My Cloud.

Sun Mar 27 00:50:25 GMT 2016

Thanks Nathan,
I'll have a look at this in the morning. I have managed to load some stuff on it an access it from phone and tablet, but it will be slow process loading all I want on it. Thanks again for you prompt reply and support. John.

> On 27 Mar 2016, at 00:33, Nathan Collins <mr.nathan.collins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I did a little Googling for you, I don't have one of these devices, or
> Ubuntu, so I can't actually try any of this stuff for you.
> 
> It looks like the manual
> <http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705103.pdf> is pretty
> comprehensive, but I can understand your frustration trying to get
> something to work on Linux when all the instructions are for Windows or Mac.
> 
> Log into the MyCloud management console. *How?*
> I think this is a website you need to go to, once you're connected your
> drive to the power and your router (page 10 in the manual):
> http://mycloud.com/setup
> Following the rest of those steps to get your account set up, but I guess
> at step 6 (page 14) it's not going to let you download any sync software.
> This looks like the first caveat: you're probably not going to get an easy,
> automatically syncing "cloud" like you would on Windows/Mac. You should
> still be able to use it like a regular external hard drive though, and you
> should still be able to access the "cloud" aspect of it from other devices,
> either using the sync software or logging onto the mycloud.com website.
> 
> Assign a STATIC IP Address. *What is this?*
> Good question. Your router, that was probably given to you by your internet
> provider, hands out IP addresses to other devices that connect to it so
> that all the data it asks for over the network knows how to get back to it.
> Normally when a device connects to your router, it gets given an IP address
> that isn't being used. But next time it connects it might get given a
> different one. This is known as a dynamic IP address. A Static IP address
> is an IP address that doesn't change, it's the same every time your device
> gets connected to the network. This is useful for accessing things like
> your Cloud.
> 
> It looks like you might be able to ignore this step for now though, because
> your Cloud will probably respond to the address http://wdmycloud or
> http://wdmycloud.local. Skip this step, but if you need to set this I'm
> afraid you will have to figure out how to log on to your router and set
> that up - probably do a little Googling to figure that out. A good start is
> to try and connect to 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 in your web browser. Those
> are common IP addresses for home routers, but it may be different
> especially given that you appear to have your internet provided by BT.
> http://bthomehub.home might be a better guess. Once you've got that figured
> out, pages 60 and 61 look like the right ones for telling your Cloud thingy
> it has a static IP. (Again, ignore that for now).
> 
> Enable NFS service in MYCloud. *How?*
> 
> I think it is already enabled by default, but I'm not sure. The only thing
> that came up in the manual is that it's support. Some Googling suggested
> you *"just"* need to connect to it, which is what the next bunch of steps
> do.
> 
> On ubuntu client open Terminal. *Where is t**his?*
> If Ubuntu looks like I think it probably does for you, click the Ubuntu
> icon in the top left corner of the screen. You'll probably get a window
> full of programs, and a search bar at the top. Type in terminal and it
> should come up.
> 
> sudo apt-get install nfs-common
> 
> If you're new to linux I'll give you a quick run down:
> "sudo" means "run the rest of this command as Administrator. Normally
> you'll have to put in your password for the command to work.
> "apt-get" is the package manager for Ubuntu, it's a pretty common tool and
> you'll be using it a lot in your Linux journey. Most software is installed
> this way.
> "install" tells apt-get we want to install
> "nfs-common" is the thing you are installing. In this case it's a bunch of
> tools to let Ubuntu know about the Network File System.
> 
> 
>> Open Nautilus and click 'connect to server'. Shown in picture below on
>> bottom left. *Not sure How to open this.*
>> A dialog box will show up that says 'connect to server' like in the
>> picture below:
>> 
>> Now type nfs://hostname or static ip
>> 
>> Nautilus is the file browser on Ubuntu, very much like Explorer on
> Windows. If you don't know where it is, search for it like you did for the
> terminal. "Connect to server" is probably in the "File" menu, top left of
> your screen. In this case you should probably type in nfs://wdmycloud or
> nfs://wdmycloud.local. Hopefully it will connect and you'll be able to
> store all your stuff on your new hard drive.
> 
> 
> Anyway, I hope that helps. Like I said, I don't have an Ubuntu machine
> here, nor have I ever set up a WD MyCloud thing, but I do have a small
> grasp of the magical inner workings of a computer ;)
> 
>> On 26 March 2016 at 23:45, JOHN COUZIN <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Nathan,             that's exactly how it was meant to look like,
>> don't know what happened after I sent it. Hope there is some help comes
>> from the correct data.   John.
>> 
>> 
>>    On Saturday, March 26, 2016 11:42 PM, Nathan Collins <
>> mr.nathan.collins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi John,
>> I think your e-mail meant to look like this...
>> 
>> Hi,
>> My last email seems to have got scrabbled some how, so sorry for the double
>> posting, but I wanted to make sure I pass on the correct information.
>> I just purchased a WD My Cloud 3TB but I may have bought in haste, I don't
>> seem to be able to get it up and working. I have Ubuntu 15.10 the
>> instructions are for Windows and Mac. Searched to see how to over come this
>> and got the following:
>> Its pretty simple if you have an idea of what you are doing. *I don't!!*
>> Log into the MyCloud management console. *How?*
>> Assign a STATIC IP Address. *What is this?*
>> Enable NFS service in MYCloud. *How?*
>> On ubuntu client open Terminal. *Where is t**his?*
>> 
>> sudo apt-get install nfs-common
>> 
>> Open Nautilus and click 'connect to server'.  Shown in picture below
>> on bottom left.  *Not sure How to open this.*
>> A dialog box will show up that says 'connect to server' like in the
>> picture below:
>> Now type nfs://hostname or static ip
>> 
>> Close Terminal
>> Sadly my knowledge of the magic inner workings of computers is very
>> limited, any advice would be very welcome, in layman's terms of course. Or
>> pop round and do it for me, oatcakes and cheese with coffee for reward.
>> John.
>> 
>>> On 26 March 2016 at 22:39, JOHN COUZIN <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>     On Saturday, March 26, 2016 10:17 PM, JOHN COUZIN <
>>> john.c.at95 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> My last email seems to have got scrabbled some how, so sorry for the
>>> double posting, but I wanted to make sure I pass on the correct
>> information.
>>> I just purchased a WD My Cloud 3TB but I may have bought in haste, I
>>> don't seem to be able to get it up and working. I have Ubuntu 15.10 the
>>> instructions are for Windows and Mac. Searched to see how to over come
>> this
>>> and got the following: #yiv5371365982 pre.yiv5371365982cjk
>>> {font-family:"Nimbus Mono L", monospace;}#yiv5371365982 p
>>> {margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%;}#yiv5371365982
>>> code.yiv5371365982cjk {font-family:"Nimbus Mono L", monospace;}Its pretty
>>> simple if you have an idea of what you are doing.      Idon't!!Log into
>> the
>>> MyCloud management console.      How?Assign a STATIC IP Address.
>>> What is this?Enable NFS service in MYCloud.      How?
>>> On ubuntu client open Terminal.    Where isthis?sudo apt-get install
>>> nfs-common
>>> 
>>> Open Nautilus and click 'connect to server'.  Shown in picture below on
>>> bottom left.  Not sure How to open this.
>>> A dialog box will show up that says 'connect to server' like in the
>>> picture below:
>>> Now type nfs://hostname or static ip  Close TerminalSadly my knowledge of
>>> the magic inner workings of computers is very limited, any advice would
>> be
>>> very welcome, in layman's terms of course.  Or pop round and do it for
>> me,
>>> oatcakes and cheese with coffee for reward.    John.
>>> 
>>> 
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