Western Digital My Book Live Duo User Manual - Manual (Page 117)

MY BOOK LIVE DUO
USER MANUAL
ACCESSING YOUR MY BOOK LIVE DUO REMOTELY – 111
• On Windows, once your share has mounted successfully, a drive letter for the share
displays under My Computer (Vista) or Computer (Windows 7). You can use the drive
letter like any other mapped network drive. Opening the drive displays all of the
folders and files in the share.
• On a Mac, the Finder window opens on its own once the drive has successfully
connected to the WD My Book Live Duo device and displays your share.
13. Select the file(s) you want to access.
You can view, edit, delete, or copy files just as you would with any network drive.
Sharing Your Files Remotely
To share files remotely with a family member or friend, create a new user on your
My Book Live Duo device and then create a separate Web access account for that particular
user. Only the shares to which the user has access and the Public directory display.
1. If the person is not already a user of the My Book Live Duo drive, create a new user (see
“Creating a User” on page 78).
2. Create a web access account for the user (see page 105). The user receives an email
providing instructions for using WD 2go.