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How to set up Western Digital's My Book Live NAS

I was just given an old NAS which I plan to connect to
my home's broadband switch router (there's a GBit LAN
connection).

Thing is the manual & CD that comes with this old NAS
is not there anymore.

Q1:
By connecting up this NAS to the router switch, will it
auto DHCP grab an IP address?  How do I know what
IP address this NAS will grab?  Does it have a default
(factory setting) IP address.

My home's broadband IP range is 192.168.1.0 /24

Q2:
Do I use a PC at my home (also connected to this
broadband router switch) to http or https to this
address & what's the default login id & password?

Q3:
Any website that I can download the full documentation
/manual for this product?
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Browsing on the Net, I read there's a CD that we can load on
a PC to auto-discover this WD NAS that's connected on the same
subnet/broadband switch.  

Where can I download this CD (presumably an .iso file) ?
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Would also like to know if I can set up this NAS as an ftp
& an sftp server  &  being able to share out its drive to
a Macbook Pro's OS X
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> http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?groupid=902&level1=9&modelno=&lang=en
I saw the above website & the install or User manual indicate to place a
CD media into a PC/laptop on the same LAN as where the NAS is connected
up.  Where can I download this CD?
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Possible to set up the NAS to have 2 partitions?  One for NTFS
& one for OS X (HFS ? ) partition?

I've downloaded the zip file for Mac to my Windows laptop.
So I just use a burner to burn to a CD as "Data CD" ?

The unzipped files for MAC are :


 Directory of D:\WDNASMac\My Book Live Setup.app

02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          .
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          ..
02/03/2013  03:13 AM    <DIR>          Contents
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of D:\WDNASMac\My Book Live Setup.app\Contents

02/03/2013  03:13 AM    <DIR>          .
02/03/2013  03:13 AM    <DIR>          ..
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          Frameworks
10/15/2012  02:05 PM             1,541 Info.plist
02/03/2013  03:13 AM    <DIR>          MacOS
10/15/2012  02:05 PM                 8 PkgInfo
02/03/2013  03:13 AM    <DIR>          Resources
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          _CodeSignature
               2 File(s)          1,549 bytes

 Directory of D:\WDNASMac\My Book Live Setup.app\Contents\Frameworks

02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          .
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          ..
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          WDUIKit.framework
02/03/2013  03:13 AM    <DIR>          WDUtility.framework
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 Directory of D:\WDNASMac\My Book Live Setup.app\Contents\Frameworks\WDUIKit.fra
mework

02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          .
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          ..
10/15/2012  02:05 PM                24 Headers
10/15/2012  02:05 PM                26 Resources
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          Versions
10/15/2012  02:05 PM                24 WDUIKit
               3 File(s)             74 bytes

 Directory of D:\WDNASMac\My Book Live Setup.app\Contents\Frameworks\WDUIKit.fra
mework\Versions

02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          .
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          ..
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          A
10/15/2012  02:05 PM                 1 Current
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 Directory of D:\WDNASMac\My Book Live Setup.app\Contents\Frameworks\WDUIKit.fra
mework\Versions\A

02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          .
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          ..
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          Headers
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          Resources
10/15/2012  02:05 PM           470,208 WDUIKit
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          _CodeSignature
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 Directory of D:\WDNASMac\My Book Live Setup.app\Contents\Frameworks\WDUIKit.fra
mework\Versions\A\Headers

02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          .
02/03/2013  03:12 AM    <DIR>          ..
10/15/2012  02:05 PM               194 Checkmark.h
10/15/2012  02:05 PM             5,738 DrawingUtils.h
10/15/2012  02:05 PM               349 FramelessWindowPopup.h
10/15/2012  02:05 PM             6,119 GradButton.h
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Bear with me as I'm not that savvy when it comes to these stuff
& just got a Macbook Pro for my kid (school requires it) : need to
backup this Macbook Pro

Thanks got that onto my Mac & installed it.  Able to create shares
& userids but how do I create a share for my Mac to map a drive
to it?
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