The WD My Cloud NAS (network attached storage) is not designed for Linux. If you are using a Linux computer, here’s how to get started: • Connect your WD My Cloud to a port on your modem, router, or a switch • Plug it in and make sure the blue light on the front comes on solid or slowly pulsing • Browse to • Click Get Started • If you get a page saying No My Cloud devices found, click My device can’t be found • Enter the 12 hexadecimal digits of the WD My Cloud’s MAC address (found on the bottom of the WD My Cloud; e.g. 00:90:a9:ec:69:af) and click Next.

Jan 9, 2018 - The first thing you need to know about the WD MyCloud is that it's not a traditional. At the moment, I have two desktop PCs, one Windows laptop, two MacBooks, an Xbox One S and six phones. Accessing from a Mac and smartphones is possible, but it's not as straightforward. Copyright © 2017.

• If you get a page saying Can’t connect to your device: • Run: arp • Check the output for a device with the correct MAC address. • If the WD My Cloud’s mac doesn’t show: • Run: sudo apt-get install arp-scan • Run: sudo arp-scan -l • If it still doesn’t show up, you have a network problem; fix it and click Try Again • On success, you’ll get a page saying Set up cloud access • Type in your data and Submit • You should get a page saying Check Your Email • According to the manual, you should have an email that tells you how to create a password for your mycloud.com account. Mac blot powder/pressed for dry skin reviews.

The email I got did not. • Clicking the Learn More button in the email takes you to • From there, you can enter your email and click Forgot Password • You should receive a second email with a Reset Password link. • Enter a password and Submit • According to the manual, after you log in, you should be given a screen that allows you to download the WD Sync software. I did not, probably because it isn’t supported on Linux.

• According to the manual, on Windows, the WD My Cloud is accessed via, on Mac via. These aliases are not set up on Linux. Instead: • Run: arp -n • If the MAC address of your WD My Cloud doesn’t show, try: sudo arp-scan -l • Copy the IP address that maps to the MAC address of your WD My Cloud • Paste it into the address bar of your browser • Instead of the setup described in the manual, you get a log in page (likely because the setup was done via the cloud). Log in with the user name you specified in step 9 and a blank password. • Select Users from the top menu • Click on your user name under Set Up Users • Set Password to On and give yourself a password • Select Setup from the top menu and: • Increase the timeout to 30 minutes • Turn off Mac time machine backups To save files to your WD My Cloud: • Open a file browser (e.g.

Files on LMDE 2, which is actually Nemo) • Open the Network from the left side menu • You should see a new server called WDMyCloud. Double click on it. • Select Registered User and log in with your user name and password • You should see several folders. One of them will be your user folder.