WD Discovery tool is going out of service after end of June 2023, I used to be able to gain access to shared folders by other WD Mycloud Home users using the WD discovery like below: I can select a Shared folder in WD Discovery and it’ll map to a shared drive automatically in the explorer; and I can change to another shared folder using the same way.
there’s one question I’d like to ask: - how can we access the shared folders on Windows explorer after enabling SMB access? We can only access shared folders via browser via URL: https://home.mycloud.com/ ? Is there anyway we can access shared folders on windows explorer?
after enabling SMB access, I can’t seem to do it as explorer only gives me access to my own folders (not shared). I can see other users’ folders but I won’t be able to access them unless I login using another network credentials.
This is unlike the way we used to be able to do with the old Mycloud
Nice pictures and thanks for making an effort to describe the problem. This subject has been discussed, sometimes at length since January 2023 with the subject of WD Discovery being declared EOL. Basically the question can be summarized like this:
People want to be able to connect to private resources from anywhere in a highly secure way with relatively low cost or for free. What is the most practical ways to do this? The answer currently is some kind of peer-to-peer mesh VPN technologies and this is where ZeroTier and Tailscale which are two services provided free of charge for personal use come in.
Here is a link to such a discussion provided by Tailscale comparing the similarities:
In practice, Tailscale is a little easier to set up and provide a little more functionality than Zerotier and one such example was offered back in January 2023 in this subforum with an installation of Tailscale and its subnet router allowing remote sharing (eg across geo-location and subnets) with multi-factor authentication and end to end encryption using a My Cloud Home device for example mch4 shown. The Windows desktop shown is in one location, connected to a remote subnet in another location using 2 ISPs and sharing folders in a highly secure way, free of charge, thanks to Tailscale. No Western Digital cloud servers are required for authentication or end to end encryption.
