how can i access external western digital drive?

[leonchik1976]

i have external wd drive with LAN connection, which mapped as network drive in windows. how can i access it from fedora?

[dilbert]

Does it only have a LAN connector?

Anyhow, the procedure is to find out if your Linux supports it:

1)
You search the Web with your brand and model and your OS.

2)
You could see what the command "dmesg" displays before and after you plug this thing into your computer.

In every case, this procedure is for every Linuxes the same and probably you' ll find under the section "Peripherals/Hardware" some generic instructions.

(I answer here only because no one has done so far.)

[Rubberman]

It is pretty obvious that the WD drive is presenting itself as a Windows network file system (SMB/CIFS/Samba server). You need to mount it as a CIFS device on a known mount-point on your system. Example:

mkdir /mnt/wdfs
mount -t cifs //wd-ip-address/share /mnt/wdfs -o user=id,password=pswd

where "wd-ip-address" is the network address (such as 192.168.1.99) for the device, "share" is the shared directory on the device, "id" and "pswd" are the user id and password to get access to the device. This same information was used by Windows to mount/map the share.

Once you get the device to mount and can access it for read+write purposes, then you can add it to your /etc/fstab so that it will be mounted automatically by the system when it boots up.