Just got the WD TV and I can't seem to find the answer to my question so I started a new thread, sorry if this has been asked.

1. Updated Wd TV to the hacked firmware, its on a Fat partition on my 1TB drive.
2. Other partition on drive is NTFS.
3. Using Trendnet adaptor.

I loaded some files on the drive prior to hooking everything up and they play great.

I can see the drive on my computer, I can browse the drive and see all my files but it won't let me transfer/delete files to or from the WD TV.

What am I doing wrong?

Transfer over the network to the WDTV onto a NTFS partition will be really slow. You are better off formatting that 2nd partition to ext2, and will see a speed gain. Also don't even bother with SMB. Just transfer via ftp.

the drive is acting like its write-protected...will i be able to get past this by ftping? or is there a default username/pass?

For NTFS, you have to enter the directory that starts with a "." Atleast thats the way it used to be. Default name for ftp is "root", with no password.

update:

can see the drive and files through filezilla but cant delete/transfer...here's the error im getting

"550 Could not delete Unforgiven (blu-ray).mkv: Read-only file system"

i tried changing the user permissions through filezilla but to no avail

any ideas?

morning update:

played around with ext2 and ext3 partitions, wd tv cant see/play media when using those partition types...weird...going to try ntfs again

can anyone point me to the right directory for files? i found mine in "tmp"

holy crap, i think i got it to work...but on ntfs and the transfers are PAINFULLY slow...now im tempted to try ext2/ext3 again but then again it took me three days to get to this point and maybe i'll just be happy with what i got...its a conundrum

afternoon update:

Im going to keep updating this thread cause i figure it might provide some insight to other XP users who are laymen, like me

First, my stats:

1. XP Pro (home machine)
2. WD TV, USB hub on USB 2 with pen drive (firmware) and trendnet adaptor; 1TB drive formatted as NTFS on USB 1

Was able to access the WD TV using filezilla...directory tree showed two versions of my attached drive, one writable, one not

My files were located on the writable drive so I deleted one and transfered over another...according to filezilla, everything went smooth but when I checked the WDTV, nothing had changed

I had to go to work so I dont know if the WDTV had to re-index the drive or not...in my mind, the file had to go somewhere...if someone could shed some light on this, it would be much appreciated

thanks
mike

Try turning the Media library off, and just viewing via Folder view. I upload via ftp all the time, and the files are immediately available after the upload is finished.

how do i do that?

Its in the options somewhere. Sorry can't get to specific, as my kiddo's are watchn the tube.

Awesome! That was the trick....

when i turned off the library, everything I had done showed up, fantastic!

thanks for the insight takenover, transferring and happy!

Glad, I could help.

Wowitsmike, what kind of transfer speed are you getting from PC to WDTV/HDD? Is the HDD formated as NTSF or ext2? I am getting about 500 kbs using NTSF. I have not had the chance to format to ext2 yet.

Takenover83, I know that you have the HDD formated to ext2. What kind of speed are you getting from PC to WDTV/HDD

Thanks

So, am I to understand that the preferred (Speed) formatting for an external USB HD for the WDTV is in Ext2/3 rather than NTFS?

Wowitsmike, what kind of transfer speed are you getting from PC to WDTV/HDD? Is the HDD formated as NTSF or ext2? I am getting about 500 kbs using NTSF. I have not had the chance to format to ext2 yet.

Takenover83, I know that you have the HDD formated to ext2. What kind of speed are you getting from PC to WDTV/HDD

Thanks
I get almost 4 Megs a second over ftp, which is not to bad. I also was getting around 500ish kbs when my drive was ntfs.

im getting around 500kbps...rather slow but it took me so much damn time to figure this out im hesitant to turn back the clock and try ext2...the first time i tried ext2 i couldnt get my pc to see the drive (and i have the ext2/3 drivers loaded) and the wdtv couldnt see it either

if someone wants to add some insight, im all ears

Good news. I formated my HDD as ext2 and I am getting about 3000 kbps.

Does anyone know how to map the WDTV HDD in Windows XP? I tried with the WDTV IP address and I got as far as the log in screen but it would not take username:root with no password. Any help would be greatly appreciated.