Fw: My Cloud.

JOHN COUZIN john.c.at95 at btinternet.com
Tue Mar 29 10:20:09 BST 2016 

 
Hi Nathan,                  thanks again. I can load stuff to the My Cloud and access it from my phone and tablet, though that is not what I thought I would be able to do, I thought it would copy my hard-drive. 

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.I always feel to intimidate to try printing in commands that might screw things up because I don't really know what I'm doing. So in the meantime, until I feel a bit more sure of what I'm doing with this new toy, I'll probably just keep using it as an external hard drive I can access from elsewhere. Thanks again.   John. 
    On Sunday, March 27, 2016 12:34 AM, 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
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> > {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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