Comments on: Using Western Digital NetCenter with Ubuntu Linux

By: mercurio

mercurio — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:15:01 +0000

It works!
Thank you very much, I was nearly hopeless for getting it work properly, but now it really works with NFS in Kubuntu.

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:42:50 +0000

Thanks! Saved my bacon. Recently converted to Kubuntu and this was driving me mad. Cheers!

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:27:29 +0000

Don’t know if any one can help. I am looking for away to run my NetCentre as a standalone server for my Roku Soundbridge. Anyone know of anyone who has hacked it to run the firefly media server?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 May 2007 15:56:46 +0000

(Jake, Tom) No NFS option present? These appeared once I upgraded the firmware. http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=16&swid=33

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:05:56 +0000

Golden. Your instructions are perfect. Thx!

By: Oberdan Albertoni

Oberdan Albertoni — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:03:25 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion.
If I wanted to use NFS with password is possible ?
By obe.

By: john

john — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:19:47 +0000

thanks for this saved me a few days of head banging. btw i didn’t see the nfs [must stop typing NTFS :-)].

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:33:24 +0000

If it’s EXT3 then maximum filesize is…~2000Gb (wiki info).

A bit strange how WesternDigital does not provide that kind of information for this “box” (filesystem and running os). I’ve read in dozen of places that NC is formated as FAT32, and that it can be “transfered” to NTFS! but in read-only mode.
This must be a linux system - ext2 or ext3. Usual linux distros have read only NTFS capability, so when you put all this together - it makes sense! Thanks guys for info!

By: bane73

bane73 — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:40:19 +0000

Rod, that’s right… though I don’t know what version of *nix is being used, the NC is certainly using some type of journaling filesystem (and, yes, most certainly ext3)… it becomes obvious when the drive starts acting funky and locking up (which it will do a great deal if you are using SMB or even CIFS to some degree (although *MUCH* more stable and more rare, my drive would act funky under CIFS about once/week)… turning the drive off in the middle of a write operation without unmounting it or anything and turning it back on… you can HEAR the drive grinding away for about 5 minutes while it sets about checking itself and it always comes back up stable and in-tact… obviously a FAT32 drive could get lucky from time to time but not consistently as I’ve seen this drive do.

Also, Pete, I don’t know what max file size is but I’m sure it’s larger than 4GB since most likely the drive *IS* using ext3. I would think neither of these 2 issues are a concern.

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:57:37 +0000

Pete,

I’ve put files larger than 4GB on the drive. I’m pretty certain the netcenter actually uses ext3 and linux under the hood, though you can’t change anything about it.