Setting up only as NAS not MY Cloud

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I just received my My Cloud 3 TB drive.  I run a Mac environment at home.  I was hoping I could just set this up as a NAS so that it would just show up as a shared drive on each of the mac’s.  I connected it to my time capsule with ethernet connection and I see the drive on all the computers but…it seesm I have to load the WD app on each desktop etc.  I don’t really want all the functionality that WD has built into the drive.  I guess stupid question…can I just reformat the drive to Mac OS Extended and have a gigabit speed ethernet HD connected to the time capsule and useable by all computers on the network?

Appreciate any thoughts

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swissal wrote:

it seesm I have to load the WD app on each desktop etc

What gives you that idea?   There’s actually no requirement for ANY software.  It works out-of-the-box with PCs and Macs.  All the software is optional.

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Thanks for the note.  I guess I was having problems connecting as anything other than as guest through finder.  I am blocked by the password if I register as a registered user.

Alastair

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If it is of any help…I was confused and stopped dead by the password when logging on to my cloud…default WD password is no password.  Hope this helps