How come my 2TB My Passport Wireless does not provide a multi-users/permissions cloud solution?

WD External and Portable SSD My Passport Wireless SSD
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Hi,

I have consulted various web reviews of the My Passport Wireless external drive and finally opted for this product as they stated that it supported FTP access and cloud.

I am surprised to see that it does not support multiple users or permissions as this would be a basic need for most people.

Do WD intend to support permission based multi-users content-sharing functionalities and, if that is the case, when will you have an updated firmware satisfying this need?

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Hello Vildrik,

Welcome to the WD Community,

Please see page 32 of the user manual for detailed information regarding the uses of FTP on the drive.

Link to manual;

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705118.pdf

Also, will be good if you provide more detailes about your question. Please note that this is a user to user Community.

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Vildrik wrote:

Hi,

I have consulted various web reviews of the My Passport Wireless external drive and finally opted for this product as they stated that it supported FTP access and cloud.

 

I am surprised to see that it does not support multiple users or permissions as this would be a basic need for most people.

 

Do WD intend to support permission based multi-users content-sharing functionalities and, if that is the case, when will you have an updated firmware satisfying this need?

Most likely the answer is no.  The MPW is meant to be a Personal access drive and not a multi-user server.

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The MPW is a darn expensive drive, so would you like it to cost even more?  Then maybe WD can jazz it up like their full-blown NAS products to do what you want it to do beyond what it does now.

This is not a function of a wireless drive – neither WD’s nor Seagate’s.  It is first and foremost a hard drive for you mobile devices, and those of your family and friends. No one can get on it unless you allow them to via password, etc.

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There’s no reason why you couldn’t hack in what you wanted to, however.

See  https://github.com/ksylvan/MyPassportWirelessHacks

You could use some of the same techiques to update the SMB configuration and add multiple users (using adduser). If you do go this route, I suggest you create some scripts to automate this, since you will have to re-do it after each firmware update.