Connecting WD MyBook (WhiteLight) TB drive via Router

[Colin Law]

On 22 July 2018 at 12:56, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I have recently moved from a system based firewall/server to a router.
>
> Router is a Belkin N600DB wireless router. I have been able to get
> everything up with the exception of my MyBook (worked before as a dedicated
> host using NFS to access it). The router fails to find it when I plug the
> network cable directly into the router.
>
> What am I missing...
>
> Belkin claims no support for Linux. Suggested I try one of the other two
> popular OS. Problem is I have access to neither of them...
>
> I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with a Cinnamon desktop and am up to date
> with all updates.
>

I don't understand what Linux has got to do with anything, if you are just
plugging the drive into the router.  Which MyBook is it?

Also not sure what you mean by the router not finding the drive.

Colin


>
> Ideas???
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>
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