How do I mount a WD MyBook World network drive in linux?

According to the manual, the MyBook supports both the CIFS/SMB and the NFS protocols.

CIFS/SMB is the protocol natively used by Windows for accessing network drives. You should be able to access the MyBook on a Linux/Unix system by using the smbclient or mount.cifs, e.g. to access (mount) the "public" folder on MyBook on the local directory /mnt you would issue (from a root terminal):

mount.cifs //ip.address.of.mybook/public /mnt -o username=admin,password=admin_passwd_on_mybook

or, equivalently:

mount -t cifs -o username=admin,password=... //ip.address.of.mybook/public /mnt

where:

1. you can substitute "public" with "download" (to access the pre-defined download share) or any share name that you have created with the MyBook storage manager.

2. username/password can be those of any user that you have created on the MyBook storage manager interface; or just use -o guest instead of -o username=...,password=... to specify "Guest" access.

Access by the NFS protocol is not enabled by default; you have first to enable it in the "Advanced" tab of the MyBook storage manager, then you can mount the disk shares via NFS with:

mount -t nfs ip.address.of.mybook/nfs/public /mnt

Again, "public" can be any defined share name.

Edit: I had in mind that the WD MyBook World is only accessible by the MioNet software; however, the links may still be helpful:

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There is good and bad news.

Bad news first: The official statement of the vendor is the following:

Does MioNet work with Macintosh or Linux computers?

Currently, MioNet works with only Windows-based computers. However, our platform will be extended to these operating systems in the future.

Mionet FAQ

Good News: The WD MyBook World runs a linux system which can be "opened". You can enable ssh and install additional packages:

The system partition has 2.8GB (only 260 MB is occupied). This means that you have a lot of resources for various improvements.

Here are two guides to open the NAS:

Hacking Western Digital MyBook World Edition Hacking WD MyBook World Ed

The chapter "MyBook World Edition acting as a NFS server" could be interesting.