Device Offline - This device is inaccessible

Set up my 2TB WD My Cloud NAS easily enough, and loaded files to drive.

Everything working fine on my home network, accessing files no problem on Iphone/Ipad via wifi.

BUT … cannot connect using other wifi networks or via mobile 4G/3G. I get message "Device Offline’ ‘This device is inaccessible; only local files are available’

Can anyone help? This rather defeats the object of a cloud!

Thanks

You are not providing a lot of information to work with.

First did you set the My Cloud up using an Apple computer?

Have you checked the dashboard to make sure cloud access is on and set up?

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Taking a look in the User Manual and reading it should help you out a lot.
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705103.pdf

Yes, latest  iMac.

Cloud Access on, Remote Access on, and it works absolutely fine via wifi on my mobile apps (iphone/ipad). Just nothing over 4G/3G.

I get that sometimes, its just spotty internet on the client side.  Once i get better signal, the issue goes away.

Sure, but I’m getting same ‘Device Offline’ right now on a different wifi network. It only seems to recognise my home network.

I am having the same issue after the latest firmware update.

Have not been happy with the connectivity and downtime.

I have the router set properly (static IP) and ports forwarded correctly. However, instructions for forwarding ports were not that clear. On a Linksys EA4500 router, use single port forwarding. Set external ports to any available port, but the internal ports had to be set to 80 and 443. This took me awhile to figure out that I had to use those specific internal ports. Dashboard says ports are forwarded and connection status is connected.

Currently I can connect on my home network via wifi on my ipad. But when on the cellular network, I get the error message “the device is inaccessible; only local files are available”.

(Another gripe I had was when the WD servers went down a few weeks ago, I did not realize it until after factory resetting the device (and losing all my files).

Why did you ask if you set the my cloud up using a apple computer… is there something different with this compared to a pc?

I have exactly the same problem…

I have My Cloud set up on the home business broadband line.

If I use my win 7, or win 8 laptops or my iphone via the same business broadband wifi it works fine.

However, if I switch any of them to my other personal home broadband line I lose the connectivity.

The frustrating thing is that all of this was working up until around a week ago… I have changed nothing on my end but it now no longer works and I get “Can’t connect to this device”!

I have tried deleting the My Cloud icon from the laptop app, and deleting the whole mobile app and readding but to no avail.  I have also tried most of the other things suggested on this site including diabling/enabling upnp.

The My Cloud device itself is set up correctly as it was previously working and the desktop app says my account’s cloud connection has a port forwarding connection established.

This is extremely frustrating…!!!

What external ports are you forwarding to the NAS? If you have forwarded external ports 80 and 443 to the NAS internal ports 80 and 443, be aware that some ISP are blocking access to port 80. To remedy this, you will have to choose other external ports to forward to your NAS. For example 8080 to 80, and 8443 to 443

not explicitly forwarding any ports - I am using a  BT Home Hub 5 with upnp enabled.

However, it looks like I have fixed it.

I looked in the BT Home Hub Event log - it was forwarding the following:

07:17:12, 30 Apr. (33988.450000) Port forwarding rule added via UPnP/TR064. Protocol: TCP, external ports: any->22857, internal ports: 22857, internal client: 192.168.1.71
07:17:08, 30 Apr. (33984.070000) Port forwarding rule added via UPnP/TR064. Protocol: UDP, external ports: any->22857, internal ports: 22857, internal client: 192.168.1.71

I disabled “Remote Access” in the My Cloud Settings/Cloud Access settings and then re-enabled and the Event log showed:

21:46:29, 30 Apr. (86143.210000) Port forwarding rule added via UPnP/TR064. Protocol: TCP, external ports: any->9444, internal ports: 443, internal client: 192.168.1.77
21:46:24, 30 Apr. (86138.690000) Port forwarding rule added via UPnP/TR064. Protocol: TCP, external ports: any->9091, internal ports: 80, internal client: 192.168.1.77

So it looks like before I did this, the ports being forwarded by UPNP were a bit screwed but turning remote access off/on has reset it to correctly forward to the right 443/80 internal ports!!

Hurrah!

Hi there,

I’d really appreciate any help you can give - I’m tearing my hair out with this…

I have a BT Home Hub 5 and everything was working fine until the WD servers went down.

After that, no one outside my network can access the device.

I have added screen shots of my set up - can anyone see why this is still not working?

Any help before all my hair falls out would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

You’re doing one of two things wrong.

Possibility one:

    Your router supports UPnP, but you’re configuring the NAS manually anyway.   Don’t do both.

Possibility two:

   You are configuring manually to use ports 80 & 443, but you’ve configured your router to use 8080 and 8443.   The port assignments need to match.

Pick one method and stick with it.