Admin user and password

So apparently, I can only setup one admin user. This would be totally illogical, as my partner and I (living together) are trying to setup two individual users that can only access their own folders, but when both of us, from our own computers, click on the MyCloud Dashboard desktop icon, it redirects us to a web page (with the IP address of the MyCloud) that automatically sign in MY user (the first one to be created), a page from which I could choose to give my user full access to my partner’s folders.
And that’s not all. If I don’t give my user a password, I can’t access my MyCloud folders from the local folders on my computer (that is, through the Macbook’s Finder app), as to connect to a specific user it asks for a password, but if I do create the password, my partner wouldn’t be able to access our shared dashboard (as it automatically connects to my user, like I said, so it asks him for my password to access).
Are we getting this all wrong?

You should be able to create another WD user account for your partner to sign in and access his own personal folders on his computer and also access shared folders between the both of you. This is how it works with MyCloud similar to Window’s account.

Yes, we do have two accounts, one each. But whenever any of us (namely: me from my Macbook or him from his Windows) click on the black WD MyCloud Dashboard desktop icon it redirects us to a web page connected to the MyCloud IP that automatically signs in my user and my user only, from which I could, for instance, delete his user or get access to his folders.
Of course this is cool to us now (we love each other and all haha), but does this mean this hard drive would be totally incompatible to a public office environment, doesn’t it?

Are you referring to the WD Dashboard? e.g. http://wdmycloud or http://192.168.x.x ? That’s the management console and only one admin is allowed by default.

Or you’re referring to http://www.mycloud.com/ ? This is where your partner should sign in to his account to access his shares. Perhaps you’ve opted to “remember me” the reason why it’s automatically logged in as your account?

For public office environment in fact power users we don’t use these methods :stuck_out_tongue: Mostly network shares a.k.a. SMB a.k.a. CIFS where you access from your Explorer on Windows or Finder on Mac or map drives using \WDMYCLOUD\share_names.

Yes, I was referring to the WD Dashboard, “http://192.168” etc. etc.
We can correctly access to our own accounts in www.mycloud.com .
Thanks for the confirmation! :wink: