 6 months.
Frozes frequently. Unloaded data and did a factory reset. Few times.
WD gui reports -GOOD- status for both drives. Unloaded mionet, twonky etc. Very clean.

Now seems fine but I am suspicious. Sometimes is very slow. Drive is currently empty and sometimes it takes 10 minutes to boot. No more freezing.
I run smartctr and on drive "SDA" i got errors on ID 196,197,198,199.
Will someone please advice ? I need to know how reliable this drive is. Also, Is there smartctr test that I can run and get some detailed info?
Thank you!
KraFT

**Log1
~ # smartctl -a -q noserial -d sat /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [arm-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===**
Device Model: WDC WD10EADS-11M2B2
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sun Jan 27 20:38:25 2013 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (20100) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 231) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 125 117 021 Pre-fail Always - 6708
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 068 068 000 Old_age Always - 32646
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 070 070 000 Old_age Always - 22577
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 113
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 61
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 013 013 000 Old_age Always - 563637
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 109 084 000 Old_age Always - 38
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 192 192 000 Old_age Always - 1433
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 198 198 000 Old_age Offline - 388
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 198 198 000 Old_age Offline - 441

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Log2
~ # smartctl -a -q noserial -d sat /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.38 [arm-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD10EADS-11M2B2
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sun Jan 27 20:42:20 2013 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (19380) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 223) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 123 115 021 Pre-fail Always - 6816
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 068 068 000 Old_age Always - 32751
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 070 070 000 Old_age Always - 22551
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 113
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 61
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 609484
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 106 085 000 Old_age Always - 41
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Does Joomla! work on MBWE BR?

would it be possible to connect a webcam to the usb port and record to the MBWE?
Is there any software?

I have installed the 30 day trail version of Twonky 7.0.9 special on the My Book Live drive and am having trouble getting any videos to play. Had this problem back when version 5 of Twonky was on the drive so really no change. Followed Dav-M's procedure and do indeed seem to have the correct version of Twonky installed. I can access the web interface via the GUI and via the ip:9000 web page. When I look at sharing>media receivers on the ip:9000 interface I can see the list get populated and then shrink. Seems like I have read that this is not a big issue, but more of an annoyance. Although the Bluray player does disappear from the list. In the settings>media tab of the GUI on the WD My Book Live the Bluray player stays around and is not blocked. I have edited 2 files with nano via terminal on my mac. One is the sony bluray.xml file where I have commented out a few lines (sorry I don't seem to be able to post links to this wiki yet since I'm a newbie) and I changes the parameters to fixed in another file (forget exactly what that was right now, but might have been that same file…yes?
All of this does not seem to hall with the playing of videos. I have a .mkv, .mov, .divx, .you name it on the drive and none will play. Any thoughts about what might be going wrong? The message I get is something along the lines of corrupt or missing file

Thanks for any and all help

dan

Hi all! I had installed MyLenny on my MBWE BlueRings (2-disk model). I used the 250 GB HDD. With one drive (250) all work. When i connecting second drive (500GB, clean) device cannot boot. No leds, no network activity, drives spinning. Who can help?

Hi-

I had my WDMBWE blue rings for sometimes now. But recently i just bought 4TB Seagate external storage that i would like to mount it to my WDMBWE.
When i plug in, it doesn't recognise the hard drive at all. Anyone has similar experience?
Appreciate any helps or pointers.

Cheers-
801

Maybe this is a real dumb-[donkey] question, but ever since I upgraded my MBW-II (blue-ring) from a pair of 500 gig to a pair of 1T drives, (http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/upgrade-blue-ring-500gb-the-easy-way), I have been wondering… . .

What are the real, where-the-rubber-meets-the-road, limitations on the size of a hard drive that can be hooked up to a SATA controller, and why?

I already understand the existence of certain limits:

• The ancient and crufty "msdos" partitioning scheme will only go so far - and at 2T it's busting it's britches.
• As a corollary, will your file-system even boot using something like a GPT, (etc.), partitioning scheme?
• The limits to the size of a hard drive in your particular OS.

Aside from that - are there any real reasons why someone could not stick a SATA drive of arbitrary size into a system? (15T, 3.5P? etc… .)

One of the main reasons I'm asking is because I have a couple of 2T drives sitting around, that are just itching with the idea of climbing into my MBW-II - just for the heck of it.

I already have a perfectly good, working set of 1T drives in that box. And I know that if I try it with 2T drives, it won't catch fire, the GPL / Free Software Foundation won't sue me, and I won't go to Hell for it.

So, (assuming that the operating system can handle it), is there anything that intrinsically limits the size of a hard drive that I can attach?

What say ye?

Jim (JR)

Okay, Maybe I'm crazy but when I saw my drive temp over 55c I had a heart attack.
Looking online I found a few people talking about using laptop cooling pads using usb power.
That would probably work well but I need not want to give up the USB. So I started looking at other ideas.

So here is what I've rigged up.
The 12v WD power -> DC socket (2.5x5.5mm - RadioShack size 'n') -> split to 12v 80mm case fan and to a DC plug in to MBLD.
Then I put the fan on top pulling air out/up and twisted some CAT5 thought the top lid of the MBLD to hold the fan.
Temps are running around 35c range after extended use and around 25c at idel.

Here are two pictures:

 dropbox[dot]com/s/1inyrl8ayst43j7/2013-02-09_15-15-15_125.jpg dropbox[dot]com/s/qd0esp67dda4af0/2013-02-09_15-15-31_239.jpg 

Only issue is the fan is kinda loud, so I'll either need to buy a quieter one (this one is probably 15+ years old),
add in a fan controller, or find a way to make it thermally controlled.

So am I crazy? how are you keeping your Live Duo cool?

Hello,

I currently have a 3TB MyBookLive that I am using for streaming media to my 4 rendering devices. The overall plan was to get that working and then move the media to a 6TB MyBookLiveDUO (RAID 1) and use the existing 3TB drive as a back-up to the DUO (and move the media server to the DUO).

Is there a way to do back up the MBL to the DUO and avoid PC intervention?

From what I've read it seems like I will lose a some streaming performance since the Duo appears to be slower. Is this true? I would think it would only be slower on the write side.

Any help and/or opinions would be appreciated!

- Machine

It's a 2 x 500Gb drive White Light unit. I've broken the RAID so it's JABOD and installed Debian Squeeze on there as per the instructions floating around on here.

After some fiddling (I'm no expert!), I managed to get SAMBA working for my PCs and Macs to use the box for file storage and backups. Then got minidlna going so I could stream to Xbox, Sony media player and tablets. All fine and dandy and working for 2-3 weeks until this weekend.

For some reason the box is now going "offline" every few hours. It can be mid-stream, or when it's sat otherwise idle. Everything goes, but the drive itself doesn't power down. Network shares vanish, streaming halts, I can't connect via SSH and it even vanishes from the router's "connected hardware" table.

If I press the power button on the back, it whirs and clicks then shuts down after 15-20 seconds. I then wait, power it back up again and a minute or so later all is fine and dandy.

I've checked the messages and system logs and can't spot anything obvious. When I hit the power button to down it, the logs are reporting a graceful shutdown so the box is definitely live in some way at that point.

I'm happy to post relevant areas of any scripts, logs and so on up here if anyone reckons they could have a clue? I don't think it's power saving or anything as I've made *no* tweaks or changes since I got it working a couple of weeks ago. The only thing I can even remotely think that could have caused an issue is the fuses in our cupboard tripping about a week back which will have caused the box to drop offline without being shut down correctly. However, it's worked fine for about 5-6 days after this before the problem I'm having has shown itself.

Any thoughts before I bite the bullet and let the wife spend £130 on a new unit?

Hi everyone,

Sorry for bothering you with this problem, but I haven't found anything yet…

Actually, I have installed on my WD the feature pack, with transmission, web server and access book. Everything works great after configuring my routeur for accessing to everything from everywhere.

But my WD seems to have some problems for several days now : during the day, when I try to access to the WD & feature pack Admin Interface, it sometimes tells me that the WD is overloaded, with a 503 error, and it keeps getting this error until I reboot the whole thing.
On the other hand, I have access to everything else, which is quiet strange hm? Transmission keeps working, such as Access book (web server), etc.

Any idea why please?
The things I've found for the time being are not solving anything, so thanks a lot if someone can help me :)

Hallo everyone!

I just need a Yes or No

Is it possible?

I am new to the forum. I have a WD My World Edition II "blue ring" model, I know I have to use WD Caviar Green hard drive up to 2tb.

What kind of WD Caviar Green drives to I use with Blue Rings?

Can I ONLY use one WD Caviar drive in the blue ring model?