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EX2 does not appear among shared devices on macbook air but works fine on macbook pro

Dear all, 

I recently bought EX2 and trying to set it up for 2 TimeMachines (macbook air 2011 and macbook pro retina 2012)

as well as a general network drive to be shared. 

I set up the EX2 from my MBP, created 2 accounts for time machine with limit of 500Gb and another two for general usage. 

On my MBP EX2 appears automatically among Shared in 2 ways:

WDMyCloudEX2

WDMyCloudEX2_AFP_TimeMachineBackup

I suppose the second one is the result of Time Machine turned “on” at the EX2 dashboard settings. 

If I go to TimeMachine preferences on OSX Yosemite on my MBP, I see that second drive fine and can back up to it. 

By connecting as a user, I have a control over how much space will be used. Seems to be working fine. 

On the macbook air i have problems… :frowning:

I can connect to webpage admin by providing IP address (192.xxx). I also can connect to it by both afp:// and smb:// protocols, but NAS does not appear automatically among shared devices. 

Both macs run latest OSX Yosemite. I am puzzled why I have no problems on the MBP while I can’t make it work on MBAir…

Ideally, i would like to show EX2 on the MacBook Air among “Shared” devices so that one could read/write to public folders. And also the “…_AFP_TimeMachineBackup” should be visible so that I could connect to it as another user to do back ups from the macbook air. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

p.s. the firmware is up-to-date

Kind regards,

Denis.

Hi den59, welcome to the WD Community. On this case I recommend you to contact tech support directly. 

http://support.wdc.com/country/index.asp

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