Can an iMac be used for WD My Book Live safepoints?

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Can an iMac be used for WD My Book Live safepoints?

I have a Western Digitial My Book Live network drive. All Mac's and PC's can read/write without a problem. I would like to create a safepoint (WD term for backup) on an iMac but can't seem to get past correctly discovering the devices on the network. The MBL can 'see' the shares on the XP PC but nothing on the Mac's. Unfortunately the XP PC is not suitable for backups.

Can a Mac be used for MBL safepoints? If so, how is that accomplished?

Yes, I've posted this same question the WD Support and WD Communities but no responses. Most MBL Mac users posting on WD forums are using them for Time Machine. I thought maybe someone on the Apple forums might have solved this problem.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), WinXP

Posted on Jun 20, 2012 6:35 AM

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Oct 14, 2012 9:51 AM in response to mburks

I am having the same issue. Did you ever find an answer? I see no one ever responded to you. I have a WD cust service Tech support question submitted but no answer yet there either. Thanks for any info you have.

I get the error

30000 - Unknown error. Retry your last operation. If the error persists, contact WD Support for assistance.(share_discover_9)

when I choose the iMac as the location I would like to use.

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Oct 14, 2012 11:45 AM in response to al_ctsurgpa

On a WD thread. It won't work. Creating a SafePoint requires a Win/Linux machine. I can't remember the details but if you look hard enough on WD support you should find the answer I got for my question.

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