WD My Book Live

Recently my office supervisor bought this so called 'Personal cloud storage' from Western Digital(WD) called MY BOOK LIVE. This device can be used in a home network, where users who are in the same network as the WD drive can connect using the desktop application provided by WD. To connect to this drive from anywhere else, the user can use the wd2go.com website or mobile applications.

The funny thing is that you cannot share files that are created from MS office applications such as Word/Excel when you access them over the internet through wd2go.com.  
The problem seems to be that Microsoft has added a second layer of security for its files created from the office suite of newer versions such as MS office 2007 and onwards. 

It's quite shameful that WD still haven't been able to find a solution for this problem, but still sell these products as 'personal cloud storage'. However thanks to few tech blokes, a workaround can be found in several blogs and discussions which uses SSH to connect to the drive over the internet..

http://community.wd.com/t5/My-Book-Live/WD2go-webDAV-and-MS-Office-2013/m-p/513536#M16552  

http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-593394/streaming-ms-office-files-over-remote-mybooklive#post-1631975

I hope this post helps those who face the problem.