Grtz

Jos

1) Enable SSH access through the web interface.

2) Install putty and connect to the MyBook, logging in with root:welc0me

3) Copy the twonky folder to the Download folder

 cp -r /twonky /shares/Download/twonkytemp 

4) In windows explorer, navigate to the download folder, and edit the twonkymedia-server-default.ini file in wordpad. Change the following:

contentbase=/DataVolume/Public

to

contentbase=/

5) Back in putty, remove the original ini file from the twonky directory

 rm /twonky/twonkymedia-server-default.ini 

6) Copy the edited ini file over to the original directory

 cp /shares/Download/twonkytemp/twonkymedia-server-default.ini /twonky 

7) Start up twonky

 /twonky/twonkymedia.sh start 

8) Go to the twonky configuration website, and reset to defaults. Now when it reloads, go to the sharing tab, and under content locations you will now be able to select all folders, including those on the ExtendVolume disk.

./../../ExtendVolume/Public2/Shared Videos

When I try this in version 5.1 and save, the path automatically removes the './../../' and so becomes:

/ExtendVolume/Public2/Shared Videos

which doesn't pick up any of the files. Is there anything I can do to get around this? Perhaps changing the Twonky config file to point to in front of the 2 drive share names (DataVolume and ExtendVolume), if so where is this file stored and how do I go about changing it through windows?

Many thanks,

Chris

I've got this reply from WD:

**

I am really sorry about the issues you are experiencing with your drive and MioNet.

We are currently working on a new firmware release and this should be taking care of.

Please allow sometime for the firmware to be available.

Many Thanks to Frater ( i have no idea how he could find this solution, i am very impressed… )

We're doing what we can?

Are you inclined to contribute to a project of mine to bring optware-apps to dd-wrt?
I would love to have a killer lighttpd web application (webdav) and a control panel for /opt/etc/init.d so others see what can be done when you have your own webserver on your router….

What kind of router do you have?
I just bought myself an Asus RT-N16 (128 MB RAM, 32 MB flash, USB) and am now waiting for DD-WRT to support it….

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=59668&start=0

media_dir=shares/Public/Shared Videos

Secondly, how do I stop miniDLNA running?

Thanks.

Thanks

I also tried WD Support, but they only told me to leave the MioNet on. Yeah, thanks WD… :-P

cannot see user everyone or nobody

Don't know why but it worked
Thnx

[root@MyBookWorld ~]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.24.4 (brian@dualla) (gcc version 4.2.4) #1 Tue Feb 10 11:00:22 GMT 2009

[root@MyBookWorld ~]# cat /proc/modules
cifs 241060 0 - Live 0xbf130000
nfsd 101460 0 - Live 0xbf116000
exportfs 3840 1 nfsd, Live 0xbf114000
lockd 66008 1 nfsd, Live 0xbf102000
nfs_acl 3232 1 nfsd, Live 0xbf100000
sunrpc 175292 5 nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl, Live 0xbf0d4000
wixevent 5800 0 - Live 0xbf0d1000
rtc_ds1307 5024 0 - Live 0xbf0ce000
rtc_core 14840 1 rtc_ds1307, Live 0xbf0c9000
i2c_oxnas_bitbash 2400 0 - Live 0xbf0c7000
i2c_algo_bit 5828 1 i2c_oxnas_bitbash, Live 0xbf0c4000
i2c_core 19216 3 rtc_ds1307,i2c_oxnas_bitbash,i2c_algo_bit, Live 0xbf0be000
ufsd 445668 0 - Live 0xbf050000 (P)
vfat 10240 0 - Live 0xbf04c000
nls_iso8859_1 3904 0 - Live 0xbf04a000
nls_cp437 5568 0 - Live 0xbf047000
ehci_hcd 28972 0 - Live 0xbf03e000
usb_storage 35936 0 - Live 0xbf034000
usbcore 120212 3 ehci_hcd,usb_storage, Live 0xbf015000
user_recovery_button 3160 0 - Live 0xbf013000
power_button 3388 0 - Live 0xbf011000
thermAndFan 7140 0 - Live 0xbf00e000
gmac 26352 0 - Live 0xbf006000
mii 6144 1 gmac, Live 0xbf003000
oxnas_wd810_leds 7496 0 - Live 0xbf000000

[root@MyBookWorld ~]# smbclient -L 192.168.1.67 (the server is mybook world blue rings)
Password: i did not put any password
Domain=[MYBOOK] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.23c]

Sharename Type Comment
-— -- -—
PUBLIC Disk
PAIDIKA Disk
TORRENTS Disk
SERIES Disk
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (mybook)
Domain=[MYBOOK] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.23c]

Server Comment
-— -——

Workgroup Master
-— -——
DREAM DREAMBOX
WORKGROUP MYBOOK

[root@MyBookWorld ~]# smbclient //192.168.1.67/paidika
Password:
Domain=[MYBOOK] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.23c]
smb: \>

Thnx again for fast reply

Please try mounting again and then post the result of these commands

 dmesg | tail -20 cat /proc/version cat /proc/modules 

Also try mounting the windows system with smbclient, and see if it works. smbclient does not rely on cifs.ko.

 smbclient -L WindowsHostName smbclient //hostname/share 

Also also if the windows box is not all-English, please write which languages are used.

Thnx again

You can trick your Worldbook to think it has an old version

 echo -n "01.00.14" >/etc/version 

ALL optware!

In the meantime, the "fix" I mentioned previously is still working and I can wait until another firmware update for a real solution if resetting doesn't work.

Insturctions for adding CIFS (Samba) support for White Light. This will allow your MyBookj to mount folder shared by Windows Stations.

* Login as root.
* mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.6.24.4/kernel/fs/cifs/

The next two lines downloads the file cifs.fo attached to this page and places it in /lib/modules/2.6.24.4/kernel/fs/cifs/:

* cd /lib/modules/2.6.24.4/kernel/fs/cifs/
* wget http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/local--files/cifs-for-whitelight/cifs.ko

* echo "/lib/modules/2.6.24.4/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko:"» /lib/modules/2.6.24.4/modules.dep
* insmod cifs.ko

Now you can mount Windows directories. For example

mkdir /mnt/xp_machine
mount -t cifs //`net lookup x`/y /xp_machine

where x is your windows box name, and y is the share name. There are many options for the mount command, see for example here, but you should use mount , not mount.cifs.

I get

[root@MyBookWorld 2.6.24.4]# mount -t cifs //192.168.XX.YY/XXXX/ /mnt/old/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.XX.YY/XXXXX/,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

any help appreciated

excellent work frater!!!
Is there a way to uninstall prep_whitelight

Thnx

I'm using system 4.2. I can't find mplayer 0.76 - do you mean 0.75?

Not quite sure what other homebrew apps I would need. mplayer seems to work fine if i put vids on sd card, just cant reliably stream over wireless from mybook. Do i need any particular cios?

Also, try to log in via ssh after you have run the script, even if it says it failed. Often you can get in.

Martin Hinners script only enables ssh for that session. If you reboot the mybook, you'll lose ssh access and have to run the script again. Martin has some steps to make ssh permanent.

I'm puting together a step by step at the moment to show how to do this. If you only have a single user, it's not so hard, but when you have more than one user with sftp or samba, it's trickier to get everything working.

You may also need to reconfigure Samba so that all the users have read/write permissions, and then restart samba.

What's happening is that each logged in user creates files that the other users can't access. You need to change the permissions on the mybook so that the users are members of a group and that group needs to be able to have read/write access to the files.

The custom firmware has some problems with it and I don't recommend it for anyone who's not really good with Linux.

I too have noticed that my NAS has been drinking too much coffee and doesn't like to sleep since the firmware upgrade.

I've fired off an email to WD Support as well about this. Hopefully they'll release another firmware update soon-ish.

I do have a lockup every now and then but not often, last one was about 2 weeks ago. What is the system version of your Wii? I am using 4.2 with mplayer 0.76 and it is working great. Just make sure you have all the needed homebrew apps installed that are needed and you shoulde be fine.

Somehow all the data within my 3 of 5 shares were deleted, dont ask my how, i have no clue how this had happened.
The root shares (100_Movies, 200_Music, 300_Pictures) are there but all data inside the shares are gone.
So no technical defect, simply deleted.
Is there a way how i can restore the folder and files? I have connected already the HD to the PC and tried DiskInternals LinuxRecovery Tool,
but did not find anything that looks like my movies.

I'm no real linux expert, but could it be that only the "index" is destroyed and is there a command to check this.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

My complete movie collection is gone…

Thanks, c0ldsun

I guess you've got it working though - which Wii player do you use?

Can you fix this problem??

I have the same problem :(

I changed the download folder and I create the issue, I think.

What is the correct path to download with transmission??

Thanks!!

For those interested, I did "solve" the mionet problem, in a sense. I ssh'd into the device and removed execute permissions on the file /usr/mionet/monitorCVM.sh. Since doing this, Mionet is not starting up on its own anymore, and my device has been able to sleep. Strangely, the comments at the beginning of this file state:

## This version of monitorCVM.sh is only for FireFly use!!
## This will be called by Wistron's HW monitoring daemon every 1330 seconds.

So, clearly the script monitorCVM.sh was the culprit in causing Mionet to start, and it seems that Wistron's HW monitoring daemon (launched by init.d) is what is calling monitorCVM.sh in the first place. I don't know why this new firmware is doing this, other than that it must just be a bug that was missed by WD.

Now that I have fixed that problem, the device seems to be sleeping essentially as it ought to. I will post back whenever WD tech support gives me an "answer" to this problem.

And the answer was simple.. thanks to reply of one user on this forum, I realised that I didnt set gateway and dns.. so MyBook cannot connect anywhere for firmware. Now ssh working great..

so.. SOLVED :)

Bitrate is about 700kbs. Video plays fine for a while, but then picture freezes and about 3 seconds later audio also stops. Wii has to be switched off to reset. I'm using MPlayer CE v0.75.

Really broadcast has been phased out in xchange for all dns. I would think your devices should support just putting in a host name and getting to it, heck maybe even defaulting to a certain one or makeing it a favorite.

I do this with media playing and my wii, I know broadcast is completely ignored there so dns is the only option.

Just to restate, you did make sure you have the same subnet mask on both devices correct?

thanx

I want to change te smb.conf file, so I can store profiles form my WinXp machine on my MyBook.

Grtz

Jos

Hopefully I make some progress, but now I am almost stuck. I wondered why is it returning "no firmware" statement and I set harddisks to raid1 (mirror) (so hopefully data on both are same (including firmware)), and connected one to computer using r-studio for reading partitions.
At first, i didnt find folder named "auth" or file named "firmware_upgrade.pl" on any Ext3fs partition (it seems, that these file is somehow created or extracted when mybook starting), so I opened SWAP partition for at lest ANSI reading and found some file called firmware_upgrade.pm and firmware_progress.pm (second one is less interesting, but could be good to know what is happening after download). First file seems to handle all the way to download new firmware.

firmware_upgrade.pm
firmware_progress.pm

My questions are:
1. Why is there no folder "auth" or file "firmware_upgrade.pl"? (are they created when mybook starts?)
2. How must I change firmware.php and latestfw.sh to get working "ssh enable" again? (I will probably figure it out, but in a very long time without help of skilled Pearl programmer (for "firmware_upgrade.pm") and experienced MyBook users).

I think that there will be more users with this problem later, when they upgrade to 02.00.19 and I would like to help
to solve this issue.

Thanks in advance to everyone..

Update:
Script in "firmware_upgrade.pm" automaticaly add "/list.asp" at the end of fwserver parametr. That is probably first problem.
For example:
you call http://192.168.1.249/auth/firmware_upgrade.pl?fwserver=martin.hinner.info/mybook/firmware.php
and stript trying to call http://192.168.1.249/auth/firmware_upgrade.pl?fwserver=martin.hinner.info/mybook/firmware.php/list.asp

Update2:
Also is there a script to check a version of firmware:
sudo("$nbin/wget.sh /var/upgrade/fwv.tmp http://${fws}?type=${sys_type}+fw=${fwVersion}");

this is just a part, whole script is much longer, begin on row 109 and ends on 160 in firmware_upgrade.pm file.

// nevermind, there is probably no need to deal with update2, but update1 is still problem.. just rewriting firmware.php is not working

My english is not very good so dont blame me ;)

I have juste recover my mybook with mbr from rescue procedure and the image files from christoff4444. The other mbr fils didn't boot and the image files from rescue procedure work fine too.

But ! When I make or the systeme make a linear raid the total space see with mdadm -Q and -D is +- 748Gb and the space in /proc/mdstat is +-2980Gb. I m using 2x 1500Gb seagate drive partionned and formated like the procedure of christoff4444 and i have try all methode to make it. But my effor were fruitless and all the time I get a linear raid with +-748Gb.

For now I have mounted /dev/sda4 in /shares/internal and /dev/sdb4 in /shares/internal2 created PUBLIC, PUBLIC2 and configured to use it as share.

I guess for a driver issue or maybe a file to edit but i m not linux expert. If someone can show me the way to have a linear raid with all disk space :)

Agui

or edit the /etc/inetd.conf directly

any pointers please????

http://192.168.1.249/auth/firmware_upgrade.pl?fwserver=highlevelbits.free.fr/download/MBWE/MBWE-SSH-ENABLE
http://192.168.1.249/auth/firmware_upgrade.pl?fwserver=martin.hinner.info/mybook/firmware.php
http://192.168.1.249/auth/firmware_upgrade.pl?fwserver=mybook1.110mb.com/firmware.php
http://192.168.1.123/auth/firmware_upgrade.pl?fwserver=www.geekoh.com/mybook/telnet

which is everytime followed by "There is no new firmware available" response from WD.
It seems that in this firmware, WD added some check to recognise if you are uploading real firmware or some other stuff..

What I should do?

There is clearly some sort of bug in this new firmware that is causing some script or other to keep executing occasionally, one of the side effects of which is that Mionet is constantly restarted.

Can anyone here that is more of a Linux guru figure out what script is causing this? I just sent a message to Western Digital tech support, but they are not necessarily very helpful. I suggest everyone else having this problem send them a message as well, though, so that they will note that this really is a problem.